The World I Created is so Popular

Chapter 95: Disaster - 2

Albus turned the time back slightly from the [miracle].

"So that's how it was..."

After hearing the whole story from the future [Guide], Albus rested his chin on his fingers.

'Did they try to make me, who had gone astray and lost control, into a proper god through the narrative, thinking I couldn't comprehend the situation?'

He understood what the Guide had attempted in the last cycle, in which he had returned with the Saintess.

The reason the system attacked him in the initial cycle was because a mere mortal was creating a world, disrupting the existing laws, which meant they had aimed to elevate him to the rightful place of a deity.

"Does that mean it didn't work?"

"...Yes. In the final confrontation, the master, who gathered the wishes of all the people of the continent, was supposed to defeat me, who was pretending to be the evil god. The goal was to allow the master to ascend to godhood and escape the influence of the system. However, at the last moment, for some reason, the master chose to trigger a return instead of attacking the evil god with that power."

"...I don't quite understand."

Let's think from the perspective of my previous self.

The evil god, who feigned a rampage, was likely the avatar and boss monster of the GM I created in the previous cycle.

The [Guide] had deceived my previous self without direct contact, leading them to believe that the monsters they had created were rampaging on their own.

No matter how intense that rampage was, according to what the [Guide] said, my previous self had met all the requirements to become a deity.

Thus, the Guide must have been confident that my previous self would defeat the evil god and rise as the new god of the continent...

'And yet, I chose to trigger a return instead of defeating the evil god.'

Moreover, it was a return that only the Saintess, who was not included in it, could make.

'Something must have happened to my previous self.'

Something that the Guide could not even grasp.

While it was important to find that out, I couldn't afford to delay time like this.

Now that I had realized the existence of the [System], disasters would come crashing down like in the memories of previous cycles.

I had to find a way to protect the world.

Albus rose from the throne where he had been sitting.

While he was discussing with the Guide of the previous cycle, the princess was still being scolded by the Guide's avatar down at the bottom of the stairs.

Since the top of the stairs was shrouded in a veil, she had no idea what was happening above.

'Was the princess also being manipulated by the [Guide]?'

Recently, she had shown an unusually emotional and irrational rampage.

Hearing the Guide's story, it became clear how she had ended up like that.

"Please..."

The princess pleaded, grabbing the legs of the Guide's avatar.

In that moment, she became pitiable.

She had merely been used as a pawn by the [Guide].

There was no way to blame her.

Neither could she be blamed for the [Guide]'s actions.