Chapter 015 15

"...No matter what, beating is the faster way, right?" Merlin complained as he drew out his holy sword and beat the demon that escaped from the northern border ocean, "How many years has it been? Why haven't they come yet? Ah, Sister Meili is just a weak and beautiful mascot who can't take care of herself..."

Years passed, and the streams rushing freely in the desert had already created numerous oases everywhere. Although more and more humans were gathering towards the largest oasis created by the flower god in the center of the desert, it did not mean that the oases near the border were uninhabited. In order to avoid being discovered that their weak and helpless flower god could even kill a provocative demon with one sword, Merlin always tried to keep other demons outside the border as much as possible...

But, accidents always happen in this world.

Gilgamesh, who unexpectedly appeared in the border oasis, did not expect to be caught by his colleagues who were thinking of retiring early. Instead, he first familiarized himself with the surrounding environment. Although this was an oasis on the edge of the desert, in fact there was a vast beach not far away, and the sound of the waves was clearly reaching his ears.

——Of course, there is a little noise mixed in with the sound of the waves.

Even though Gilgamesh, as Caster, manifested as the Wise King instead of the Hero King, this did not prevent him from still having a keen sense of battle. The noise mixed in with the waves was the sound of weapons clashing that Gilgamesh was most familiar with, and the distance between them and him was shortening as time passed.

When the sound was close enough to Gilgamesh, Merlin's scream popped out directly in his mind.

"King Gilgamesh!!!"

The moment he heard Merlin's scream, Gilgamesh thought about cutting off the chat room, but thinking of Solomon who was the only one who hadn't appeared yet, he had to give up the idea and rush to where Merlin was. After all, no matter what, the magic of the chat room was based on the "Avalon" in the dream, and Gilgamesh could not guarantee that his magic in the dream world could beat that of the half-dream demon.

——Although Gilgamesh didn't want to admit it, this was indeed the most insignificant difference among the different focuses shown by the three of them on different routes.

So the wise king, who had just landed, had no time to rest before he rushed to the side of the half-dream demon with the clay tablet of destiny.

"Can't you handle this guy by yourself?" Gilgamesh glanced at Merlin's wounded opponent. He could guess without even thinking that the reason this guy became like this was definitely because of a half-dream demon who believed that chanting spells was better than beating directly. "Why did you ask me to come here?"

"Hmm..." Merlin hit the demon hard with his wand, "In the past when only the town spirits could sing, the mistress of the oasis once met the king of the red sand; in the cruel years when the kings killed each other -"

"I remember Gaia said that details like gender are not important?" Gilgamesh raised his eyebrows and watched Merlin put away his holy sword and magic wand, opened the treasury and prepared to bomb the invaders who were still unwilling to give up. "You can just wait for me in the Great Oasis to come find you - you are the king of the Great Oasis now, so logically..."

"Shouldn't you be at the border?"

The gigantic demon lost its last chance of survival under Gilgamesh's violent bombardment and slowly sank to the bottom of the sea.

Merlin settled down on the coast, transformed back into Magic☆Merry, and explained the current situation to the wise king whose patience was running out.

"The duty of the fairies is only to guide humans - but the guys in the neighboring areas who were defeated are not the kind of guys who will give up easily. The area here is large enough - although most of it is desert with no human life, and I am the only one in the family... It's obvious that I am a soft persimmon, isn't it?"

"If you want, you can even stay in the oasis and use magic to keep those guys out." Gilgamesh directly pointed out Merlin's true intention, "You don't want to stay there at all - a city without a ruler will be abandoned, and if it is a country, it will even go to extinction."

"Do you think that given enough time, the people there will forget about the gods?" Merlin said seriously, turning his head to look at the faint green that appeared at the end of the yellow sand. "I mean, forget about the gods who created the oasis. After all, if Solomon appeared in such a remote place like you, it would take a longer time for his wisdom to become famous..."

"And Solomon was born to lead mankind."

This is an evaluation that no one on the Throne of Heroes would deny.

There have been many kings on the Throne of Heroes, many wise men, and many wise men and pioneers who have led mankind into a new era... But for them, they would not deny such an exaggerated evaluation - after all, before becoming a Roman "man", Solomon was absolutely destined to become a king and a spokesperson for God.

As for the system of this world - the devil loves people, and humans must be led by the devil... there is no more suitable member than Solomon, the spokesperson of God.

