Book 1 Chapter 880
“Brother, is there anything uncomfortable?” Lily asked respectfully, holding Leo in her arms.
Leo nodded at her words.
“But where are you going?”
[A place where Shilod might be.]
“Oh… As expected, Brother. You’ve deduced the place.” Lily exclaimed in admiration.
And so, Leo and Lily arrived at a small house.
“This is.”
[Luna’s house.]
“What?” Lily’s expression turned to surprise.
“How do you know where Luna’s house is, Brother?”
[I’ve been here before during the last conquest of the Hero’s world.]
“Ah.” Lily nodded as if she understood.
Shilod was Luna’s covenant partner.
If so, this space where she lived with Luna could be a place she missed.
“But… is it okay to just go in?”
[Why not? What are you waiting for, not approaching the door?]
From Leo’s perspective, there was no hesitation in entering, but for Lily, it was a tremendous sacrilege.
As Lily hesitated.
“Who are you?” A slightly haughty voice came from behind.
Lily’s eyes widened as she turned around and saw Berkia standing there.
Berkia often stayed at Kyle’s house, making a mess, but she lived with Luna as Luna’s disciple.
In other words, this was also Berkia’s house.
“Ah, Lady Berkia.”
“The spirit user I saw yesterday…” Berkia looked at Leo in Lily’s arms and tilted her head.
“The younger sibling of the brat with the creepy eyes I saw yesterday?” Berkia’s eyes sparkled with curiosity.
And she looked at Lily.
“Are you this child’s mother?”
“No.” Seeing Lily reply indifferently, Berkia tilted her head again.
“But you treat him so preciously.”
“Ah, this is Brother…”
“Brother?”
“He’s the child of a Brother I know.”
“Ah.” Despite the woman using the title “Brother,” Berkia didn’t seem to care much.
‘They’re equally peculiar in personality.’ Leo thought to himself.
As he thought this, he suddenly felt a sense of gravity.
‘Why are all my disciples, except one, so strange in personality.’
Berkia was Leo’s first disciple.
Lily also started calling Leo “Brother” at some point, but originally she referred to herself as a disciple and received spirit magic instruction from Leo.
There were no commonalities between Berkia and Lily.
They lived in different eras, had different classes, and their personalities were vastly different.
However, they had a strong commonality in being quite peculiar humans.
‘Biharm has a normal personality.’ While Leo was thinking this.
Berkia asked Lily, “Can I hold him?”
“Yes, please do.” Lily readily handed Leo over to Berkia.
As Leo looked at Lily with a look of “What are you doing?”
“Higher! Higher!” Berkia laughed brightly and lifted Leo high.
“Wow, he has the same eyes as Master…”
*Thwack!*
“Cough?” Leo kicked Berkia in the face with his tiny baby foot.
As Berkia staggered.
“What are you doing with a baby, dangerously?” Biharm, who had approached unnoticed, sighed and snatched Leo from Berkia’s hand.
“Th-this child kicked me really hard!”
“How painful can a baby’s kick be? Stop exaggerating.”
“It hurt a lot!”
“Exaggerating.” Biharm looked at Berkia with a pathetic expression, then looked at Leo’s face.
“He really does resemble Master. This baby.” Smiling faintly, Biharm handed Leo back to Lily.
“Does he… resemble Kyle that much?” Lily asked with a slightly bewildered expression. Biharm nodded.
“Yes. The atmosphere, perhaps? It’s very similar.” Lily stared at Leo’s face with a curious expression and then asked, “By the way, did you two find the Fairy King?”
“Not at all. There isn’t a single clue.” It was when Biharm let out a deep sigh.
“Berkia! Biharm!” A desperate voice came from afar.
‘Diras.’ He was also a member of Arhi. His race was Dragon. He was one of the guards at the entrance of Gardsron and was the first to receive news from the outside.
The three, excluding Leo, turned pale upon seeing Diras’s face and became tense.
Meanwhile, Leo’s eyes were filled with a complicated sadness. He had anticipated the news Diras would bring.
“What’s wrong! Diras! Is it Tartarus’s attack?”
“The Great Heroes… The Great Heroes…” Seeing Diras unable to continue, Berkia and Biharm also felt that something was wrong.
“No…?” Berkia asked disbelievingly, and Biharm sank to his knees.
“It can’t be. It’s a lie.” Berkia bit her lip and ran.
“Be, Berkia!” Diras urgently chased after Berkia. Given her personality, she would undoubtedly chase after her masters and head east.
Biharm, who was kneeling on the ground with his face buried in his hands, sobbed, his shoulders shaking.
“You said you would return…” Seeing Biharm like that, Lily bit her lip.
As she hesitated and reached out to comfort Biharm, Biharm’s movement stopped.
No, the movement of this space stopped.
Lily’s face stiffened.
Lily threw Leo, whom she was holding in her arms, high into the air.
*Woong-!*
With that, a giant battle hammer appeared.
Lily, firmly gripping the battle hammer with both hands, swung it towards the air.
*Kwagang-!*
The space shimmered, and a massive shockwave sent the attacking demon flying.
