The Greatest Warrior of All Time Returns-Chapter 364

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Chapter 364

As soon as we returned to Cascadia, the three little spirits—including Grivy—sprinted off somewhere.

“Gonna ride the swing!”

Piiik!!

Grivy, who had recently gotten obsessed with swinging, dashed away, and Sur and Serqet quickly followed her.

“So. I can hear what happened now, right?”

“Let’s at least go inside first. I need to rest too.”

“I’ll tell them to prepare some coffee.”

Melissa narrowed her eyes, scanned me up and down, then finally nodded in relief.

“Good. This is normal. Seriously—who could possibly harm you?”

Once in the office, I explained to Melissa and Luna everything that had happened in R’lyeh.

The prince’s sacrifice, Dagon’s death, the princess’s choice and turning Dagon into an undead, and the fact that I ended up as the new master of R’lyeh.

“That uncle of hers… I don’t know how loyal or capable he is, but… the road ahead won’t be easy for them.”

It was unfortunate.

But since the other side hadn’t requested anything, pushing further would clearly cross into international interference.

There was nothing more we could justifiably do.

“And if the princess asks for help again, that won’t be your personal assistance anymore. It’ll become a national-level negotiation between Baltosmar and Bata.”

Meaning—anything beyond this point would be overstepping my authority.

“Wasn’t my being in Baltosmar helping them already overstepping?”

“Haa… I don’t think you realize this, but the Bata royal family is turning a massive blind eye for your sake. If you hadn’t saved His Majesty in the beginning and crushed those aristocratic factions pressuring the crown, people would’ve raised hell several times already.”

Thinking about it… she wasn’t wrong.

“Still, there’s good news. It means our baby will be born healthy, right?”

Luna seemed happier at that, gently stroking her stomach.

“Our baby. We can see them in one year.”

“Should we pick a prenatal nickname?”

“Prenatal nickname?”

Right—unlike my previous world, Lazarus continent doesn’t really have prenatal-name culture.

Just then, Arsha, Grivy, Sur, and Serqet rushed into the room, looking like they had been playing outside.

“Little sibling!!”

The moment Grivy saw Luna, her eyes sparkled and she scampered over, placing her tiny, cute head against Luna’s belly.

“I hear a sound inside!”

She seemed to be hearing something normal people couldn’t, shouting excitedly.

Then Arsha approached me.

“Brother. I’m so glad you returned safely.”

“You doing well, Arsha?”

“Yes.”

She quietly leaned into my arms, so I held her and patted her back.

She wrapped her arms around my neck, clearly pleased.

“So. What are you going to do about that?”

Now that the biggest concern—the child—was confirmed to be safe, there wasn’t much else to stress over.

All that remained was making sure Luna’s prenatal environment was good.

Naturally, everyone’s attention shifted back to the floating island in the sky.

“R’lyeh, was it?”

“Yeah.”

“They’ve probably tracked its location from various places already.”

Just as she said.

[R’lyeh is emitting a special wavelength. Normally we could conceal it, but my mastery over R’lyeh’s control is still incomplete.]

Meaning—the Librarian wasn’t skilled enough yet to fully cloak the island.

And a massive island appearing in the sky?

Of course rumors would spread.

“You’ve already settled it above Cascadia. Do they even have justification to meddle?”

“They do. Because the island first appeared over the ocean.”

Someone could claim they saw it first.

Someone else could claim it crossed their airspace.

If they wanted excuses, they’d have endless ones.

Hell, they could easily frame it as Cascadia secretly monopolizing a newly discovered floating island.

“We can suppress them, but… that’s the last resort.”

Not ideal.

But there was a simple solution.

“Then I’ll just make it invisible.”

“What?”

“If the ‘owner’ disappears, what can they do?”

“You’ll just keep it hidden?”

“For now, let’s observe. It might turn out as you say. Some nations will back out if they conclude the island vanished before their eyes only to reappear above Cascadia.”

If even the Pascalia Empire or the Holy Kingdom backed out, things would get much easier.

But we were being too optimistic about R’lyeh itself.

[Unusual activity detected within the floating island R’lyeh. Inspection recommended.]

‘Any danger?’

[Considering your presence, the risk is minimal.]

I flinched, and Melissa noticed.

“What?”

“Uh… looks like the island has a bit of a problem.”

“I’m coming. I’m curious, and leaving everything to you feels ridiculous.”

The risk was low, so I didn’t stop her.

“I’m coming too.”

Luna was also tired of just sitting around listening to music and wanted to move.

* * *

Floating invisibly above Cascadia, R’lyeh had been partially reshaped by the Librarian, but I still didn’t know much about it.

It was an independent special space that had existed for a long time.

The source of the power used by Dagon—an outer deity’s subordinate.

Meaning, an island strong enough to suppress even archangels.

Its exterior looked like a forested floating island with rivers, but its inner mechanisms were unknown to me.

So we were investigating it using the Librarian’s system.

Riding the phantom wyvern, Melissa looked around in awe.

Luna landed behind us, flapping her gray wings.

“R’lyeh… I heard of it, but this is my first time seeing it.”

“No, seriously, this is wild. Are these real trees? So many plants I’ve never seen. And that water…”

A massive stream flowed from the island’s center, spilling off the edge.

Yet no water ever fell below.

“That water source is part of the space. What looks like water flowing off simply falls beyond the boundary of the dimension, then reappears in the center to circulate.”

Even though it was her first time here, Luna could see what we couldn’t.

“Leon. Is that what you meant?”

She pointed to a seemingly empty patch of air.

I urged the Librarian to confirm.

[Correct. There is an invisible distortion there. Normally this should not exist—something inside the island has awakened.]

