Introduction wasn’t necessary, the moment they saw they sword on the man’s back they knew who he was. As he calmly walk towards the orcs, he reach behind him and slowly started pulling his sword out.
At that moment, all the orcs charges at the man. They’re instincts scream at them telling them to stop him from drawing that sword or else they’re all going to die. But Excalibur isn’t even needed.
Giving up on drawing his sword, the man raise his arm up and grabs the club that the orc was swinging at him. Shock appear on the orc face as he saw that his attack was easily fended against.
It is physically impossible for a human to match an orc in strength, but you’ll have to be a fool to think he’s a normal human….
.
.
Selective Breeding: The intentional breeding of two individual with desirable traits an attempt to create an offspring with the same or even better traits.
For generations, nobles have continue this practice so they could give birth to strong children that would inherit their bloodline. Being born as a noble, the hero’s family was no different. Praying for a strong son they wish came true when they gave birth to him. Born with a strong body and mind it quickly became apparent to the parents that their son was destined for greatness, but they had no idea how truly great his destiny was.
Interested in this youth, Athena watch over him. Even though he was clearly strong, she had to make sure that he wasn’t susceptible to “corruption” that comes with power.
Even though the kid was stronger than his peers he never took advantage of them. Always using his power to help everyone else, Athena finally deem the kid worthy of her blessing.
It didn’t take long for the family to notice the blessing. The kid’s strong body became even stronger and his blonde hair slowly turn white. Dragging the entire family into an illusion, Athena explain what was happening to their child and what he was destined for. While most parents would concern for their child, the hero’s parents was excited for their child future. The hero’s parents hire martial artist to prepare their son for his destiny.
Due to being a genius, he excel at everything his trainers taught him. Eventually, he even surpass his teachers. With his training over with, the hero only had one last task left to complete for him to truly become a hero, find Excalibur.
Leaving his family behind, the hero set off on a journey to find Excalibur that would take two years to complete. Completely losing contact of their child, the parents worried endlessly. Until finally their son return home with a reward, Excalibur. On that day, the entire world celebrated the birth of a new hero.
Now then, let’s recap. Born a prodigy, bless by Athena, train by the world strongest martial artists, and of course the wielder of the legendary weapon Excalibur. Thanks to the genetics he inherit from his family and their ancestors the strongest hero has been born! His name is Joseph, and he is humanity final line of defense against monsters and corruption that hides in humanity.
….He is the one that is destined to kill the Demon King
Chapter 29
The Apex: Unstoppable Justice
Excalibur, why does he have it? I stood frozen in place hoping someone would answer my question, but everyone was too busy watching the hero fight to answer. Well everyone except my brother.
I look back at Aaron who still had a blank look on him. Surprisingly, Claire was still by his side. I thought she would be more interested in the hero. Well since she’s looking after him I don’t need to worry about him.
I took one last look at them before walking away. The way she was comforting him made it look like they were close. If she wasn’t an elf, I would think that she was his sister. Well I know for fact if she was she would definitely be better than me, but then again, I think anyone would be a better sister than me.
…Why am I referring to myself as his sister? Jeez, the kid call me “sis” so many times, that I’m now starting to see myself as one.
“Anna you got to see this.” Max eagerly wave for me to come over. I sat down at the edge of the building next to him and watch the hero fight an entire army by himself.
Jumping over an orc that tried to attack him, the hero lands straight in middle of a group of orcs. As soon as he lands he grabs two orcs and pulls them closer to him.
“And now for my next trick!”
A blinding light sudden;y emits from the hero’s body. Just as quickly as it appear, it quickly vanish leaving a bunch of charred orcs in its wake.
“That’s another ten down!” The hero loudly proclaim.
“That guy is amazing! He’s nearly as good as you Anna.” Max’s eyes were gleaming with excitement.
I let out a little chuckle. I’m not sure if he’s trying to flatter me, or if he simply overestimating me. But it’s pretty obvious that he’s stronger than me. He haven’t even draw Excalibur, yet he’s still defeating all the orcs with ease. I’m actually having a hard time telling if he’s human or not.
