CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN

Hopefully I don't catch too much attention today

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It hadn't been too long since Twig had set off on his own

And already news of the System made it to the throne

The king who ruled the lands in which Twig’s village could be found

Heard the System had emerged and made a fearful sound

“Now of all times, such an awful rumour should descend

It’s as if the world itself is just about to end

Someone tell me, who has seen the System’s holy word

The timing of the System’s message is truly absurd”

~ Name: King Beam ~

Title: King of Stromland

Class: Heroic Leader [lv225]

HP

[213]

MANA

[183]

ATK

[387]

INT

[197]

DEF

[232]

SPD

[79]

The mighty King of Stromland, ruler since he was a child

Upon his birth the god and goddess of leadership smiled

Proven many times in combat, worth of his crown

Fighting to protect his kingdom, down to every town

Advisors to the king nervously talked amongst themselves

Among them were a mix of heroes, humans, dwarves, and elves

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Since their kinds’ unification under one leader

The kingdom had been prosperous and grew ever stronger

But now they stood before their king with nothing but bad news

And though they wished to leave the room, none of them could refuse

And so the oldest of them, a wise elf with eyes of blue

Stepped forward to tell the king that the rumours were true

“My king, you know that rarely do deities interfere

Normally achievements are the only news we hear

But recently some gods have begun to speak more freely

And what they’ve said is causing panic to spread too quickly”

Achievement: Honest Advisory

You’ve told the king in plain words that he has cause for concern

Your bravery is something that your young comrades should learn

Share the truth of what you’ve heard for as your deity

I can tell you many gods are scared, including me

“Even now my deity has voiced his own support

I’ve never heard of personal messages of this sort

So I’ll tell you, it is true what the rumours all say

The system spoke to a young village boy just yesterday”

The king’s face grew so pale that his advisors shook with fear

All averting their eyes so as not to meet his leer

“First the portals’ frequency accelerates, then this

Bring this boy to me at once, for something is amiss”

The wise old elf bowed graciously and made arrangements soon

An envoy of the king was ready by that afternoon

To journey to the region where the boy was said to live

And see what vital information that boy had to give”

The journey would take half a day even for royal knights

But they were trained to run for several days and sleepless nights

The pair of messengers would follow rumours to the west

So small it put all of their map reading skills to the test

Luckily they were quite skilled enough that on the way

Several minor portal openings caused no delay

And even though they had no trouble closing them quickly

They couldn’t help but notice their increasing frequency

At one point they did get lost and they had to slow their pace

The trail that led toward the town was getting hard to trace

While walking they began discussing all the recent talk

Making sure of the direction in which they would walk

“I can’t believe another portal opened yesterday

That’s more than I’ve ever seen in just a single day”

“Indeed my friend, if not for your great swordsmanship and skill

Those monsters would have rampaged til nothing was left to kill”

“Do you think the king will order all of us to war?

There’s never been such demand for us heroes before”

“Yes, it’s possible, but it is not for us to know

We can only go where our king tells us we must go”

And so they diligently carried on toward the town

Loyal to the orders of the kingdom and the crown

But after centuries of nothing but prosperity

The king was more than slightly worried for his destiny

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