Book 1 Chapter 880
880.
“Brother, are you uncomfortable anywhere?”
Lil, holding Leo in her arms, asked respectfully.
At that, Leo nodded.
“But where are you going?”
[A place where Silrod might be.]
“Ohh… as expected of you, brother. You inferred that place.”
Lil exclaimed in admiration.
The place Leo and Lil arrived at was a small house.
“Here.”
[It’s Luna’s house.]
“What?”
Lil made a startled expression.
“Brother, how do you know where Luna’s house is?”
[I came here last time during the Hero World raid.]
“Ah.”
Lil nodded as if understanding.
Silrod was Luna’s covenant partner.
In that case, this space where he lived with Luna could be a place he missed.
“But… can we just go in?”
[Why not? What are you doing, not approaching the door?]
From Leo’s perspective, there was no hesitation in entering, but from Lil’s perspective, it was a tremendous disrespect.
As Lil was hesitating.
“Who are you?”
A slightly displeased voice was heard from behind.
Lil widened her eyes and turned around to see Berkea standing there.
Berkea often stayed at Kyle’s house, making a mess of it, but as Luna’s disciple, she lived with Luna.
In other words, this was also Berkea’s house.
“Ah, Lady Berkea.”
“The spirit user I saw yesterday…”
Berkea looked at Leo, who was in Lil’s arms, and tilted her head.
“Is he the younger brother of that kid with the unpleasant eyes I saw yesterday?”
Berkea’s eyes sparkled with curiosity.
Then she looked at Lil.
“Are you this child’s mother?”
“No, I’m not.”
Berkea tilted her head, looking at Lil who spoke calmly.
“But you treat him very preciously.”
“Ah, this person is my brother…”
“Brother?”
“Because he’s the child of the brother I know.”
“Ahh.”
Even though a woman used the title ‘brother,’ Berkea didn’t seem to care much.
‘When it comes to unique personalities, they’re neck and neck.’
Leo thought to himself.
As he thought that, he suddenly felt a sense of seriousness.
‘Why are all my disciples, except for one, so strange in personality?’
Berkea was Leo’s first disciple.
Lil also started calling Leo ‘brother’ at some point, but originally, she was referred to as a disciple and received guidance in spiritism from Leo.
There were no commonalities between Berkea and Lil.
They lived in different eras, had different classes, and distinctly different personalities.
However, they had a strong commonality in being quite unusual individuals.
‘Only Viharr has a normal personality.’
As Leo was thinking that.
Berkea asked Lil.
“Can I hold him, perhaps?”
“Yes. Please do.”
Lil readily handed Leo over to Berkea.
Just as Leo was looking at Lil with a ‘what are you doing’ expression.
“Higher! Higher!”
Berkea smiled brightly and lifted Leo high up.
“Wow, his eyes are just like master’s…”
Thwack!
“Gasp?”
Leo kicked Berkea in the face with a baby’s tiny foot.
Just then, Berkea staggered.
“What are you doing, carrying a baby so dangerously?”
Viharr, who had approached without a sound, sighed and snatched Leo from Berkea’s hands.
“Th-this child kicked me really hard!”
“How much can a baby’s kick hurt? Stop exaggerating.”
“It really hurt!”
“Exaggerating.”
Viharr looked at Berkea with a pathetic expression, then looked at Leo’s face.
“He certainly resembles master. This baby.”
Viharr chuckled and handed Leo back to Lil.
“He… does he really resemble Sir Kyle that much?”
When Lil asked with a slightly perplexed expression, Viharr nodded.
“Yes. Perhaps it’s the atmosphere? That’s very similar.”
Lil stared intently at Leo’s face with a curious expression, then asked.
“By the way, have you two found the Fairy King?”
“Not at all. There’s not a single clue.”
Just as Viharr let out a deep sigh.
“Berkea! Viharr!”
A hurried voice was heard from afar.
‘Diras.’
He was also a member of Arhi.
His race was Dragon.
As one of the people guarding the entrance to Gadshron, he was also the first to receive news from the outside.
The three people besides Leo grew tense at the sight of Diras’s pale face.
Meanwhile, Leo’s eyes were filled with a complicated look.
Because he anticipated what news Diras had brought.
“What’s wrong! Diras! Is it an attack from Tartarus?”
“The Great Heroes… The Great Heroes…”
Seeing Diras unable to continue speaking, Berkea and Viharr also felt that something was wrong.
“No way…?”
Berkea asked back as if denying it, and Viharr plopped down.
“No, it can’t be. It’s a lie.”
Berkea bit her lip hard and ran off.
“B-Berkea!”
Diras hurriedly chased after Berkea.
Because given her personality, she would surely head east, following her masters.
Viharr, who had slumped to the ground and covered her face, sobbed with heaving shoulders.
“They said they would come back…”
Watching Viharr, Lil bit her lip tightly.
She hesitated, reaching out a hand to comfort Viharr.
Viharr’s movement stopped.
No, the movement of this space stopped.
Lil’s face hardened.
Lil threw Leo, who was in her arms, straight up high.
Whoosh—!
With that, a gigantic battle hammer appeared.
Lil, firmly gripping the battle hammer with both hands, swung it straight at the empty air.
CRASH—!
The space rippled, and a massive shockwave sent the attacking demon flying.
Clink-clank-
“Indeed…”
As space distorted, a demon with a long, slender body appeared.
“As expected of Lil Luce, known as the beast of Lumern.”
