Cthulhu Gonfalon

Leon was so powerful that he had shocked the east coast. As a result, he had been honored as the “King of the Seaside.” Over the years, many people had tried to challenge the King of the Seaside, including people like Herman Amstel and Lewre Spoolin who had purely challenged him for the sake of learning. There had also been ones like Alan Apollo Kasadier, who had challenged him for the reward of “beating the governor of the Garth Town” offered by the Kingdom of the Blue Moon. Unfortunately, they had all lost, and they learned their lesson. Finally, these uncontested victories had even increased Leon’s prestige.

However, no matter how strong he was, he couldn’t use force against Kalisa who was holding him.

After several explanations, all in vain, he finally had to ask Sui Xiong for help.

Hearing Leon’s words from the Channel of Religion, Sui Xiong was so shocked that he immediately moved them through space in order to see them. At that time, Sui Xiong was discussing things with Morani and some others in the God’s Kingdom of the Desolation God System. So the two people who were holding each other tight had just appeared in front of several gods.

After all, Kalisa was a shy girl. When she saw the group of gods around them with strange shapes, sending out strong waves of power and pressure, she panicked. She quickly yanked her hands away from Leon’s grasp. She didn’t know what to say. Her face was red, and she was burning up. One could almost see steam coming out from under her shirt.

Leon was much calmer. He gently pulled Kalisa’s hand, saluted to the gods with her, and then told them his plan.

His plan was very simple—he just went to the Kingdom of Eagle to see if he could do something. If the situation was so desperate that he couldn’t do anything to save it, he would not insist on saving the country. If so, he would rush to the temple of the God of Eagle before the Orc army broke into the Eagle Wing City. He’d try to save the ancient books and records in the secret library, as well as the Archbishop and several young bishops. They were the only people he wanted to save in the entire Eagle Wing City.

“It sounds reasonable and feasible,” Morani said after listening to his plan. “I don’t think that this is dangerous, so you can try it.”

“Feasible? Hell no. You should listen to his inner thoughts!” Sui Xiong sneered. “What he was thinking was that he would go find Woods and talk about it, and ask him why he had started a rebellion at that time. Then he would kill that guy and grab the Three Eagle Artifacts back. After that, he would run to save the Archbishop and some others in the temple of the God of Eagle, along with the ancient books and records by the way!”

Yorgaardman was stunned and looked at Leon with a smirk. “Good boy! You dare to play tricks in front of us! You have guts!”

Leon’s power had reached the peak of the Legendary Realm, so even gods could not see whether he was lying or not unless they interrogated him deliberately. Moreover, he did not actually lie, because he just kept a part of the plan unsaid. Therefore, except for Sui Xiong who knew him, the rest of the gods were really deceived by him, even including Yorgaardman, the powerful God of Justice.

However, what are lying people afraid of the most? Being busted!

Being ousted by Sui Xiong , Leon couldn’t help but smile. Feeling embarrassed, he said, “That… was just a temporary concept…”

“When you really do it, it will not just be a concept anymore!” Sui Xiong said angrily. “You are going to the Eagle Wing City to save people. I have no problem with that. But you are going to take revenge on Woods, and that is not a good idea!”

“Right!” Morani, who had been paying attention to the battle situations, said. “Woods Igor has now led the army of the Kingdom of Eagle to the last one of the seven fortresses in the northern part of the kingdom, which is also the sturdiest one, the ‘Pure Gold City.’ Now he has four legendary masters around him, and two more are talking about remunerations with him. What’s more, he is wearing the Eagle Clothing, the Eagle Crown, and the Eagle Sword. Although the three artifacts have not been awakened by the descendants of the Eagle Wing Sword, their collective power can still raise him to a point comparable to a legendary, high-level warrior. With your strength, one-on-one, it may not be difficult to kill him. But, you can’t fight him directly.”

Leon frowned because he didn’t expect there to be so many masters around King Woods.

“Moreover, if you appear in the military camp on the human side, I am afraid that your legendary strength will affect the top-strength comparison between the two sides. At that time, the Orcs are likely to send a master to kill you, even if you tell them that you are not here to get involved. Because after all, you are human.”

Leon was silent, and then he sighed softly.

His Majesty, the Steel Lion, is right. I am a human. Although I don’t mean to help the humans fight, I won’t really stand a chance if I get involved in the fight between humans and Orcs. If that happens, I’ll have to fight against the strong Orcs in a life-or-death battle.

“There are eight legendary Orcs in the Orc army in total. I don’t want to introduce their names one by one. In fact, I didn’t care much about the names.” Morani continued, “But, you need to pay attention to these three. The first, ‘129,’ is a presbyter of the Divine Temple. The presbyters of the Divine Temple have abandoned their names and only call themselves the number in order of them having entered the temple. This presbyter probably entered the Divine Temple 900 years ago. He is a shaman and good at using all kinds of curses and strong spells. When you fight against him, you should pay attention to his curses as well as the melee battle after he is strengthening himself.”

