Chapter 99 – Epilogue. The Kingdom of the Mercenary King (1)
The fierce battle against the demonic beast of the beginning.
A year and a half has passed since the final battle.
A lot had happened in the meantime.
We defeated the demonic beast of the beginning and prevented the apocalypse.
I thought that everything would be over with that alone.
A remnant left behind by the demon from the beginning.
And all the remaining gates and dungeons on Earth did not disappear.
Nevertheless, thanks to the disappearance of the demon of the end.
Humanity embraces the light of hope again.
I was able to pick up the sword again without giving up for tomorrow.
“Majesty! “All the demonic beasts in this area have been destroyed.”
A middle-aged knight with fierce eyes knelt in front of me.
I answered the high-ranking knight’s words while wearing the king’s red cloak, which was somewhat awkward.
“It was a lot of hard work. I will regroup for a few days and then return to the capital. “Collect the wounded soldiers and reorganize the unit.”
“Yes, Your Majesty!”
Once again the high knight was courteous to me.
I looked down at the battlefield where all those battles had ended.
The sight was filled with tens of thousands of corpses.
The particularly foul bloody smell is clearly the scent of the blood of a demonic beast.
However, there was very little human blood mixed with that blood.
Order of the Red Lion.
Their roots began with a mercenary group.
Now, it was clearly a nation’s elite knight corps.
That is, the Knights of Tigris, my country.
I briefly defeated the knights around me and climbed onto the huge watchtower installed nearby.
[The north wind is strong. Will you be okay?]
At that time, my sword blood child spoke to me.
I lightly tapped the sword handle. Saying it’s okay.
I looked down at the surroundings again from there.
About a year ago.
I thought back to the moment when I defeated the primordial demon beast in the abyss beneath Mt. Bukhansan.
“Sua at that time was amazing.”
Even if you are a warrior who has received the goddess’ divinity buff.
It was a great feat to finally defeat that ferocious primordial beast.
And, the moment when it all came to an end.
I encountered the goddess again in the pure white divine space.
“A forgotten… Ancient god.”
Right there.
I was able to know the entire story of how I became possessed by the original novel.
Original novel ‘Nova Academy’s absolute genius is too good’.
A novel that has been published all year round due to its lack of popularity.
In fact, it was a world created in the very distant past when a goddess first received divinity and became a god.
However, at that time, the power of the goddess as a god was not perfect.
So, the world she created called Earth.
I became the prey of an evil spirit that existed in the long past.
Fortunately, the goddess, who had awakened all her powers as a god, succeeded in annihilating her late minister.
Ironically, the world created by the goddess also began to collapse on its own as a side effect of using that enormous power.
So, the reason it remains a year-round novel like it is now.
A very small part of the first world created by the goddess.
‘There’s really only a few books left in the world.’
The unstable form called a book.
And because it was sealed year-round, its complete disappearance was prevented.
Due to its instability, the remaining thoughts of the evil spirit could not be extinguished.
In the end, it was the first world of the goddess that had no choice but to face the fate of the end.
– As long as that thought exists. My first world could not be resurrected even after eternity.
However, the goddess’s direct intervention further accelerates the instability.
The goddess had no choice but to leave the first world as if she had given up on it.
After that, the new world that the goddess created with the power of a stable god was Arnster, where I and I existed.
– But that world also… Began to be influenced by the evil spirit’s thoughts.
An all-year-old novel.
That is the world created by the goddess, that is, a part of the goddess.
The thoughts of the evil spirit that could not be extinguished gradually grew in size.
And, as the pages of that year-old novel dwindle.
The negative effects transmitted to the goddess’s second world further accelerated.
– That’s why you were chosen.
That was exactly why I was possessed by the original novel.
The goddess said that I was the person with the most special destiny in Arnster.
A man who was born as a war orphan, became a mercenary king, and created a kingdom.
In the history of Arnster, there were no great kings who achieved such feats.
The reason I was chosen by the goddess.
Because in that first world, there existed women who could lead me to a strong destiny.
– It was Seo Soo-ah and her party members.
Maybe that’s why all of the members fell in love with me.
I think it was because I had a soul destiny that was inevitably bound to happen.