At the appearance of the King of Desire, Sigas, Lil gripped her battle hammer tightly.
Ordinarily, she would have flared up at being called a beast, but she couldn’t now.
Because Sigas wasn’t the only Legion Commander to appear.
“You damn skinny wretch! Why did you bring me here?! I have to fight the baby bird!”
“Aah, I want to be tormented by Kal Thomas!”
“Sigas! Don’t send me to that scary old woman’s place!”
Led by the King of Desire, Sigas, other newly appointed Legion Commanders appeared one after another.
Looking at them, Lil asked Leo.
“Brother.”
[What.]
“What are those bizarre fellows?”
[The newly appointed Legion Commanders.]
Clink-clank-
“Baby birdddddd!”
“Aaaah! I want to be tormented!”
“What? Another old woman?!”
Lil made a serious expression as she watched the King of Desire rattling the jewel in his hand like a madman, the Legion Commander of Pain desperately calling out someone, the Succubus Queen twisting her body with a blush, and finally, the King of Beasts sticking out his tongue with a disgusted look at Lil.
“Are those things really Legion Commanders?”
[That’s right. It’s the end of days, isn’t it?]
At Leo’s words, Lil looked on the verge of tears.
[Why?]
“It’s unfair! If even the Legion Commanders are so full of personality like that, what about ordinary people like me?”
[…….]
Leo closed his eyes, let out a deep sigh, and said.
[Don’t worry, you’re the strangest one.]
“No! I am extremely ordinary and unremarkable…”
Leo slipped out of Lil’s arms as she protested.
Leo, who had floated himself using the Fly magic, stepped forward and said.
“What? Who’s that brat?”
As the King of Beasts, Gon, made an annoyed expression, Leo crossed his arms and said.
[Did the Necromancer King order you all to come at once like this?]
“That is correct, King of Beginnings. By the way, you’ve become even younger. If you’re not careful, your very existence might be erased, perhaps?”
“……”
Leo clicked his tongue at the enigmatic words.
“The Necromancer King commanded us. He said if there’s an opportunity, to subdue the King of Beginnings, Leo Flobe, first.”
Leo chuckled.
[With mere you lot?]
At the scorn in Leo’s eyes, Seneor, the Legion Commander of Pain, frowned.
“Your words are impudent. Do you see nothing just because you’re called the King of Beginnings?”
Seneor, revealing killing intent and fighting spirit, seemingly bothered by Leo’s words.
Besides him, Psykia, the Succubus Queen, and Gon, the King of Beasts, also revealed strong killing intent.
“Your words are true. Perhaps we might be no match for you. But isn’t that in a normal situation?”
Within his hood, the eyes of Sigas, the King of Desire, gleamed dangerously.
“Can you face us in such an abnormal state, as a mere infant? Even if you are Kyle, the Hero of Beginnings.”
“What?”
“Hero of Beginnings?”
“That brat?”
The other Legion Commanders made surprised expressions.
‘Did he know after all? He seems to be trusted by the Necromancer King more than I thought. He’s a troublesome type indeed.’
Leo clicked his tongue, looking at Sigas.
He must have come forward like this because he was confident he could kill him, who was burdened by a penalty.
‘And the fact that the illusion has stopped now… means that Silrod’s magic itself is collapsing.’
That meant Erebus’s resurrection was not far off.
His intention was to keep himself bound here so that Erebus’s flames could burn even fiercer.
‘So, if you drag out time, you guys have the advantage, huh?’
Leo, who was curling up the corners of his mouth, suddenly looked at Lil, who had approached his side, with a quizzical expression.
[Aren’t you surprised?]
“I am surprised.”
Leo chuckled, looking at Lil who answered calmly.
[For being surprised, you’re excessively calm though?]
“Am I? More than that, one question has been resolved.”
[What question?]
“The question of why you act so much like an old man, brother.”
Hmm-hmm—! Lil nodded, looking relieved.
“Now I understand.”
[Right.]
Leo sighed and glanced at Sigas.
[You deal with that King of Desire.]
“Yes.”
Lil nodded and charged at Sigas without hesitation.
Bang—! Quagagagagak—!
Creating a massive dust cloud, the King of Desire moved away from where Leo was.
“Hero of Beginnings, huh…”
“Some kind of remnant from an old era?”
“Even if he is, he’s lost all his former power now, hasn’t he?”
The other newly appointed Legion Commanders glared at Leo, emanating thick killing intent.
“A hateful being who committed a crime against God.”
As Seneor, the Legion Commander of Pain, revealed strong hostility, Leo smiled.
“What’s so funny?”
[Nothing. It’s just been a long time since I felt this way.]
“What?”
[It’s just been a really long time since a Legion Commander… no, since a demon revealed pure hostility even after knowing who I am.]
The Monster Queen, the Giant King, the Necromancer King.
When they knew Leo’s identity and faced him.
Even after seeing Leo, who had lost his power, they unconsciously felt ‘fear.’
To them, a Great Hero was such an existence.
Just as all races in the world feel deep fear when they see the Legion Commanders.
In the past, to the beings of Tartarus, a Great Hero was like a deeply ingrained fear.
Literally catastrophic monsters to the demons.
That was what a Great Hero was.
Therefore, the pure hostility of the newly appointed Legion Commanders felt fresh to Leo.
[Indeed, it’s about time I taught the demons who don’t know the past.]
Leo’s red eyes gleamed dangerously.
[Why I became an object of terror to your ancestors, that is.]