Crusch sighed, and then he looked at Khan.

"I believe you need some explanation to do," Crusch told Khan.

"Okay." Khan responded.


Felix was frantically looking at his arms, there were healing spells all over his limbs, but the spell couldn't heal anything because there was nothing to heal.

It seem it was just a reflex, no one knew why not even Felix knew why he would cast so many healing spells on himself.

"Why does the healing magic won't stop, trying to stop the mana flow won't stop..?" Felix mumbled to himself, still having crying marks on his face.

"The spell I cast on you is a spell that will calm you down, but it's just a conscious suppressant, probably your instinct is still traumatized, although, I question what happened there?" Khan hearing Felix's mumbling responded to him.

"What that means? explain everything now Kaan Godra." Crusch demanded from Khan, with a serious expression but at the same time ignorant about Felix's mumblings.

"Kaan-sama, whatever sick joke is this, please stop it!" One of the knights in the circle said out loud.

"Reinhard, what do you think you are doing?" William asked Reinhard in a somewhat hostile but also neutral tone.

"Crusch-sama... I.." Felix tried to speak to Crusch.

"It was an incident-" Reinhard tried to explain with a smile, trying to calm everyone down while waving both hands in an attempt to calm everybody.

"Everyone, silence! I want an explanation from Kaan Godra and I wanna hear it clear and loud." Crusch ordered her men.

so all the soldiers silenced at her order, some were still wielding swords in their hands, some were about to unsheathe their swords, and some were far away inactive but observant.

Reinhard also did as ordered, and stayed quiet too, he was somewhat relieved because he removed the responsibility from his shoulders.

after a while, everybody became silent and observant.

"So, what do I have to explain" Khan asked Crusch

"I saw you from the window and everything was fine so far, but I saw that you three were starting to act weird" Crusch said to Khan.

"What were you doing?" Crusch demanded an answer from him.

...

"We were asking questions between each other and stuff, but then he wanted to know my magic affinity, so he touched my head and he blacked out."

"What you mean he blacked out? Everything seemed normal but then Felix started to roll to the ground, what did you do to him?" Crusch told him, even though it was hard to notice for everybody else, Khan could see concealed anger in her.

"I didn't do anything." Khan plainly said.

..

It was the truth, but if that's the truth, who was to blame? what happened? However, there was one person with whom he could ask questions.

"Felix, what happened?" Crusch asked him.

"I... I also don't know, but when Ferris.. was trying to search the magic affinity of Khan, something attempted to chase me.." Felix explained to her.

'something tried to chase him inside the curse? Then that's not anymore a curse.. maybe it's something else that I somehow don't know?' Khan thought, he was confused now.

Crusch detects the sudden change of emotion around her ( for anyone who does know, her protection also allows her to see emotion, not only lies and truths), it came directly from Khan.

"Kaan Kluai, do you have something to say about that?"

Crusch asked Khan in a serious tone and stern face.

"Huh?" The only thing Khan said in response to her while looking at her.

"I don't have much to place on the table, but I want to hear more about what he went through because it seems like it's different from what I presumed to be his condition."

Khan responded

..

"what's the problem you, that you initially thought that he was being inflicted on?" Crusch asked him.

"elaborate, shorter phrases." Khan told her.

Crusch paused and look at him.

"What did you think was happening to Felix?" Crusch asked.

"I thought that he got a kind of curse that you guys would consider as 'beyond the waterfall'" Khan explained.

"But it seems like he's actually in a condition that I don't know, I need to know more to determine what happened." Khan told Crusch.

Crusch paused for a bit but then turned to Felix to give him orders.

"Felix, continue to describe what you saw." Crusch said to Felix.

"Yes.. Crusch-sama" Felix responded to her order


Meanwhile in another world

A seemingly light brown man with a green long coat was flying over countless amount of beastmen.

the place was unbelievably loud, as thousands of beastmen were using bolt throwers (Ballistas) to shoot down the flying Overlord. Still, it was futile as the flying Overlord just had a protective bubble that deflected every single projectile.

"Alright, y'all time to stop fondling with my bubble"
he said calmingly, but it wasn't loud enough for them to hear as the sounds of ballista didn't allow the voice of the Overlord to be heard.

"jeez, alright" The overlord said to himself.

"Offensive magic: Repulsion" The overlord said to himself.

two orange glowing circles appeared on the left hand of the overlord.

