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The Holy King Rodrick was a hero who lived more than three hundred years ago. He was the very man who carved countless legends into history and cemented his place as the strongest human to ever live.
Rodrick’s feats recorded in ancient texts were so transcendent that some even doubted he had truly existed. However, the traces he left behind were too numerous and clear for that doubt to matter.
Even so, many sought to diminish his reputation. Some claimed the Holy Church had deified him for political power. Others insisted his legends were actually the combined deeds of several heroes, all falsely attributed to the name “Rodrick.”
Most offered no evidence, just empty noise, but there was one fact none of them ever questioned: Rodrick died.
“Hold on…” Leon blinked hard and finally managed to speak. “So you’re saying… you didn’t die?”
—I didn’t.
El-Cid grinned with satisfaction at Leon’s stunned reaction. —Think about it, my disciple. As you said, a transcendent being is beyond mortality. And in that world, there was no one—nothing—that could kill me. Not as an individual, not as a group. Even if the entire continent fought me at once, I’d be the one still standing at the end.
It was an outrageous declaration. Not even the dragons...
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