I have become stronger, but also shorter [comprehensive]

The sunlight is projected on the vast land, falling on the surface of a certain gray stone that is part of the city wall, making it seem to be covered with golden sand, and like golden amber, shining from the inside out.

This is the outermost wall of a certain country.

It is said that it exists as a strong defensive wall to protect the residents in the city, but in fact, the city wall surrounding the city is not particularly strong, and it is not built very high.

It is more like a symbol, as long as it stands firmly on the outside is enough.

Standing on it, which is neither high nor short, you can look up and see the low buildings extending from the corner of the wall to the long distance, and then you can have a clear view of the shape of the palace standing in the center.

Under normal circumstances, not many people would come to the city wall. Compared with looking at the bare roof, it is more interesting to pay attention to the excitement around you.

Even the guards in charge of the city wall area are like this. They are conscientiously guarding the wall, but they hardly go up.

It's like some kind of convention—or a kind of tacit understanding that everyone can communicate without communicating.This special place is a special area reserved for special people.

Only one person comes here regularly.

It may be the early morning when the sun just rose, and he himself stood on the city wall facing the rising sun.

It may also be that after drinking with the enthusiastic people in the city, with the smell of wine still on his body, he came back to the city wall alone...

In many cases, there is no pattern, and it seems to come when I think of it by accident.

He is the sole master of the country.

Picking up those bits and pieces of memory, I suddenly realized that a country that is not as large as other people's small towns and can barely be counted as a "country" has survived for more than ten years.

At first, it wasn't like that at all.

Because, at the very beginning, the men who founded the country never thought of making such a troublesome thing.

He's not from this age, or even from this world.

For a reason that even a man who has lived for a thousand years has to worry about, he crossed time from later generations and returned to a certain time period that he had accidentally missed before.

Like everyone who is obsessed with something, as soon as a man returns to his "past", he immediately moves into action, preparing without delay to solve what he dares to declare as his old enemy...

Uh?

Well, since it was said directly, there is no need to hide it.

The reason why the man came here aggressively and full of displeasure was that an unbelievable rumor fell into his ears.

Rumors say that he will become a "devil king" hated by everyone, and one day in the future, he will be killed by a boy who appears from God knows where.

……

Did you see it.

What kind of crap is this that makes your stomach hurt!

Anyone who heard that he was going to be killed while he was alive, and it seemed that he died in a rather shameful way, couldn't feel calm.

This incident fell on a very unhappy man, and it had another extremely important meaning.

Men don't die.

Literally.

From his first step into this world more than 2000 years ago, he has gone through countless ups and downs now, what he was like at the beginning, and what he is now.

Never grow old, forever young.

No matter how serious the injury was, even if the blood flowed out, the heart was shattered, and the body was torn apart, he would not die. The only difference was how long it took for the injury to heal.

In other words, as long as it is birth, old age, sickness and death that human beings cannot avoid, it will never appear on him.

Regardless of whether he wants to die or not.Men have lived so long that they never thought they would "die".

What a joke, this is simply impossible!

However, as if by fate, everything is paving the way for the already written development track.

The rumor that the man heard cannot actually be regarded as a "rumor", because it is actually a story extended from a period of actual history.

More than a hundred years ago at that time, such a thing really happened somewhere in the world:

——The villain with the name of "Devil King" appeared, and was attacked and killed by an army led by a wise king with the name of "Savior".

That villain's name was a pseudonym the man had thought up for himself a long time ago, so when he heard it, he confirmed his relationship with the "devil king".

For the people of the world at that time, a series of stories including the death of the Demon King were all history that had happened and ended in the past.

But for the man who noticed the strangeness, this incident has not happened yet, and he is still alive and well.

Therefore, someone else's "past" is actually his "future".

It's even more coincidental—it can be regarded as a pusher of fate. At that time, he happened to have an ability that he thought was useless.

That is to let yourself go back to the past without paying any price, easy and fast.

The obvious flaw is probably that the distance back in this time journey is not long, only more than a hundred years, and it is a one-way ticket. After going there, you can't come back as you like.