[ play 'Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No.1']

"Sure those guys are pretty hostile, they attack anything that isn't their own specie at sight." He mumbled to himself while waiting for the attack to charge up.

The beastmen were still using the bolt throwers to kill the overlord, but it was useless, some of the bolts even reflected back at the beastmen and some reflected bolts hit their heads, basically unintentional friendly fire.

After a few seconds of attending a boring session of waiting, the spell wasn't still done its charging time yet.

"Sure it's boring waiting for a spell to be unleashed, maybe I should have used an overlord magic instead of this one, those are way faster than this." he continued to mumble to himself.

"I wonder why they don't use a gun or a shotgun though?.."

..

"Well, now that I think off, standard guns are quite expensive, and making one for a human it costs a lot of money.. I think about 500 stelle, that's a ton shit of money just for a thing called a pistol, and making one at beastmen size must cost a lot more, likely 10x the original price or 5x the original price, I well, not gonna brain about it too much."

"now that I think about it, for 3 million of my existence, I have never seen an army fully armed with pistols.. only the best soldiers in that army would wield such weapons."

...

..

.

"It's quite sad ain't it, that I'm talking to my own."

"Everybody in that so wonderful kingdom praises my existence, but it's basically impossible to make friends in that condition, as the ultimate god.. after the Author, he's above."

"Even if they didn't worship me and wanted to be friends... I don't think I'm gonna be friends with humans, they die at about 170 years old or so, even though most die at 15 or 18 years old."

the overlord sighed "it's so boring to be a god."

"Im pretty sure my brother feels the same-"

However, his quiet monologue to himself ended.

12 seconds passed, and it was ready to be unleashed.
A circle that had an appearance of a scope appeared in front of his right hand

"it took so long to charge up, I had three seasons of 12 episodes of monologues to nobody but myself." the overlord lamented.

in 12 seconds, the overlord created 567 cannons ready to fire against the beastmen

"Those normally are spells that require little magic, but what if I overfill them with magic power?" The overlord mumbled to himself.

He input a lot of magic power into the cannons, and the circle started to turn red as the overlord expected, but what if he went beyond that?

He tried to pump up the magic power even more, and the cannons were starting to crack as if they are about to burst.

"Alright, seems like I can't do it, maybe I'll do it later with a single cannon." the overlord said to himself

And he finally unleashed the powered-up spells against the beastmen.

An almost-invisible force flew to the beastmen, it ripped through their standard armor and broke them to sharp pieces, but it did not stop there, the force was powerful enough to pierce their hard skin and guts started to expel outside the human-size wound, and some got organs flying everywhere, and many got tore in half or in three pieces, some got their head blown off and blood started to slowly drip out from their neck, as their lifeless and bloodied bodies start to fall to the ground, not many were fortunate that it only hit their arm and part of their torso, but it was still a devastating injury, as their entire arm was now gone, and they lacked some parts of their shoulders, most beastmen are either injured enough to leave combat or were dead, there was no one that wasn't injured.

"It's the same boring thing, that happens every few decades"

but then, there was a beastman, that somehow wasn't injured, the beastman had a particular appearance.
it was a white beastmen, it wasn't colored green or brown like the others.

"is that a winter beastman or an albino beastman? It's unusual to see them here in plainlands, it's normally too hot for them to be here" The overlord said out loud his thoughts.

"well, im happy that I didn't injure it in the slightest, I might study that thing."
He then flew near to the white beastman for closer inspection.

'Probably an albino, winter beastmen have so much fur than the forest beastmen (green or brown beastmen) that it's noticeable at first sight'
'i think it's a male, female beastmen are usually 5% to 15% bigger than males'

but then the albino beastman threw his sword at the overlord, the throw was pretty sloppy though, but it was clearly enough power to kill multiple people at the same time. But the thrown sword got reflected just like any other projectile against the overlord's protective bubble.

"Once again, stop fondling with my bubble." the overlord said.

"Isn't that a weird way to phrase it?" The beastman responded

"Ah, don't worry about it." the overlord responded

"Can you die for me?" the beastman asked.

"no" the overlord responded

Then the beastman pulled out a legendary weapon, a weapon that is rarely seen on a beastman

A bolt cannon. The same exact weapon that The Hero of Beastmen carries with him on his right hip.