I look behind me to see the three men wearing cloak were standing behind me and Max. I guess these must be the reinforcement the guard was talking about. They must be really confident in their skills for them to send only four people including the hero to solve this problem.
“He’s going to lose if he keeps playing around like this.” One of the hooded man spoke up.
“Well that’s just the nature of a hero isn’t it? They never want to dirty their hands, even when they’re facing someone that’s needs to be kill.” The second hooded man takes his off. Underneath it was a man with brown hair and dark brown eyes. Average features for a human, except for his eyes. Even though his eye color is normal for a human, they didn’t feel human. His eyes were completely dead, like his soul was suck out of him leaving nothing but a shell behind.
“That’s what I’m here for right? To clean up the mess that the hero refuse to do.” The man gives both me and Max a creepy smile. Seriously, why is the hero party full of shady people?
Pulling out two curve daggers, the man walks over to the edge of the building. “Alexander, permission to join the fight?”
“Granted.” One of the hooded man spoke up. The man jump off the building as soon as his request was accepted.
Before the man touch the ground, he threw both of his daggers at two orcs that was approaching the hero. Both of his daggers lands into the orcs chest. But thanks to the leather amour the orcs were wearing, the orcs simply shrug off the attack and continue to rush after the hero. The two orcs that were running at the hero begin to roughly cough up blood. Even with the coughing fit, the two orcs continue rush at the hero with the determination to quickly finish him off. But, before they could reach him they drop to the ground as if all their strength was suddenly sap out of them.
I didn’t sense him use any magic, so did he dip his weapon in poison or something? I look behind me again to see that there was only two hooded man left.
The one that spoke up is Alexander. I never thought I would meet him here, and I especially never thought he would be working with the hero.
The narrative has been illicitly obtained; should you discover it on Amazon, report the violation.
(His power, it felt very similar to yours.) James words echo in my head again.
That’s not possible. I’m the only one who can use corruption. And I know for a fact he’s not a demon. So did James get confuse and mistake his power for mines, or is this man hiding some secret? Well I’ll find out soon enough.
As soon as I was about to get up, the hooded man next to Alexander, unsheathe is sword slightly, just enough for me to see.
Is he threating me? If he is how did he know I was going to attack Alexander? No if he knew I was going to attack him, then he probably would’ve killed me. Which means he’s going off a hunch I might attack him.
Seeing the man give off a massive amount of killing intent, I simply turn back around and watch the fight. There’s no reason for me to risk my life now. I’ll deal with him later when I recover.
“Prepare to fire!” One of the orcs near the catapults shouted.
Got to be a bluff, if they fire those bombs this close they’ll kill everyone including themselves.
“Fire!” The orcs launches multiple bombs in the air towards us.
….They actually fire it. As much as I want to run away right now. I don’t think it’s possible to escape the blast radius. Especially since they launch multiple bombs at us.
“Max… you think you can block that?”
“…..” The terrified look he gave me, pretty much answer my question.
The cloak man that was standing next to Alexander walks to the edge near us.
Swords appears all around the hooded man. Lifting his hand in the air, he launches all the swords he created into the bombs.
The entire night sky became a sea of flames as each bomb exploded one after the other. It kind of look like a festival if it wasn’t for the fact that the fire that cover the sky turn into a meteor shower.
More buildings were set ablaze as the fire fell from the sky. Surprisingly the building we were standing on didn’t get hit at all even though we were pretty close to the explosion. I’m sure if that’s a miracle, or somehow one of the hooded man prevented the fire from falling on this building.
“This gone on long enough.” Alexander walks towards the edge of the building. “Joseph! Stop playing around and use Excalibur, end this battle now.”
“But…” The hero looks up at Alexander with a pleading look, like he was begging him to not make him use Excalibur.
“Look around you, this chaos was cause by the enemy. If you continue to show mercy to them, more innocent people will die.”
