As the High Elf girl placed her hand on the crystal ball, made her vow with a serious look on her face.

Within a sec after the vow from the High Elf girl, an icy white light gently came out from the crystal ball, covering the room in dim white light, which also proved that the High Elf girl has the rights to become a hero.

The crowd gave out light claps and cheering, as they had expected this girl would definitely pass the ritual of the Hero selection.

Pope Baton takes a bow to the High Elf girl and gently smiles while congratulating her for passing the hero selection ritual.

"Ah, princess of the High Elf race, Lady Leya, it was a pleasure to have you in our country. We hope our hospitality reaches your expectation, that aside, allow me to congratulate you for becoming the Hero of ice."

Pope Baton revealed the identity of the High Elf girl, who's the princess of the High Elf race, Lady Leya. Everyone in the room knows who she is, except for Xiao, who appeared shocked by the fact.

(No wonder she gave out such a noble aura, I should have thought that she was someone important as the princess of the High Elf race, her beauty and grace was out of this world. But if I were to choose, I would still choose Lily as my top perfect girl.)

"As the representative of the High Elf race, I shall perform the duty of a hero with all I have and purge the Demon God army that is threatening the world!" says Princess Leya with full confidence in her ability and prowess in battle.

Pope Baton nods his head and proceeds to announces to the crowd, "The crystal ball of truth has spoken once again, Princess Leya is now the Hero of Ice, the one who shall purge the terror of the world with unwavering faith, and restore order to the world."

Thunderous claps and cheers can be heard once again, and slowly dies out when Princess Leya responds with a bow and returns to her position.

Xiao's eyes subconsciously follow her movement, from the moment Pope mentions her identity until she goes back to her original position and bows down. And apparently, she notices Xiao's gaze, as she reverts to the bow down position, she coldly gazes back at Xiao, showing an irritated expression while also clicking her tongue, which Xiao quickly averted his eyes to elsewhere.

With 3 more candidates to go, the Half beast girl cheerfully walks toward the crystal ball, not before waving her hand to the crowd to greet them joyfully and cutely.

"Alrighty! Ladies and gentlemen, my turn now, Hero's fate!"

The crowd were entertained by her childish looks and acts as they laughed lightly, feeling charmed by her charisma, even Pope Baton was smiling gently as being entertained by the Half beast girl act.

As she finishes greeting the crowd and makes her vow, she places both hands on the crystal ball.

It was as quick as a lightning, yellow lights flash out from the crystal ball, instantly covering the room with yellow blinking lights, it was as if lightning was striking into the room as the yellow lights disappear and appear repeatedly.

"Hehehe! I passed! Yeah!"

While the crowd was amazed by the sight of it with their mouths agape, the Half Beast girl happily celebrated the result as she does a peace sign, beaming out a cute smile which shows her white perfect teeth.

Pope Baton was amazed too by the result of the crystal ball, but he quickly regains his composure and smiles happily as he talks to the Half Beast girl.

"Looks like the youngest hero in this current Heroes Band is you, the eldest daughter of the Half Beast race chieftain, Mila Mila. Bang, so nice to see you're still as energetic and joyful looking as ever and thank you for coming so far away from your home country to our empire," says Pope Baton while bowing down to her and takes one of her hand to touch his forehead, as it was some sort of custom for the Half Beast race.

The Half Beast girl who was introduced by Pope Baton as Mila Mila. Bang cheerfully laughed as she said, "Yehahaha! No problemo~ Human race country has a lot of nice food to offer, which makes this trip worth coming for!"

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"Good to hear that you're enjoying what our country has to offer," says Pope Baton while smiling gently.

As Pope Baton finished saying, he made an official announcement regarding Mila Mila as another hero who officially joined the Heroes Band.

"People, I present to you, the Hero of Lightning of the 7th generation, Mila Mila. Bang!"

Thunderous applause and cheering once again, before Pope Baton can continue, Mila Mila cut in with her cute and cheerful loud voice.