It was oddly shaped, it was big enough to hold like a pistol, but it was too oddly shaped to be classified as a pistol.

the bolt cannon had the standard appearance, the top of the bolt cannon was arched, had a barrel, an handle big enough to fit nicely the beastman's left hand and the trigger was just a long piece of metal, that if pressed will shot a 75 caliber, normally it has attached a ammo belt of 30 rounds of 75 caliber, but its loaded only when using the gun because it's easier to carry around when not in use.

as soon the beastman had the bolt cannon in its left hand, opened the top of the gun by opening the arched section like a door and put its right hand behind its back where the backpack was supposed to be, and the beastman pulled out an ammo belt of 30 rounds and loaded into the bolt cannon and closed the lid.

"I wonder how they work, I might order my men to carry one back home to study how it works" The overlord mumbled to himself

and the beastman aimed at the Overlord and started to shoot the Overlord, the bolt cannon shot 5 times, and the bubble apparently wasn't strong enough to stop the 75 calibers and the bubble burst.

"Overlord defense: Indomitable" the overlord said

The calibers after piercing through the shield were gonna kill the overlord, but the 75 calibers just shattered to pieces upon contact with the overlord's skin.

"You can't touch this"
the overlord said while pointing to himself with both hands.

"what's your name?" the overlord asked the beastman.

"Why you ask?" the beastman asked

"doesn't really matter" the overlord responded

"Also, isn't it quite rude asking someone's name with telling your own name first?" the beastman said.

"Who the hell do you think you are? You are in my land, well, im Saetang."

"My name's Wolpenrionen" The beastman said its name

"wolprenio- wolpenstei-who the fuck gave you that name?" Saetang criticized

"Don't you dare disrespect my name" Wolpenrionen warned him

"Yeah alright, what do I have to disrespect anyways?" Saetang answered him but mumbled the last part.
"So, you must have heard what happened to your hero right?" Saetang continued

"Khan?" The beastman tried to guess.

"Yes wolpen. her, even though it's quite a boyish name for a female."

"Khan isn't a female" Wolpenrionen corrected Saetang's misgendering of Khan

"Alright, can't smell to discover what gender are others unlike you all." Saetang responded non chalantly

"anyways, you are quite a unique speciment, not many beastmen have albinism, and surviving in the wild gonna be quite a challenge don't you think? Your specie mainly relies on ambushing to catch prey, with this white fur I believe there will be not many prey for you to catch."
Saetang explained

no responses from Wolpenrionen.

"So, Wolpen, wanna live under me? You are gonna be like a pet, you will be taken care of with high regard unlike the slavers, who only want you for work. Because you will be my property, so the people will treat you as much care as they would treat me."

Saetang offered forward his hand as if wanting to shake his hand

"You are asking me to be enslaved to you willingly?" Wolpenrionen questioned him

"A pet isn't a slave." Saetang tried to correct his assumptions.

"No, ain't buying into it!" Wolpenrionen refused to hear him out and indirectly refused the offer and proceed to close the distance to the overlord to attack him and tried to attack Saetang with its bare hands, but he was soon not able to move anymore.

Saetang sighed

"How close-minded"

he said with the usual monotonous tone

"Magical chains are simple yet so effective, good that it's available only to me." Saetang said to no one

Wolpenrionen had purple chains hung all around his body, the chains didn't allow him to move any limb.

"ugh, i guess ill do the same to the last one" Saetang said to himself

"w-What you gonna do!?" Wolpenrionen demanded an answer

"Im gonna isekai your ass outta here." the overlord said with glee

"what is that supposed to mean?" Wolpenrionen replied confused

"oh right, beastmen don't read mangas or comic books, they rather punch and fight each other for entertainment."

Saetang mumbled to himself

"Well, don't worry about what's gonna happen to you, just know that you will meet somebody that you know, you must not start fights unnecessarily." Saetang warned him

"Slave magic: hatred control, Upper overlord magic: Author's world crossing"

Saetang said quietly.

"Have fun." Saetang told him with the same usual monotonous tone

"Hey wha!-" Wolpenrionen couldn't even finish the sentence and the beastman disappeared in thin air.

"and another one comes and goes, just like others in my entire life." Saetang murmured.

"Author, i hope that you will fulfill the wish that I asked 72000 years ago." The overlord said to himself.

...

..

.

