"You all know what happened afterward, right? After all, you witnessed it. I — a man from another universe — was somehow able to adapt to the harsh mass of darkness that is the Void, where life cannot exist. I was able to calm the chaotic storms that break out in the Void, creating a safe area for other banished souls, some of whom I later recruited and restored back to reality. The fragment of Nehemiah's spirit entered the Void secretly to guide me, while Bella, the God of Space, left the Divine Realm to supervise my growth," Baiyi said, his recollection coming to an end.
"I now marvel at how accurate the name I gave you is! Back then, I named you 'Hope' because I considered you the future for exiled phantoms like us," the shocked Archmage said. "Who would have known that you were intended to bring hope not just to us, but to the entire universe? This has got to be the first time that I came up with the right name!"