"...Don't forget that the Flower God also has her own country." Gilgamesh snorted, "And the Flower God's followers - the Suppression Spirits are still living with humans in that big oasis, right? As long as the Suppression Spirits are there, no matter how long you are away, they will never forget that the Flower God is the master of the oasis."

"Then we can just move the town spirits out of the Great Oasis." Merlin tilted his head and twisted his fingers around the ends of his hair. "Well, it's just right to build a country in the new oasis where the town spirits have settled. Then we can run around the border. After that, we just need to wait for Solomon to show up and then we can reunite."

"But before that..." Merlin smiled at Gilgamesh, "We need to announce the existence of the Red King to the world first. As for the rest of the work, let's wait until tomorrow. After all, in their eyes... I am their weak and incapable flower god."

Even though Gilgamesh knew that Merlin had played the role of an internet idol and fooled Solomon, he still couldn't believe that what he saw was real.

After returning to the Great Oasis, all the people immediately presented flowers and words of praise to their newly returned God of Flowers. After seeing Gilgamesh, all these words of praise turned into concerns for the God of Flowers' personal safety. Many town spirits even almost rushed to Merlin to ask if he had encountered any danger during this outing.

Merlin kept the perfect smile of a teenage idol, comforting his people with a smile while introducing them to the existence of Gilgamesh. In Merlin's words, the encounter between the two became a traditional hero saving a beauty. The beautiful and fragile flower goddess was almost in danger when she encountered demons from other regions invading her territory. Fortunately, the passing Red King rescued her and she was able to return to the oasis alive.

"...Your storytelling skills have declined." After the two of them entered the temple and kept all the people out, Gilgamesh immediately commented on Merlin's story. "But your acting skills have improved a lot - how come I remember that your internet idol personality was not like this?"

“Hahaha.” Merlin smiled and returned to his original appearance, waving his hands at Gilgamesh. “After all, it’s better to be more scathing to that Romani guy. Doesn’t he like magic too much☆Doesn’t Merry treat him that way? But here, the stuntmen and humans are overthinking... They just think that the flower god is weak and can’t take care of herself, right?”

"If we leave, do we have to destroy the temple?" Gilgamesh crossed his arms and looked seriously at Merlin, who used illusion to reproduce the current situation of the entire area. "There are more people here than in city-states. If we don't abandon the temple, even if the gods leave, I'm afraid they won't give up their beliefs."

"King Gilgamesh, do you think this temple is likely to be abandoned because humans have not received a response from the gods for too long?" Merlin pondered, and enlarged an area shown in the illusion. "What do you think of this oasis over here? The distance is not far, but it is difficult for humans to cross it."

"According to the rules of this world, the probability is not high." Gilgamesh answered Merlin's question calmly, "I suggest you destroy the temple directly - but the problem is that the temple itself is a tree in the center of the oasis, and the temple is completely embedded in the trunk of the tree... How did they do it?"

“Uh…” Merlin looked around, avoiding Gilgamesh’s gaze guiltily. “I’m sorry, I wasn’t in the oasis when they built the temple. But when the oasis was just taking shape, the tree wasn’t this big… Maybe they guided the tree to grow into a shape that fits the temple perfectly.”

"...I understand. That was when you were out chasing the invaders." Gilgamesh pressed his forehead and began to count the treasures in the treasury. "We should have let them see the heroic figure of the flower god who they thought was weak and unable to take care of himself, killing a demon god with one sword. Oh, if they knew that you were a melee mage who believed that chanting spells was better than beating..."

"Found it." Gilgamesh took out a bottle of potion from the treasure house, weighed it, and nodded at the oasis location chosen by Merlin. "Hmm... this size, I think we need to remove one-fifth of the dosage. We will leave tonight. It is your task to summon the spirits and let them leave here quietly."

"Leave the work of handling the temple to me." Gilgamesh saw Solomon appear under the tree one day in the future. "I hope that the coward can perform well in the future. If it is just the past situation, I don't mind complaining to the students."

That night, a raging flame broke out in the temple of the goddess of flowers in the center of the oasis, and the towering trees surrounding the temple were also almost completely burned to death in the flames - but that night no human woke up from their dreams and noticed the bright fire in the center of the oasis.

By the next morning, the towering tree in the center of the oasis was still there, but the magnificent temple had disappeared without a trace, along with the families of the two demon gods and the goddess of flowers - only the people who were abandoned by the gods for unknown reasons remained in this huge oasis.