Chapter 4 – 01. A Male Hero Candidate in a Strange Reverse World
The royal dining room was gorgeous.
It was so magnificent and colorful that it was believed that it was actually a banquet hall rather than a restaurant. This is because the higher the status, the more they want to show off their wealth and power, and one of the best things is food and restaurants.
In the center of the room, a long rectangular table was attached in a row at an angle, and a tablecloth made of high-quality fabric was placed on top of it, and a rich dinner awaited the two candidates for warriors at the top.
However, there was someone else who truly waited for them and held a small banquet for the two.
Seated at the top of the table is Charperia, the Queen of the Kingdom of Palania.
And under it, three people are sitting in order from the right.
Siwoo, of course, knew all three royal families.
‘That nobleman is the king… No, it was a national paper. And a prince who is the same age as the princess who is older than me.’
I knew it, but I wasn’t familiar with it.
He barely passed the hero test, and in 10 years, at most, he was a low-level hero who went from E-class to C-class. Even if it wasn’t him, there were quite a few heroes in this kingdom who had enemies.
Most of them were the warriors of a specific clan, led by the S-class warrior Olbaek, and the royal family and nobles, including the King of Palania, paid little attention to other warriors because they were courting and caring about them.
It was the same with Siu, but since his situation did not change much even if he went somewhere else, he just stayed in the Kingdom of Palania.
‘Something feels new.’
Memories of the 1st hwacha days come to mind.
Seeing familiar faces and names, I kept comparing him to the first playthrough he knew. He’s only been a day old, but he’s funny like a habit.
It was as if I had read that a web novel writer I enjoyed reading created a second version of his own work and put out a reversed world version.
The lady-in-waiting who had entered the restaurant with her led Siu to a seat next to the princess. In other words, it is ambiguous, but it was more of an honorable mention than a golden sun. No, if you think about it, it was definitely the seat of honor.
There were not three but two candidates for the hero, but instead of having them face each other, they sat next to the princess. There was no way the lady-in-waiting could have sat her on her own, so she must have been the seat chosen by the queen, and that would have meant that the golden sun had sat next to the prince from the beginning.
‘Ah, that was it.’
Siwoo could finally understand why Taeyang Geum had just said something in a strangely ambiguous tone.
The queen came first and put her in the lower seat, waiting for another man, so she was angry and jealous.
‘Sick.’
After glancing at Geum Taeyang and Kim Jeong-gyun, he laughed at him to the fullest.
“…!!”
Gigg.
“Candidate?”
“…Ah, nothing… Ugh. No.”
He dragged the chair back and tried to jump up from his seat, then noticed and pulled the chair forward again.
“Okay. Then let’s talk… Oh, everyone will be hungry, so let’s start with a meal.”
The Queen looked over the five people in her seat and said so.
Siu, the cause of the unintentional delay of the meal, only slightly bowed his head to the royal family, and they accepted the apology with a smile. It was clear that Kim Jeong-gyun’s self-confidence after seeing that scene became more intense.
Siwoo ate a luxurious meal he hadn’t tasted in a long time with old-fashioned etiquette. It was the etiquette of the western part of the continent that I learned in the first playthrough, not on Earth. I was worried that I might have forgotten because I hadn’t used it for a long time, but when I tried to move consciously, the action came out roughly as a reflex.
Thanks to this alone, he could draw the favor and admiration of the four royals, and he could be the center of conversation as the sole protagonist of the banquet throughout the meal.
When the meal was roughly finished and half of the dessert was eaten, the queen started talking in earnest.
“In the next three days, the two candidates will be moving to the warrior training camp.”
“Are you training for warriors?”
It was Taeyang who asked the question.
Since Siwoo knows most of it anyway, he’s been listening quietly. Or maybe he would ask Hilde Ar later.
“Yes, the explanation was insufficient earlier… But now that the place has been formally set up, I will tell you what happened.”
Thus, the continental history lecture by the queen began.
‘It’s something I know anyway, so I’ll have to shed some light on it.’
Siwoo had the same thought, but from the first words of the queen, she had no choice but to realize that something was strange.
“Her Goddess, who created her this world, sensed her sudden loneliness, and invited other gods and their creatures into this world to find her a mate for Him.”
‘Wow, kidnapping was the default option here.’
Not only warriors, but also gods and creatures were kidnapped en masse. It was a really large-scale kidnapping.
“Among them, there were goddesses and male gods, but none of them satisfied our goddess.”
As soon as he heard that, Siwoo realized that this world is a reversed world.
Starting with the goddess who created the world, but what about the women of this world, who are her creations?
Suddenly, thinking that the beautiful 30-year-old queen in front of her was attacking her 50-year-old uncle somehow made her feel bad.
“The Goddess in her wrath made her goddesses her own subordinates, and her male gods also made her goddesses and made them her subordinates.”
“?”
