Prince Adolf whispered softly because he only directed it to Xiao, but Xiao was too occupied in his thought that he had blocked all his senses.

(It's gonna be fine, it's gonna be fine, it's gonna be fine.)

Xiao stopped walking the moment he found out that there was no more road ahead for him to walk, for he was already at the edge of the balcony, with thousands of people just under him.

Xiao was now the main attention of everyone present in the field, all eyes were on him, and none spoke anything the moment he showed up from the balcony.

All the magic mirrors simultaneously projected the image of Xiao, some projected him with a different angle than the others, which everyone can see even the slightest action Xiao was currently doing.

"Hello, I am Xiao, I am 18 years old, I will save the world from the Demon God and its army with my Heroes comrades. Thank you."

And just like that, without waiting for the crowd to react to his entrance, Xiao quickly finished his self-presentation with an overly short introduction, turned around, and was going to walk back to his original position.

Xiao didn't even look at the crowd while he was speaking, his eyes were blankly staring at the sky as he read out the things he was planning to say, it was like reading a script that was perfectly written in his mind. And he did exactly what he had planned from the beginning, went there, read out the script, and finished.

(Alright! Covered the hardest part already, now I only need to return to my post....)

"What hero are you?"

Without anyone realizing what had just happened, someone from the crowd managed to grasp the situation and voiced out his question, even though Xiao intentionally talked fast enough to avoid dealing with the reaction from the crowd, and this was the first time someone asked a question to the hero, as it did not happen during the time with the previous 4 heroes.

Xiao stopped his footstep of returning to his post, nor did he turn around, walk back to the edge of the balcony and answer the question, he was stunned.

(What the hell?! What hero am I? Shit! I should include that in my script, damn it, damn it, damn it!)

Xiao's whole body was trembling in anxiety already, for his plan of handling this quickly and ending this nerve-wracking event as soon as possible has faced an unforeseen situation.

(Nothing serious, just answer the goddamn question and walk away immediately.)

Xiao tried to keep his composure as he walked back to the edge of the balcony to answer the question, in the meantime, people were starting to talking among each other after the one question thrown out by someone from the crowd out of nowhere, some of them has shown an expression of remembering something and quickly told the person next to them, which people around them also get to hear what they were talking about, from whispering to an exciting discussion, which Xiao had no idea what the crowd was going about, as he only wants to answer the question and get it done already.

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It took Xiao a few seconds to reach the edge of the balcony and face the huge crowd as he resisted shaking too much from nervousness, which made him walk slower than usual.

By the time Xiao was going to speak to the small crystal sticking out from the fence, which would amplify his voice, his answer got cut off by the burst of questions coming from all over the place.

"Is it true that you are from a different world?"

"They said that you got knocked out by a single punch from the Fire Hero."

"Rumors said that you are associated with the Demon God, can we trust you?"

Questions popped out one and another from the crowd, so many that Xiao didn't even manage to finish saying his answer.

It didn't take long for the crowd to change from asking questions into accusing and humiliating Xiao.

"Got back to your world!"

"Spawn of the demon! Lock him away!"

"You said you are going to save the world, but what can you do?! when you can't even take a single punch!"

The whole handling with swift and simple has crumbled at this instant, it has turned into the worst situation Xiao can't possibly imagine. Right now, Xiao was too nervous to even speak properly, his mind has gone blank, he was now relying on his instinct to react, whenever there was a shouting or insulting from the crowd, he will quickly turn his attention to the sources and tries to said something but failed to even utter a simple words, that's the only thing he was capable of doing it in his current status, he was completely in panic mode.

Even if Xiao was his usual self, there was no way he could take control of this huge crowd, as never in his life has he stood in front of so many people, and now they were expressing anger and insult to him, which was a completely new experience in Xiao's life.

Who could have leaked the incident on what happened three days ago in the audience room? The noble? The guards? The heroes? Because only these parties were present during the time in the audience room, so unless someone spoke to the public, the crowd will never find out Xiao's identity, as well as what kind of hero he is and how weak he is compared with the other four.

Well, knowing it won't do any good to the current situation Xiao was in, he has already given up on reacting and thinking, he was preparing to run away from the spot and find somewhere to hide.

In the next moment, Xiao noticed someone was closing in from behind, it was Pope Baton, and he quickly and gently moved Xiao aside and addressed the restless crowd.

"People! I don't know who you all have heard from and what they told you, but please rest assured that Xiao is a trustworthy ally and he will be a great force for fighting the threat of the Demon God and its army..."

Although Pope Baton tried his best to calm the crowd and asked them to trust Xiao, the crowd was still spouting out more question and accuse towards Xiao, because not only Xiao was not from the world of Aora, he was also the Hero of Darkness, the only human who possesses the element of Darkness, plus he was so weak that even a child can beat him, coming from one of the insult.

In conclusion, Xiao was a completely different entity compared with every one of them, an unknown existed, and unknown causes fear.

"It's okay, it's fine, just…. sorry, Pope Baton, I don't think I can stay until the end of the ceremony, feeling kind of tipsy already, I'll be going first."

Xiao tried his best to light up a smile to reassure Pope Baton not to worry about him, and before Pope Baton had the chance to say anything, Xiao had already turned his back and walked away from the spot.

Xiao slowly walked past the King and the other four heroes without looking at their expression as he was facing the ground the whole time, the guards tried to stop him but they were given a sign by Pope Baton to let Xiao go.

Xiao slow walks, gradually picking up speed as he starts running the moment he closes the door of the room he was in moments ago.

Right now, Xiao just wants to go back to the room he was resting before, shut the door and hide inside . Seeing people's faces and hearing their voices made him feel incredibly sick and tired, both mentally and physically.

"I should have just called in sick this morning...."