“….You’re right Alexander, you’re absolutely right.” The hero reaches behind him and pulls his sword out. The blade on the sword white, which made it look like it was never use in combat before. And the hilt was gold. The design was simple, but the aura the sword gave off would make anyone look at it in awe, except for me.
I felt my blood starting to boil the longer I look at it. A part of me wanted to jump down there and tear the sword apart, but of course I wasn’t in any shape to do that.
“Anna you ok?” Max gave me a concern look. I look down to see that I was clenching my fists. I must have a piss off look on my face too.
“Yea… I’m fine.” I try my best to smile. I seriously couldn’t look more suspicious. While everyone else celebrating the hero’s arrival, I’m the only one giving him a death glare.
Ignoring Max who was still giving me a concern look, I continue to watch the ongoing fight on the ground. All the orcs were now charging recklessly at the hero.
“Everyone get away from him! You can’t beat him!” Cain shouted at the orcs.
“You should listen to him. If you continue to attack this town, then I’ll have no choice but to kill you.” Ignoring the hero’s threat, the orcs to continue to desperately charge at him.
“….Fine, I warn you guys” Raising his sword in the air, the hero roughly plunge it into the ground.
A huge circle created from pure light appear on the ground, surrounding both the hero and the orcs. The light the circle emitted continue to get brighter until it fire a beam of light into the sky.
Thanks to the how blinding bright the light was, I was unable to see what was going on in the circle. When the light finally died down the only thing that was left was the hero. The orcs that was caught in the circle was gone, there was no bodies or even clothes. It was like the light completed erase the orcs existence.
“….” The entire town went dead silent. I look over at Max who had a dumbfounded look on his face. I can’t blame him, even I’m shock at what happen. Even if he is the hero for a human to use that much magic without suffering any form of consequence is simply ridiculous. No doubt about it, he’s the strongest hero I ever encounter.
“Well then, all that’s left is to defeat you. Once you’re dead this battle is over right?” The man with the two curve daggers heads over to Cain.
Thanks to me, Cain has no strength left to defend himself. All he could do is watch helplessly as the man walks towards him.
“Stop.” The hero grabs the man’s arm before he could stab Cain.
“Why are you stopping me? Didn’t you hear what Alexander said? If we don’t kill him now, he’ll end up killing more innocent people.”
“I know that, but I just want to ask why he attack this town.”
“That’s a very good question.” Two hooded men walks over to the hero.
Wait, what? I look behind me and notice that Alexander and the man that was with him was gone. How the hell did they get down there without me noticing?
“It’s pretty normal for an orc to attack humans that travel in small group, but it’s very rare for an orc to attack an entire human town. So tell me, why did you attack us, matter of fact better question where did you get those bombs, they look too advance to be created by you.”
“…..” Cain silently stare at the four men that surrounded him.
“Please tell us.” The hero beg. “If you tell us I’ll be able to spare you and the rest of your men.”
“……Those bombs were giving to me.”
“By who?” Alexander demanded.
“By monsters.”
“Got to be kidding me.” The man places his dagger near Cain’s throat. “If keep joking around then I’ll kill you and any orcs the hero here didn’t kill.”
“Hahahaha!” Cain lets a loud laugh. “Are you guys really the heroes?!” Cain continue to laugh
“Are you trying to say something?” The man with the dagger ask Cain.
“No, I just find it funny. You guys are supposed to be protecting this world yet you have no idea what’s going on in it.”
The hero pushes the man with the dagger away and kneels next to Cain. “Can you please explain to us what’s going on?”
Cain and the hero silently stare at each other, like they was both was trying to read each other expression.
“Monsters…” Cain stop talking for a few seconds and look around as he was making sure no was listening in on his conservation. “Monsters are evolving….”
A/N: With the orcs defeated this arc is more or less halfway over. you guys can take a deep breath, things will slow down for now.
Hmmm, I swear I had more to say. Well whatever thanks again for reading.