Paladin - 4

Lack? What do you mean, lack?" I frowned at the Paladin before me. He stared into my eyes with an emotionless face and replied.

"To create a god requires an immense amount of mana. And that total amount cannot be gathered through ordinary means."

I closed my mouth, watching the Paladin openly speak of creating a god. To be honest, I had no idea he would admit it so brazenly. So, I looked at him with a somewhat bewildered expression. He glanced down at the holy sword he held, then looked back at me and spoke.

"That is why we have been regressing endlessly to gather that mana."

At the mention of gathering mana through regression, a thought popped into my head.

*Could it be that the reason some people said things were meaningless and just flowed According to the Natural Order was... because if regression happens anyway, everything will become meaningless? Judging everything they suffered, experienced, or achieved as worthless, they might have been neglecting everything.*

"...Hah."

I let out a sigh of disbelief and looked at the Paladin. While knowing the truth of everything had largely resolved my questions, the problem was why he was telling me this. Keeping in mind that what the Paladin said might be false, I looked at him and posed a question.

"So, why are you telling me this?"

"Because I wanted to see a possibility I hadn't discovered."...