Chapter 26: Those Who Chant My Name Shall Be Known to Me

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That he was the Great Sage of the Druids was something Ron truly had not expected.

However, when cross-referenced with the history he had read, it was indeed the truth.

After his death, the empire collapsed.

The various factions he had previously suppressed began to stir.

The only ones who fought for him were the Druids, the Elves, and the Dragons.

By the time Ron snapped back to reality, Hetty had already jumped into the lake.

["The Mad Demon King is actually the Great Sage of the Druids." Vivian was also puzzled by this.]

["In the education she had received, the Mad Demon King was a lunatic, a war-mongering madman who would stop at nothing for power."]

Uh, I am not a war-mongering madman.

Though, to achieve my primary goals, I did indeed launch quite a few wars.

Ron did not think Vivian’s perspective was wrong.

Because after learning the truth about Resonance Syndrome, when he looked back at his own dark history, he had similar thoughts.

Many times, he felt fortunate for himself.

If he had known the truth about Resonance Syndrome back then, he might have already launched an invasion of reality with the mindset of a Demon King.

People are like that; every so often, when looking back at the past, one feels how naive they were at the time.

[Hetty transformed into a large fish.]

[Standing on the shore, one could clearly see her silvery-white figure thrashing underwater.]

[Before long, Hetty swam back to the shore.]

[She crawled out of the water, dripping wet, and handed a stone to Vivian: "Is this it?"]

[Vivian said with pleasant surprise: "That’s the one!"]

[You stare at the pebble before you.]

[Your remnant soul clings to it, emitting a faint aura.]

["This is a primordial remnant soul that hasn't been contained yet." Hetty looked at Vivian with some concern, "Are you sure it’s okay to contain it without a ritual?"]

["You never know until you try." Vivian held the remnant soul out to you.]

[You consumed the remnant soul.]

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[Your consciousness expanded rapidly, as if covering the entire world.]

[Yet, under your gaze, this world was terrifyingly quiet.]

[Five thousand years later, no one chants your name anymore.]

Looking at this description, Ron instantly understood the ability corresponding to this remnant soul.

He felt slightly disappointed.

It was merely an auxiliary ability, though in his past life, this power had become the nightmare of countless enemies, to the point where they only dared to refer to him as "He" or "That Person" when discussing him.

Back then, Ron had pretentiously named this skill "BIG BROTHER."

Why English?

*Ahem*, well, because "Big Brother" just didn't sound cool enough, obviously.

The effect of this ability was exactly as its name suggested: it allowed Ron to observe the world at any given moment.

Those who speak my name are known to me.

As long as you uttered Ron’s name, you would be watched by Ron.

But... what use was this ability to him now...

He had just seen that there were very few people in the world discussing his name—the Demon King's remnant soul did not seem to be associated with him.

Had he gone through all that trouble for nothing?

Ron pondered, and suddenly, an idea struck him.

[You jumped onto Vivian.]

[You set the anchor point of the skill to "Vivian Pollys."]

[In an instant, your mind was filled with a cacophony of voices.]

[... "Vivian will definitely love this potion!" Loli shook the new potion in her hand, her eyes sparkling.]

[... "Hmph, hmph, hmph! Vivian! Next time I will definitely defeat you!" Grella looked at the newly purchased magic scroll in her hand, laughing confidently.]

[... "It seems... Vivian's magic is indeed a variant of 'Sanctity Deprivation.' Could this be the remnant soul those thieves have?" Wigfart flipped through the book in her hand, her eyes filled with indignation, "That fellow Trevor, how dare he target my student!"]

[... "What is going on! Why are they all dead! Yet that Vivian came back alive! Wasn't she supposed to be the sacrifice? Find her! The remnant soul must be on her! Go find her!" A strange man in mage robes roared at his subordinates, "What about Farrell! What is he doing?! Didn't I already give him the intelligence on the Druid girl?! Why hasn't he contained it yet?"]

[... "This year is a bountiful harvest, I wonder when Vivian and Loli will be back..."]

[... ]

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Countless pieces of information flooded before Ron.

Yet, Ron felt no discomfort.

Unlike the information that used to pulse directly into his brain during Resonances ten years ago, this text-based relay was refreshingly clear.

Through this, Ron realized the utility of this ability.

There had always been an insurmountable hurdle for the creators of this world: the protagonist's perspective.

The spirit realm experiences of Resonators were always conducted from a primary perspective; they could never see the full picture of an event until it had completely concluded.

Therefore, early creators (especially novel writers) often wrote their works in the first-person perspective, as they truly did not know what was happening outside the primary viewpoint.

However, as many amateur authors writing in the third person gained popularity, the first-person perspective became very difficult to succeed with, at least in the circle of web novels.

A creator's strength comes from the popularity of their work, so they were forced to follow the trend and switch to the third person.

Thus, the problem of the protagonist's perspective was highlighted.

If you are writing in the third person, you have to plant the seeds for the villain's plots early on, right? You can't just wait for the protagonist to run into them before starting the exposition, right?

Therefore, those top-tier creators would wait until the events of a Resonance experience were resolved before writing that segment of the plot in one go, planting various foreshadowing and hooks along the way to make the story more dramatic and suspenseful.

Of course, this also led to many of these masters being notorious for skipping updates.

After all, until an event concluded, even they didn't know the full picture, so they naturally dared not update recklessly.

Because of the trends in the circle, Ron's novel was also written from a third-person perspective, so he naturally encountered the same problem.

But with the "Big Brother" skill, Ron could know all the information whenever someone mentioned Vivian in real-time.

In a sense, this could become his "cheat code" for writing.

But... it didn't really improve his actual combat strength much.

Looking at the imminent recommendation, Ron didn't know whether to be happy or worried.

["Look! It's perfectly fine!" Vivian boasted to Hetty.]

[Hetty looked at you with admiration.]

["In that case, perhaps we could let it contain the few primordial remnant souls our tribe has kept sealed as well!" Hetty muttered to herself.]

Seeing this sentence, Ron cast his earlier worries to the back of his mind and suddenly felt energized.