Book 1 Chapter 623
623.
The moment he realized he had entered the world of heroes, Leo's eyes snapped open.
Leo looked around.
‘It’s a makeshift tent.’
The place where Leo opened his eyes was a tent primarily used in the field.
Leo, who rose from the bedding in one corner of the rather spacious tent, approached a small mirror on one side.
Pure white hair and red eyes.
‘It’s not a possession-type world. No, would that concept even apply here in the first place?’
Leo hardened his expression, recalling the message from a moment ago.
‘The Legion’s Record, and the world of Silatuna.’
To anyone, what it meant was one thing.
‘Those Tartaros guys also had a Record system.’
The world was saved once by the awakening of the Hero Record.
But what if Tartaros also possessed it?
‘Not only the powerful demons of the past, but even the power of the Legion Commanders could be inherited.’
Perhaps the balance that had been barely maintained could collapse in an instant.
Leo quickly racked his brain.
‘Surely it’s not something that existed originally? No. That can’t be. If he had possessed such power from the beginning, the Necromancer King wouldn’t be racking his brains trying to train new Legion Commanders.’
Leo continued his deductions.
‘The Necromancer King possesses a fragment of Erebus. What if it was created using the power of that fragment?’
‘No, even Erebus wouldn’t be able to create something like this.’
The gods called the Hero Record a Record System.
Erebus was an entity equal to the gods.
In that case, it wouldn’t be strange for him to possess knowledge about the Record System.
However, possessing knowledge and implementing it are separate matters.
The Hero Record was the essence of the gods, created by them pouring all their power into it.
‘No matter how divine that guy is, it would be impossible for him to implement something that all gods combined their power to create, with his power alone. Furthermore, the power the Necromancer King possesses is merely a fragment of Erebus.’
Thinking that far, Leo reached a hypothesis.
‘Did he modify the existing Hero Record?’
The Hero Record was tainted during the process of sealing the fragment of Erebus.
While more worlds were untouched by Erebus’s power, some worlds were encroached upon by it.
This page too would be one of those pages.
Leo organized the information he obtained through the messages.
‘The owner of the world is Silatuna. And the timeline is the prologue. The location is the Forest of Monsters.’
The Forest of Monsters was originally the land of the elves.
And it was also Luna’s hometown.
If it’s Silatuna and the Forest of Monsters, only one person comes to mind.
“Luna.”
[System Error: An unauthorized entity has invaded the world.]
A new message appeared before his eyes.
‘Unauthorized entity? Is it referring to me?’
Leo fell into thought.
‘If this world was implemented in the same way as the Hero Record… I should have entered as a demon, magic beast, or monster from Tartaros.’
Leo glanced- at the inside of the tent.
What lay before him were objects used by elves from 5000 years ago.
To anyone, Leo was in a situation where he had entered the world of heroes from Luna’s perspective, as usual.
*Rustle-*
Leo went outside the tent.
The ash-gray sky, symbolizing the Age of Calamity, was visible.
Countless elves were coming and going around him.
Seeing that, Leo muttered.
‘As expected, it seems it was originally Luna’s world. In that case, what should I do? Do I have to prevent those Tartaros guys from conquering this world?’
“Ah, you’re awake, Lady Luna!”
‘Luna?’
An elven youth, holding a spear in one hand and a gleaming shield in the other, was calling Luna.
At that, Leo unconsciously looked around to find Luna.
The Luna in the world of heroes possessed memories from the previous world.
In that case, would the Luna of this world also remember what happened outside?
‘What should I tell her?’
He recalled what happened when he parted ways with Luna previously.
At that time, Luna was not a being implemented by the Hero Record, but a spirit.
‘Would she have memories from that time?’
It was then that Leo’s eyes wavered slightly.
The elven youth who had been calling Luna approached Leo.
“Lady Luna! Movement of the Monster Queen has been detected in the deepest part of the forest!”
At those words, Leo made a startled expression.
“Luna?”
“Yes?”
“I’m Luna?”
“……”
At Leo’s words, the elven youth covered his face.
“Lady Luna. Today is a very important battle that could decide the reclamation of the forest! To drink excessively until the day before such a battle!”
Looking at the elven youth who looked like he was about to cry, Leo used the shield in the youth’s hand to reflect his own image.
No matter how he looked, it was Leo Flobe’s face.
“What’s going on?”
“Lord Akint… it’s Lady Luna…”
Then someone’s voice was heard.
Leo looked in the direction the voice came from.
There, a familiar figure was approaching Leo.
Akint Rubesha.
Luna’s magic teacher and a benefactor-like figure.
He was also the person Leo had possessed in Luna’s world previously.
“Luna, have you been drinking again?”
Akint took a deep breath and asked.
Seeing that, Leo thought.
‘It seems… the people in this world see me as Luna.’
And Leo understood exactly what point in time this was.
‘It’s right before Luna joins the subjugation force.’
The point in time when he and Licynas came here to subjugate Jörmungandr and recruit Luna.
The time when the elves united their strength and invaded the Forest of Monsters to reclaim their lost homeland.
‘The elves lost this battle.’
He looked at Akint.
‘And this person died here.’
***
*Gooooo! Hwa-reureuk-!*
Lis looked up at the Gigantes, which was slamming a huge mass of flames down towards him.
“What are you doing! That’s Hellfire! Dodge it!”
Abbad shouted urgently.
Turning to Abbad, Lis said.
“Abbad, prepare your magic.”
Lis, after briefly speaking, swung his sword upwards towards the Gigantes, which was burning with dark red flames before him.
