《TWIG - The System Can't Save Me, But It Can't Stop Me Either [a gamelit-portal-fantasy-poem by eric river]》Chapter 027 - Hopefully I don't catch too much attention today
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CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN
Hopefully I don't catch too much attention today
~
It hadn't been too long since Twig had set off on his own
And already news of the System made it to the throne
The king who ruled the lands in which Twig’s village could be found
Heard the System had emerged and made a fearful sound
“Now of all times, such an awful rumour should descend
It’s as if the world itself is just about to end
Someone tell me, who has seen the System’s holy word
The timing of the System’s message is truly absurd”
~ Name: King Beam ~
Title: King of Stromland
Class: Heroic Leader [lv225]
HP
[213]
MANA
[183]
ATK
[387]
INT
[197]
DEF
[232]
SPD
[79]
The mighty King of Stromland, ruler since he was a child
Upon his birth the god and goddess of leadership smiled
Proven many times in combat, worth of his crown
Fighting to protect his kingdom, down to every town
Advisors to the king nervously talked amongst themselves
Among them were a mix of heroes, humans, dwarves, and elves
Since their kinds’ unification under one leader
The kingdom had been prosperous and grew ever stronger
But now they stood before their king with nothing but bad news
And though they wished to leave the room, none of them could refuse
And so the oldest of them, a wise elf with eyes of blue
Stepped forward to tell the king that the rumours were true
“My king, you know that rarely do deities interfere
Normally achievements are the only news we hear
But recently some gods have begun to speak more freely
And what they’ve said is causing panic to spread too quickly”
Achievement: Honest Advisory
You’ve told the king in plain words that he has cause for concern
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Your bravery is something that your young comrades should learn
Share the truth of what you’ve heard for as your deity
I can tell you many gods are scared, including me
“Even now my deity has voiced his own support
I’ve never heard of personal messages of this sort
So I’ll tell you, it is true what the rumours all say
The system spoke to a young village boy just yesterday”
The king’s face grew so pale that his advisors shook with fear
All averting their eyes so as not to meet his leer
“First the portals’ frequency accelerates, then this
Bring this boy to me at once, for something is amiss”
The wise old elf bowed graciously and made arrangements soon
An envoy of the king was ready by that afternoon
To journey to the region where the boy was said to live
And see what vital information that boy had to give”
The journey would take half a day even for royal knights
But they were trained to run for several days and sleepless nights
The pair of messengers would follow rumours to the west
So small it put all of their map reading skills to the test
Luckily they were quite skilled enough that on the way
Several minor portal openings caused no delay
And even though they had no trouble closing them quickly
They couldn’t help but notice their increasing frequency
At one point they did get lost and they had to slow their pace
The trail that led toward the town was getting hard to trace
While walking they began discussing all the recent talk
Making sure of the direction in which they would walk
“I can’t believe another portal opened yesterday
That’s more than I’ve ever seen in just a single day”
“Indeed my friend, if not for your great swordsmanship and skill
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Those monsters would have rampaged til nothing was left to kill”
“Do you think the king will order all of us to war?
There’s never been such demand for us heroes before”
“Yes, it’s possible, but it is not for us to know
We can only go where our king tells us we must go”
And so they diligently carried on toward the town
Loyal to the orders of the kingdom and the crown
But after centuries of nothing but prosperity
The king was more than slightly worried for his destiny
~
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