“......So that was it. It was a story created because of Vera.”
Team Lead Kim was visibly surprised.
Inside the monitor.
—The nation of Hyun.
At First Sword King Baman’s words, the four awakened descendants nodded.
Whoooooosh—
With the blowing wind and the setting sun, the sight of them appearing in the world once more, led by First Sword King Baman at the front, was incredibly impressive.
It was enough to prove that Sword King Barad was so magnificent precisely because he had inherited their blood.
And so they walked in the direction First Sword King Baman was looking.
No, they tried to.
—That’s not the way.
—.......
—.......
—.......
At Vera’s words, First Sword King Baman and the Sword Kings inside the monitor fell silent.
“Come to think of it, they don’t know the way, do they?”
“......They looked cool until just now.”
In any case, after Vera kindly drew a map leading to the nation of Hyun and handed it over, they set out.
Vera watched their backs as they departed, then smiled.
—I did it.
Her goal, as she smiled wickedly, had clearly been achieved.
It was obvious that a massive crisis would arise in the nation of Hyun.
—Kya ha ha ha ha ha!
Watching her cackle with laughter, Team Lead Kim put on a serious expression.
“Vera is definitely an outstanding ranker.”
Employee Lee Jihui agreed.
She had gained a Legendary class only to have it taken from her immediately, but she had not given up.
If it were me, I would’ve quit the game.
And there, she had proven her standing as a high-ranker.
By rising to yet another Legendary class.
“If you look only at the actions she takes, she’s enough to reach Valhalla or Kabel’s level.”
In fact, the ripple effect she caused was by no means small.
It had been the same with the Great Archdemon Gremory.
But......
“Her weakness is that she knows one thing but not the next.”
Lee Jihui also agreed.
“Because of this, Hyunsoo ended up doing the main episode Goyad in a different way.”
“That’s right.”
Team Lead Kim looked at her as if asking for an answer.
“What does that mean?”
Team Lead Kim looked pleased even as he asked the question.
Employee Lee Jihui, who had already passed well over two years on the team, now saw things even Team Lead Kim had missed.
She also found what he overlooked, and was performing her role as his assistant splendidly.
She answered confidently.
“It means the rewards have also been restored.”
That was right.
The vanished episode “Goyad.”
Vera had created a crisis, but she had also created a new possibility that rewards could be obtained.
*****
The nation of Hyun, the forge.
Rock, the youngest blacksmith and also the Overlord, declared,
“Today will be different.”
“Oh, oooh!”
“Uoooooh, finally!”
It had already been close to a year since Rock came to this forge.
At first.
His senior blacksmiths had been so unimpressed by his skill that when he made a “dagger,” they mistook it for a “hairpin.”
They had even called the throwing knives he made chopsticks.
But today, after hundreds of practice attempts, Rock’s aura was fierce.
That aura was not the aura of an Overlord, but the aura of a blacksmith.
Fwoooooosh—!
Smelting the ore.
Scrape, scrape scrape—!
Refining the ore to remove its impurities.
Psssssh, psssssssh—
With the water quenching, his hammer rose to one side of the forge.
Taaaaang~ Tang! Tang!
“Finally!!”
“Rock, you’re earning your keep!”
When else would they ever get to bully the Overlord?
The blacksmiths, who had been happily riding him hard, recognized that the youngest blacksmith’s movements were different today.
At times, he seemed to fall into an extreme state of selflessness and could not hear their voices.
Taaaaaaang—!
When he quenched it, he was delicate, smooth, and removed it at the perfect time.
And as he proceeded with the finishing work, Rock became drenched in sweat.
In that moment, at least, he would not have been lacking even if they called him a temporary Master Blacksmith.
At the end of that process, he finally completed it.
“T-this is.......”
“My word!”
His senior blacksmiths could not hide their admiration and shock.
“......Another chopstick?”
“.......”
Rock said nothing.
“Ehh......”
“I got my hopes up for nothing.”
“Is this the 132nd chopstick?”
“Why’d you make us expect anything!”
“Heh heh.”
And so the senior blacksmiths left.