"Wait, I forgot to take his bolt cannon. well, whatever, if there are 2 wielders there will be also a third one." the overlord said to himself.


Felix explained what happened while he was supposedly 'cursed', he explained from meeting the place, the obstacles, the spikes, the injuries, corridors, sliding, the jump of faith. He explained everything except anything about the chaser.

"it-it chased me all the way to the end, and fortunately there were was Julius' spirits helping me, and i saw all white and i- well, i came back." Felix said in kind of frenetic tone.

And Julius step in and said
"And it was insanely fast, it had a black cloak, a hood, and the square mask was a glowing white, golden chain in front of his neck, " Julius added more information for Khan.

"So, you got attacked by a being that was entirely black, had a square mask, a hood, and golden chains in front of his neck? and you had to run in this corridor till Julius' assistance" Khan made a summary of the description that Felix gave Khan.

"entirely black, hood, square mask, golden chains." Khan repeated the key information
"Square mask, golden chains.." Khan

"And it had giant hands, it had like 4 of them as long I seen" Julius added the information.

"I think I know what happened then, it's no curse then." Khan said
"it seems like it was something worse." Khan told Felix.

"Then what it was?" Felix asked Khan.

"A curse it's either a maze, a game, or death." Khan explained briefly
"But there are no curses that you must run from." Khan said
"I think you just ran from something called huh... 'Author'" Khan concluded

"Autroah?" Julius, Felix, and some soldiers murmured to each other

"Who is Autoah?" Crusch asks Khan.

"It.."

Khan paused for a bit to translate the information

"It is considered the source of all life, magic, and the creator of my world."
"But it is also considered the source of all death, suffering, and the doom of the world."
"It is either worshipped or hated, no in between by all intelligent species, and even unintelligence species are aware of it's existence"

"Do you know what it wants?" Willhelm asked

"No... I don't." Khan said
"But it usually never interacts with anything directly in person, it always pulls strings to change the course of history."

"Then what do you think it could have caused to attack Felix personally?" Crusch asked.

...

..

.

"I sincerely don't know." Khan

"What do you mean it pulls strings to change the course of history?" Willhelm asked

"It means.. that it can change what a person does, so it can change everything in a single move. Legends also say it can back in time and change it, so the future also changes"

"That's.. scary."

"My god.."
and some other unimportant comments were made.

...

"Felix, what did Author do? give me every detail." Khan said to Felix

".. When i saw him, he was facing the opposite way, but then he turned around, and i dont know how, but it talked to me-"

"It talked?!" Khan said that as if he was surprised

"Yes? it talked to me?" Felix said uncertainly

"Oh, it's just.. it never talks, it's always action. Many have tried to communicate with the Author whenever it shows up-" Khan said to Felix.

"It appears your world?" Julius asked

"Yes, it does." Khan responded

"Have you ever seen it?" Julius asked

"No, I have never seen it with my own eye" Khan said
"But recent sightings, four zero zero zero years ago, it says that it's so big that it covered almost the entire sky, it's completely black, the only thing that is not black is it's glowing square in front of its face and a golden chain in front of its neck, supposedly"

"so, anyways. It never said any word, the worshippers have tried to communicate with it for like, huh, a one followed by one-eight of zeros"

...

..Everyone was quiet to count in their mind to understand what number is that...

.

"Quintillion years!?" almost everyone said out loud

"Impossible! that's an insane amount of time!" a random soldier said

"quintillion years is one followed by eighteen zeros!" another soldier said out loud

And then the crowd was so loud that it was hard to hear anything else, even in the open field.

An unintelligible amount of words were being exchanged for a good 30 seconds until-

"Everyone quiet!" a female voice was slightly louder than the rest, but it wasn't loud enough to stop.

"Everyone, silence now!" Now the voice was identifiable, it was a strong female voice, she pulled out her sword and held it in the air, it was Crusch.

the chaos started to progressively subside, and it eventually turned into silence.

"Next time I will not tolerate an uproar like this! expect Khan, Julius, Felix, Willhelm, and Reinhard, you are all dismissed, go back to your duties!" Crusch ordered her soldiers.

The soldiers looked at each other, but they soon complied, and who pulled out the sword, put the swords back inside and they went back to their duties.

Crusch put back her sword in the sheath and looked at Khan.

"Continue, Khan." Crusch allowed him to continue.

