The Final Boss Has Returned 36

Chapter 36

After Drakan disappeared into the depths of the ocean with Nereus, riding a sea turtle to carry out a quest, the internet once again erupted with Drakan-related topics.

Merfolk!

A race that had never appeared on the forefront of Ard World, neither in the original Ard Saga nor in Second.

The mere fact that this race, which only appeared in quests, history books, and legends, showed itself to the public for the first time was shocking enough. But to think that it was Drakan who summoned the Merfolk!

With this delicious piece of bait, countless people were engaged in heated discussions in various spaces, from large-scale internet communities like the Ard Forum and SNS, which dealt with Ard Saga as their main topic, to game broadcasting stations, game media, and even Ard Live.

[Wow, Merfolk are crazy lol. Isn’t this the first time Merfolk have appeared? It seems like Drakan hasn’t been back for that long, but class is eternal;]

[Drakan is pushing forward like this, but I don’t know what Eugene is doing. Is he still on his Legacy Quest?]

The Lawless Port Recapture Battle.

Drakan’s fandom, which had just begun to bud following that incident, was gradually riding an upward trend due to this Merfolk appearance incident.

[Did you see the rumors going around about Drakan? They say it’s about kingdom restoration lol. Crazy, is that even a possible quest? No matter how amazing Drakan is, kingdom restoration is impossible. Even if JDG helps him, it won’t work;]

[A class quest of that level is impossible to solve unless it’s our God Eugene-nim]

[Ah, the Eugene fanatics are swarming again;]

[Do the Eugene fanatics have goldfish memory? Have they already forgotten the Lawless Port Recapture Battle? Unlike a certain coward, Drakan gets things done when he needs to lol]

[Yeah, Control-kan~ Because of your master, the original game almost went down the drain~]

[The guy above me, who’s talking about control in this day and age lol. So who’s the one making Second boring? Who’s the one being all righteous and controlling?]

[Hey, don’t you know the reason why things like power leveling and hunting newbies don’t exist in Second is because of Eugene-nim? If you don’t know, just shut up]

As always, the popular posts on the Ard Forum began to descend into chaos due to the users’ comment wars.

However, the difference from the past was that Drakan’s fandom was at the center of the anti-Infinite Eugene Church users, and they were starting to lead the anti-Infinite Eugene Church public opinion.

Drakan’s fandom!

This newly formed fandom consisted mainly of two types of users.

First, the eastern users who had been suffering from the atrocities of the Pirate Alliance and turned favorable towards Drakan after the Lawless Port Recapture Battle!

And second, the new generation of users who started playing the game after Eugene defeated Drakan, or even those who started playing from Second, not the original game.

These new generation users couldn’t empathize as much as the older generation users with the era before Eugene, the era when Drakan, the Guild Alliance, and the Iron Blood Alliance dominated, an era rife with hunting ground control, heavy taxes, and various other abuses.

That was only natural, since from the perspective of the new generation users, the era of Drakan, the Iron Blood Alliance, and the Guild Alliance was a past they had never experienced.

Furthermore, since all kinds of abuses, including control, had disappeared after the World Revolution and Eugene’s seizure of power, the new generation users had no memory of being harmed by Drakan, the old Guild Alliance, or the former Rankers.

Therefore, for the new generation users, the era of Drakan was something they understood intellectually but didn’t resonate with emotionally.

Rather, the new generation users perceived the various side effects that emerged after Eugene took power – from the “boringness” that began with the stagnation of Ard World to the numerous tyrannical acts of the Infinite Eugene Church on the internet – as the problem.

The older generation users responded to the complaints of the new generation users with things like “it’s better now than during Drakan’s time,” leading to a continuous deterioration of the generational conflict between the old and new generations of users.

In such a situation, the meteoric rise of Drakan was enough to captivate the new generation of users.

A legendary user who was a top Ranker in the era before Eugene, a time they had only heard about from older generation users, and the antithesis of Eugene!

Drawn to the symbolism and the well-known reputation associated with the icon that was Drakan, the new generation users began to pay attention to him, and they couldn’t help but be fascinated by his subsequent actions.

He drastically changed the tutorial rankings, confronted Eugene, who was practically the supreme being of Ard Saga, on equal footing and even refused his handshake, conquered the Troll Dungeon bare-handed, waged war and burned down a city……

The new generation users were thrilled by Drakan’s unconventional actions, which culminated in him occupying the city he burned down, pouring gold into construction projects, and finally summoning the Merfolk for the first time in the history of the Ard Saga service.

A side of him that couldn’t be seen in the existing named users and Rankers who obeyed and submitted to Eugene’s authority!

Unlike Eugene, who was kind and righteous but also principled, stubborn, inflexible, and frustrating, Drakan was a refreshing and bold figure who quenched their thirst for excitement!

The kind of figure the new generation users yearned for!

The fact that the one displaying such a persona was none other than Drakan, the figure the older generation users had talked about endlessly, the only user who had ever confronted Eugene head-on, and an icon of an era, made the new generation users cheer.

And finally, that enthusiasm exploded with the Lawless Port Recapture Battle, leading to the influx of new generation users into Drakan’s fandom.

Of course, there were also a significant number of new generation users who viewed Drakan negatively due to his past actions.

However, the era of Drakan was already a bygone past, and Drakan, like Eugene, had risen to the position of a top Ranker through fierce competition, starting from his underdog days.

