Chapter 166
This soldier’s name was James, he was just a normal human lucky to get to the second stage and was assigned to be a guard/soldier for his lord. Life has been monotone for James for the longest he could remember.
Sometimes he wished that something would happen and bring a change to his bleak world, all he was stuck doing was guarding the castle gate of his lazy lord who didn’t even put an effort to manage his territory. All his lord does is eat and sleep with women and at the end of the month half of everybody’s effort is transferred over to him.
James of course couldn’t complain as compared to the others, he was working for the same lord and so he was still able to get his own share and live a good comforting life unlike others. James remembered how he woke that day adorning his armor and sword.
Walking to the castle to take over his guard position when all of a sudden, the whole world seems to be ending, lightning flashing across the sky, trees uprooting people’s houses, he remembered how he had to take off his armor because of how hot it got. It was later that he got the knowledge that all the commotion was because the gods had awakened from their long slumber.
After that day James has always wished for his bleak life back, he remembered the destruction caused just by their awakening and then what was the most scary was how everything went back together, if not for some people who died no one would have believed that something like that happened.
Not long after the gods awakening, rumors on wars starting has begun to spread around. He was located on the western continent. At first he thought that the war rumors were false until one day he saw a bird-like figure surrounded with red flames fly away.
He thought nothing of it at first until another figure surrounded with golden flames flew past their kingdom. This figure caused panic in their kingdom just by flying past as he remembered the increase in temperature, he remembered thanking the gods when the figure didn’t stop above them and instead flew off to the distance.
It was later confirmed that the harpie kingdom people were chasing a traitor who flew into the cursed land, The rumor stated that there was a bit of confrontation with the lord of the cursed land and the leader of the harpies people.
James remembered once again thanking the gods that the situation didn’t escalate. At the same time James came to hate his weakness, everyday he wakes up and hears rumors he is left scared and looking up at the sky every time in case something happened.