Something inside awakened?

It wouldn’t be the original owner.

I moved toward where Luna pointed and manipulated R’lyeh to dissolve the external expression.

Then—something appeared that absolutely wasn’t there before.

A subterranean tunnel.

“What the… what is this?”

“Let’s go in.”

Though it looked like a natural cave, it was actually a passage leading to another special space inside R’lyeh.

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I jumped into the dark tunnel without hesitation, Luna grabbed Melissa from behind and flew in after me.

“U… uwaaaah!!!”

Melissa’s startled scream was a bonus.

Normally, dropping into a black hole meant falling downward.

But R’lyeh doesn't follow normal laws.

“What… what? We definitely fell!”

Instead, we stepped inside a giant natural cavern as if we had simply walked through a doorway.

Melissa, confused, drew her sword defensively.

“Stop embarrassing yourself. I said it’s not dangerous.”

“You might know that, but I don’t! This thing violates every rule of reality I know!”

Though it looked like a cave, any intelligent being would instinctively feel something was wrong.

“It feels like a chamber created for a specific purpose. Even if R’lyeh collapses, this place is meant to stay intact.”

She stepped forward, sensing something.

Then she forcefully swept her hand through what seemed like empty air.

Rip!!

The sound of something tearing rang out—then the cavern changed.

“What… is this?”

Before us lay a massive graveyard of armored knights.

Countless suits of armor lying everywhere, silent.

Not pieces of armor—full suits, connected, maintaining their shape.

Empty inside.

“Arc Dragon Tooth.”

Luna whispered.

“The origin of the Dragonfang Troops. Those armors are the soldiers.”

“Dragon… fang troops?”

[Arc Dragon Tooth. Confirmed.]

The Librarian echoed her words.

I had seen them before.

They looked like empty armor, but they were more like power exoskeletons.

Anyone who wore one—even a child—could gain immense strength.

I had once fought a hobgoblin wearing one in the Labyrinth.

I thought “A hobgoblin? Easy fight!” and nearly died.

The terrifying part was that the armor worked regardless of the wearer’s species.

“Muyeong.”

At my call, a massive black shadow wolf stepped out.

He rubbed his head against me, growling low.

“You wanna try wearing one?”

He looked at me as if saying, What are you talking about? How would that fit me?

True—the armors were shaped for humans, much too small for a giant wolf.

“Yeah, that’s true. How do we do this…”

“Leon. The horn.”

Ah.

Right, that existed.

They were Dragonfang Troop-based.

I pulled out the horn used to command the Dragonfang Troops.

When I blew it, one of the armors dissolved into light and flew toward Muyeong.

Kiing!! Kkiiiing!!

He panicked and jumped back, but the light wrapped around him instantly, reshaping itself into a set of armor perfectly suited for a massive wolf.

And then—

Immense power surged out of him, incomparable to before.

“Holy… what IS this?”

“Just wearing it grants power. They’re called Arc Dragon Tooth. If I evaluate them honestly…”

They were basically legendary-grade equipment.

“So all of these are…”

“Yeah. All Arc Dragon Tooth.”

I couldn’t count them all, but one thing was certain—

Even if you equipped just 100 normal soldiers with these via the horn, they’d form a terrifying force.

But the Arc Dragon Tooth were bound to this space.

“We can’t remove them.”

We could move them within R’lyeh, but if we crossed a certain distance, the armor would snap back here.

“Most Arc Dragon Tooth were lost in the wars against extra-dimensional beings. That they’re here…”

Luna, excited, wandered deeper, noticing something else.

“There’s more inside. Something big.”

She walked toward the back of the cavern—

Then shook her head.

“It’s sealed. Something large is inside. Leon, can you open it?”

“Not yet. Controlling R’lyeh isn’t that easy.”

Not even I or the Librarian could open it yet.

“We’ll do it slowly. It’s not like it’ll disappear.”

One thing was certain, R’lyeh’s value far exceeded expectations.

Even if we couldn’t use the island or the armor immediately.

Or so I thought.

Two weeks later—

Melissa brought unexpected news.

“War.”

“Huh?”

“Yeah. The Kingdom of Taporna has declared war on the Kingdom of Dima.”

Both were in the Central Continent.

“What’s the reason?”

“That floating island—R’lyeh. They’re saying Dima is hiding it and demand they hand it over.”

Taporna Kingdom.

A nation not on good terms with Bata, located at the far west of the Central Continent, friendly with the Pinas Archipelago.

Meanwhile, Dima Kingdom bordered Taporna and was a small kingdom allied with Bata.

Long ago, when Coral caused a civil war in Bata, Dima sent reinforcements to help.

“In truth, the island is just an excuse. They want to swallow Dima while the world is noisy.”

Dima had no military to resist Taporna.

So they were desperately sending out SOS signals.

Bata couldn’t ignore it forever.

“What’s the royal family saying?”

“They want to send aid, because Dima is doomed if they delay. But the treaty prevents Bata from deploying troops. So they can only send supplies… and they’re asking if you’d be willing to provide any Nightmare Artifacts.”

Nightmare Artifacts were valuable as military supplies.

I thought for a moment, then said.

“I don’t have many artifacts right now. Hmm… since it’s come to this, let’s push forward.”

“Push forward?”

“Yeah. What was Taporna’s justification? ‘Hand over the island.’”

“Yes… that’s what they claimed.”

“They’re demanding something that doesn’t exist. But wouldn’t Dima be less frustrated if it actually did exist?”

The floating island R’lyeh.

My nickname, the aerial aircraft carrier.

Inside, hundreds of Arc Dragon Tooth rested.

Thus—

R’lyeh’s first sortie was decided.

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