However, Rock looked down at it with a satisfied smile.
Just then.
“Go earn your keep.”
Takashi appeared.
“Earn my keep?”
“Yes. Today is the day the baby blacksmiths have field practice.”
The nation of Hyun was a blacksmithing nation.
It taught not only adults, but also children who wanted to learn.
Among them, one of the most important classes was field practice.
“Everything in nature can become material for a blacksmith. You should all know that theory, yes?”
“Of course.”
Bow—
Rock lowered his head and moved off.
After he disappeared, Takashi gave a hollow laugh.
He had also watched the process Rock had gone through to make it.
And Takashi disagreed with the blacksmiths calling it “chopsticks” again.
First, because even if the Overlord sometimes looked clumsy and scatterbrained in the field of blacksmithing, he was hiding his true nature.
You can’t fool my eyes, you little brat.
It was not easy for the greatest swordsman in the world to blend in somewhere.
Perhaps that was the Overlord’s own way of doing things.
In fact, thanks to this side of the Overlord, the blacksmiths no longer feared him, and instead wished for him to succeed as a blacksmith.
And one more thing.
It came from something the other blacksmiths had failed to see.
Chopsticks? Does that matter?
Takashi looked into the most important principle.
What matters is who holds them.
*****
First Sword King Baman.
He was the first family head deified in Goyad’s history.
The story of a lowborn seedling founding a nation with a single sword was enough to be deified.
And then there were Sword King Baman’s descendants, who continued generation after generation.
They inherited that blood, possessed talent in swordsmanship, and received the “Sword King’s swordsmanship” through every generation.
The meaning of a nation having more than a thousand years of history.
It meant that every time one king set and another was born, those kings had led the nation splendidly.
As they walked together toward the nation of Hyun, Sword King Baman heard about the passing years from them.
First was his grandson, Baku.
[3rd Sword King Baku Lv.523.]
He looked exactly like Baman and wielded a greatsword. He was in his mid-thirties.
Next was Bardan.
[4th Sword King Bardan Lv.513.]
Wielding a rapier, he had splendidly led Goyad by making use of the Sword King’s swordsmanship and his specialty, “speed.”
And then there was the one holding an ordinary longsword.
He was the youngest.
However.
Everyone present looked at him with surprised eyes.
He seemed to be around eighteen years old, and he was a handsome young man.
His name was Ban.
[Ban Lv.473.]
He was the current Sword King Barad’s son.
An unfortunate swordsman who had died at Ifrit’s hands before he could ascend the throne.
However, it was clear that he had more outstanding talent than anyone here.
Ban asked,
“Do you truly believe her?”
First Sword King Baman let out an old man’s laugh.
“......She had something she wanted to accomplish through us. I do not believe everything. However, it is interesting that a blacksmith’s nation took things from the nation of Goyad. I truly wish to test them.”
That was right.
They had not been played by Vera.
A test was simply necessary.
However, the price if they failed that test would by no means be light.
“What if you judge that they are unqualified?”
“......Is there any need for two suns beneath the sky? Your father alone should be enough for the heavens.”
“......That is true.”
Ban wore the most satisfied smile.
From his perspective, he could not understand how his father’s nation had been split in half.
In his eyes, it looked like nothing but theft.
“The nation of Hyun is a nation that drapes itself in Goyad’s things and imitates it. We must all confirm whether it has that level of qualification.”
That level of qualification contained many meanings.
Before long, they entered the nation of Hyun, and each of them scattered in separate directions.
Ban was also strong, but he was accompanied by Bardan, the 4th Sword King who used a rapier.
“How about heading toward the soldier training camp?”
“Good.”
They were curious.
If this nation of Hyun had taken Goyad’s things, how much had it taken?
And was it making proper use of them?
At the end of those thoughts, when they reached the military training grounds, they were shocked.
“Haaap!”
“Haaap!”
“Haaap!”
An army of tens of thousands moved in unison, performing motions that formed the foundation of the Sword King’s swordsmanship.
Furthermore.
What is this?
