The Griffin King’s Lion Hall (Roundtable Conference Room) was a room with white and gold walls and only one large round table. It was created for the purpose of gathering and discussing only a few of the highest-ranking members of the kingdom when making very important decisions.
Knock, knock.
In that room, a woman was walking around the round table with the royal maids, dragging the hem of her beige dress.
Drumroll…
The sound of the wheels of the serving cart pulled by the maid and…
Clang Clang…
The sound of the heels of the woman with emerald hair stopped at the same time.
“Oh my… It’s been a while since you visited, Yooseong-ssi.”
“Ah… princess. It’s been a while.”
“Princess… I like that title even more because it makes you sound young, but are you queen now?”
The woman… no, the queen of the Griffin Kingdom, Elena Griffonia, covered her mouth and smiled at Yooseong, who was sitting there.
“Give it here.”
“Yes, your majesty.”
Pouring tea was originally the job of the servants or maids.
“It’s tea made from herbs I grew myself.”
However, Elena’s hobby was growing herbs and she enjoyed making tea with those herbs and serving it to her guests.
Clang.
‘The princess is the same as before… SeYeon must have been joking.’
Looking at Elena elegantly pouring tea into a cup, Yooseong denied once again what SeYeon had said before, “Day and night.”
From the first time he saw her, she was a beautiful princess who gave off a sense of kindness.
Now that she was a married woman, her maturity combined with her dignity as the mother of a country made her feel even more regal.
He could not sense a single bit of impurity from Elena, who had a warm smile and an elegant appearance.
“I will drink well.”
Smiling silently at Yooseong’s answer.
Again and again.
Elena started walking. Walking around the round table, Elena went to the seat where she was going to pour tea next.
“You look cute in that outfit too, Princess Karen.”
“Ah… Thank you.”
Karen, dressed in a maid outfit, was sitting there.
The people SeYeon had wanted to call were the members of the former warrior party.
Karen wanted to actively follow the meteor, and since she was there, they could quickly teleport to the Griffin Kingdom using teleportation magic, so they had no choice but to go along for the sake of faster travel.
Odd…
Karen kept rolling her eyes and glancing at the meteor while drinking her tea.
Elena, who looked at Karen, who was drinking her tea like a scared cat, looked at her with pity and started walking again to pour tea for the next person.
Again… again…
“Commander Sylvia?”
“Yes… Queen Mother.”
Next up is Sylvia Sylvester. Perhaps because of the ‘sin’ she felt when Elena called her, Sylvia lowered her head and answered in a timid voice.
Since the recruitment target for this roundtable was the recruitment of all members of the warrior party, Sylvia Sylvester, who had served as the tanker of the warrior party, had also been called to this place.
“I’ll give you some tea that’s good for relieving your tiredness.”
“…I’m sorry for worrying you.”
As she said that and received the tea that Elena handed her, Sylvia just stared at the tea and did nothing. Less than ten steps away, the meteor that she had been desperately searching for even in her hallucination was sitting.
Even after hearing the news of the meteor’s arrival at the palace, Sylvia did not go to see the meteor even once.
To be precise, she ‘couldn’t do that. It was the complete opposite of Karen, who had been chasing after the meteor like a child following its mother.
“Cheer up.”
Elena patted Sylvia’s shoulder, who was especially slumped today, and started walking again.
“Ah! Elena, I drink tea every day, so it’s okay…”
“You drink this, not tea.”
Elena offered SeYeon a cup filled with a viscous purple liquid instead of the clear tea she had given to others, who declined.
“…”
No matter how she looked at it, it felt like poison or a bad medicine, so SeYeon tried to shake her head in disgust. But…
Sigh.
Elena came right up next to her and whispered something in her ear.
Gulp gulp…
“Phuhuu…”
She closed her eyes tightly and took a sip of the liquid.
“Good job. Honey… Are you looking forward to tonight? Hehe.”
Elena stroked SeYeon’s head and smiled lustfully.
“Maybe what SeYeon said was right…”
Yooseong changed his thoughts once more as he looked at the pale-faced SeYeon and Elena standing next to her. He then followed Elena and the maids walking again.
