The chaos Amaris revealed is now piercing Leon aggressively with no chance for him to slip away. But thanks to Geoff's interjection they calmed down a little. "It is not grandpapa Leon's fault so stop ganging up on him before I got angry. For now Limuel will still be the world leader and Crow will do support in regards with formation or last decision making. My mother which is Queen Amaris will be the leader of the monsters that will start to pour inside Earth after we notify them and Xing Ling will be a connection between two worlds if there is a critical matter to attend to. Ben will be as always serves Limuel and that's it. Aiko will be the educator of young generation then we are now wrap up here. So if you have further questions, just list it on paper and we will come back, probably.. So now bye bye, see you next time!" Geoff pulled Leon up that still has that confused face in his face but eventually follows and uses teleportation that left everyone in shock. Geoff and Leon landed on a rather safe spot which is Leon's room inside the gate. It got nothing special before but now, there are things arranged inside to make it lively. Geoff caresses his head down to his back and whispers sweet lullabies that made Leon hold onto her for the long time before uttering the words that he had surpressed for so long. "I'm tired." "Then rest. Rest as much as you like. No one will disturb you here. I will not let them so rest." Leon couldn't help but fall for that sweet voice and slowly drift his way to darkness. After denying it for so long, he lose. He doesn't want to leave Earth before being away for so long but now he has no choice because there is no way to dispense the power out of him without harming the people in that world. --- Leon raised his body within Geoff's lap and rub his eyes that had swollen. He wants to hide his face but Geoff chuckled which unknowingly made him raise his head and see the flushed face of his granddaughter that resemble so much of his blood brother. "Don't think too much grandpapa. It's not that much time in Earth. Look at that clock, it's just a day that passed in there." Geoff pointed at the clock showing the time. Before looking back at Leon and caresses his face. "Father's memories never shared this kind of you. In his eyes, you are always been headstrong and unhesitant. You don't have to pretend you are strong all the time. At least with me here, bearing with the memories of past and witnessing the present, I know better how not to worry your love ones but blaming yourself won't do you good. Mother had already started the transfer and putting the creatures as guard inside the Earth. But do you know what more is there to be surprise at?" Leon sat beside Geoff that is still engulf with her story. It isn't entertaining at all but all are credible enough to accurately be similar at the system's report. "Don't think that you are the only one that wanted for the safety of Earth because you are wrong. There are a lot that had influenced by you already and now residing inside it so you don't have to do it by yourself. Mother had already taken the experiment and the plausible result had been gathered. You don't have to feel guilty anymore so rest as much as you want. I will wake you up when the threat that comes to harm the Earth comes. Be at ease. You have been fighting for so long to everyone that you consider traitor. Rest for I will protect you like my father that stayed true to you even with the expense of his life." Leon couldn't help but cover his face when all the pent up emotions that he tried so hard to suppressed so no one will be able to use it against him are slowly pouring endlessly like this. He sees Geoff as someone to be his punishment for sacrificing and doubting his only brother bound by blood pact. But it turns out to be his dependency that makes it different to what he assumed it is. After regaining his composure he look at Geoff that is smiling at him gently without saying anything. He sighed in relieved and say the words that he doesn't know he is able to say. "At first, humans are just simple people that don't have desire for power. They just look up on heroes from a fictional view without even considering the possibility of actually becoming one. But humans are a whole lot of a race that is not stopping if it is for their goals. An endless evolution that resulted to the first adversary and disaster the humans met. The greatest enemy of them is by themselves as well. The human felt the severity of the situation and they are beginning to lose hope when a miracle happened. The humans that tried so hard to fend the danger regain new strength and just like the heroes they created for entertainment, they act like one and can finally say 'they save the world!' How ironic." He cannot wash away the contempt he had accumulated over humans although he is human himself. Geoff on the other hand just listened which Leon likes about her. "Because of their new found power, people begun their tight hold to everything that could give them the things that could tie another in their grasp. Me on the other side, once had prayed to have such power to rebel against the cruelty of my father but although I succeeded to possess such powerful ability, it was within the expense of my mother and brother. But the evil that I want to eradicate from that land is still unknown if he lives and not just gone like a bubble. The Elites continue to save the weak and when that gate appeared, everyone was in a state of devastation. They don't know what to do and no matter what they think, they just couldn't think of a solution that wouldn't harm the majority. Because they too are afraid of dying." Thinking that right