Chapter 869 The Imposter
Chapter 869 The Imposter
On the imposter's comment, Chonky didn't respond to it and instead asked, "Did you meet an old foggy with a lame white beard?"
"Who are—"
"Baat! Just answer already, baat!" Chonky couldn't help but say.
If he was at his peak, there wouldn't be any need to say such a thing as this person would be intimidated silly and say things out without even needing to be told.
The imposter was obviously not taking this interaction seriously and was in no way going to entertain a literal child's question.
This further annoyed Chonky and as he was about to hit him again to procure answers, a hand took hold of his shoulders, making him turn around and see who it may be.
The first thing Chonky saw after turning around were a pair of long legs. He had to physically look up and then finally saw the face of his big bro.
Surprised but also not surprised, Chonky asked, "What are you doing here, big bro?"
Lith put his hands under Chonky's arms and lifted him up like a child, making him yell,
"BAAT! PUT ME DOWN!"
Holy shit! This was his serious investigative moment going on and his big bro was ruining his every possible serious image in front of the imposter!
The imposter would really think that he was indeed a child! Baat! That was not supposed to happen!
Chonky struggled to get out of Lith's grasp, but found himself unable to. He could use magic to get out but didn't want to hurt Lith on accident and hence refrained from doing so.
Thankfully, Lith didn't keep him in the air for long and placed him to the side.
"Don't go challenging strong people like this, Big Chonk. You may end up getting killed."
"Huh?" Lith's comment made Chonky dumbfounded while the imposter Demon King frowned as he looked at Lith.
Not even a little glimpse and all the hair on the imposter's body stood on their ends, making him shiver in fear.
'THIS GUY AGAIN!?' Thought the imposter.
He wanted to immediately run away from this place as he noticed Lith, but alas it was too late now.
The imposter was already in Lith's grasp and there was no moving away.
Lith had his hand placed on the guy's head and made him look up at him. He didn't say anything, but his amethyst eyes began rotating and took on a shade of red.
Ancient symbols appeared one by one within his pupils and rotated in the opposite direction, bringing forth a chill within the imposter.
The imposter felt his soul getting sucked in those eyes and in no time, zoned out and stared at Lith's eyes like an idiot.
From the sidelines, Chonky could see his big bro was doing something strange and it made him so surprised that he stared at Lith in utter stupefaction.
The whole interaction only lasted for a few seconds and once Lith was done, he let go of the guy's head and let him fall down on the ground, unconscious and exhausted.
Lith then rubbed his temples and thought, 'This is the same dude who reincarnated into Nishkavert's body. What the hell is he doing in the Demon King's body? Is the Demon King perhaps dead?'
There were many questions that popped up within Lith's mind with nothing leading him towards their answers.
Exhausted by the whole situation, Lith sighed and shook his head.
There was no need to think so much from here onwards as the war was over and it didn't matter anymore.
This world needed a hero that would save them from the demons and Lith turned out to be that. He didn't really like playing hero as it wasn't his personality, but with everything happening naturally, there was no rejecting it.
Lith was only looking out for his own interests and while doing so, he had found the solution to the demon invasion as well.
The world was now safe and his job here was done. He could finally go back with the rewards he had earned.
The rewards were definitely not bad. The things Lith had gained in four years was much more than what he could achieve in his own world with forty years of time.
His physique's strength was at such a high level that he may very well be the strongest Half King out there.
This was yet to be known as Lith hadn't tested things out. It could only be done when he went back home, which he was planning to do soon.
The other big rewards were the fruits that improved physique, his five maids, and two youngsters with boundless potential.
He was taking them all back home and would keep them as his. Their potential was only just going to waste in this world and Lith didn't want to see that happen.
Lith had six maids here, but Lydia wasn't going to be taken back. She didn't interest Lith enough and would be kept in this world to lead the people. It was up to her as to what the future of this world would hold.
The rest of the maids were too good to be left behind and the same was the case with the purple-haired boy and the bartending tavern girl.
Those guys aside, for now, Lith was wondering what he should do with this reincarnator here. Should he kill him or should he enslave him? This was an annoying question to think of.
Lith pondered on this thing for a bit while Chonky stared at Lith with a confused expression, wondering what was he even thinking for so long.
After a bit of thinking, Lith finally came to a decision that it was best to set this dude free.
That's right, Lith was not planning to kill him or make him his slave. He wanted to see just how far can a reincarnator go and what would destiny hold for him.
This guy could act as a benchmark and help Lith in understanding just how much the potential of a reincarnator was. Whether luck played a big part in things was it just hard work or was it intelligence and so on.
There definitely would be consequences in setting this guy free and who knows, he may even get stronger and come at him even stronger than ever.
But Lith had faith in himself that even by that time, he would be far ahead of this dude and not be left behind.
This wasn't cockiness but straight up his own gut feeling. Lith decided to trust in this feeling and let this potential enemy be free and do whatever he wanted.
Lith injected the unconscious dude with a tracking artifact and left the place with Chonky.
Chonky had mixed feelings about this whole interaction. While on one hand he really wanted to go back to his original body, this new one also didn't seem bad.
It was a growing body and could be moulded into whatever shape he wanted. This meant that he could have an even better physique than before, but that would take a lot of time.
The next most important thing was that he could have an exceptional quality of emotional maturity. At present, he had the maturity of a stupid toddler with two brain cells, but if given a few years, he would turn into a wise old sage.
The downsides of switching to his original body was that he may probably become the enemy of his big bro, which was a tad bit sad.
However, this would not really happen as the connection between him and his original body was totally severed and a new person was in command of it.
The wizard that he had offended was no joke. He had cursed him so hard that he now could not even switch back to his original self.
Chonky really hated that old fart to death and would kill him the moment he saw him. But nothing could be done now and he had to accept his own reality.
Thinking that he was a child right now and children shouldn't stress, Chonky took out all his weird thoughts and followed Lith to see what he was up to.
A day passed by just like that and the unconscious imposter woke up feeling groggy and in pain.
He checked around and found himself in the same body as before with barely any harm being done to him.
Knitting his brows, the imposter, being none other than Nuel, thought to himself, 'I have no idea what happened here, but now that I have the opportunity, I should leave quickly.'
Nuel did just that and vanished from his spot, thinking he had properly escaped.
Meanwhile, Lith on the other hand saw this but still chose to ignore it. He went to do his work and prepared to leave. There were a final few things left to do and once finished, he could leave this world for once and for all.