In fact, since Saint Rhea Forte had fallen and flown to the Magic Nation, the only members of the former warrior party summoned to the round table conference were Yooseong, Karen, Sylvia, and SeYeon.
But there was one more person… no, one more being sitting at the round table.
“Oh my, I didn’t know I would serve tea to the Demon King… But since he came as my husband’s guest, it’s polite to serve him tea.”
Click.
Elena put the tea down.
[Hmm… the tea smells good.]
The sharp fingers of her black gauntlets hooked their fingers on the small rings and lifted them, smelling the tea’s scent.
Clunk…
After that, as if she had savored the tea’s scent, she slightly lifted her horned helmet and brought it to her lips to drink the tea.
[The tea of humans is also wonderful.]
“Hehehe… Thank you for the compliment, Demon King.”
What on earth is this scene where the Demon King praises the tea he was served and the queen of a country with a past of invasion smiles and says thank you?
From the moment Yooseong entered this room and saw the Demon King, he was so dumbfounded.
“Why is the Demon King here? And why is he so shameless…?”
Of all the warrior party members gathered there, only Yooseong had such thoughts. SeYeon and Elena were excluded because they had already heard some of the circumstances from the Demon King.
Karen and Sylvia were so full of thoughts about Yooseong that they lightly ignored the fact that the Demon King was sitting in the same place.
“The Demon King… wasn’t he dead?”
In the end, Yooseong, who was the most thirsty… and curious, asked bluntly.
[Hmm?]
Thump.
The Demon King put down his teacup at Yooseong’s question and turned his upper body to look at Yooseong.
Shh…
There was a hole in his chest where Yooseong had fired a railgun bullet in the past, and it was emitting black smoke.
Even the circular hole had details such as a mark where the warrior’s sword had stabbed him again, overlapping them.
He couldn’t even think that the Demon King sitting in front of him was a clone or someone else acting.
[Didn’t the hero tell you? I went to see the hero once?]
“That was a dream! It’s different from reality, you say?”
As the hero added, the Demon King scratched the back of his head, the back of his helmet.
[Anyway, I was alive. I wasn’t dead, I just pretended to be dead.]
“Pretended to be dead?”
At the Demon King’s words that complicated his mind, Yooseong quickly started to think about the reason why the Demon King would pretend to be dead, and if he did, how it was possible.
‘Now that I think about it, after SeYeon stabbed the Demon King with her sword… and after meeting the goddess, I think the Demon King’s corpse wasn’t there when I came back?’
At the time, he was so shocked that he couldn’t go home. He didn’t have time to look into how the Demon King disappeared after that.
“Then, even though it’s unbelievable, if I give in a hundred times and say that you pretended to be dead? Why did you come back? And you did it so confidently, like you were visiting a friend’s house after a long time.”
[There’s a lot to say about that, but… To cut to the chase, I alone wasn’t enough to stop what happened.
That’s why I came to ask for help from you warriors. To save the world.]
“…”
For a moment, Yooseong couldn’t understand what the Demon King was saying, and he was speechless.
Just five years ago, the Demon King was trying to rule the world by raising an army of monsters in the land of the Demon Tribe, but now he’s suddenly come back and asking for help to save the world.
No matter how Yooseong looked at it, he couldn’t help but suspect that this is a scene from a hidden camera show or a dream.
[But… Didn’t I clearly say that a great disaster was coming? But when I came here, there was no response at all?]
The Demon King turned his gaze to SeYeon and asked.
“No! Of course I thought it was something else!”
SeYeon shouted as if she was being wronged. People, startled, lowered their heads even further and looked at Sylvia and Karen in turns.
Then, the two glanced at Yooseong out of the corner of their eyes.
However, Yooseong, who was focused solely on the current situation, looked straight at the Demon King again and opened his mouth.
“So, if we go back to the beginning.
In your dream, you told SeYeon that the goddess had disappeared. A great disaster was coming, right? And then giants appeared in each country.
Well… from what I heard from the giants, they were talking about buying the world and calling it their world or something like that.
Are all these incidents related, Demon King?”
