I Became a Legend After My 10 Year-Long Last Stand

I Became a Legend After My 10 Year-Long Last Stand (ここは俺に任せて先に行けと言ってから10年がたったら伝説になっていた.) is a Japanese light novel series written by Ezogingitune and illustrated by DeeCHA. It was serialized on the user-generated novel publishing website Shōsetsuka ni Narō from June 2018 to January 2021. It was later acquired by SB Creative who began publishing it under their GA Novel imprint in February 2019. A manga adaptation illustrated by Chako Abeno and with composition by Kitsune Tennōji began serialization on Square Enix's Manga Up! manga website and app in August 2019. An anime television series adaptation produced by Gekkou is set to premiere in July 2026.

Plot

The Hero Party consisting of the Hero Erik, Warrior Golan and Mage Luck manages to defeat the demon lord named the Majin Ruler who had invaded from another dimension. However, large hordes of demons named Majin continue to advance. Sensing the impending danger, Luck tells his friends Erik and Golan to flee, remaining alone in the space between the dimensions to continue to fight the demons and hold the line until they can reach safety. After fighting so hard that he loses track of time, Luck manages to defeat all the demons and protect the world. When he returns, ten years have passed and he is hailed as a hero and a Great Sage. After reuniting with his friends, he must choose a new path in life, starting with a clean slate. But in the midst of one of his quests, he bumped into Sia Wolcott, a Werewolf hunter hunting vampires.

Characters

• Luck Lock Franzen (ラック・ロック・フランゼン)
• The main protagonist of the story. He was a mage that held the line against the Majin Army and the Majin Ruler, to help his friends escape the Interdimension. A decade later, he reappears once again to a surprise, that on his time gone, he became a legend. Hating the stresses a nobility burdens, he decides to become Lock Franzen and restart his adventurer career.
• Celliss Morton (セルリス・モートン)
• Golan Morton's daughter. She wanted to become like her father due to his stories of adventures with the Hero Party.
• Sia Wolcott (シア・ウルコット)
• The B-ranked werewolf adventurer/warrior that initially appears to avenge her honor against a vampire lord her tribe hunted. Lock assisted her with it, and became one of his friends.
• Luccira (ルッチラ)
• The sole survivor of the massacre upon his Nomadic Demon tribe by the vampires, was tasked to guard Gerberga, the Chicken God.
• Milca (ミルカ)
• a former street urchin who was orphaned after her family became bankrupt. Lock took her in as his house apprentice.
• Erik Mendilibar (エリック・メンディリバル)
• The Hero of the Kingdom, and friend to Luck and Golan. He eventually became the King of the Mendilibar Dynasty. To atone for abandoning Luck, he decides to help his friend re-establish his life.
• Golan Morton (ゴラン・モートン)
• The Warrior of the group. He eventually marries Celerise's mother and became the guild leader. A strong but simple-minded guy who is close friends with the Hero Party.
• Levi Ardennes (レフィ・アルデンヌ)
• Healer of the group and a former priestess. Eventually became head of their religion's clergy, wife of King Erik and had daughters. She prefers fighting in close range than what her order prefers doing.

Media

Reception

By May 2025, the series has over 4 million copies in circulation.[29]

See also

• Scooped Up by an S-Rank Adventurer!, another light novel series with the same illustrator

External links

• at Shōsetsuka ni Narō