# Chapter 5: A Brand New Beginning
Light flickered at the edge of the sky. Two beams of radiance, gentle as moonlight yet utterly devoid of any sense of presence, rose from Moldavia's main city and flew away, causing Joshua, who had already led his team to his own doorstep, to freeze for a moment.
The warrior was stunned, not because he recognized that these two beams of light belonged to two Legendary-rank spellcasters, but because he was very familiar with these two Legendary-rank spellcasters.
'Rune Master' Baniel Gaskel, 'Mind Dominator' William Charles. These two spellcasters were a famously renowned wandering Legendary duo in his past life. They belonged to no faction, and only occasionally taught in the Eastern Plains at the invitation of the Sky-Piercing White Tower. Most of the time, they concealed their identities and roamed through the various nations of the Mycroft Continent, continuing the adventures they had pursued for decades.
Many did not know the purpose behind these two Legendary experts' decades-long adventure, but Joshua knew very well that Baniel and his partner's goal was to search for the [Ancient Dragons], who had long since vanished from the Mycroft Continent.
The epic quest chain [Those Who Chase the Ancient Dragon] began precisely with their commission. Joshua had also received this quest chain in his past life, but regrettably, by the later era when the Abyss invaded and many Ancient Dragons awakened, this duo, who had spent their entire lives searching for dragons, had long since fallen apart. The Legendary bard William Charles had mysteriously disappeared, while Rune Mage Baniel Gaskel was severely wounded and went into seclusion deep in the Western Mountains, only re-emerging when demons ran rampant.
There must have been many hidden circumstances behind this, but no one knew the reasons. When Baniel died fighting at the Valley of Tears Fortress, intercepting hundreds of thousands of demon troops and three Demon Lords head-on to cover Brandon and the others' infiltration, all the truth was buried in the River Styx.
But now, with more than a decade until William's disappearance, both Legendary experts, hailed as the most approachable of their kind, were still alive. The warrior could even sense a friendly message directed at him within the light, causing him to chuckle helplessly.
"Why leave in such a hurry? I haven't even thanked them yet."
Joshua understood. Because of his return, the Legendary experts who had been entrusted by Pope Eagle to help guard his Moldavia Territory had essentially completed their mission. As a nation's most powerful assets, they had all been arrested awaiting judgment, but because the numbers were simply too great, the prisons were already overflowing.
Secondly, there were the mutated beasts.
He didn't need Number 3 to explain this; Joshua could roughly understand it himself. He had led that group of young people from the Grandia World all the way from the Ural Mountains, encountering countless monsters along the way. These magical beasts, which had undergone atavistic mutations due to high-concentration arcane power, couldn't breach the defenses of towns and villages, but they could destroy farmland, knock down fruit trees, and cause tremendous damage to Moldavia's daily production.
Although the Knight Order had already been dispatched multiple times to various locations to exterminate the rampant mutated beasts, no results could be seen in the short term. The number of beasts and magical creatures breeding in the Great Aias Mountains was truly as numerous as the stars. According to the Artificial Intelligence's calculations, this frustrating suppression and extermination campaign would have to continue at least until winter of this year.
The other information wasn't as important—just that a new elven opera house had opened in the city, there was an uninvestigable tavern near the plaza, and a docile Iron-armored Mountain Dragon had been tamed by Winterfell Academy, along with a nest of Iron-armored Mountain Dragon eggs. Hearing this, Joshua felt an oddly familiar sensation but couldn't remember why.
Time passed like this amid Miss Number 3's soft complaints. When Joshua and the Divine Mechanism siblings were away, she was the one who handled and "decided" all administrative affairs alone—no easy task for her. The four returned to the interior of the Lord's Manor. Amid the gentle crackling of the fireplace flames, Joshua sat in his large chair with a faint, warm smile on his face, listening to her account.
Now it was the year 834 of the Falling Stars Era. There were still a few years until the next epic-level event, but the greatest crisis facing the Mycroft World had already been resolved. The warrior himself had achieved Legendary rank. Whether it was frenzied beasts or restless adventurers, to him they were merely trivial matters he could eliminate with a backhand. With the development of Moldavia Territory already on the right track, there was nothing left that required Joshua's personal intervention.
Demon invasion, Abyss aggression—that was nearly twenty years away. He believed that with the changes he had brought to this world, with the world's flame rekindled and the many cults connected to the Abyss having lost their reason for existence, everything would certainly not be as hopeless as it had been back then.
And so.
The warrior, who had been toiling for so long, now had plenty and plenty of time to experience the life he had never had the chance to enjoy, to listen to these complaints he had never had time to hear before.
—Several months later.
Year 834 of the Falling Stars Era, September 27th.
There are no walls that don't let the wind through. The news of Joshua's breakthrough had spread to the upper echelons of various nations within a few months. Of course, aside from the old Pope Eagle, no one knew what the warrior had experienced in the Grandia World. They only assumed that Joshua had found the Sage's final inheritance in that distant alien world, obtained the secrets of the First Flame left behind by the Sage, extending the world's lifespan, and that the warrior had also gained considerable benefits from it, allowing him to advance to Legendary rank.
"The world's youngest Legendary expert." Although it was due to various fortuitous encounters and inheritances, and coinciding with the Great Magic Tide, every faction had to admit that Joshua's own qualities were the reason he could seize the opportunity and become a Legendary, adding another Legendary to this world.
Standing amidst this stone forest of tombstones and weapon wreckage, Joshua raised his right hand.
—Whoosh, whoosh. A fierce wind arose in this windless world.
Red—a red like flames, a red representing life itself, a red like the sun—blazed from the warrior's hand. A silver-gray metallic luster floated within this dazzling crimson light, then filled the entire graveyard world. Scattered sparks even spread beyond the void, emitting a brilliant glow.
At the same time, above the Black Forest Fortress, a blinding radiance suddenly appeared, forcing people to close their eyes. Space gradually bulged, forming a spherical space as large as a small fortress. Amid the tense shouts and wary gazes of many guards and knights, the scene inside the spherical space gradually became clear. One could see a black earth, and a black-haired man standing in the center.
Shattering the barrier separating two spaces with Legendary power, Joshua used his own strength to move the family cemetery, which had left its homeland for four hundred years, back to the Mycroft World!
A story of inheritance, of passing the torch from generation to generation, came to an end today.
But this was by no means a period.
Because another story, about a great warrior, had a brand new beginning.