Viewpoint of Haruto Sakuragi :

"What?!?"

Rustle rustle

"Hey, Haruto, why are you shouting so loudly?"

"Ah, sorry! Um, it's nothing, really."

The five of us split into two groups to have a fried food competition. The rules were simple: Mika and Yumi went off on their own to see who could discover the most unique fried foods that only elves make. That's why I'm with Mika. During our search, we suddenly received an update about our status information. When I checked my status, I found out that I had the title "Blessed by Goddess Sasha." I wondered if Mika also had the same title.

"Mika, let's go somewhere less crowded."

"Huh? Why all of a sudden?"

"Just trust me, there's something I want to check."

After walking a little, we arrived at a plaza. It should be fine to discuss things here.

"Mika, could you check your title field in the status menu?"

"Huh? My title field? Sure, but... huh!?"

"Do you understand why I shouted earlier?"

"Yeah, I do, but what's 'Blessed by Goddess Sasha'?"

It must be related to adventurer Sasha, but how did she become a goddess? She's supposed to be a reincarnated person. The title field had the following description:

Title: Blessed by Goddess Sasha

For those who have met and been recognized by Goddess Sasha, an additional amount of experience points will be added to those gained from defeating evil tribes. For those who have not yet met her, the same amount of experience points will be added from the time they obtain this title.

Wait a minute, neither Mika nor I have met her. Then why were we recognized? Could it be because we're the hero and the saint? If Goddess Sphere recognized Haruto as a hero, maybe Sasha recognized him because of that. Regardless, we have to let everyone know.

"Anyway, let's go back to the inn. We have to inform everyone. Burn and Riffia should be there."

"Okay."

When we returned to the inn, Burn and Riffia were drinking in the first-floor dining room.

"Hey, what's wrong? The fried food competition?”

“An emergency has occurred. We can't talk about it here, so let's discuss it in the room.”

“An emergency? Must be something serious. Riffia, let's go back to the room."

Once they were back in the room and settled down, they talked to Burn-san and Riffia-san.

"Mika and I have the title of 'Goddess Sasha's Blessing'."

Clatter

"What?!?”

“That bastard should have told us earlier!!”

“Hehe, does Sasha hold a grudge against us?"

What's going on here? Riffia-san, I'm scared.

I sent a message to Mika with my eyes, asking her to say something. She looked like she didn't want to, but eventually gave in.

"Um, do you know about Sasha? Could you tell us?"

sigh "Well, I guess we have no choice but to tell you. However, once we do, the purpose of your journey may become meaningless. Are you still willing to listen?"

Wait, is it that important?

"Burn-san, please wait until everyone is here. We should all hear this together."

I used space magic to contact Yumi and the others, telling them there was an emergency and to come back immediately.

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Everyone was gathered. Yumi looked like she had something to say, but she realized that the atmosphere was different and stayed quiet.

"Sensei, you mentioned an emergency. What happened?"

"Well, first, check your status titles. Do you have Goddess Sasha's Blessing?"

Yumi, Shinya, and Yoshiteru checked their titles.

"No, we don't."

I guess it's just Mika and me then.

"Today, Haruto and Mika received Goddess Sasha's Blessing. If you defeat evil tribes from now on, you will gain more experience points, including the blessing. And when you level up, your basic abilities will increase significantly due to the effect of the blessing."

"Burn-san, who is Goddess Sasha? I've never heard of her," Yoshiteru thought, which was understandable.

"That's a natural question. The spirit who has been talked about for a while as 'that person' is Sasha," Burn replied.

What? That person refers to Sasha? He did say that our power will recover significantly soon because "that time is coming soon." Was he referring to the goddess?

"Sensei, does that mean that since a new goddess has been born, there is no need for us to continue our journey?" Yoshiteru asked.

"No, that's not it. Let me explain. However, if you listen to this story, you might lose sight of the purpose of your journey. Are you still willing to listen?" Burn warned.

We nodded at each other.

"Yes, please tell us," we said.

"Good. I'll explain everything that's happening in Spheretalia right now. However, after hearing everything, everyone may be left dumbfounded. You may also lose sight of the purpose of your journey," Burn warned.

We listened to Burn and learned everything that was happening in Spheretalia. After hearing everything, we were all left speechless. We learned about things that we were not aware of, and we realized that we might lose sight of the purpose of our journey.

1.  Sasha is a reincarnated person who was almost taken over by an evil god. However, she used her unique skill to defeat the evil god, causing her race to become evil.

2.  In the battle of Sphereart, Sasha was secretly supporting the adventurers. The reason why the massive army of evil tribe was mostly diverted to Sphereart was because Sasha secretly defeated the boss-level evil tribe. This indirectly saved the royal capital!

3.  During the final match of the Gladiator Weapons Division at the Gardia Empire, evil tribes invaded. However, with the protection of Sasha, Keith, the prince, and Rikka, Sasha's subordinate, defeated hundreds of A-class or higher evil tribes in just a few minutes.

→ Keith and Rikka are definitely stronger than me!