now, it was such a peculiar thing that no matter what happened that time, he is not afraid of dying like what he was right now. Geoff races her hand like an obedient child that made Leon smile. "Are you the same like them papa?" That made Leon laugh aloud and shook his head. "I, different to their worries was finding a clue about the peculiarity that I felt with my own system. You see, the humans on Earth and the elites to be specific gained a system that gave them skill and power to be stronger than a normal human being. I have talk it out to few and there was nothing to mine and at that time I have a hunch that once I overcome the hurdle, I will be able to unlock something. So when they ignored me and didn't believe what I want to say, I look for the answers myself and successfully did it with all hardship. Yes? What is it?" Geoff raises her hand once again and Leon gladly notice her. "What did you do to achieve your goal?" Leon smirks as if he was asked with a basic question. "I work hard for it. The answer is defeating the boss of this gate." Geoff has sparkled eyes. The same one like his brother look at him when he tells him his fights with others. With that he continued his story until the time passes by. "The Gate is believed to be locked because of the countdown hung at the top of it but that's not the case. There was a small dungeon beneath the gate that you needed to defeat in order to gain recognition and upon gaining the first subjugation accomplishment, I can pick people to go inside the gate and give them free passes. D*mn! If I knew then, I would have not give them that free ride!" There are times that Leon felt, the medicine he has to be with everyday is Geoff and that is enough for him but he feared tomorrow. He feared the day that this child has to leave his side because that child needed to meet someone and have a family. Leon started to fear tomorrow when it hasn't even arrived yet. Because he knows that his time has a long way before he could embrace death. Seasons passed and the monster are slowly decreasing each passing day. It turns to weeks and then months before year is like a glimpse of yesterday. Time had flowed that way but Leon still has that gnawing feeling that keeps on getting bigger unlike his appearance that didn't change at all. Right now Geoff is talking with the fairies inside the Goboline's territories. It seems like the pixie devils had got whiffed of the news about the daughter of their Queen and right now they are persuading her from coming but Geoff strongly refuses and instead told about the two siblings she has with her mother. That made Leon tend to space out recently. "Grandpapa, are you listening?" Leon later felt the cold soda that is pressed onto his skin. He looked back to Geoff that already drinking her can. Leon look at the can in his hand before he looks back to Geoff and carefully opened the topic with his loud beating of the heart. "Did the attendants of your father's kingdom persuade you again? Why not considering on going there?" But the moment he finish his sentence is the same time that Geoff crushed the can in her hands like crumpling a paper. She then looked at Leon with that stare that says it all which successfully sealed Leon's mouth. "How many years has it been?" To change the topic Leon asked for the date that the now matured lady answers. "It's already the 334 years since we come here. Did the battery inside the clock stop working? I should check that later." But Leon doesn't mind. He got accustomed into his new life inside the gate and his crops had been going on very abundant. He doesn't have to worry to be lacking of stocks because of that. But why does he still feel empty? Geoff hug his head and that instantly wash away the negative emotions that is eating him away. "Mother contacted me earlier. She said she wants you to check something." Leon was about to nod when he felt a pang in his chest that made his hands lost his grip. "Leon! Are you okay?! Hey! Papa!" Geoff is shaking his shoulders but Leon felt the pain in his heart too much that his consciousness is dwindling. 『Unknown invader had reach the atmosphere of Earth. The protective barrier that you placed had already been broken. I advise you tread with caution please.』 He has no time right now since that last barrier that he put outside the Earth's atmosphere is near to the final layer of protection that was put so to defend from invaders like today. Leon desperately clutch onto Geoff and shouts. "WE NEED TO GO BACK!" Geoff still don't understand but when Leon uses magic that he is still practicing, she immediately realizes it. In an instant they already reached Earth and it was still peaceful but other than them, Amaris and Xing Ling is already in the air with them and looking at one side with everyone. "I didn't think that they would really dare to come. Such insolence!" Amaris is baring her fangs and Leon already recovered and instantly went to face them and that is when his eyes grew bigger than it can. "Are you really the ones that is behind all of this shits?" He couldn't take it because this people are not the ones who do such a thing that will harm a lot of people to the extent that they will drag the whole world for their ambitions. They are truly the elites that they had assumed but he didn't know that those elites are the ones behind this all. Not until the system popped and confirmed his doubts were true. 『Elites Brave, Barnes, Smith and Swanns confirmed from the information gathered sir. They are now different from a normal human and nothing to be called as such now. Outer species involvement is detected. You must be carefully.』
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