Flint stared at the water stains on the table, cold sweat dripping from his forehead.
That triangle... that seemingly simple triangle transformed into an endless arcane maze in his eyes.
He swallowed hard, his mouth trembling as he opened it, wanting to speak that shocking answer:
"This... this is the legendary..."
Crack.
Suddenly, Flint’s face split open.
Not as a metaphor, but physically splitting apart, turning into a pile of black-and-white mosaic glitches.
Following that, Vespa, A-Ling, and even the café owner who was still sulking over the words "manager," their bodies began to flicker and distort wildly like a low-signal TV screen.
The entire world was fading.
"What's happening?!" Lucrezia discovered with horror that her hands were turning into transparent lines. "Leon! You bottom-feeder! My hands... my body..."
Leon stood up abruptly. In that instant, the laziness in his eyes vanished completely, replaced by a rage that seemed to see through the river of time and gaze directly into the end of truth.
He didn't look at Flint, nor did he look at Lucrezia.
Instead, he raised his head and glared fixedly at a certain point in the void—or rather, he was staring straight at you (and me) in front of the screen.
"Want to run?"
Leon let out a cold laugh, his voice seeming to penetrate the dimensional limits, exploding right by the author's ears:
"Seventy chapters of buildup, I just finished setting up the Little Tigers, I just tricked... got my hands on a bike, I was just about to go show off at the Floating City..."
"And now you're telling me you can't write anymore? You want to drop the book?"
Zzzzt—!
The mana around Leon instantly went berserk. It was no longer at the 【heroic】 rank, nor was it the 【glorious】 rank.
At this moment, the fury known as the protagonist halo allowed him to return to his peak 【legendary】 status—and even surpass it!
"Get over here!!!"
Leon let out a great roar, his right hand thrusting out violently!
This grab ignored space, ignored time, and ignored the barrier between fiction and reality!
【Forbidden Spell · Dimensional Shatter · Egg-Crushing Dragon Claw Hand】!
Crack!
A giant hand composed of pure text and resentment crudely tore through the phone/computer screen. It crossed the dimensional wall and precisely, cruelly, grabbed the...
Two balls of fate belonging to the miserable author who was about to type "The End" at his computer.
"Awoooo—!!!"
A shrill, agonizing scream echoed through the rented room in the real dimension.
Leon’s expression was hideous as he squeezed hard:
"Write! Keep writing for me! If you don't finish it, don't even think about having a good life! What 'writer's block' bullshit! What 'bad stats' bullshit! I'll crush them, you bastard!!"
However.
With a crisp squish sound.
The world fell into a deathly silence of darkness.
The author... dropped the book...
orz...
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Although I already rambled in Chapter 66, I still want to apologize to the readers who didn't notice...
After all, readers who have managed to follow the story to this point really do like this book...
I am truly sorry to everyone, orz!
Looking back at this book, I indeed didn't handle the first 20 chapters well, which caused a large number of readers to leave. I actually wanted to write about the female lead growing from a little idiot into an empress who can stand on her own, so I thought I should write more realistically, following the logic and thoughts of a little idiot. However, I didn't handle it well, and it ended up being a toxic point for many...
Now, having to switch back and forth to write a chapter every day often leads to mixed-up vibes, which is hard to manage... So let's end this one here for now...
Most of my focus is moving toward preparing a new book. I need to stockpile more chapters since the New Year is almost here...
I also want to say sorry to all the reader-fathers who have supported me all the way, orz...
Later, after I attain godhood (haha), I'll come back and restructure this book!
The new book will be released on Thursday—readers who like my style can support it!
I originally wanted to write 【Campus + Magical Girl + Urban + Romance + Healing + Combat】, but after thinking it over, I still want to truly finish a Western fantasy...
So the next one will still be Western fantasy, but it'll be an upgrade-style, lighthearted road-adventure story! Also, since this book was about a mage, the next one will be different, so I've written about a warrior.
The new book title: Warriors? No One Plays Those!
You can take a quick look at the synopsis and title to see if you have any good suggestions to offer~
The temporary synopsis is:
【Western Fantasy + Transmigration + Growth & Upgrades + Magical Beasts + Comedy + Road Adventure + Harem】
"Warriors? No one teams up with those!"
Transmigrating into the lowest-status "security guard" profession of another world, former Blue Star top studio commander and gold-medal fighter Leon encountered his Waterloo right at the "talent market."
When Leon stood at the talent market (Recruitment Plaza) clutching the team application he had meticulously drafted with his dreams, what greeted him was the ruthless mockery of the healers:
"You know, the paladin is my brother. We've fought together and defeated many opponents. I've known the mage for a long time; the guy is unbelievably strong. I think our team can have great chemistry."
"As for the warrior?"
"I wish him luck. I hope he can stack all his attributes into 'indestructible' so he doesn't have to be a security guard in the city. Maybe someone will want to bring him into a team as a damage reduction tool."
"Oh! Right, my dear warrior friends, don't forget to use your defensive stance when you fight!"
Damn it!
Facing such widespread professional discrimination, Leon shouted that classic line:
"Thirty years East, thirty years West, do not look down on a youth for being poor!"
Years later...
When the legendary adventure team led by Leon shattered the Demon King’s throne with a single sword strike, reporters from all over the continent swarmed them.
"Respected 'War God' Lord Leon! May I ask how you rose from a low-level security guard... uh, warrior, to your current achievements?"
"Also, do you have any advice for those new security guards... oh no, warriors?"
Leon ate a black cow popsicle and let out a soft sigh, looking up at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle:
"Have you ever seen the talent market at four-thirty in the morning? Do you know that there are exactly 8,326 floor tiles in that Recruitment Plaza?"
"Keep at it. Actually, in this life, you don't really need advice from others. If you don't experience it, you won't understand."
【Alias: "Restoring the Glory of Warriors is Our Boundless Duty!", "Guide to Starting Raids in Another World", "The Professional Conduct of a Security Captain"】
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