Leon nodded slightly and kept this information in his mind.

“He is taking the ‘Staff of Imprisonment,’ one of the most important artifacts of the Orc race, but he can’t fully display the power of this artifact with his strength. What’s more, this artifact is so important that he would rather die than put it at risk. So you only need to beware of the two forces of this artifact, ‘blocking’ and ‘destroying.’ You don’t have to fear that he will use all the power of the artifact. He will not turn the six demigods imprisoned on the staff into puppets to attack you.”

Leon’s eyes lit up. He couldn’t help but smile. “This is really good news!”

“Yes. But you can’t just relax your vigilance because of that. The power of the Staff of Imprisonment is very strong. If you are hit by it, you will definitely die unless Void Mask rushes there in person to save you,” Morani warned him. He then smiled with satisfaction upon seeing Leon nod seriously.

Morani continued, “Second, watch out for Atel, the strongman of the Leopard race. In every generation, only the most powerful assassin of the Leopards can have this name. So you can imagine how dangerous he is. If you are marked by him, you will never have a moment of peace. Even relaxing for a second will result in your death.”

Leon frowned, but there was no fear on his face.

The meaning of His Majesty, the Steel Lion, is very clear. In a face-to-face battle, I would never lose to this Atel. I just need to beware of his sneak attacks.

“The last one… To be honest, I don’t want to talk about him, but I must.” Morani sighed. “The present Orc emperor, Junero Tiger, who is also known as the ‘Scholar.’”

“I have heard a lot of stories about him,” Kalisa couldn’t help but say. “There are a lot of books about him. They all say that he is such a weak scholar that even a dog can beat him. Among the Orc emperors of the past, his force is the weakest, and even the weakest in the entire palace. Even his maid is better than him.”

“In terms of the folk legends, this is true,” Morani said after a brief silence. “But, at least in my impression, he was very strong that year!”

“That year?” Leon asked curiously. “I have never heard of the past of this Orc emperor. In my impression, he seemed to be a scholar all the time. Later, he participated in the big fight contest held by Hogg Bale, the former Orc emperor. In the contest, he defeated his opponents one by one relying on his charm and wisdom. Finally, he talked with Emperor Hogg through the night and convinced the fierce man. After that, as a scholar, he sat on the throne of the Orcs, who advocated the forces…”

“This is just a story. How can the Orc race accept a scholar who has no power to be their emperor!” Morani laughed. “There are some real parts to this story. For example, it was true that he became the emperor of the Orc race without a fight. But as far as I know, he showed an amazing power of pressure on the fighting field. He overwhelmed a legendary strongman only with his influence, and then he avoided the following battle.”

Leon was so shocked that he couldn’t help but clench his fists.

Just relying on the power of pressure to overwhelm a legendary strongman?! How powerful he must be to be able to do this!

Can I do this now?

I’m afraid… I can’t…

“And this is just common knowledge. What I wanted to say is something from a long, long time ago, of the real ‘that year.’”

Morani thought about it, maybe organizing his discourse, and then slowly said, “At that time, I was still an Orc, a famous strongman among the Lions. At that time, the emperor was old, so he held a huge fighting contest according to the rules. He would choose the strongest one to inherit the emperor’s throne through this fair and just contest. Of course, as we also know, it is not as simple as ‘the strongest one in the fight’ can qualify as an emperor. The winner must show a power that can convince all the Orc strongmen. Only then can he sit on the throne. Otherwise, the elders would rather let the royal seat be empty and then hold a big contest every 50 years to select an emperor.”

“At that time, I also wanted to be emperor. So I went to participate in the contest. During the contest, the opponent I was most concerned about at the time was Junero.”

“What?!” This time, even Sui Xiong couldn’t help but shout. “That guy is so old!”

Although Morani was a younger one among the gods, he was not that young. He became a god about 3,000 years ago, which was equivalent to… In terms of the time on the earth where Sui Xiong came from before the time travel, he became a god almost in the middle of the Chinese Shang Dynasty, or the Trojan War in Europe during the “Greek Mythology Era.”

Don’t forget that this was just around the time that Morani became a god!

“So… Brother Morani, you saw him in the contest. How many years ago was this?” Sui Xiong couldn’t help but ask.

Morani laughed. “It is difficult to estimate the exact time. I guess… It was almost 5,000 years ago. In that fight, I had really bad luck. I met Lefon just in the second match. He was always fond of hiding his strength, so I was beaten fiercely, and I laid in bed for half a month. Later, Lefon became the emperor, and I was a general in his army. Then I suddenly woke up in a war. I felt that life should not be so meaningless. After resigning from the army, I wandered…”

Morani suddenly snapped out it and smiled. “Those are irrelevant things. Let’s talk about Junero. At that time, I was knocked unconscious because of Lefon. After I woke up, I was healing my injuries. Of course, I was very curious about the final result of the contest at that time. The main reason was that I wanted to know whether Junero, the talented and so-called favorite champion, was beaten by Lefon. He was the same level as me, and so I wanted to know if he was beaten black and blue, or had broken several bones and could only lie in bed like me or not.”