"And I shall dash my way to all the crises in the world and solve them in a blink of an eye, so watch out, Demon God army, cause here comes the lightning girl!"

As Mila Mila finished her charismatic announcement, she confidently does a peace sign, indicating her extreme confidence in defeating the Demon God army, which the crowd responded with loud cheering and laughter, and the feeling of joy was spread all over the place.

Mila Mila returns to her position and bows down like the previous two heroes. Now left two more candidates, one was the dwarf guy who's wearing heavy bronze armor, and the other one was Xiao, who's starting to panic a bit as he begins to shiver nervously.

(Great, another important person in this group! We got an S rank adventurer, the princess of the High Elf race and the eldest daughter of the Half Beast race chieftain. It was only natural for them to pass the ritual, and to compare me with them, who's a nobody, how the hell am I going to pass the ritual?!)

Xiao looked at the dwarf guy beside him, hoping that his background was the same as Xiao, an average person who got selected as a hero's candidate.

The dwarf guy already touched the crystal ball by the time Xiao realized what's going on, and before he had the chance to hope for the reality he was hoping for...

"It's been too long since we last met, Prince Adolf, how's your brother, King Erik's doing?" says Pope Baton.

(God of mother sake!)

Xiao nearly burst out the words he had on his mind, he quickly covered his mouth with both of his hands and forced the urge of bursting out words back to his stomach.

"Thank....thank you, Pope Baton, my brother, is doing well."

The price of Dwarf race, Adolf, timidly replied to Pope Baton, though his armor appearance still looks menacing.

"Good to hear that, and I hope your time here is a pleasant one, please don't restrain yourself and enjoy your time in our empire," says Pope Baton without being distracted by Adolf menacing-looking armor as he smiles gently and greets him like an old friend.

"Thank you very much."

Prince Adolf takes a bow to Pope Baton, for someone who wears such scary-looking armor, it was a rare sight to see him acting politely.

While Pope Baton and Prince Adolf were talking, the room was covered with brown lights that emit out from the crystal ball, as it was the result of Adolf hero selection ritual. The brown lights were not like the previous three heroes who touches the crystal ball, the lights were coming out slowly and gently within the crystal ball, and it also contain a bit of natural green light, the lights then covered the room with its warm color, which gave everyone a gentle kind of feels, like they were embraced by the mother of nature.

Since Adolf was a man with few words, their conversation didn't last long as Pope Baton announced Adolf as the Hero of Earth to the crowd, and the crowd responded with cheers and applause, just like the rest of the appointed heroes.

Adolf, without responding to the crowd reaction, quickly returns to his position and bows down. Nobody knows what he was feeling right now as his face was hiding in his bronze helmet.

And now, with all four of the candidates doing their hero selection ritual and pass it, only one left right now.

(Stand up! Come on! I'm next, stand the hell up!)

Xiao, already realizes it's his turn as he tries to stand up, yet his legs refuse to do so as they were glued to the floor.

Crowds begin to get restless as they are waiting for Xiao to proceed with his hero selection ritual, the same goes to the newly appointed hero who's beside him, Hatta was the first one who voices out his irritation.

"Hurry the hell up! We ain't got time here sitting around!" Hatta shouted.

"Hmph! A waste of time, they should not allow such imbeciles to participate in this sacred ritual," commend coldly by Princess Leya.

"Or maybe he's just chicken out? Hehehe!" says and smiles mischievously at Mila Mila.

"..." and nothing from Prince Adolf.

Just when Xiao was too panicking on what to do with his frozen leg, Pope Baton touches his shoulder and gently speaks to him, "It's okay, Xiao, just relax your muscles and mind, you can do it."

Surprisingly, with Pope Baton's gentle words encouraging him, Xiao's leg begins to gain strength again, and slowly, he manages to stand up.

Xiao looked at Pope Baton with a grateful smile for his help and mustered his courage to walk towards the crystal ball of truth.

(This is it, the moment of truth, God help me!)

Finish saying his last prayer, Xiao put both his shaking hands on the crystal ball, and make the vow:

"Hero's Fate!"