Overgeared

“...”

The ministers had died. The place where they barely built their lives had collapsed.

All the people who suffered because of their incompetent king, the Overgeared soldiers who struggled to help them, and those who died...

The evil eyes' king clenched his hands into small fists as he sat on his throne. The only thing he could do was destroy. It was impossible for him to protect others. This power was useless because it was too powerful.

“Are you the king of the evil eyes?”

“...”

The intruder asked him a question. As he approached, the smell of blood thickened. The evil eyes' king wanted to open his eyes and inflict the pain of eternity. He wanted to kill this intruder and soothe the grudge of his people. However, he remained patient. His lips were tightly closed from anger, and blood flowed from where he had bitten his lower lip.

He hadn’t forgotten the Overgeared prime minister Lauel’s words about how the White Dragon’s Eyes were dangerous and that he should never open his eyes. The will of those who fought for them, who were forsaken by their homes... He couldn’t break these things.

If he did now, he wouldn’t be able to face the souls of the Overgeared soldiers who had sacrificed themselves for him. He had to live.

“Not even resisting,” the intruder said in a ridiculing manner. He approached, grabbed the king’s collar, and pulled him off the throne. An incompetent person who couldn’t protect or get revenge for his people didn’t deserve to sit here. At this moment...

“Let go of that hand!” Someone appeared and shouted. The evil eyes' king remembered the owner of this voice. He recalled the first time he encountered it in his life. It belonged to a man who had exchanged glances with the king and laughed without being exterminated.

‘...Grid.’

He had come to help. Why did Grid want to be entangled with a useless person like the king? Regret preceded gratitude. Grid had chosen the wrong person. This was the moment when the evil eyes' king was crushed by guilt.

“100,000 Army Massacre Sword!”

A mighty energy flew over the evil eyes' king. The evil eyes' king bled from the blow and woke up.

‘H-He is trying to kill me.’

Grid didn’t come to help...? The evil eyes' king was shocked by the terrible pain. Then grandmaster released the band around the demon king’s eyes. The red and blue eyes of the evil eyes' king appeared in the world. His gaze was facing the White Dragon’s Eyes. The evil eyes' king had a gut feeling that...

He would die. The red flames that burned everything would burn his body to ashes, and the chill that froze even the flames would break his soul.

‘I’m sorry. The sacrifices of your people have been wasted,’ the evil eyes' king apologized as he faced his death. It was an apology for the Overgeared soldiers who had died.

“Wear this!” Then Grid appeared using Mass Teleport and covered the king’s eyes with glasses. The magic power that rose from the eyes of the evil eyes' king felt like a lie.

“Ah...!” Behind the sunglasses, the eyes of the evil eyes' king were shaken. He saw a world that wasn’t destroyed. This was the first time the evil eyes' king had seen the ordinary landscapes of life since he was born.

“This... Why is this...?”

He was a person who wasn’t allowed to see. As such, the joy that this solitary being, who had been cut off from the world, felt after facing the world for the first time was incredibly huge. The evil eyes' king forgot the terrible reality and gazed at the marble pillars with trembling eyes.

He saw a boy wearing a crown. It was the king of the evil eyes himself.

The evil eyes' king touched his face. The boy on the marble confirmed that he was himself. Then he raised his head and looked

here. The bigger world

turned toward Grid. Grid was smiling as brightly

hand seemed to be saying, ‘Your loneliness

I can’t

of holding Grid’s hand? Consequently, the evil eyes' king hesitated. Yet Grid grabbed the king’s small hands

in the future? Now, let’s go. Everyone is waiting. Your people and my soldiers are hoping that you

“They... are alive...”

glad, really glad. The evil eyes' king gave strength to the hand that Grid was holding. Then Grid glanced at Sticks who nodded because he had already chanted the spell for Mass

Flash!

spell was activated. Grid, Sticks, the evil eyes' king, and the grandmaster—all

“...Eh? Four?”

Why was there four?

he here?” Grid pointed to

didn’t bring him out. He just rode along with

“What? This is possible?”

“It is impossible.”

what is with

“That’s right. Very interesting.”

evil eyes' king was looking at the crowd gathered at the gate. People could be

“Surround him!”

and pointed

him, “You should go back. Hasn’t

“Certainly.

could be solved cleanly by inducing the self-destruction of the evil eyes'

get the Ether Diamonds that a high-ranking demon is guarding? Hmm, it seems I was scammed

the subordinate of the Valhalla King, he had given many demands to the empire in exchange for the White

fallen due to the Ether Glasses. At the very least,

up surprisingly easily. He moved back toward Goldhit and the

came to Grid’s side and told

was aware of the dangers of the grandmaster and fully expected that he would one day be their greatest enemy. This was an opportunity. If the grandmaster’s offensive power was neutralized due to the truce agreement, shouldn’t they use the numerical advantage and pour attacks toward him? The militant Jishuka thought so, but Grid thought differently. “We will just be wiped

that the skill Magic Contemplation of Duke

was the master

He had no heroic achievements. There was nothing on the surface, so his reputation was smaller. However, Grid

‘The empire’s strongest!’

figure that Chairman Lim Cheolho had advised Grid to be careful of. Additionally, the Hero King system classified the grandmaster as a ‘power that transcended the time’, not a ‘powerhouse of the era.’ Grid perceived the threat of the grandmaster to be no less than Garam. At this point, Grid

become

be surpassed eventually. He was convinced after seeing Kraguel’s huge growth in just one year. The potential

Thanks to the Ether Glasses, the king could see the faces of the people one by one. He held his beloved

W-Wait! Hey! Close your eyes!

handed him a helmet. It

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now in Reinhardt, the capital of