“The result?” Sui Xiong asked curiously.

“He was not. Junero and Lefon fought against each other, and Junero soon admitted his defeat. He was annoyed and said that he was born in the wrong time because he encountered a hero who was destined to ascend to heaven. Then he left, and no one ever saw him again. Some said that he shamefully committed suicide. Others said that he lived in seclusion and never came out again.”

Morani sighed deeply. “Then, more than 100 years ago, he appeared as a scholar in the fighting contest held by Orc Emperor Hogg and won the throne of the emperor.”

“Bloody hell!” Sui Xiong could not help but swear. “So he is at least 5,000 years old? A legendary strongman can’t live for so long!”

“In general, a legendary strongman can live for 1,000 years, and ones with good longevity can live 2,000 at most,” Yorgaardman said with a low voice. “If they want to reach 5,000 years old, then they must be of the longevity type.”

“He is a tiger, without a doubt,” Morani said. “Although the creator of the tiger race has fallen, I had asked Lefon about this specifically. He also personally confirmed the identity of Junero. It is certain that this guy is a pure Orc and definitely not of the longevity kind. And… This Junero is indeed the same man that lost to Lefon.”

“Then it is certain that since he can live to 5,000 years old, he must have surpassed the Legendary Realm,” Sui Xiong chirped in. He looked at Leon and shook his head. “Hey, Leon, you shouldn’t go. He may be a demigod at least. Or like me, your boss, he may just not have become a god officially yet… If you really fight against him, I may not have the chance to save you.”

Leon looked pale, too. No matter how confident he was, he didn’t think that he had the skill to compete with a strongman who had been famous 5,000 years ago

Let’s see, who were the opponents of the Emperor Junero? His Majesty, the Steel Lion Morani, the God of Fight Contest, the Half-Orc Warrior, the Patron of Blacksmith, His Majesty, the Sky Devourer Canine Lefon, the God of Courage and Conquest, the Master God of the contemporary Orc God System… To fight with the emperor, my own Majesty, the Void Mask may have the skill. But, me? Junero would be considered merciful to leave me dead with just a slap.

Leon couldn’t help but sigh deeply and began to ponder whether his plan was reliable or not.

In the past, if he had tried to do something in such a war with his legendary strength and powerful outfit, it would have been considered very courageous. However, at present, such behavior was not courageous but rather seeking for death.

However, he suddenly thought of a point and then could not help but ask, “Your Majesty, if Emperor Junero is so powerful, why didn’t he fight at the time of the last Orc invasion?”

Since Junero Tiger became the Orc Emperor, there had been two Orc invasions including this one. At the time of the last Orc invasion, the emperor, who had once brought the guards to the front line, hadn’t fought in the battle. If he was really a demigod or even a real god, why didn’t he fight at that time?

With his strength, the Kingdom of Eagle couldn’t stop him at all!

“No one knows, and Lefon didn’t ask.” Morani sighed. “In fact, I am also very curious… Perhaps it’s really the same as the folktale; he’s really a scholar just retaining his power through his influence…”

This statement was simply untrustworthy and not persuasive. Even Morani himself shook his head and felt that his guess was absurd.

The Orc race advocated the strong. No matter how powerful the power of influence was, it was impossible to make everyone convinced, so he finally had to fight.

However, for whatever reason, this strongman who was at least a demigod, or might even be a real god, had not done anything at the time of the last Orc invasion. He had just allowed the rushing Orc army to be defeated by the Eagle Wing Sword held by the former king of the Kingdom of Eagle at the time. Finally, they had retreated like a drowned mouse, even failing to conquer the fortress of the City of Iron. Even if he hadn’t cared about his face, he couldn’t ignore the tradition of advocating the strength of the Orc race!

Morani sighed deeply. “I don’t understand this man, really!”

Sui Xiong patted his shoulder comfortingly and tried to convince him, “It is normal that you don’t understand because many people just have strange ideas. We normal people can’t understand. Can you believe that he actually ordered a large group of bunny girls to take turns in raping those male prisoners? Normal people’s brains can’t imagine such things!”

“This idea comes from your inspiration, doesn’t it?” Yorgaardman asked.

“It’s not my inspiration. I got the inspiration from my follower, Steele. That guy is definitely not a normal person either!” Sui Xiong immediately made Steele the scapegoat. “Really! Without the inspiration of Steele, I absolutely couldn’t think of such an idea on my own!”

But in any case, no matter who offered the inspiration, the person who thought that you could “eliminate hatred with sex” must absolutely be abnormal.

Steele is a weirdo, and the Void Mask is a jellyfish. As for this Emperor Junero Tiger… Well, he is definitely not a normal person!

With deep fears and uneasiness, Leon fell into deep thought. He pondered for a long time and finally made up his mind.

“In any case, I want to see Uncle Woods and ask him something,” he said, “I have to do this!