Weaknesses existed even in the Sword King’s swordsmanship, and they were moving their swords after compensating for those weaknesses.
“Haaap!”
“Haaap!”
Their spirit spread high enough to shake the heavens, and it was clear that their movements looked better than Goyad’s in the past.
Ban, especially, who had only been dead for a few years, was the most shocked.
“They are far superior. Far more than Goyad’s soldiers. I cannot believe it.”
And the expressions of the astonished men soon turned fierce.
In the end, the foundation of the techniques those soldiers were performing came from the Sword King.
“So the foundation of this nation of Hyun truly was Goyad.”
“How could this be......!”
Ban’s face flushed red.
A nation that had stolen his father’s things and grown beyond the original Goyad.
No, perhaps.
A nation that stole Father’s things and grew beyond Goyad!
Ban spat out his bitter resentment.
“After I died, my father must have fallen into grief and lost his strength, and this man Hyun must have aimed for that opening.”
He must have taken one thing after another, stealing everything he could, then left behind only the “loyal subjects” and “people” of his father because he could not steal them.
Grit, grit—
Ban ground his teeth and said,
“I will kill this country’s king.”
Terrifying killing intent stretched from his body.
And Ban also wanted to kill those soldiers.
As he scattered that killing intent and took one step toward the soldiers.
“It has been a long time, Your Highness.”
A beautiful knight with silver hair appeared.
“.......”
Her appearance brought Ban joy, shock, disappointment, and despair.
“How can you betray my father and serve this man Hyun!”
He could understand the soldiers’ Sword King swordsmanship.
But he could not understand Bella.
She had abandoned the weakened Barad and become this nation’s dog, teaching the foundation of the swordsmanship that was Goyad’s soul.
“.......”
Bella quickly understood the situation.
I have to explain quickly. If I don’t, it’s only natural that he won’t understand this situation.
“Your Highness, please listen to......”
However, Ban’s anger was far faster than words.
Booooom—!
Ban shot forward quickly and tried to cut Bella down with his sword.
And that sword carried enormous killing intent.
Clang—!
She hurriedly blocked Ban’s attack.
First, I’ll subdue him. He’s too agitated to listen.
However, Bella soon realized how foolish that thought was.
Tap—
One hand settled on Ban’s shoulder.
“Calm down, Ban. First, let us cut off all of this woman’s arms, then have a calm conversation.”
“.......”
The 4th Sword King Bardan was not agitated.
The man known as the king of swift swords.
Recognizing him, Bella’s pupils trembled, and it was even a two-against-one situation.
She sensed it.
This is dangerous.......
It would not be an easy fight.
*****
At the same time.
The Academy.
The 3rd Sword King Baku, who used a greatsword......
Each king had a different way of protecting his nation, and Baku, who used a greatsword, was on the cunning side.
He had no choice but to be.
The third generation.
After the First Sword King and his child had set, the way Sword King Baku, their grandson, protected the nation was to use any means necessary.
At the Academy, he intended to take the principal and the children, this nation’s talents, hostage and confront the man called Hyun.
Unfortunately.
Step, step—
After entering the Academy with a greatsword slung over his shoulder, he gave a bitter smile when he saw the principal was absent.
“Where is the principal?”
He looked around, expecting the children to be terrified, but then wore a puzzled expression.
What is with these children?
The children showed no agitation at all, as if they were trained soldiers.
One by one, they also began taking out unfamiliar books of spellcraft.
What in the world are they teaching them?
There was even an unidentified corpse lying on top of an iron table.
Anatomy?
It was a ragged corpse with black skin.
“When an adult speaks, you should answer.”
However, it did not matter much what they had been taught.
Baku knew how to make children terrified.
A greatsword.
He only needed to cut one child in half from the head down and make an example of them.
“Let us see how long you refuse to answer.”
Baku raised his greatsword toward one girl.
Just then.
......What is this?
Baku was flustered.
He was trying to swing the greatsword down, but it would not descend.
An unknown, enormous force was blocking him.
Soon, he raised his head and saw what had stopped his greatsword.
Blood......?
It was a chain made of blood.
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