“Did they hit?!” However, the cannonballs, as they flew, didn’t even reach the walls but exploded upon hitting the ground. Whoosh-boom! “…” Poker clicked his tongue in disdain as his subordinates, mouths agape, watched the spectacle. “Those idiots don’t even know the range of our cannons… Hey. Hundreds of years have passed since we died….

The combat power of the Ghost Pirate Legion mainly comes from their ghost ships. These cursed pirate ships, able to go anywhere as long as there is seawater, boast agile maneuverability and vicious destructive power. Especially, the ramming tactic, where they use the bow protected by specters and black magic, known as the ‘ramming horn’,…

The global situation was changing rapidly. Receiving information through various channels, including Serenade, Princess Yun, and Dusk Bringar, I clasped my aching head. Lark and his army were finished. The Emperor was trapped in the spirit realm, unable to escape back to reality. The Imperial Capital, and the Empire, were completely in Fernandez’s grasp. What…

During my absence, the heroes had diligently conducted autonomous dungeon explorations, and therefore, the opponent for this stage had already been identified. ‘The Ghost Pirate Legion.’ A pirate legion composed of ghosts that command various marine creatures, with Ghost Pirate Captain Bernardt Poker as their leader. The summoned sea monsters are troublesome, but the real…

Crossroad. The Alchemy Workshop. Bang! I burst into the workshop, calling out urgently. “Lilly!” Lilly’s room was near the entrance of the workshop, a consideration for her difficulty in walking. As I rushed in, I shouted. “I heard there’s been trouble! What kind of… incident…” My words trailed off. Lilly was sitting demurely at her…

At the Silver Winter Merchant Guild branch, in the guild leader’s room. Serenade was asleep. She was lying on the desk bathed in sunlight, buried in a pile of paperwork. Already slender, she had lost more weight. Her disheveled aqua hair had grown a bit longer over the past half year, now quite lengthy. Standing…

Fortunately, while I was away, there were quite a few minor injuries, but almost no fatalities. None of the existing troops had deserted either. So, I went around to show my face to the other subordinates, not just my main party. Having returned after half a year, it was time to report my survival far…

It was an arduous journey, using every trick in the book and bypassing the system to return from the spirit world to reality. Finally, after all the hardships, I emerged from the spirit world back to reality, arriving at Crossroad. “…What, what is this…?” I stood before the south gate of Crossroad, my mouth agape…

In my dream last night, I became a butterfly. Fluttering my wings, I joyfully flew among the flowers, feeling so blissful that I didn’t even realize I was myself. But when I woke up from the dream, I was not a butterfly but myself. Did I dream of becoming a butterfly? Or is a butterfly…

I was flustered and speechless for a while. The woman hanging from the thorny tree, she’s the ‘Goddess’? “Then you mean to say… you are the guardian deity of humanity?” “Not all of humanity follows me, but from a racial perspective, that’s correct.” I remembered a story I heard from Aider, was it on New…