Yooseong couldn’t hold back his questions any longer.
[Hmm… If we talk about that, I guess we should start with the story of the goddess Clara.]
The Demon King began recounting the tale of the goddess.
The name of the goddess… Yooseong felt intense emotions at the name of the goddess for the first time. Goddess Clara.
Judging from the circumstances so far, she seemed to be the mastermind behind everything.
Not only did she summon him without permission, but she also manipulated him into experiencing terrible things.
In the end, she didn’t even allow him to return. To Yooseong, the goddess was someone he wanted to tear apart and kill right away.
[The goddess Clara, who has the power to rule this world, is a very self-centered god who thinks only of herself, unlike the image known on the continent.]
That’s how the Demon King started telling the story of the goddess Clara.
The goddess Clara was born as a “god,” an omnipotent being. She was born with a beautiful appearance covered in light and possessed countless kinds of power.
Unlike other gods who wandered through space without a world, she inherited a good world from her father, the god.
-No matter how great and beautiful I am, what use is it if there is no one to see it?
Clara, who felt that she needed someone who would see and admire her beautiful and great self, belatedly created the sky and the earth in the empty world and gave birth to “life.”
The first life she created was so ignorant and only had the instincts of a living creature that it was not fun.
The second life she created was so reckless and of poor quality that she could not recognize beauty.
The third beings she created knew beauty and greatness, but because she gave them too much, they developed to the point where they threatened her position as the creator, causing fear in the goddess.
Oh… oh, I almost got in big trouble!
Clara, who had been creating and destroying civilizations to pass the time until the people she wanted to admire were born, was horrified when she saw two beings with power and authority that surpassed her own from the third civilization.
Clara hid in her space and trembled as she watched the two creations that had already acquired divinity to the point that she could not even step forward to stop them. Fortunately, the two beings collided and disappeared into space.
That… that’s right! I made it too well, so it was a problem. Let’s make it moderate this time… moderately. With moderate power and moderate intelligence.
Clara created the civilization of the subhumans for the last time and didn’t destroy the civilization like before, or bless it randomly because she heard a little praise.
If she harassed them too much, one or two unique beings who overcame difficult situations would definitely appear.
If she blessed them too much, technology would develop rapidly overall, and technology that surpassed Clara’s own power would be developed.
She just pretended to be a bystander and watched the subhumans of the continent form a civilization and live.
-Hmm… It’s a bit boring just watching?
At first, it was quite fun to watch. As time passed, Clara got bored with the development pattern that was almost always unexpected.
-A special. A very special story is needed!
So Clara began to get involved in the continent with various forms and powers. The birth myth of a hero. The story of a knight who fought a dragon. The history of the founding of a great king, etc. Normally, stories that would never happen were manipulated and made to flow with the power of an omnipotent god.
-Ah.. This story was so perfect, beautiful, and touching, just like me!
Clara felt an incredible sense of accomplishment as she watched the images of the legends, myths, and tales she had created over and over again, just like a novelist writing a novel.
-This is… so obvious!
However, the act of creating the story also soon became tiresome.
-Everything is happening just as I thought!
She lost interest because the story she had created flowed according to her will without any variables.
Clara had a scroll containing descriptions of all the characters and beings in this world.
She could control the actions and patterns of all the characters by just slightly changing the settings written on the scroll.
-This is so obvious! The stories and characters and the dangers are all the same!
In the end, because she arranged the characters and planned the board, all the stories she had created flowed to the predetermined goal just as Clara had imagined in her head.
Opening a gate to another world…
Clara eventually grew tired of the clichés that she considered beautiful and touching.
-I need a more unique story… It’s not going exactly as I thought!
Clara, who was struggling to find a solution to that…
That’s right! I’ll summon an Ain from another world whose settings I can’t change and make him the main character!
She came up with the solution of summoning an Ain from another world and making him the main character of the story.
Since the human from another world isn’t a resident of Clara’s world, the settings weren’t recorded in the scroll, so changing the settings itself was impossible.
So even Clara, the goddess, couldn’t predict what kind of behavior he would show.