The fact that he had also conquered the Overlord Quest, which was considered almost impossible, was also unearthed, further boosting Drakan’s reputation.

He wasn’t without his flaws, but his abilities were undeniable!

You had to compete this fiercely to earn the position of a top Ranker!

Drakan was a man worthy of being a top Ranker!

Such opinions began to form among the new generation users.

The changing trends also played a part.

While the older generation users were enthusiastic about orthodox and traditional heroes like Eugene – those who couldn’t stand injustice, were kind but stubborn and frustrating, yet adhered to principles – the new generation users were different.

What the new generation users desired wasn’t a frustrating and “pushover” hero, but a flexible and unconventional anti-hero who wasn’t bound by principles and acted boldly when necessary, a refreshing change of pace.

And Drakan was one of the named users who perfectly embodied that image.

The older generation users couldn’t understand the preferences of the new generation users.

For them, Drakan was nothing more than a villain who had reached the pinnacle of various abuses, including control.

On the other hand, in their hearts, Eugene was the one who freed them from the oppression of the Guild Alliance and the long war, the leader of the revolution.

He was a challenger who bravely rebelled against Drakan’s rule, a self-made hero who started as a latecomer with humble beginnings and caught up with the frontrunners through unbelievable opportunities, including a Hidden Class, and eventually achieved a dramatic turnaround.

However, the new generation users couldn’t understand the tastes of the older generation either.

For them, Eugene wasn’t a challenger, a protagonist of a drama, or a leader of a revolution.

Eugene was already a top Ranker, a living authority and ruler of Ard World, the one who made Ard World boring with his excessive obsession with peace and goodness, and the owner of the malicious fandom known as the Infinite Eugene Church.

Therefore, as Drakan continued his activities, the new generation users increasingly leaned towards him, and the conflict between those who had experienced Drakan’s era and those who hadn’t grew like a snowball.

While the Ard Forum was ablaze with generational conflict……

The issue streamers of Ard Live were deeply analyzing the meaning of Drakan’s quest and the appearance of the Merfolk.

[The meaning of Drakan’s quest, which is presumed to be about the restoration of the Merfolk Kingdom. It may seem insignificant, but this is actually a major foreshadowing that connects to the main storyline.]

[Users who have played Ard Saga to a certain extent may have already noticed it by now. Darkness and Light! The Pantheon and the Demon Court! The conflict between the two giant factions that divide Ard World! You can consider this Drakan quest as the fuse that ignites this massive foreshadowing.]

[According to the history and legends of Ard World, the Merfolk were one of the allied races of the old Dark Empire. And Drakan is the contractor of the Dark God. According to legend, the Apostle of Darkness, Sion, who was defeated by the Hero Leonhardt, was also a contractor of the Dark God, and he tried to rebuild the Dark Empire by gathering the old allied races of the Dark Empire. Sion and Drakan, the alliance and the Merfolk, are you starting to get the picture?]

[That’s right. The restoration of the Dark Empire! It might be a leap of faith on my part, but the chain quest Drakan is undertaking is likely to lead to the path of succeeding in Sion’s failed endeavor.]

[If this speculation is true, the Pantheon won’t stand idly by. In the lore of the Ard Saga series, Light and Darkness, the Pantheon and the Demon Court, have been hostile to each other since the mythical age, and this can be confirmed in numerous legends, myths, epics, and heroic tales passed down throughout Ard World.]

[Perhaps Eugene, the Hero who contracted with the Goddess of Light, the head of the Pantheon, will one day stand in the way of Drakan, who has become the Apostle of Darkness, just like in the legend of the Hero Leonhardt.]

[However, there is a big mountain to overcome before the rematch between Eugene and Drakan, Drakan and Eugene, which makes my heart race just by hearing it!]

[That is the investigation of the cause of the Gates and the Great Cataclysm.]

[The Great Cataclysm that occurred more than ten years ago from the perspective of Second, the anomalies occurring throughout Ard World due to it, the Dungeon Gates, the mention of the weakening boundary of the world, and the monsters from another world appearing in dungeons that couldn’t be found in the original game – it’s an open secret that the Pantheon and the Demon Court have chosen a tacit truce until the cause of these anomalies, which could potentially endanger the entire Ard World, is identified and resolved.]

[Therefore, during this unstable truce, or rather, Cold War, between the two factions, both Eugene and Drakan will spend their time in their own ways.]

[I’m really looking forward to the future actions of Drakan and Eugene. It’s so exciting! Really!]

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Drakan, the contractor of the Dark God, is likely to follow the path of Sion, the former Apostle of Darkness and contractor of the Dark God!

And just like the legend of the Hero Leonhardt passed down in Ard World, the Hero Eugene will one day stop Drakan!

Once the various anomalies caused by the Great Cataclysm in Ard World are resolved, their rematch will follow immediately!

The content of this analysis video, uploaded by ‘Analysis King,’ a specialized Ard Saga issue analysis streamer with over a million subscribers on his Ard Live channel, spread through his subscribers to SNS and the Ard Forum, and the internet was once again set ablaze.

Eugene and Drakan.

The two who fought over the fate of the world in the original game might clash once again over the main storyline!

Users were excited about this dramatic foreshadowing, and this trend in public opinion soon reached the ears of the two main figures of this foreshadowing, Eugene and Drakan.