58 – Comparatively safe from the invasion of the Demon Lord. There, people drinking late at the tavern chatter.
“The demon king has invaded the kingdom of Goddess Abelida, so can we stay here like this? Shouldn’t we go and fight…”
The man with the long beard answered with a chuckle.
“You have a lot of worries. Even if we don’t step out anyway, the goddess and the newly inaugurated hero will solve it.”
“But…I’m just as anxious as there are vicious rumors that a new hero has escaped. It would be a big deal if someone invaded our place. Even now, my wife and child are sleeping at home.”
“Hmm…Did you say the newly inaugurated hero’s name was Yoon Seong-won? Since he was inaugurated after the hero Eun-chan Kang, he must have been properly verified in terms of military force, so why did he run away? I think it’s probably a rumor. By the way… When I think about it again, I feel very sorry for Kang Eun-chan. He acted faithfully and won the support of many people, but in his later years, he was poisoned with holy water… And even took his own life. What a pity.”
“That’s right. He said a lot about this and that in his later years, but he still couldn’t deny that he was the strongest among the warriors of all time. In fact, during the days when Kang Eun-chan was a warrior, Saris had never been able to break down the wall. How long has it been since the hero Kang Eun-chan died?
When the name Kang Eun-chan came up, the atmosphere in the bar turned dark.
People in Goddess Abelida don’t know if Kang Eun-chan is still alive. He used the resurrection privilege to leave his corpse behind, and changed his face to another using a skill called virtual face. Others could only think that Kang Eun-chan was dead.
At first, there was a lot of public opinion criticizing Kang Eun-chan. To say that the hero is poisoned with holy water, honestly, doesn’t it make sense? A story about a hero who should be brave and just, indulging in mere pleasure, plundering holy water to return to the slums and consuming it. It was hard to believe, but Goddess Abelida had announced it herself, so I had no choice but to believe it.
But as time passed and even the walls began to crumble, public opinion was changing.
“If the hero Kang Eun-chan hadn’t fallen like that, the castle walls wouldn’t have been breached by now…I’m curious about that…”
After the castle wall was breached, people vaguely thought in their heads.
[If there was a hero Eunchan Kang?]
A wall resembling an iron fortress that seemed impenetrable even after several years. People didn’t know how difficult and amazing it was to defend the wall, and how hard Eun-chan Kang had been defending it. It was natural. For them, the hero who protects them is like air.
People don’t appreciate the familiar things around them. You don’t know how to appreciate the water that gushes out when you open the faucet, and you don’t know how to appreciate that there is always overflowing air. In fact, when you go to the desert where not a single drop of water comes out, you suffer from dehydration and realize how precious water is. But this is for a while. Anyway, once you get used to the environment, you lose your preciousness again. Humans repeat stupidity.
“Please, I hope it goes well this time too…”
Kang Eun-chan, whom people regarded as air. After he disappeared, they were in danger of suffocation. Since the demon king destroyed the castle wall, once the final defenses were breached, the kingdom of Abelida would be destroyed in an instant.
People don’t know that either. Paradoxically, the reason why I’m stupidly drinking here is because I knew that fact all too well.
Let’s assume that a meteorite the size of the Earth falls from the sky. Can you live by running away? Or can you resist? To ordinary people, the demon king was like a meteorite. They know. That they can’t do anything. They knew better than anyone else that they were not helpful anyway. That’s why, I hope this situation will pass now and please pray that everyone is safe without anything happening, and the only way was to rely on alcohol.
-Beep
-Beep
People drank in silence. All of them had their own families. So try hard to deny it. The demon king has captured the castle wall, but he can’t break through the final line of defense.
-Parr Leure
However, the drinking people’s hands were shaking.
-Percussion-!
“You can’t drink alcohol today.”
The moment the man put his drink on the floor.
-Hwaaah-!
A strange screen began to appear on the artifact for video output installed in the center of the bar.
“Quaaa!”
From the video transmission artifact, a man’s scream begins to be heard.
“Um…what is that…?”
People’s eyes were all focused on that place. At first, they thought something like a movie or drama was playing on the artifact. But.
“Han…Han. Have a look at this The same video as that on my phone…!”
