Novihan was awakened by a commotion.
For fifty years, he had been standing in front of the Ninth Martial God, considering himself no more than a dead man. After the defeat of the Tenth Martial God, this centenarian Famed Hero felt truly tired. He arrived in this city and just stood there.
Perhaps, on the day he no longer wished to stand, he would go up and have a final word with his once spiritual leader.
But that stand lasted decades.
In the past two decades, he hardly even moved, and his brain activity became increasingly serene.
However, the instincts honed as a Hero made him particularly sensitive to the sound of troops moving.