-In order to tell a perfect and natural story… I’ll put a ban on him that even I can’t touch. Hehe!
Even that wasn’t enough, so Clara put an unbreakable ban on him so that the story wouldn’t change due to her change of heart.
-Wait…! Why, two of them?
But there was a problem with the summoning ritual itself.
The main character of the story is naturally one. The warrior I was trying to summon was also one.
-What the hell is he getting caught up in a magic circle?!
However, because he was next to the warrior who was the target of the summoning, one more person got caught up in the magic circle, so two people were summoned.
Summoning someone from another world was difficult even for Clara, a goddess, so the coordinates were wrong.
It’s okay… Two people! Yes… Well, they can be summoned. Anyway, I can only summon one warrior. There’s no problem.
Although the first button of the story she had planned for a long time was sewn wrong, it made her very uncomfortable.
Clara soon checked the abilities of Jin SeYeon and Han Yooseong who were summoned and was relieved.
The magic circle itself was geared towards summoning those with outstanding magical qualities, so Jin SeYeon’s talent was outstanding, while Han Yooseong, who was caught up in the magic circle and summoned, was very insignificant.
-Just in case… I guess I can give him a production-related job.
Although she couldn’t touch anything else, she left the job-related part open in order to give them the warrior job.
Using that part, Clara used a trick to force Yooseong into a non-combat production-related job called ‘Alchemist,’ which was considered trash.
-Hehe. Right… Just stay away like that!
Clara had no doubt that Yooseong would remain in the castle, seeing him looking depressed and alienated from the royal palace through her fire magic.
<I will go with you as a supporter!>
-What? Just give up! Why are you going?!
However, contrary to Clara’s expectations, Yooseong expressed his intention to join the party as a ‘supporter.’
-Aah… It’s annoying! Why on earth do you like the ordinary Han Yooseong and not the warrior Jin SeYeon?! You guys!
Even the three who were supposed to be members of the warrior party ended up liking Han Yooseong instead of the warrior and pretty SeYeon.
Did those three lose their eyes? Or did Han Yooseong have hypnotic powers?
Seeing the content in the setting book that the ordinary Han Yooseong hangs out with and even has feelings for, Clara was furious that the love line she had planned between the warrior and the warrior party members had been broken.
-This isn’t the story I planned!
A love story between an ordinary man who is not a warrior and a warrior party member? Clara absolutely cannot tolerate this!
Although she wanted a story with variables, Clara, who still had a certain ‘line’ that she had set, eventually came up with a trick to return the situation to its original state.
-Changing Han Yooseong’s settings is impossible because of the ban I’ve set, but… Ah! Then why don’t we change the settings of the people around him?
Currently, the warrior party is in the land of the demons, so aside from Han Yooseong and Jin SeYeon, there were only three warrior party members around him. The goddess took the scrolls of the three warrior party members and started to change the settings.
If we apply their complexes to Han Yooseong, something interesting will happen? Hehe!
Any being has a complex that has been greatly influenced. She applies the most sensitive, dark, and hidden parts to one person.
Karen Redleaf, who suffered from racial discrimination and detested discrimination, began to ‘discriminate’ against Han Yooseong as a member of the warrior party.
Sylvia Sylvester, who never forgave her own weaknesses and endlessly trained herself, began to ‘blame that weakness’ when she saw Han Yooseong.
Lea Forte compared Han Yooseong to “being hated by God,” which she feared the most, and came to believe that Han Yooseong was cursed by God.
-Done! It’s finally gone!
In the end, as the goddess Clara intended, Han Yooseong was kicked out by your own hands.
When the Demon King said that…
Boom!
“Where’s that girl!? You know, right? Tell me now!”
On the right, Karen Redleaf slammed the table and shouted at the Demon King with her eyes unfocused.
Srung–!
On the other side, Sylvia Sylvester pulled out her sword, stood up, and looked at the Demon King with eyes gleaming with murderous intent.
To the two of them who seemed determined to find and kill the goddess at any moment…
“Everyone sit down. We’re not… done talking yet, are we?”
The expressionless Yooseong spoke in a toneless voice as he looked into the air.
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