4.  When the goddess Sphere met us, she was already suffering from depression, and immediately after we parted ways, she escaped to another different world. Moreover, the perpetrator who instigated her was apparently one of the three people, out of the five who were summoned 500 years ago along with the goddess Saria, that we currently know. And all three of them are Japanese. One of them is named Ryoichi Suzumi, who was already subjugated by Sasha. I heard what he did, and it was really disgusting. What the hell does he think humans are! I heard about Sasha's subjugation method, which may seem lenient at first, but it continues to extract energy from the person until they die, so Ryoichi himself may understand how the people he turned into zombies felt a little. And just die like that! The other two are named Sae and Isao, who went missing after fighting with the goddess Saria in the past. However, they cannot stay in the same place forever because they are immortal. According to Burn-san, the two high elves we are going to meet are extremely suspicious.

Those three did the worst things. They are a disgrace to Japan! As Burn-san said, the high elves are suspicious.

5.  Currently, Sasha is searching for the coordinates of the management world to subjugate the goddess Saria. The clue seems to be a message left by Sphere in a ruin. By the way, even if the Evil King is revived, he can be instantly killed by Sasha. However, if the Evil King is subjugated, he will be incorporated into the reincarnation system immediately and will be resurrected in another form after 50 years. If the coordinates of the management world are known, Sasha plans to immediately go and subjugate the goddess Saria, and destroy the Evil King's exclusive reincarnation system, so she wants us to reseal them and buy her some time.

6.  Until now, Sasha has defeated only the Evil Tribe, either directly or indirectly, and because of this, she has class-changed from Evil God to Goddess. Since she can't give blessings as an Evil God, she has given blessings to the hero and the saint as a new goddess.

The mastermind behind this is the members who summoned from another world and the goddess Saria. Moreover, their basic abilities are over 10 million, which only Sasha can subjugate! No wonder Burn-san may lose sight of his goal.

"Burn-san, please don't underestimate us. It's true that we were surprised when we heard the contents. But what we have to do hasn't changed. We'll receive power from all the spirits and after Sasha destroys the reincarnation system, we'll defeat the evil king. We won't burden Sasha alone. If we keep relying on her, she'll end up with depression like the goddess Sphere. I want Sasha to focus on defeating the god race. Right, everyone!"

"That's right. It's frustrating, but we can't defeat the god race with our power. So we have to relieve Sasha's burden as much as possible. We can just defeat the evil king by ourselves."

"Yeah, I don't have any protection like Yoshiteru and Yumi, but I'll show you that I won't be a burden."

"Shinya said it first. Even though Sasha, who can instantly kill the evil king, seems to have become the main character of our journey, what we have to do hasn't changed. We just have to support her. And after we destroy the reincarnation system, we have to fix the parts that went wrong. If we don't do that, we won't be able to defeat the evil king in the end."

Their feelings were one.

"Hah! Your solidarity is impressive! Besides us, there are five other people with Sasha's protection. Four of them are from the magic kingdom of Demon and should be gathering information to go to the management world."

So far, there were a total of nine people with Sasha's protection.

"Burn-san, has there been any change in the basic ability values since you obtained the protection?"

"Big time! The five people we just talked about initially had the protection of the evil god. As a result, their basic ability values are over 60,000, just like Riffia and me."

"Whaaat? Over 60,000?!"

Wow, if you have the protection, you can go that far.

"What was the Evil King like 500 years ago?"

"I don't know. Riffia, do you know?”

“Well, based on the records, I think it was around 50,000."

"Does that mean I can become that strong if I work hard?”

“In Haruto's case, he has divine protection, so he can easily exceed 100,000."

What?! I can become ten times stronger now!

"Excuse me, Burn-san, can I ask a question?”

“What is it, Yumi?"

"Based on what we've heard, Ryoichi Suzumi's basic ability value is around 15 million. So, what about the Evil God, the goddess Sphere, and Sasha?"

Oh, I was wondering about that too.

"Oh, of course we'd get to that eventually.”

“Can you tell us, Burn?"

Why is it difficult to say?

"The Evil God and the goddess Sphere are about 17 million, but we don't know Sasha's. At least, it's over 100 million."

What did he just say?

"Excuse me, Burn-san, could you say that again? Did I mishear? Did you say over 100 million?"

Did Yumi hear the same thing?

"Well, it may be hard to believe, but it's over 100 million."

"100 million!!!"

Wait a minute! Didn't her class-changed from humans to Evil Gods by defeating the Evil God? That means starting from 17 million. How can we exceed 100 million?

"We said the same thing."

"Hehehe, according to Sasha, she exceeded 100 million not only by raising her level but also by doing good deeds for many people."

Oh, the Marco Ruins incident. She certainly did a lot of good deeds by releasing and purifying those who had been trapped for centuries. So that's how she exceeded 100 million, and she can say that we can easily defeat the Evil King.

"I just thought, with Sasha's power, couldn't she give blessings to people all over the world?"

Mika said something outrageous!

"Well, it's possible. However, if we do that, the balance will be upset. It seems that only reliable people can receive blessings. In the case of Haruto and Yoshiteru, they're trusted as a hero and a saint."

I see. I wish Shinya and the others could have blessings too, but we can't trust people we haven't even met.

"This is all we know."

"I was surprised by Sasha's basic ability, but with that, we can leave the extermination of the god tribe to her with peace of mind. We can concentrate on making ourselves stronger by receiving power from the spirits. Burn-san, Riffia-san, please continue to support us!"

At first, we were surprised, but we were able to share the problems that Burn-san and the others were facing, and we were able to increase our sense of solidarity even more.