*Hwa-reureuk! Kkwagagagagang-!*
Lis’s flame aura, which collided with Hellfire, boasting the most powerful destructive force among fire-elemental magic, surprisingly pushed back Hellfire and then swallowed the Gigantes’s arm whole.
*Gwooooooh!*
Grabbing its arm, which had turned to ash, the Gigantes let out a scream of pain.
‘He blew away even the defensive magic in one go?’
Abbad, admiring, unleashed the spell he had been preparing.
When Abbad, who had been accumulating dozens of wind spells without incantation, released them all at once, a storm instantly erupted.
The terrifying thing was that the winds of that storm were like blades.
*Sugagagagagak-!*
*Gwoooooooh!*
When the large-scale magic that Abbad had poured his mana into was unleashed all at once, its explosive power transcended imagination.
*Hududududuk-*
In an instant, fragments of flesh and blood rained down from the sky from the Gigantes.
*Kung-! Cheolpeok-!*
The Gigantes’s head plummeted into a pool of blood, momentarily creating a wave of blood.
Even though its body, except for its head, was completely shattered into a gruesome mess, the Gigantes was still alive.
It was then that Lis, with a cold expression, approached to finish off the Gigantes.
“Pathetic.”
A chilling voice was heard.
Lis stopped his steps.
“Did you get defeated by a mere novice who hasn’t even reached the rank of a hero, despite gaining the powerful body of a magic beast as a subjugation reward?”
“Skeleton?”
A skeleton appeared next to the Gigantes.
The skeleton’s body glowed brightly and then transformed into the figure of a dwarf.
Abbad, recognizing that face, made a stiff expression.
“Saint of Regeneration?”
The Saint of Regeneration was a healer who, as a hero long ago, was considered to possess the most powerful healing abilities in the history of the Age of Heroes.
He was renowned for his ability to heal any wound as long as life remained.
Zora used the abilities of the Saint of Regeneration to heal the Gigantes.
*Kugugugugung-!*
The Gigantes, instantly restored to its original form, stood up.
Seeing that, Lis opened his mouth.
“Are you a Hero Slayer?”
At those words, Zora glanced- at Lis.
“Lis Zerdinger. And…”
*Kwagagagagak-!*
A powerful wind blew, tearing Zora apart.
“No incantation?”
Greed arose in Zora’s eyes.
“Indeed, so you are Rwelyn’s successor. What excellent ability. As much as I’d like to hunt you down right now…”
Zora’s gaze turned towards the sky.
“There’s something I need to take care of first now.”
Zora’s killing intent soared towards the sky.
“Raina Zerdinger. I’ll make you regret giving birth to Leo Flobe.”
‘Is my aunt his target!’
The moment Lis, realizing where Zora’s killing intent was directed, tried to attack Zora.
*Kwagagagagagang-!*
The Gigantes’s massive arm struck Lis.
*Buwak-!*
Lis’s sword cut straight through the Gigantes’s arm.
*Pwahahahak-!*
An enormous amount of blood gushed out.
Lis, who instantly evaporated the blood with flames, aimed for Zora.
But that fleeting moment was enough time for Zora to fly into the sky.
“Ulta!”
Lis shouted urgently.
His voice, imbued with aura, echoed throughout the entire Flobe territory.
Ulta, hearing that shout, flinched, then quickly sensed Zora’s presence and tried to move swiftly.
But Zora, moving like a flash of lightning in an instant, was quicker to snatch Raina, who was riding a Pegasus.
“Lady Raina!”
“Aunt!”
Ulta and Celia frantically tried to rescue Raina.
But Zora, using magic to disappear, was quicker.
“Mere hero candidates. You’re no match for me.”
Zora, who had teleported a distance away, scoffed.
He had, at some point, taken on the appearance of a beastman.
“You look happy. Seeing you pleased with winning against children much weaker than yourself. Seems Leo really dealt you a crushing blow, didn’t he?”
At that moment, Raina, whose neck was gripped by Zora, sneered.
Zora’s chilling gaze turned to Raina.
“Are you so dull-witted that you can’t comprehend why I’m here? Leo Flobe has been dealt with.”
“Oh really? Judging by your terribly crumpled face, I’d say that’s not the case at all.”
Raina scoffed.
“The very act of capturing me, someone you’d cut ties with, doesn’t that itself mean you’re taking your anger out on me?”
“This wench…!”
Zora, whose face was distorting, then curled the corners of his lips.
“Yes, if Leo Flobe is still alive, it wouldn’t be bad to toss him your ruined corpse. That would surely drive him mad.”
Zora exuded a dense killing intent.
“Try it.”
“What did you say?”
“He won’t be shaken by something like that.”
Seeing Raina smiling calmly, Zora’s face stiffened.
“You’ll never be able to defeat my son.”
At Raina’s unyielding demeanor, Zora felt an uncontrollable rage surge within him.
“I’ll make you regret running your mouth so carelessly!”
*Gooooooooh-!*
Seeing the chilling aura rising from Zora’s body, Raina smiled.
‘This is… wrong.’
It doesn’t seem like she’ll live.
But…
No matter how much pain was inflicted, she would smile.
‘Because Leo will be fine.’
Raina had no doubt that her son would never be shaken.
‘I’m sorry, Dade.’
The moment Raina closed her eyes, leaving an apology to her husband.
-Shall I help?
‘Huh?’
-I asked if you need help.
‘Who?’
-I am Istada, the Spirit of Purification.