Siu’s mind became dizzy.
What the hell is she doing? I was suspicious of her taste and worried about her appearance.
First of all, it was very different from the Shinhwa he knew in the first playthrough, but there were some similarities. But the moment she thought what she would be like if it were that goddess who brought her back to this world, she felt a chill run through her body.
“It was only when the number of gods invited was over twenty that the goddess realized that it was strange. Among the goddesses, there were quite good gods, but all the male gods were sloppy. Then, belatedly, I realized that the problem was in this world. .”
In other words, the goddess kidnapped an innocent male god, made her masculinity diminish, and turned her into a woman, saying that she did not like it. She really could not be a terrible goddess.
“There was a small gap in the corner of the world, and a huge amount of yin energy flowed out of it and was spreading to this world. The Goddess hurriedly blocked it and tried to restore the male gods made by her goddesses, but they refused.”
‘The male deities’ female corruption… Sibural. What the hell am I listening to… This is a real myth… ?’
Siu turned her head and looked back at the golden sun, and he too, as if frightened by the content of her myth, had slightly reduced the tan on her face.
To the point where I don’t feel tanned at all. Moreover, even though Siwoo was looking at him, he didn’t even notice.
“In the end, the goddess gave up and wanted to get rid of the residual yin energy and energy that remained in the world, but she lost a lot of strength because the amount was so large and she had invited many gods so far. You had a long sleep.”
“That’s when it happened.”
“That’s right. It was at this time that some of the goddesses awakened our goddess and developed an ambition to rule as her counterpart.”
“…”
‘In a word, among her lilies, her older sister, who was in charge of her ball, took advantage of the weakness and her younger brothers revolted. It’s a fucking dead end.’
“And the goddesses who still follow our goddess called the goddesses who rebelled as demons, and their creatures were also called demons. That’s how war broke out both in heaven and on earth.”
Siu, who was shaking her head, had a question.
“Then they called us…”
“Yes, they are the lower castes, not our goddess. Of course, the source of that power is our goddess. He briefly stood up during the rebellion and gave power to the lower castes. Still, in the end, the war in heaven ended with a truce, but the war on earth has become their proxy war and is happening endlessly.”
“Ah, then the demons will not be able to summon a hero.”
“That’s right. The power to intervene in other dimensions is a power that only our Goddess possesses.”
After hearing the myth, I felt like I knew the whole story of this world.
The turning point of the reverse world was her goddess personality and what she had done, but the biggest part was a small hole in the corner of the world. Because Yin and energy came in through that place, overall, men became rarer and women became more numerous.
“Um, Queen? I have a question…”
The golden sun raised her hand cautiously to her face, still weary of it. It was quite polite for her arch nemesis.
“Yes. Please speak, Candidate.”
“Then maybe I… Is my masculinity weakened because of my voice…?”
“…”
‘Oh, fuck? Is that so?’
It was only after hearing his question that Siwoo realized the big problem and his face turned white.
What if the proud 20cm object gets smaller? The amount of ejaculation has decreased, and even if you look at a woman, you don’t look hot?
As soon as Siwoo did that, he seemed capable of killing himself. There is no such thing as a terrible curse.
Fortunately, the queen gave her a small smile that made her feel relieved.
But what came out of her mouth was the exact opposite of her expression.
“Yes, unfortunately.”
“Yes? No, what is that…”
“Damn it! I said something was weird…!”
‘What?’
The golden sun jumped up from her seat in a fright. It was as if a part of his masculinity had already weakened. But Siu didn’t feel that at all.
‘What?’
The Queen was also puzzled by his behavior.
“That’s why? I couldn’t tell you everything, but even if it weakens, the effect is very weak. The goddesses don’t bring warrior candidates from other dimensions for nothing.”
“Uh, huh?”
“If the body is very compatible with the yin qi, the effect will be strong, but as far as we know, there is no such person among the candidates for the hero yet…”
“…Ah, I-I must have misunderstood something. Ahaha…”
He smiled awkwardly and was seated again, the golden sun, but the gaze of the royals looking at him was not very good. They weren’t stupid, and there was no way they wouldn’t notice the oddity.
Instead, Siwoo looked at him and wished Ttolttori a rest in his heart.
‘Poor bastard.’
He was sure
Obviously, the size of the gold sun was smaller than before.
Perhaps because of that, his ferocity was further enhanced. As things got smaller, their viciousness and violence increased. It was a truly pitiful creature.
“Hmmmm. Anyway, this is the end of the outline. You can ask me for details later, or you can take a good rest here and listen at the warrior training center. I’ve never heard of it, but I hope the candidates who don’t know anything will know everything. They said that there is a diverse curriculum and systematic learning.”
Since then, the Queen has talked about the training camp and the warriors, but Golden Sun didn’t hear anything.
After another pleasant chat between Siu and the royal family, the banquet ended.