Cellphones that people carry. Even though it was a mobile phone that could not communicate with the outside world due to the ability of Goddess Saris, the video was being output. That said, the signal did not come from outside the goddess Abelida, but from within. It even meant that it wasn’t just a movie, but reality.
“What the hell happened to this…?”
As people stared at me dumbfounded, the girl wearing a hood spoke calmly.
“Saris. The monster fighting over there is the demon lord Saris. I know for sure because I found it on a previous expedition.”
-Kudangtang-!
“My lady. Is that really Um…That’s a saris? So, what you see there is reality?”
People didn’t know Saris’ face exactly. It was extremely rare for Saris to come out of her house, so there wasn’t much information about it.
After hearing the story that the monster fighting there was the demon king Saris, people watched the situation coming out of the video transmission artifact.
There is a village already in ruins. It was all on fire and people were corpses piled up like mountains.
“Buh… Did the Demon King’s army advance that far already…?”
We’ve already heard that Saris destroyed the wall. However, no news had been heard of her approaching near the center of the city. That’s why people couldn’t help but panic. Really, it was because Saris was right in front of her nose.
“Um…Then who the hell is the man fighting over there? How can I fight Saris on an equal footing? Apparently, there were rumors that the newly inaugurated hero, Yoon Seong-won, had escaped…Wasn’t that the case…?”
Then, the girl, Park Ga-hyun, took off the hood she was wearing and tried to stand up.
“That’s…!”
Then, her father was behind. Park Geon-hyung talked to her.
“Gahyeon-ah… Can’t you just stay still? There is nothing we can do. You saw it too how strong the warrior is And how weak we are. It was thanks to Warrior Kang Eun-chan buying time that he was able to escape all the way here. I can’t put you in danger again for nothing. For the sake of this father, please listen to me this time.”
Park Geon-hyung emphasized again.
“Again, there is nothing we can do against Saris. Because we are so weak that even the leader of the Demon King’s Corps can’t win properly.”
The point at which Kang Eun-chan went to block Saris’ attack. To protect his daughter, Park Ga-hyeon, Park Geon-hyung took her and fled to the farthest place from the capital of the goddess Abelida.
At first Ga-hyeon Park resisted, but soon she obeyed her father and retreated because of the fact that she almost killed her father for nothing.
It is true that she lost her will as she felt deeply that there was nothing she could do on her own. The ideal and the reality are different. I was brutally aware of that part.
However, the more I tried to run away, the more Kang Eun-chan’s face came to mind.
-I came to keep my promise.
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Just a promise made in the slums. Kang Eun-chan risked his life to keep the flowing promise of helping when he needed help, gave up a life he could live in peace, and came to Goddess Abelida, revealing his identity. His mind was filled with thoughts of having to repay him.
If it hadn’t been for him, he would have died horribly, let alone his father. If he hadn’t stopped Saris, he would have been all over the place and people were dying.
What’s more, if he breaks down now. Goddess Abelida is over. I can assure you that there is no one stronger than Kang Eun-chan in Goddess Abelida.
“Father…I know. That we alone cannot be of any meaningful help.”
I know that only two people can’t be of any help in the battle against the demon lord. But, it’s a story when it’s her and her father, her two. This time it wasn’t just her father and her.
Kang Eun-chan’s appearance is being sent out everywhere inside the Goddess Abelida, as well as in the bar. People are watching Kang Eun-chan fight for his life.
Park Ga-hyun made up her mind. This time, he decided to help Kang Eun-chan, which is impossible by himself. So, I will gather people.
-Bang-!
After Park Ga-hyun hit the table with his hand, he stood up on a chair and shouted.
“Everyone, the person fighting over there is the warrior Kang Eun-chan. We must go and help. Even right now…”
The moment Park Ga-hyun was about to talk.
A cold reaction began to flock to Park Ga-hyun, and a man with a pickaxe on his back came to Park Ga-hyun’s eyes and stopped talking.
“How do you know that? No, even if the real hero Kang Eun-chan over there is, why do we have to help?”
Pouring cold reactions. Eyes of suspicious people. Park Ga-hyun was used to these eyes. Park Ga-hyun took a deep breath and opened his mouth.
“If you don’t help the hero Kang Eun-chan, everyone will die in the end.”