Ch.99Legend (5)

# “Huh?”

Luterus, an elder of the Green Tower, looked down at his pad with a puzzled expression.

He had turned on his pad to access the forum as usual, but for some reason, he couldn’t post anything. Being unable to even write a post made him feel frustrated.

“What is… what’s happening here?”

He soon realized this was no ordinary situation.

Although he couldn’t participate in the forum, he could still view it and noticed the number of users was rapidly decreasing. While it could have been due to some important matter, both the number of people leaving and the speed at which they were leaving seemed unusual.

Wouldn’t anyone wonder why posts that had been appearing regularly suddenly stopped at a certain point?

At first, he thought it would resolve itself with time.

Perhaps there was a problem with the entire TowerInside server?

Although he didn’t fully understand all the technical aspects, he knew that such issues typically resolved themselves over time.

He thought there was nothing he, as an administrator, could do about this situation.

– Elder Luterus… the situation doesn’t look good… please fix it quickly…

– I can’t post on the forum. I think I’ve been… “banned”? Please check.

– Oh my… posts,,aren’t going through… what am I supposed to do~~ Fix it quickly! These administrators, tsk~

That last comment seems to make me angry right away.

Luterus muttered to himself.

Then he sighed and looked down at the posts with a troubled expression.

‘Hmm, what is this…’

The elves were flooding him with messages begging him to fix the forum.

And it wasn’t just one or two.

Over hundreds of people had sent him messages.

At first, he tried to wait patiently, but the word “ban” seemed familiar, so Luterus carefully investigated what was happening.

When he discovered the reason, he began to sweat.

‘If what’s written here is true…’

Many people had been “banned.”

And once banned, they could no longer use the forum.

Putting everything together, the conclusion was simple.

‘Is the Magic Tower Master making a move…?’

Seria had started to act.

For unknown reasons, she had begun by banning all the elves who had been using the forum.

For a moment, he had a bad thought, but quickly shook his head.

At least in Luterus’s mind, Seria wouldn’t do such a thing.

‘Is it a mistake…?’

Luterus considered the possibility that Seria had made an error.

‘Come to think of it, TowerInside went down briefly when they announced new features would be updated…’

At that time, he had only been annoyed by the temporary outage and didn’t think it would become a serious problem.

In fact, there wasn’t much reaction on the Aether Tower forum either.

There was mention of various ban features being added, but only administrators would have been pleased to see that.

While Luterus was an administrator, the Green Tower forum didn’t need administration, so he had never acted in that capacity.

But now things were different.

The situation was turning strange.

He couldn’t just leave this problem unsolved.

Although he had the title of administrator, he didn’t know how to use it, so he decided to send a direct message to Seria, who would know how to manage it.

– Listen here, Green Tower Master! All the forum users have been banned! Lift it immediately!

At that point, Luterus still thought Seria had imposed the bans and that she, as the highest administrator, could simply remove them.

That’s what he thought at the time.

That’s why his message to Seria was simply asking her to quickly lift the bans.

However…

[Now’s the time!! Charge!!!]

[For Aier!!!]

[Offer your hearts!!]

[elderly_abandonment.jpg]

[YouLikeSeeingOldFogeysSuffer?lolYouLikeSeeingOldFogeysSuffer?lolYouLikeSeeingOldFogeysSuffer?lol…]

Suddenly, countless posts began flooding the forum, pushing out all the previously accumulated posts.

‘W-what…?!’

Luterus’s expression turned to shock.

The Green Tower forum had always been peaceful.

But what was this?

The forum had only stopped working briefly, but posts were appearing as if they had been waiting for this moment. Luterus drew in a breath, feeling as if the Demon King’s evil energy had reached the World Tree.

Meanwhile, Seria finally posted an official announcement.

[I apologize for causing trouble…] – Yaraehyang

An announcement apologizing for causing this incident.

Luterus hurriedly read the notice.

The content was straightforward.

She had tried to use a new feature called “IP blocking” to prevent trolls from entering the Green Tower and create a pleasant forum environment, but there had been some kind of mistake.

As a result, all users who weren’t logged in became unable to use the forum.

‘Users who aren’t logged in can’t use it?’

Then this wasn’t a ban.

However, the problem was becoming more serious than a ban.

‘If only she had left well enough alone…!’

– Green Tower Master! What are you doing! If you don’t understand something, you should leave it alone!

Who taught her to do this?

His mood was already poor after losing to the Blood Tower Master recently, and now this mistake.

With veins popping on his forehead from anger, Luterus raged at Seria, demanding to know what she was doing.

However,

‘Huh…?’

Normally, an apology would have come back, but there was no response to his message.

After a moment.

Yaraehyang: lol

The only response was a single “lol.”

Seeing this, Luterus blinked in confusion.

What… what was happening?

– Green Tower Master… have you gone mad…?

– Yes, I think I have lol

– Can you handle this?

– What do I need to handle? Can’t I just quit being Green Tower Master?

‘What…?’

Luterus broke into a cold sweat.

He had never seen Seria like this before.

Of course, Seria hadn’t lived her life being completely submissive without ever rebelling.

But…

‘Is this really Seria…?!’

She was completely different from the Seria he knew.

His hands began to tremble as he typed.

Come to think of it, Seria was the strongest among the elves here.

A genius who had reached the level of Grand Magician early, among the leisurely-natured elves.

Even in the era before Eterna, Seria was one of the legendary magicians who had reached the highest position among magic users.

The reason they could treat Seria so casually was partly due to elf culture, but mainly because Seria had been submissive to them.

She would get annoyed, but it was only to the extent of a granddaughter being slightly irritated, so they thought they just needed to appease her a bit.

Her consistently polite demeanor had also been a factor.

But now the situation had changed.

– You… don’t tell me…

– *burp*

Seria sent only that one word.

Luterus stared blankly at the chat window.

‘Gasp…’

Finally, he realized that all of this had been planned.

But by the time he realized, it was already too late.

[What’s happening?]

[yamiyamiyamiyamiyamiyamiyamiyami]

[Oh lol all you administrators are dead lol]

[Why are these posts suddenly appearing? Are there no administrators?]

[Yeah yeah that’s right, surprisingly it’s true]

[Oh it’s the bros lol]

[StupidOldFogeysloooooooooooool]

[*burp*]

The Green Tower had been devoured.

In that short time, as if it had been perfectly planned from beginning to end.

Only then could Luterus be certain.

That Seria was involved in all of this.

With trembling hands, Luterus sent a message.

– You bitch Seria!! Don’t you dare move! I will never forgive you!!!

Yaraehyang: Your mom lol

*click*

With those final words, Seria left the chat.

Was that clicking sound her leaving the chat, or the sound of Luterus’s sanity snapping?

Either way, one thing was certain.

‘What can you possibly do?’

Seria’s final words seemed to mock him.

Indeed.

Whether his sanity had snapped or not, there was nothing he could do anyway.