This is a story that takes place before Vincent was famous as a hero.

It happened shortly after he awakened his hero power.

With a body full of wounds and an old kitchen knife in his hand, Vincent left his village after he had buried all his family members. The other villagers... Although it hurt his heart, Vincent at that time could not afford to provide a proper funeral for all of them.

Besides, if he stays there for too long, he will become the target of all monsters that attracted by all blood scent of died villagers there, anyway.

Therefore, he left the village where he was born, determined that someday he would avenge them all.

From then on, there was no day when Vincent could think that life was something pleasant.

Every day is a life-and-death battle.

Because he didn't have much money, Vincent had a hard time entering a big town or even buying food. Because of this, Vincent is forced to live outside the town, eating weeds and other herbs that seem safe for him to eat.

If he was wrong just a little bit, he would die of poisoning.

Vincent also sometimes goes hunting Deer, or some small monsters like Horned rabbit and then sells it to gatekeepers, although he has to settle for his price which is obviously cheaper than the market price.

Even if Vincent was looking for a village to live in, the world was in its turbulent times, a countryside was always being main target of attacks by monsters, demons, or even bandits.

Normally, Vincent can defeat them with his hero Status. However, it is only if their level is not too far from him.

If the level difference, or experience is too far between Vincent and his enemy... Then obviously, Vincent will be the party to lose.

He almost never even sleeps because of the fear of monsters and others that might come attacking him from anywhere.

However, although Vincent has the power of a hero, such a lifestyle is still too heavy for a child his age.

Before long, Vincent reached his limit and finally lost his consciousness due to the exhaustion that invaded both his body and mind.

He think he would die at that very moment.

However, when he opened his eyes, Vincent woke up in a room that belonged to someone he didn't recognize.

It was there that he met a savior, as well as the man who would be his master. A 2-meter-tall muscular man who is a war enthusiast, Donitrus.

Although Vincent wanted to go on his way alone back then, Donitrus always forced Vincent to follow him wherever he wanted with a horrible smile on his face.

Donitrus' lifestyle was one Vincent wouldn't be able to understand no matter how he thought about it.

Donitrus always said that a man only needs four things that will make him feel the joy of life.

That is: Good food, Fight, Woman, and then sleep.

Donitrus' lifestyle just keeps spinning in the same cycle.

Donitrus lived a completely different life from Vincent who lived only to survive and kill demons, and he thought he wouldn't understand that until the end.

However, Vincent knew, Donitrus was strong. Both in terms of swordsmanship, and in terms of his experience as an adventurer.

Like that, Vincent began to learn anything he could learn under Donitrus.

"Vincent, what do you use that power of yours for?" Even so, one day, Donitrus suddenly asked him that with a serious face that Vincent had never seen before.

"Are you going to use that power to protect someone? Or is it just to be strong and be able to survive in this world?"

"I..." However, Vincent couldn't find any answer. He knew he wanted revenge, to exterminate the demons from this world. However, after that what? He's just going to be a bunch... A broken demon-killing machine?

"You have potential, I know that. A potential that might even surpass anything I've ever seen in my lifetime. However, are you just going to use that power to kill?"

"I... I..." Again, Vincent was unable to reply to Donitrus' question.

"Sigh~ really, it seems that you are too fast for all this." Donitrus said that, patting Vincent on the head, "It's a pity, but, I can't teach my swordsmanship to a person who doesn't even know what he wants or he likes like you, Vincent."

"E-ehh?"

"... You have to find first what you want to do in your life before you do anything, Vincent. Don't be blind to what you need."

It was the last time Vincent saw Donitrus. He left, continuing his journey.

Even the single word Donitrus said to him, Vincent didn't understand at all. What does he mean by that? No matter how many times Vincent thought about that, he didn't know.

Even now...

"... Ugh... Where is this?" Opening his eyes, Reid found a giant dome-shaped room.

The room looked a little dark, but Reid could still see around him.

"Finally you wake up, Human's child."

"Hah?!" Startled by the sudden sound that could echo loudly in the room, Reid immediately jumped to his feet and entered his fighting mode.

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"There is no need to be so surprised like that, I won't do anything to you."

