Talent Swallowing Hero

In front of the outer city wall,

The city leader Theodore, the family head Oliver and the family Gregor stood in the front, leaving more than 5000 heroes and a 1000 mercenaries whose strength varied from rank 4 to 9.

There were nearly 100 rank 9, 500 rank 8 and 2000 rank heroes in the group.

Opposite this huge group of human heroes stood a huge horde mixed with both monsters and the mutated beasts with strength ranging from rank 7 to rank 9.

However, the monster/beast horde had three supreme-ranked beings, whereas the human side only had one.

‘Damn it…is Mr. White planning to not show up even if the city gets destroyed?’

Looking at three supreme-ranked beings, Theodore cursed Mr. White.

“Haha…I never expected the Phirie city to have such a huge force. Looks like it’s been a while since we invaded your city.”

“Yeah. They are slowly increasing their numbers. We should control it, right?”

The four-winged slayer wyvern king and the silver-horned Ogre King intentionally spoke loudly so everyone could hear their words.

“Let’s give them a chance.”

However, the labyrinth drake king stopped them and looked at Theodore, “You must be the city leader, right?”_-.

“Yes.”

Even though Theodore didn’t like being looked down on by a bunch of monsters and the mutated beasts, he knew the other party was very strong.

So, he nodded and wondered, ‘A chance? What is it?’

“You can clearly tell you can’t win against us. Hence, I will propose a deal and if you fulfil it, we will leave from here right away.”

“What is it?”

The drake king’s words clearly intrigued Theodore as he asked about the deal.

“Someone from your city has stolen two supreme grade eggs from my Solitary Forest. As long as you return them, I promise, we will leave right away.”

“What? Someone stole the supreme grade eggs?”

Theodore and everyone from the human side was shocked by the drake king’s words.

‘How is it possible?’

‘Is it City leader? Only he has the strength to enter the depths of the solitary forest.’

‘Yeah. I feel the same.’

‘Idiot. See the city leader’s face, he is also shocked just like us. I don’t think he stole the eggs.’

‘Then who is it? The family heads?’

‘Wait a second…where is the family head Liam?’

‘That’s right! No one from the Ambermane family has joined us to stop the invasion.’

At first, most of them thought it was Theodore because of his supreme rank; however, soon, it shifted to three family heads before concluding Liam Ambermane was the thief who stole the supreme grade eggs.

Actually, the eggs came from the [Treasure Land] and were not stolen from the Solitary Forest. It was just a plan that the drake king had come up with to avoid the fight.

‘Is it really Liam? No, that lowly servant didn’t have the strength to do something like that.’

However, the city leader Theodore didn’t think Liam was capable of something like that.

Even though he could not contact Liam, he was very sure that it was not Liam.

‘There is only a single person who is capable of doing something like that and he is also not here.’

Theodore turned his head and looked at the tallest building in the distance.

“Looks like you have no idea about it.”

Seeing the surprised look on Theodore’s face, the drake king said in a calm tone, “We will give you 10 minutes. If you don’t hand over those eggs, you will have to bear the consequences.”

“10 minutes? It is not enough. I need at least a couple of hours to find out who stole your eggs.”

After thinking for a moment, Theodore asked the drake king for two hours.

“If you can’t agree to that, then we could only fight to death. Then, I wonder whether you can find the eggs or not?”

Before the drake king could reply, Theodore added another line that made the drake king a little furious.

Even though they sensed the presence of the supreme grade eggs, it was only for a brief moment. So, the Drake King knew it would be very hard to find the supreme grade eggs if the other party hid them in a place they could not reach.

“Fine. If you don’t find the eggs in two hours, we will erase the Phirie city into nothing.”

Without much choice, the drake king agreed to Theodore’s request.

“Everyone, be alert. We can’t trust those monsters to keep their word.”

After warning the heroes, Theodore flew back into the city and headed straight to Mr. White’s residence.

‘If he really stole those eggs, then I can get one egg…Hehe.’

While flying toward Mr. White’s residence, Theodore could not help but reveal a greedy look.

…..

On the outer city wall,

“It looks like the monsters and mutated beasts want to avoid unnecessary fights before the world assessment.”

Leo was hiding in his secret dimension as he watched everything that happened outside the city wall.

After hearing their conversation, Leo was surprised that the monsters and mutated beasts wanted to avoid fighting; however, he found an answer with some thinking.

“But, you can’t avoid the fight because I have the supreme grade eggs and I don’t plan to give it to anyone.”

Leo muttered to himself and asked the system, ‘System, you are sure that no one can sense the supreme grade eggs now, right?’

‘Ding,

Yes, but the talisman’s effect is only temporary. Therefore, the host has to stop the invasion.

Since Leo didn’t have plans to give away the supreme grade eggs, it was inevitable to avoid the fight between the humans and the monsters/beasts.

So, he used a talisman that could hide a hero’s strength to hide the presence of the supreme grade eggs.

‘I would have never guessed, those talismans can be used like that.’

Obviously, it was the system that suggested that method to hide the presence of the supreme grade eggs temporarily.

“Now, it’s fighting time.”

‘Fireball’

Seeing that Theodore had left, Leo walked out of his secret dimension and released six fireballs at the monsters.

‘Boom’

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