– Of course, even that fate is a gamble in front of the thoughts of the ancient gods. There was a 100% chance that a girl liked you. The probability that everyone would love you was extremely close to zero.
In short, because all the members of the hero party fell in love with me.
A miracle was created by overcoming odds that were close to impossible.
“Thank you again.”
So to conclude:
My companions and I completely destroyed the thoughts of that ancient god.
However, the first world was harmonized with that thought for a long time.
Under the influence of its disappearance, it had no choice but to remain in an extremely unstable state.
– If the world is left as is… It wouldn’t be surprising if the thoughts of the ancient gods were resurrected.
So the goddess and I had a long talk.
And among several answers given by the goddess.
I chose the best method and did it that way.
***
Surprisingly, the method is to summon my mercenary nation to this Earth.
Although it may seem absurd at first glance.
It wasn’t impossible.
The first world of the goddess. So Earth and the second world, Arnster, were like brothers.
Rather, by summoning part of Arnster to Earth.
It was possible to stabilize the Earth now that it has become unstable.
Both I and the goddess agreed with that opinion.
‘Because the mercenary country is a country I created.’
For I am their master.
I had the right to summon them to another world called Earth.
So, when the first gate opened.
Due to the impact of that huge demonic energy explosion, the northern land became ground zero and was abandoned as a barren land.
My entire mercenary country was summoned near the border between China and Russia.
‘Well, because I founded my country on barren land in the first place. ‘It wasn’t much different from the northern part of the district.’
Naturally, all countries on Earth were greatly shocked by the newly appeared otherworldly country.
Soon, most countries had no time to even pay attention to the summons.
The only thing that disappeared was the demonic beast of the end.
The remnants and demonic beasts of Black Eclipse still remained.
Thanks to the hard work of the most elite guilds, including Helios and the Korea Hunter Association.
Although he succeeded in killing the high-ranking executives and elites of Black Eclipse.
There were countless countries left on Earth that were occupied by that villain organization.
It seems like the confusion will never end.
‘Well, that’s actually a blessing for me.’
And mercenaries always live in chaos and war.
Tigris, a mercenary country where the disappeared king has returned.
I am the king of that mercenary country.
After temporarily retiring for a while, I started working as a mercenary again.
‘There were so many customers on Earth.’
It was a very unstable Earth.
During that year and a half. I was much busier than the time I was setting up the mercenary bureau in Arnster.
So now the present.
To the extent that the Earth’s international community cannot function properly without my country’s assistance. Tigris’ international status grew enormous.
“Your Majesty Tigris! No… Your Highness Eric! Japan asked the Red Lion Knights for help. The price is quite good. Would you like to accept it?”
When you’re so lost in thought.
One of my men came up on the watchtower.
The only subordinate who can interrupt my thoughts.
Even on Earth, it was my adjutant, Krasel, who served as my right-hand man.
‘You’re always reliable.’
Although it was a match against the Academy and a match against Lucidenfield.
Although he did not participate in the final battle.
The person who followed Lucidenfield and knew all of their movements and weaknesses was Krasel.
Thanks to his hard work.
During the finals of the competition, Sua Party, which still had some shortcomings, was able to survive safely.
Crassel is a nobleman with a title in recognition of his achievements.
He continued his duties as a new adjutant.
“For a moment. Krasel. Let’s put that aside for a bit. Graduation ceremony at Nova Academy. “I decided to sit there.”
At those words, Krasel made an expression that said, “Oops.”
“Okay! “That schedule would be important enough to postpone future expedition plans.”
“You too are returning to Nova Academy after a long time. “I’m not looking forward to it.”
“Well… I’m fine. “My wife lives in the Tigris Kingdom.”
And I found out something unexpected.
I didn’t even know Crassel.
He said he developed a relationship with one of his classmates at Nova Academy and they became a couple.
I was a 21-year-old female cadet at the time.
Rather, Crassel, who was older than me, seemed different.
‘I got married just like that. ‘I’m more of a pure fan than I thought.’
So, the Crassel couple was the first international couple of Tigris and Earth.
The phrase ‘that couple’ left a strange impression on me.
For me, the reason I’m going back to Nova Academy is the same as going to pick up my bride-to-be.
Time passed so quickly.
Me in a few days.
We left the battlefield and headed to Nova Academy in Seoul.