"... Who are you?" Even though Reid had already looked around him, he couldn't find anything that looked like the source of the sound.

"I? You're right, you can call me a..." The room suddenly brightened before the voice continued, "Dungeon master, I guess?"

At the end of the room, there is a place similar to a throne of a king or something in giant size, with a black dragon curled up on it.

"-?!" Reid's whole body instantly felt as if he had just been struck by lightning when he came face to face with the dragon.

(He... So strong!) Because Reid had faced many creatures of this dragon's caliber in the past as a hero, Reid knew that the power of this Dragon is entering the upper level among the dragons.

"In that case, die."

"Huh?!" Reid was stunned by what was happening before him at the time.

Instantly after the dragon uttered that in his cold tone, the room was suddenly filled with light. And behind the light, Reid saw, "Monster army?!"

A group of tens of thousands of monster soldiers who have a Rank of B-A such as Wyvern, Cyclops, Manticore, Death roper, with a group of Crimson Salamanders and Lapiz Salamanders who are in the front row.

Either way, it was too much for now Reid. He hasn't even reached half the strength he's achieved in the past.

"Damn, my weapon has also been almost damaged and there are not many left." Reaching into his Item bag, Reid could only find 20 more throwing knives left. His sword had also begun to giggle because of the battle he had fought on the 15th floor before, "If I knew this was going to happen, I'd bring more gear, fuck it!!"

"Oi! You! Dragon! What does this mean? Didn't you say before that you won't do anything to me?"

"Ah, I've said that huh? But well... what's wrong with that?"

"Hah? I mean..."

"... I didn't say that my men wouldn't kill you, right?" The dragon smiled from ear to ear when he said that.

"Ugh... Damn..." (So that's it, so he wants to play tricks on me, huh?)

"Haa~.. Phew~..." Reid rearranged his breathing to calm himself down and began to try to calmly analize this his situation.

"Are you ready? Human child?"

In response, Reid closed his eyes, then began to bend his body with his steel sword ready in his right hand, "Yes... I'm ready at any time."

"Good, well, I'm curious about the kind of death that will await you later, ku ku ku~..."

After saying that, the Dragon wagged his tail, which was followed by his moving monster army that was in the front of Reid.

The sound of legs footing and the war cry of the monsters filled the room at that very moment.

And, amid the noise, Reid swung his sword, "Elemental Sword - Vibra Tonic!!"

From the tip of Reid's sword, the sound waves generated by the wind magic friction that Reid did to him were launched.

The attack was indeed not lethal. But...

"GRAGHH!!"

"CRRRUUCHHH!"

"KRRRIISSK!!!"

... It was enough to make the eardrums of those monsters shatter and temporarily stop their movements.

"Heehh~ not bad, Human child." The dragon widened his eyes slightly at what he saw.

"Alright, it's time to get serious!!"

*Bzzt* *Bzzt* *BOOOOOMMM!!!*

"What?!" Shortly after Reid shouted that, a thunderbolt light suddenly began to envelop his body, before finally a loud banging sound rang out and Reid's figure disappeared from the place.

"No, he didn't disappear, he just moved very fast!" Now, the dragon began to look completely shocked.

*Swoosshh!!*

True as the dragon said, Reid did not disappear. Like a murderous little light, Reid killed every Salamander that came to him.

"Uh, Acceleration!" When a Cyclops arrives with its giant iron beater, Reid speeds up his movements even more with his skill to jump towards that Cyclops before the Cyclops can attack him.

"Haaaghhh!!!" To increase his attack power, Reid coated his sword with fire magic before hitting the Cyclops' body.

*BOOOOOMMM!*

With a very loud explosion sound, the Cyclops' huge body bounced 2 meters away and overtook many Salamanders and some Manticores.

"Aaghh!!" Although the battle looks fine, Reid has actually started to get tired from using too much magic in one go in addition to speeding himself up with his Lightning magic.

Because if he slows down even just a little bit, "Ugh!!" He will be hit by an attack from the Death roper scythe that appears behind him by teleporting.

Death roper, they are undead-type monsters with an appearance like a skull in a black robe carrying a giant scythe. Their fighting ability is not very high compared to other A-Rank monsters, however, Death roper has the ability to teleport instantly which makes it feared because it often appears and beheads many adventurers from behind them.