"Where was I?" Khan said, he forgot what we was saying before

"what do you think it could have caused to attack Felix personally?" Crusch said to keep him on track

"Hmm, I sincerely don't know-" Khan said but go cut off by Felix

"I-i think I'm starting to remember what it said to me" Felix said to Khan.

"What did the Author say?" Khan asked immediately as soon he heard that.

"it said... it said that I'm not supposed to be there, it gave the impression that it was shocked.." Felix said with a weak tone at the end of the sentence.

"Now that I think of it, why did you scream to not aim the magic that Khan was casting on you?" Julius asked Felix

'two glowing circles inside the other, and there were some text and symbols' Felix recalled the information when he saw that during the chase.

"Because.." he raised his finger to point but it was all shaking and he was pointing to nothing.

"IT was the SAME thing that TRIED! to kill me.." Felix sounded scared, he even talked oddly to mention that.

Khan raised his right arm to chest level and opened his hand facing upwards and murmured something.

two glowing circles inside the other, and there were some unknown text and symbols appeared above his hand

"You mean this?" Khan said while showing the magic circle

"YES! THAT!" Felix sounded even more scared than before, the finger was now pointed exactly at the magic circle.

"It's called Kanone" Khan said it's name

Then the magic circle disappeared, and he let his arm loose, allowing gravity to pull it down.

...

Then Khan and Crusch connected the dots.

"Wait, you were checking his magic affinity right?" Crusch asked Felix

"Yes, Crusch-sama..?" Felix confirmed his question.

"And Kaan said that that thing is the source of all magic?" Crusch asked again

"Yeah..?" Felix said again

"It seem like it was simple, you checked my magic affinity, and you found it, but it was it, the Author is my source of magic, the reason that you saw the same magic from me and Author it's because I use his same magic, and it gave me the magic, so he has the same magic." Khan said happily

"To put it simply, Khan uses that thing's magic, so the magic is obviously identical." Crusch said to simplify Khan's explanation.

"So, I guess we just have to avoid checking the magic affinity of Khan, otherwise it chases us." Crusch just said.

"There is another thing that I'd like to mention." Julius said.

"What is it?" Khan said

"aaaa"

"There was another thing that looked identical to the Autoah, but it was completely white and it had a white star mask instead of a square mask, but it wasn't as hostile as Autoah, it looked at my spirit and it even wave at it."

"aaaaaaaaaaaaAAAA"

"Another thing that looked identical to the Author? Never heard of it-" Khan was cut off by an unexpected surprise

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

"Who is screaming?" Crusch mentioned that, and Crusch, Julius, Wilhelm, Reinhard, and Khan started to look around to see anybody screaming.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

Then Reinhard looked up.

"Above of us!" Reinhard said out loud

Everyone looked up, it was falling directly on them, it was a giant apparently, but couldn't make out many details because the sun was blinding them.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

Everyone jumped backward to avoid the impact of the falling giant, except Khan, who stood there looking up.

"Kaan what are you doing, get out!-" Wilhelm scream to Khan but it was too late.

The two bodies collided with each other, and Khan hit the ground with his face, meanwhile the other laid on Khan, with its stomach upside. The sound of metal colliding hard with each other kind of deafened everyone who was near, some even plugged their ears from the loud sound of two iron giants colliding each other

"UGGGHOAH" Khan groaned

"BRRUOOOAH" An unknown voice also groaned with Khan

Everybody looked at the two. It was Khan, they knew him alright, but the unknown giant on Khan, it was unknown.

It was a giant, it had armor similar to Khan but it was still quite different in shape and it was also differently colored, it was silver colored, and had 7 human heads stacked on top of each other connected to the armor shoulder, and it's armor was damaged, had even some blood on the armor too, and it seemed smaller than Khan but still bigger than everyone else expect Khan.
but most importantly, when they looked at its face, it was similar to Khan, it had a softer face than Khan, it also did not have a carapace on its head, and its fur is completely white.

It was apparently a white beastman

The two crawled away to then stand up at the same time and they looked at each other.

"Khan!?" The white beastman

"Who the fuck are you!?" Khan said in its traditional language


Author: end of chapter.

Btw, I post a chapter once a month, so don't expect me to post 3 times a week or so like other writers, but I assume whoever is reading my content enjoys it, so I guess I'm also happy.