Chapter 283: Day 1: Return to Llyne?

"I surrender…"

*Ding! King Obarin Uflenor surrendered to Queen Cremia Searvale

*Ding! Searvale kingdom wins the war

*Ding! Uflenor kingdom turns into Uflenor province

*Ding! The Searvale Kingdom emerged as the final victor of the Searvale-Reverie-Uflenor

*Ding! Player representative Siren has been awarded a legendary grade weapon as a reward.

As soon as the Uflenor's king surrendered, every player that belongs to Searvale, Uflenor and Reverie received the system announcements.

From thousand meters above the ground, Wil then glanced down where he saw the Uflenor's king and their soldiers were kneeling before the Queen and the gigantic beast.

The soldiers of Searvale and the soldiers of Reverie that pledge their loyalty to the kingdom were celebrating with cheers.

Wil then opened the notifications.

*Ding! Congratulations, you now hold the permanent citizenship of the new Searvale kingdom.

*Ding! Congratulations, your nobility rose to Earl in the Searvale kingdom.

*Ding! You finished the quest, Assist the princess.

"Okay, my work is finished here. Let's get back to Llyne…" Not intending to join in their celebration, Wil controlled his nimbus cloud and turned around to fly away.

But, before he went too far, he received another notification.

*Ding! You are summoned by the Queen of Searvale. Meet her.

Wil immediately pressed on reject and left for the nearby city to teleport back to Llyne now that the teleportation channels to other kingdoms are working again.

Wil has no interest in getting personal rewards or anything like that. He feared that the more he will interact with them, the more his abilities will be exposed. After all, one of his skills, the metal spear is exposed, right now.

Unless there's another appearance of a level-300 Elementalist, he won't be able to use it when he is Time Traveler. 

Wil wished to be nothing more than a hired mercenary for them and he did it perfectly. With the Queen already promising him about giving entire credit to the crown princess, he also fulfilled his promise to Aerona.

Time Traveler: Hey

He then sent a text to Akiko after finding her online.

In no time, he received the reply too.

Athena: You are still online!!!

Athena: Sorry… I just assumed that you went offline after you know…

Time Traveler: Can you tell me what's happening at Zuweth?

He directly came to the point without any comment on his clones' action. Looking at his message, Akiko thought he was embarrassed about it. So, she too didn't probe it further and answered him.

Athena: Currently, nothing. They called back the troops. I bet they'll launch a full-scale attack, tomorrow.

Time Traveler: No, I mean, what happened with Evelon's King and the beast. How much damage they have done?

"So, he's really done it on purpose?" Reading his message made Akiko suspect his motives.

Earlier, she thought people are exaggerating in forums. Now, she wondered whether the rumors are true. Still, she explained without hiding anything.

Athena: According to our reports, Evelon's king as well as his beast went on a rampage. We aren't sure about the number but our estimate is around 10-20 thousand soldiers as well as six generals. One of the Zuweth's princes also became a casualty.

Athena: If not for Llyne's previous Queen and Zuweth's King, there might have been more casualties. At first, they were pushed back but the sudden disappearance of the beast turned the tide of the war.

Athena: Evelon's King then slowly retreated while taking a prince as his hostage.

"Damn it…" Wil clenched his fist upon reading the bad news. The number of soldiers doesn't matter to him.

Even if all the Llyne soldiers end up dead, he can raise them pretty much quickly. "I guess I need to wait two more days for the full moon to occupy the Llyne city and declare independence, huh!

Or maybe, I should go and kill the Evelon's king myself, then, declare independence in broad daylight? The rest phase will only start after all the wars are over anyway, Hmm…"

Thanking her, Wil then asked about the other important news like the state of each kingdom. But, he didn't expect to hear a piece of mind-blowing news…

Athena: One destroyed Eiron's kingdom all by himself in 53 minutes. He's your rival, isn't he? Is it considered important?

"He destroyed everything by himself?" Wil was stunned to hear the news.

Wil knew that 'One' is strong enough to win against Bran and a better archer than himself or Hyori but never expected he is that strong to go against a kingdom all by himself and even won within an hour. 

According to his memories, he isn't even a legend class user. Maybe, did he stumble upon some fortuitous encounter like Min? Wil can't help but wonder.

"Hmm… if he has the inheritance of a pseudo demigod and a guardian beast, provided that all of his equipment are enhanced to +30, it might be possible… Wait a second…"

Wil suddenly felt something wrong and read her message again.

"My rival?" Wil was taken aback. Then, he thought whether she was describing how people compared him and 'One' back during the Battle tournament.

Time Traveler: We don't have any rivalry. I only met him once during the Battle tournament. Don't trust what forums say.

"Eh?" On the other side, Akiko was indeed surprised by his statement.

Athena: But he claimed that you will be his strongest opponent in this war. I saw the interview.

"He picked me as his rival?" Wil felt like, what's going on… "Did that guy bore a grudge on me for losing the battle? Is he a sore loser or something?"

Time Traveler: Send me the link

Athena: The interview or his battle against Eiron?

Time Traveler: both

Athena: It would be better if you wait until the official video will be posted on the internet. You rather not visit the forums, right now. People are roasting you out.

Time Traveler: It's alright. One should worry about the dogs that bite not the ones that bark. Sooner or later, they will regret their actions, anyway.

As he clicked on the first link Akiko sent him, he was redirected to an interview done by Nova Weekly. It is an established newspaper that has more than a hundred branches all over the Western and Eastern continents.

Just like Akiko said, 'One' indeed mentioned his name and claimed as his greatest competitor and wished to battle him once without any restrictions in the near future.

Another thing that troubled Wil is that the reporter asked something about his beast and his unique skills that were way different from a usual mage. She then also asked why he changed his class from an archer to a mage.

'One' just replied that it was a fortuitous encounter and didn't talk much about it.

Only did then Wil realized that One was no longer the Archer. Something told him that this guy might have found a legend class.

He quickly went to the other video.

It was a 50-minute long video.

It was started with the sudden appearance of a level-500 beast that was legendary+ grade. Wil's face turned serious. After all, even he wasn't that capable.

He then continued to watch.

"This is dragon breath… Absolute freeze… Earth Golem… Metal Armor… Oh! F**k…" Wil realized that amid the skills that he was unfamiliar with, there were very familiar skills that were a carbon copy of his.

"He is a f**k**g Elementalist." Wil came to a conclusion. "And legend class doesn't seem that simple after all…" When he watched Rini's videos, he had a suspicion that legend class users might use different weapons but now, this confirmed it.