Became a tyrant of defense games - Episode 411
◈ 411. [Side Story] Return
There is no way to return to reality from the spirit world through normal means..
All kinds of expedients, system bypasses, and tricks are mobilized..
How did I emerge from the spirit world to reality after going through many hardships and return to Crossroads?.
“……What, what……?”
I was astonished with my mouth wide open in front of the changed South Gate of Crossroads..
Crossroads... … The city was completely different from what I remembered..
“Giggling!”
“Hehe vroom vroom!”
“Hehehe, it was delicious. Today’s meal was!”
Aren't there men with mohawk hair and leather jackets screaming strange things and running around swinging clubs?.
Hehehe…….
There is not a single citizen to be seen in the city seen through the wide open gate. Like a ruin, lifeless and dead.
The walls of the fortress are caved in various places, and have iron bars and barbed wire attached to them in an ugly manner..
Here is the final Hwaryongjeong point..
Rumbling……!
Roaring Roaring.
A large skull-shaped artifact hangs on the southern wall, with flames shooting out of the skull's eyes and mouth..
“……What is this, the end of this century??”
I trembled as I saw the blue flames of hell spewing out from the skull's mouth..
“What on earth happened to the city while I was away??!”
“ah… … So, that is…….”
“Even if you leave your seat for a few days, a cataclysm like this will happen?! uh?!”
Then, behind me, Ader hesitated and opened her mouth..
“My lord, you first fell into the spirit world.?”
“uh… … I did that.”
“When he returned, he came back through the spirit world..”
“It did.”
“The flow of time in the spirit world is completely different from reality. He went through those places and passed through them once.…….”
Ader looked at me..
“This time… … It's been quite a while.”
“……?!”
I was embarrassed and swallowed my dry saliva..
If a normal city could change like this to the end of the century,.
How much time passed while I was lost out there.……?
It was then.
“Those two guys over there! What are they doing?!”
“Suspicious-looking outsider discovered!”
Mohawk-haired warriors from the turn of the century who were running in front of the castle gate approached us..
They giggled, sticking out their tongues and licking the clubs and daggers..
“We are the soldiers who maintain security in this city! What's going on in this city??!”
“I like being honest. Our captain doesn't like to see unnecessary blood, giggle.……!”
“Our captain is a fearsome man without blood or tears, but he enjoys causing blood and tears to others.!”
I walked up to the guys who were talking threateningly and swinging their clubs..
As I approached, the embarrassed Mohawk men flinched and backed away. I glared into their eyes and growled..
“Guide me to your leader..”
“yes? No, that's it.…….”
I scolded the guys who were sweating profusely..
“Hurry up, you bastards. Right Now!”
***
therefore. Entered the city with mohawk-haired warriors.
The interior of the city was quiet, without a single citizen or an ant. I fell into a deep sleep as I surveyed the empty interior of the city. What is this?…….
The Mohican warriors glanced at me and guided me to the barracks..
“acting commander!”
“We've caught people who look suspicious.!”
Upon entering the barracks, the Mohican warriors shouted.
OK,
“They look suspicious.?”
The blonde knight who was standing at the entrance to the barracks and looking at the piled up weapons asked again..
“The battle will begin in a few days, but suspicious people came from somewhere.…….”
My eyes met the blonde knight who was turning around as he spoke..
The knight’s bright blue eyes widened..
“……lord?”
I was speechless..
His armor was heavily scratched, he had lost weight and looked pale, probably due to the hardships he had endured, and he had the air of an experienced veteran, no matter what he had been through..
It was a very familiar face..
I called my knight by name..
“lucas!”
“My lord? Are you really my lord? oh my god……!”
Lucas threw away the things in his hands and ran over, immediately kneeling in front of me..
“You are alive, my lord.!”
“then. I had a hard time, but I came back like this..”
They say I'm in trouble when I leave home, and that's exactly what happened..
Lucas looked up at me with a grin, and suddenly tears filled his eyes..
“Without moving…….”
And then he immediately started crying bitterly..
“I thought he passed away... … Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu……!”
Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow.
Then the Mohican warriors who had guided me here broke into a cold sweat..
“Our captain... … He is a scary person without blood or tears.…….”
“Our role model... … You were an ideal warrior.…….”
“You cry like a bear…….”
I broke out in a cold sweat and tried to comfort Lucas. Hey, hey! Your subordinates(?) can see it! Stop crying, Jiji, Jiji.!
After a while, the real Lucas explained the current situation to me. First of all, how much time has passed since I went missing?.
“half a year……?!”
I opened my mouth wide..
“Half a year has passed?!”
“yes. To be exact, it is six months and fifteen days. I have been counting the days every day since the day my lord went missing..”
Lucas explained further, blowing his snot into a handkerchief. I couldn't close my mouth.
The weather was hot and muggy, but summer was already over and we were entering the beginning of fall..
Lucas also explained everything about the city's turn-of-the-century atmosphere..
The mohawk-haired friends are just newly hired mercenaries..
The reason the fortress has become so ugly is because it took damage from the battle that lasted for half a year while I was away..
The large skull hanging at the south gate is a rare artifact obtained during the last defense battle..
And the reason there are no people in the city is because they evacuated because the boss stage is right around the corner..
“After the lord disappeared, we fought a total of three more defensive battles..”
After facing the goblin army in Stage 15 and then Stage 16, I fell to the other side of the world..
In other words, while I was away, Crossroads survived until Stage 19..
It was fortunate that the defensive battle period lasted for half a year..
“Considering that powerful legions attacked every five times, the next defensive battle that will take place soon will also be a difficult battle... … Citizens were sent out in advance.”
“Well done, Lucas..”
After receiving other big reports, I patted Lucas on the shoulder..