Because of this, Reid must always be fast enough to keep up with Death roper's attacks.

In addition, Wyvern also continued to attack him with fireballs from the ceiling of the room that were difficult for Reid to reach.

He should always be wary of the Cyclops' hard hits, the arrival of the Death roper, the Wyvern's airstrikes, and the deceptive attacks Manticore has always done to him.

The Salamanders were no less threatening because if Reid let his guard down just a little bit, they could have sneaked up and killed him.

It was the first time Reid was forced to use all his strength and experience to the limit in this new body of his.

Whenever an attack comes, the shadow of death feels very close to Reid, trying to make him give up on his life.

(However, it's strange, why... Why... I feel happy instead?!)

"Really interesting human child. In a situation like this, you're smiling instead? How perverted are you?"

"Ha ha hah, you're right. I'm curious, why I'm so excited yeaahh?!?!"

*Slice!!* *Slice!!* *Slice!!*

However, at that very moment, Reid remembered Donitrus when he kept swinging his sword here and there.

Reid remembered that no matter what, Donitrus always smiled when he fought. As if fighting was the best time for him.

"Heh, I get it. So, I'm also a war freak like him huh?!" With a big smile on the blood-stained face of himself and the monster, Reid swung his sword again, again, again, again, again, again, and again!!

"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHHA!!!!" The bodies and internal organs of various monsters were scattered in the room, staining them with various kinds of monster blood.

Reid had even begun to forget how much he had leveled up since this fight began.

But...

*Crack!*

"... Eh?"

Even if Reid is able to survive, it's not the same thing as his sword.

When Reid intends to split Cyclops' big bat that can be on him, his sword is shattered instead, leaving Reid with a devastating blow from the Cyclops' bat.

Without being able to put up any resistance, Reid's body bounced far away until it reached the end of the room.

"... Ugh." Reid tried hard to at least keep his consciousness when his own blood began to soak him.

"... You've shown something great. However, it seems that you have reached your limit, huh? I'm honestly surprised you can hold on to that extent, Human child."

"Well, as a fellow owner of great power, I recognize you as someone worthy of profit standing on an equal footing with the dragons. As my respect, I will give you a painless death." True to his words, a Death roper appeared before Reid with its scythe ready to behead Reid.

*SLICE!!!!*

However, before the scythe touched Reid's neck, a sound like something splitting at high speed sounded.

A smile began to grow on Reid's face, "Why do you think that I have given up?"

All those monsters belonging to the Dragon have stopped moving. Even the Dragon didn't understand what Reid had just done to his monsters.

"The one who will die is you, Dragon." Standing up, Reid snapped his fingers.

"What?!" Twenty small knives shrouded in extremely dense wind and lightning magic had already surrounded the Dragon.

"Those monsters have also been killed by me. Every of them."

With a straight line of very neat pieces, the monsters belonging to the Dragon fell to pieces into pieces of meat.

"I win."

#Reid Status now:

•Reid(Vincent)

•Race: Human.

•Level: 81.

•HP: 5700/23100. •MP: 980/40000.

•STR: 1260. •VIT: 1499. •INT: 3590.

•LUC: 265. •WIS: 6800. •AGI: 16800.

•Charm: 99999.

•[Active Skill]

•Ex-Hero power(Lvl.197)

•Disguise.

•Strong bone.

•Mind Eye.

•Hawk Eye.

•Elemental Sword.

•Acceleration.

•Elemental Armor.

•[Passive Skill]

•Swordmanship°X.

•Holy Swordmanship°X(Lvl.99)

•Divine Swordmanship°lll(Lvl.150)

•Spearmanship°X.

•War-Hammer Mastery°X.

•Assasination°X.

•Archery°X.

•Martial arts°X.

•Mysterious Martial arts°lll.

•All-Elements Magic°X.

•Spirits Magic°l.

•Lighthing Magic°Vll.

•Multi-task°lll.

•Divine Magic°ll(Lvl.120)

•[Title]

•Reincarnated Hero.

•Luminus Empire 1st Prince.

•The one who equal to a dragon.