Chapter 31 - You Are Just a Protagonist...

Chapter 31: 31 - You Are Just a Protagonist...

The Heavenly Dao supporting the protagonist is only natural. The special case would probably be those stories where the Heavenly Dao is the villain, but that kind of Heavenly Dao is obviously just a fake, weak-ass version, not an omnipotent one.

King did not care how happy Elias was, but if he kept crying like that, it was really annoying for King to look at.

"How long are you planning to cry? Oh, by the way, that light ability sounds pretty strong, huh?"

Hearing that, Elias immediately used his hand to wipe away his tears. His hand was covered in blood, and wiping it across his already blood-covered face did not make it any cleaner.

"Of course. I’ve read through a lot of books, but I’ve never seen anyone possess a mana core with a light attribute ability. The dark attribute seems to have records saying that it appeared a very long time ago."

With an excited tone, Elias spoke extremely fast because at this moment, he had successfully taken a huge step forward on his path to becoming a great mage.

Hearing this, King could already guess the ending. That person with the dark power was definitely the final boss, and somehow, he was still alive until now. In the future, Elias would defeat him and become a great mage.

"Your mana core isn’t broken anymore, right?"

Although he asked that, King was more than 90% sure that he had guessed the answer correctly.

After three years of being looked down on, now was the time for the protagonist to shine and slap faces... Shine, yes, but slapping other people’s faces with Elias’s personality seemed very unlikely to happen.

"What?! How did you know?"

Elias stared at King with wide eyes, looking at him with awe as if he had seen a god. Even a powerful mage should not be able to see another person’s mana core, because it was not something that could be seen with the eyes or touched with the hands.

The look in his eyes made the corner of King’s mouth curl up slightly. So this was what it felt like to have a sense of superiority in front of the protagonist.

"Hahaha, we haven’t introduced ourselves yet, right? My name is King, a great reader. And your name is Elias Vane, the protagonist of this world. Or, to put it another way, you exist only to entertain readers like me."

Even though the system had long since confirmed that there were no fictional worlds here, King acted arrogantly to a ridiculous degree and firmly held on to his original belief.

Just as he said at the beginning, whether it was real or fake did not matter. What mattered was that King was very superior, so he only believed in what he thought was right.

Originally very excited, Elias was left dumbfounded by King’s ridiculous words. He kept blinking and stared at King for a while before speaking.

"Are... you seriously being serious?"

The ridiculous words combined with King’s absolutely confident expression made Elias very confused. His eyesight had become much stronger after becoming a rank I mage, so he was certain that he could see King’s expression very clearly. Mistaking it was impossible.

"Surprised? You are just a protagonist in..."

While speaking, King stopped for a moment to think about how he should put it. This was a different world from the last novel he had read, but it would definitely be a novel too.

"A novel I haven’t read. I’m certain you are the light destined by fate to defeat the darkness and become the greatest mage."

"Everything you have experienced, are experiencing, and will experience has been written by someone. You are simply a thought in someone’s head. Just a puppet of fate and nothing more. So? Shocked? Disappointed?"

Last time, he had planned to use this to annoy Iris, but her mental fortitude was too strong, so King did not get the expression he wanted from her. This time, he wanted to see if he could drive Elias mad by letting him know the truth.

"Wait! What did you just say?!"

Elias’s eyes widened as he staggered and hurriedly rushed toward King. He tried to grab King’s shoulder, but King coldly dodged him. After all, no one wanted their clean clothes to suddenly get covered in blood.

Elias’s body looked like it had recovered, but he was still suffering from severe blood loss, so he did not have much strength. Because he missed King, he fell and rolled several times across the ground.

As soon as he fell, Elias staggered to his feet and once again wanted to rush toward King to get an explanation. King was extremely interested in this reaction of his, but he still could not let Elias get close.

"Stop! If you dare take one more step, I’ll help you become a crippled mage."

It was only when King pointed the tip of his sword at Elias that Elias finally stopped. Although he had stopped, the excited expression on his face, as if he was about to go insane, did not lessen in the slightest.

"What did you just say? What did you just say?! You..."

He kept repeating the same question. This excitement was beyond King’s expectations. He had originally thought that even if Elias was only slightly better than Iris, he had not expected a few ’harmless’ words to excite him to this extent.

"You are just a character in someone else’s imagination."

"No. Not that sentence."

"You are just a puppet of fate..."

"Not this one either."

The more Elias shook his head, the more tightly King’s eyebrows furrowed. King became more and more unable to understand what exactly had made Elias so excited just now.

King’s eyes moved back and forth for a few seconds as he recalled the moment when Elias’s expression had started to change...

Got it! So that was the key point.

"You are destined to defeat the darkness and become the greatest mage."

After saying this, an unpleasant feeling rose in King’s heart. All this time, he had foolishly thought that Elias had become agitated after discovering that he was just a character in a novel, but it turned out that was not the case.

"Hahahaha... Heaven does not abandon me, so I will not abandon heaven! Fate or whatever, you did a great job!"

Elias threw his head back and laughed loudly at the sky, placing his right palm over his face and covering his entire face. Looking at his blood-covered, crazy appearance, it was hard to imagine that this was the ’light’ this world had been waiting for to fight the final boss.

"Are you fucking crazy? You are just a character born to serve someone else’s entertainment. Your entire life is a script, and everything you think you worked hard for was arranged by someone else’s will. You can still laugh like that?"

"Is that nonsense really important?"

Completely opposite to King’s confusion, Elias replied very calmly. His eyes were extremely clear, without the slightest trace of confusion.