“You've done just fine without me.”
“I tried to do only what I learned from my lord... … It wasn't easy.”
We're smiling at each other and having these conversations over and over again..
“I went there~ I asked at the blacksmith shop, and they said they could somehow provide the correct quantity of arrows by the day of the defense battle..”
A female knight wearing a helmet entered the barracks..
The female knight, who was strong and carrying a box full of arrows in both arms, looked this way and,
“uh?”
Thump the box in both hands onto the floor! dropped it.
“……lie.”
Taat!
The female knight hit the ground and arrived in front of me in the blink of an eye. She grabbed my scared shoulder and rocked me back and forth against her..
“Seniors?! You’re a senior, right?! I'm back, senior.?!”
“No, hey, wait a minute.!”
“I went somewhere and now I'm back, really! Do you know how worried we were??!”
He stopped shaking me by the arm and I asked in confusion..
“Let’s just ask this first. Who are you??!”
“Why can't you recognize your proud junior? It's me, it's me!”
No, among the female knights I know, there is no one with a physique like yours.…….
……wait for a sec.
To begin with, there was only one person who called me ‘senior’.?
“……No way, Evangeline?”
“Then who else but me?!”
When the female knight took off her helmet, the long platinum-blonde hair tied at the back flowed down..
The mischievous smile with prominent fangs was still there. There was a faint…….
I grew taller! This is why I don't recognize you!
“This is crazy, how tall have you grown in just half a year??!”
It's not that I'm overdoing it, it's really almost 10cm bigger..
Of course, he has to be 10cm taller to be shorter than me, but the guy who was wondering if he would grow to 150cm suddenly grew taller... … Your body balance has completely changed, you look like a completely different person.!
Even though she has grown taller, Evangeline still looks like a child and nods her head..
“This reaction! I wanted to hear this reaction? Now we can say that she has a really sexy-dynamite-hot body, right? Haha!”
Guess he's still obsessed with that damn dynamite hot thing, man.…….
“You don't know how unfair it was to me that even though I grew up this much, that guy still treated me like a child. But now that I've been recognized by you, I should acknowledge you too.!”
Lucas twisted his eyebrows in displeasure as he was pointed at by Evangeline..
“What happens when you grow taller? I'm still a kid in my head…….”
“Hehe, you say that, but you're actually nervous, right? He's scared that I'll chase after him and step over him.?”
“How can you follow my height??”
“It's a growth period! I've grown this much in half a year, so I'm sure I'll continue to grow even more in the future.!”
I looked at the two knights bickering with each other, smiling..
iced coffee… … I miss you. I missed you. My men are talking amongst themselves like this.…….
“Prince?”
At that time, a panicked voice was heard from the entrance of the barracks..
Let's turn around, a familiar boy with curly brown hair... … No, the young man was standing there. I waved happily..
“Damian! A long time!”
Damian rubbed his round eyes with the back of his hand and smiled..
“Haha, I guess I've been pushing myself a little too hard these days... … I see everything in vain…….”
“No, you have clairvoyance. How can you see something in vain?.”
“I can even hear auditory hallucinations. Haha, really… … Are you a little tired??”
Damian, who was muttering, gathered holy power in his hand and placed it on his forehead.,
“Get better, get better…….”
I stirred it..
No, your head isn't broken! I mean I'm real!
After a while.
“I thought you abandoned us and went to the imperial capital.…….”
After confirming that I was real, Damien cried, holding my sleeve tightly..
“Last time, we protested as a group against the prince's orders. So he was so angry at us that we thought he had abandoned us.…….”
“……It was my fault back then. And I'm not that irresponsible enough to abandon this place..”
No, I didn't mean to, but it was actually irresponsible of me to leave it there for half a year.…….
I looked at Damien. Damien was tying his newly long curly hair into a ponytail at the back. and…….
“……Have you grown tall too??”
“Ahaha… … I guess there was still room for more.”
He also grew taller.
Before that, he had a youthful appearance that could definitely be called a boy, but now that he has grown taller and his lines have become a bit thicker, he is now a clear young man..
‘……Half a year is a long time for children..’
I didn't notice that these guys were growing up when we were together, but now that we meet after being apart for a long time, I really feel it..
They say it grows bigger every day, but in half a year it has evolved into its next form..
And finally.
“Prince's Majesty!”
Among the main party members, Junior was the last to hear the news and came running in a huff..
“I knew it! I knew it! We know that Your Majesty is not someone who will abandon us, nor someone who will die in an accident outside.!”
Junior looked the same as he did half a year ago. A wide-brimmed wizard's hat, a loose robe that covers the body, and…….
“cooler!”
……Even hemoptysis.
As soon as he arrived in front of me, Junior vomited blood on the floor..
When I looked at him with my mouth wide open, Junior wiped his mouth and stammered shyly..
“……Dog, it’s a gag..”
“No, that repertoire doesn't work anymore.?”
The other kids have all evolved in a positive direction, so why are you coughing up blood again? Well, the chronic disease wasn't all cured.?
“I thought everything was better, but the last remaining element remained in the magic furnace... … That caused trouble again..”
Damien administered healing magic to Junior, who was suffering, saying, ‘Get better, get better.’.
Lucas came next to me and explained with a bitter smile..
“Junior has been pushing himself a lot. He couldn't let the magician's power rest.…….”
“I overexerted myself and the hemoptysis recurred, something like that..”
Junior, who had barely recovered, showed his characteristic fox-like smile..
“anyway! I'm so glad you're back, Your Majesty..”
“…….”
I looked around. Lucas, Evangeline, and Damian are all smiling around me..
“Yes, really.”
Making eye contact with the party members one by one, I spoke once again:.
“Glad you're back.”
Sincerely, like that.
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