*Clang- clang-*
“As expected…” As the space distorted, a demon with a long, slender body appeared.
“So you are Lil Luce, known as a monster in Lumern.” At the appearance of Sigias, the King of Desire, Lily gripped her battle hammer tightly.
Normally, she would have reacted defensively to the word “monster,” but not now.
Because Sigias was not the only commander who had appeared.
“Hey, you damn skinny guy! Why did you bring me here! I have to fight the baby bird!”
“Ah, I want to be tormented by Cal Thomas!”
“Sigias! Don’t send me to where that scary lady is!”
Led by Sigias, the King of Desire, other newly formed commanders appeared one after another.
Looking at them, Lily asked Leo, “Brother.”
[Why.]
“What are those grotesque beings?”
[New commanders.]
*Clang- clang-*
“Baby bird!”
“Haaang! I want to be tormented!”
“What? Another scary lady?!”
Lily looked at the King of Desire, who was rattling the jewel in his hand like a madman, the Commander of Pain, who was desperately calling out to someone, and the Succubus Queen, who was writhing with a flushed face. Finally, looking at the Beast King, who stuck out his tongue with a look of disgust, Lily’s expression turned serious.
“Those guys are commanders?”
[That’s right. The end of times, isn’t it?]
At Leo’s words, Lily pouted.
[Why?]
“It’s unfair! If the commanders are this unique now, what are ordinary people like me supposed to do?”
[…….]
Leo closed his eyes, sighed deeply, and said,
[Don’t worry, you’re the most unusual.]
“No! I am extremely uncharacteristic and ordinary…” Leo broke free from Lily’s embrace.
Using fly magic to lift himself, Leo stepped forward and said,
“What is that brat?” The Beast King Gon said with an annoyed expression, and Leo crossed his arms and said,
[Is it the Commander King’s order that you all came at once like this?]
“That’s right. King of Beginning. By the way, you’ve become even younger. You might cease to exist if something goes wrong?”
“……”
At the meaningful words, Leo clicked his tongue.
“The Commander King has ordered that if you have the opportunity, you should first subdue Leo Flob, the King of Beginning.”
Leo chuckled.
[With the likes of you?]
At the mockery in Leo’s eyes, Seneor, the Commander of Pain, frowned.
“Your words are arrogant. Do you become blind when you’re called the King of Beginning?”
Seneor, whose words were irritating, revealed killing intent and aggression. Besides him, Psykia, the Succubus Queen, and Gon, the Beast King, also revealed strong killing intent.
“As you say. Perhaps we are no match for you. But that’s under normal circumstances, isn’t it?” The eyes of Sigias, the King of Desire, glinted dangerously from under his hood.
“Can you face us in such an abnormal state, as a mere infant? Even if you are Kyle, the Hero of Beginning.”
“What?”
“Hero of Beginning?”
“That brat?” The other commanders looked surprised.
‘Did he know? He seems to be more trusted by the Commander King than I thought. As expected, he’s a troublesome type.’ Leo clicked his tongue, looking at Sigias.
He likely came forward with confidence that he could kill Leo, who was now under a penalty.
‘And the illusion stopping now… means the magic of Erebus is collapsing.’ That means Erebus’s resurrection is not far off. The intention is to tie him here, allowing Erebus’s flames to burn even more fiercely.
‘Are you saying it’s advantageous for you if I stall for time?’ Leo’s lips curled up, but he suddenly looked puzzled as Lily approached him.
[Aren’t you surprised?]
“I am surprised.” Seeing Lily reply indifferently, Leo chuckled.
[Even so, you’re too calm?]
“Is that so? Rather than that, one of my doubts has been resolved.”
[What doubt?]
“The doubts about why Brother is so much like an old man.” Nodding, Lily looked relieved.
“I understand now.”
[Yes.] Leo sighed and glanced at Sigias.
[You deal with that King of Desire.]
“Yes.” Lily nodded and charged at Sigias without hesitation.
*Bang-! Kwagagagagag-!*
Raising a huge cloud of dust, the King of Desire moved away from Leo’s location.
“Hero of Beginning…”
“Remnants of a bygone era?”
“Even so, he’s lost all his former power now, hasn’t he?” The other new commanders looked at Leo, emitting a deep killing intent.
“A hateful being who committed a sin against God.” Seneor, the Commander of Pain, revealed strong hostility, and Leo laughed.
“What’s so funny?”
[No. It’s been a long time since I’ve felt this way.]
“What?”
[It’s been a really long time since the commanders… no, since demons have shown pure hostility towards me, knowing who I am.]
The Demon Queen, the Giant King, the Commander King. When they knew Leo’s identity and faced him, even though he had lost his power, they unconsciously felt ‘fear’. To them, the Great Heroes were such beings. Just as all races in the world felt deep fear towards the commanders, the Great Heroes were like deeply ingrained fear to the beings of Tartarus in the past. They were literally calamitous monsters to demons. That was the Great Hero. Therefore, the pure hostility of the new commanders felt fresh to Leo.
[Well, it’s about time I teach the demons who don’t know the past.] Leo’s red eyes flashed dangerously.
[Why I became an object of fear for your ancestors.]