When the man first acquired this ability, he felt that there was no need for him to go back to the past and do it again, so he put it aside without hesitation and forgot it.

That is, after hearing that he would die for a long time, he just remembered that maybe this "future" should be here.

Of course.

In this process, the characteristics of men that are different from ordinary people are quickly reflected.

After all, he was not an ordinary person. After recovering from the initial shock and anger, his first reaction was not to continue to be furious, but unexpectedly, a rare interest arose in his heart.

That's right.

After learning that he would die, the man actually became interested in the person who "supposedly" would kill him.

Although not in a well-meaning way, this interest contains the chilling arrogance cast by those on high, but he does have a curiosity about the "future" that seems to be coming.

I don't need to mention anything else, just because that guy... what is it, can kill the [impossible to die] man, it is enough to attract the man's attention.

and so.

The man rushed to the "past" with high spirits.

When he got there, he took a look at the "old enemy" as expected.

As a result, um...

It was still a bit of a surprise.

Accidentally out of time.When he passed by, it was said that the "enemy" who wanted to kill him was still a small brat, and his prior imagination and plan to directly deal with the enemy were completely shattered.

It was as if a basin of cold water had been poured over the man's head, all his interest and excitement had been extinguished, and what was left was dullness, and the annoyance that he heard that he was going to die was not so strong before.

angry.

He felt that he had been played by something inexplicable.

Although the old enemy himself stayed here well, the man was really in no mood to entangle with a brat who was not even as tall as his thigh.

Leaving in a huff, the man vented his anger on the robbers and robbers he met along the way.

I don't know how far I walked, how many vicious villains were frozen into ice blocks and crushed.When he calmed down a little bit and was not so angry, he suddenly noticed something and looked back——

……

What's the situation.

Why are there so many people behind him? !

It turned out to be the case.

While the thieves were peeled off by him more easily than fruit, he happened to save batch after batch of persecuted civilians.

God knows what these ordinary people are thinking. Seeing a cold man killing countless people, they don't run away quickly. Instead, they follow closely as if they have found a savior.

When the first group of people followed far behind, the man noticed it.

But he has always adhered to the principle that more things are worse than less things, and he is too lazy to talk to those people, only thinking that they will leave soon, and he doesn't need to care about them at all.

Just like that, accidentally...

When the men are indifferent to the latter and do not communicate with the latter, they only act covertly when they are in danger.

Not only did the people following him not intend to run away quickly, but more and more, more and more.

There were even refugees who were not rescued by him who took the initiative to find them with their families and join the already mighty team.

At this time, he wanted to open his mouth to drive people away, but he couldn't do it anymore.

"........."

I didn't expect such a troublesome follow-up just to vent unilaterally. The man really couldn't tell how complicated his feelings were.

With his eccentric personality who is arrogant but completely unable to treat others with death, he left this group of people alone...

no way.I can only admit it.

Fortunately, before the man was about to be annoyed to death, he suddenly remembered a detail.

In the "story" heard from some insignificant person, it seems to say that a man called "the devil" established a country full of bandits and heretics before he died.

What a coincidence.

The man now looks at these crowds who are eagerly looking at him, and finds that the (reformed) bandits, (being) thieves (bullyed civilians) and the expelled heretics are all perfectly matched.

Thinking about it this way, there is nothing to do anyway, and it seems just right to build a country for fun.

He had known many kings before, but it was the first time for him to fall on him.

I have to say, it feels pretty new...

……

joke!

It was fresh at the beginning of the moment, and the latter was simply annoying like never before!

That's the way it is.

It didn't take long before the man who temporarily became king regretted it.

His way of building a country is particularly simple and rude. The people are ready-made, and the land is a ready-made unmanaged land snatched from the country under his feet. Anyway, no one can snatch it back from him.

Thousands of people mighty and mighty, just like this, settled in the small land that the men robbed. Their country has only one city from the beginning to the end.

The people who voluntarily follow are a mess, they have all kinds of identities, the only thing they have in common is that they all live in poverty.

