Chapter 159
< Running Away from the Hero! 159 #18. What did I even do? (8)>
“Uwaaaaah!”
“Sir Hero, hooray!”
“Please defeat the evil dragon!”
Every citizen living in the capital was cheering on our dear hero.
Yes, spending all that money and diligently spreading the rumour was finally paying off.
What I did after returning to the capital was simple enough – creating a scenario of our dear hero going mano-a-mano with the dragon!
Having too many combatants joining the expedition would only create too many witnesses. That’s why I needed to make sure that only a small team of elites… no, scratch that, I needed to ensure that the hero would have no choice but to fight the dragon one on one.
I worked my butt off to manufacture the public sentiment along that line of thinking. And my rumour had enhanced the hero’s abilities to such a stratospheric level that…