A man is not made to be a king, and the subordinates he recruited temporarily are not made to be courtiers either.

But after the country was established, those basic administrative tasks had to be done by others. As a king, a man could only force himself to sit down and deal with trivial matters day after day with extremely strong perseverance.

If it hadn't been for a few years later, a very talented and responsible girl was picked up by him by luck. The girl basically took over all the things that he was supposed to do, and the impatient man would have Crazy enough to explode.

correct.

He was so annoyed that he almost forgot about his "enemy", but he didn't really forget all about it.

When he was overwhelmed by the mountain of official documents, the man would run out impatiently to get some air. At that time, the place he ran was far away, and he was not in the city anyway.

Later, after the savior came, he would run out to get some air every day when he had nothing to do.

At that time, instead of going to the distance impatiently, men prefer to be in the city.

Now people who have become his citizens are very keen to chat with him, but he still doesn't like excitement, so generally the chats don't last too long.

He always walks towards the city wall, because this place is located at the edge of the city, and few people come up, and it can be easily seen——

his country.

Compared with the complicated mood when the country was founded, every time he climbed here, the man's heart seemed to be filled with more wonderful emotions.

If you ask him whether he likes 【】, he will give two kinds of answers from him ten years ago and now.

Ten years ago, he would say irritably, he likes a fart, a lot of things are so troublesome, if he can't get away-hmph, forget it, let's just leave it like this for the time being.

Ten years later, he will have a panoramic view of the country that has changed greatly, and he will say this:

"It's just—so-so. It doesn't matter if you like it or not, I have to stay here."

In fact, it is natural to "like it very much".

If you don't love this place, if you love everyone and every scene, a man who never stays anywhere for a long time will leave long ago.

Seeing the rapid changes in the country, the man doesn't show it on the surface, but he is very happy in his heart.

He thought he might be here longer than ever, seeing more than he was seeing now.

……what.

How many times is this?How to "almost" forget someone again.

What needs to be specially mentioned is that the man came to the city wall by himself in the early stage, but there was a special case later.

For many times later, he was no longer alone, and he always habitually found someone to accompany him.

This person is probably very small, because it can be picked up with one hand.

This person probably doesn't like to talk, because most of the time only men who are not very talkative talk to themselves.

This person is probably very lucky, because there are very few men who like anything...

……

Like him very much?

……

strangeness.

When I got here, I suddenly couldn't remember who [this person] was favored by men, what he looked like, and what his name was.

Just know that he loves to talk to him.

At the beginning of countless mornings or evenings, brilliant warm or deep fire-like light lingers on the tip of silver hair, a man who seems to be glowing is holding him, facing the city blown by the gentle breeze, the magnetic and calm voice is at this moment Sound with the wind.

"Have you learned what I taught you today?"

"Regardless of whether you have learned it or not, you should at least give me a reaction... Tsk, can't you?"

"Well, don't worry, I just need to be more patient."

It doesn't matter if there is no answer, or a response equal to no.

He will ask him one last time:

"Like it?"

Like here, like "My Country I Love"?

Men will also call out the person's name, after asking important questions.

he is--

……

……

"wrong."

"Is this a dream?"

At a certain moment, Eric "woke up" without warning.

It was only consciousness that woke up, and his body was still sleeping in the outside world.

The strange "dream" continued until now, and before that, Eric's memory was completely confused.

He regarded himself as the man who hadn't died thousands of years ago.

Although the essence is the same, but——

The feeling of chaos in time and space is quite unpleasant.

So, at a certain point in the dream, he forced himself to wake up.

It's just that the timing of waking up seems to be bad, and it's stuck in a critical place.

Eric found that he, who was still in the "dream", was standing on a city wall at this time.

Turning his head, he could see that the scenery was not noticed at the first time, and what he saw at a glance was a person directly opposite him.

I don't know why, my mind is still in a trance, and my body is out of control.

When he reacted and realized what he had done, the voice came out calmly.

"What are you looking at."

He seemed to call out the name of the person opposite:

"—Jedidia?"