(3rd Person POV)
Ullr is lying in a white space drifting in and out of consciousness. This is due to firstly his injuries, which are healing at a rapid pace, and his mental exhaustion from firstly hunting an entire pirate crew and then fighting Kara for 17 hours.
After a minute a man appears red. He looked to be in his thirty's, had black hair, above average looks, and a muscular body. All he was wearing was a simple black trousers, shirt and shoes with a standard looking sword at his waist. His most striking feature was his glowing golden eyes. This man was 'Maliketh God of True Hero's'.
"Well it looks like I won't be able to talk to you then. You are too exhausted to stay conscious for more than a few seconds at a time!"
Maliketh stood there for a few minutes looking at the man who he had chosen to give his blessing to. He had not done this in nigh on 3 thousand years. A few minutes passes and then another figure appears.
"Maliketh!"
"Hello Claira."
"So it was you who intercepted the summons. Is he going to receive your blessing then?"
"Yes he will, but there is something different about him I can't put me finger on, we did take him from that strange universe that we struggle to see into, lucky you put a magic marker on him while his spirt was still on Earth!"
"Yes, but I still had to use 7 time the amount of mana to summon him, I think that is part of the reason he is unconscious, his body and mind would have been flooded with mana, he is going to have one bad headache in the morning."
"Yes he will. What of the others?"
"The two other men are 17 and 18, they are both good natured, and will likely do all the can to help. The first girl is one of the girls Ullr saved in his first life, ever since she found out he sacrificed himself for her she has prayed for the chance just to see him one more time. She is also completely in love with him, so I decided to give her that chance. And then there is the last one."
"Last one? Isn't there only suppose to be 3 companions?"
"Yes well she somehow got summoned with Ullr, she is his master from that universe. She also has feeling for him but would never admit it to him. Well not at the moment anyway."
"Hmmmm, well I don't see what harm one more companion will do."
"Neither do I. Ok I have to get back to the others. Bye."
"Goodbye."
Just like that Claira is gone again. Maliketh carries on trying to work out what is the strange feeling he is getting of Ullr. It is like all the energies of the world flow around him completely in harmony, mana especially.
In the world of Caireth, where Ullr and the others are being summoned to, mana is always present in everything, it flows through the world like wind, nothing but one or two extremely rare things can obstruct it. In Ullr's case the mana is dancing around him, but it still passes though him. It was such an odd thing to see Maliketh couldn't help but be infatuated by it.
"Well aren't you an odd one." He said while smiling, he then leans down and touches Ullr's head.
"Receive my blessing and your class of True Hero. Use them well." He then stands back and looks at the semi-conscious man lying down in front of him, wondering how he will fair being the first male hero in over two and a half thousand years, and how he will do in a matriarchal society.
"Right time to go." As Maliketh raises his hand and starts to activate them teleportation spell, Ullr's consciousness comes back for a moment. In that moment he panics thinking he is still in a fight and using a huge force push in Maliketh's direction just as he finishes the spell.
This force push disrupts part of the spell, Ullr is transported away, but not to the original coordinates of the spell.
As well as disrupting the spell, the force push, much to Maliketh's surprise sends him flying across the White space he is in, it even does a bit of damage, the tiniest amount though. He sits up with a smile on his face.
"Wow, I was not expecting that! Hahaha he even hurt me! Hahahaha, it is fitting, all the True Hero's of the past had some weird power that I did not give them, I can't wait to see more of this one." Maliketh stands up still grinning to himself and then disappears from the white space.
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(Elven Forest)
In the forest away from any sentient beings, there is a surge of mana and then a flash of light, as the light fades Ullr's unconscious body appears on the ground.
Nine miles away there is a scout party of 3 elven females. They all have just felt the mana surge that originated to the south of them.
"What was that?" (Elf 1)
"A mana surge, but nobody should be in that direction? Right Selia?" (Elf 2)
"No there should not be anyone there. Come on, let's go!" (Selia)
The elf know as Selia then sprinted off in the direction of the mana surge and the unconscious Ullr.
It takes the elves an hour to reach Ullr's location. He is still unconscious, his wound from being stabbed by Kara is about half way healed but still quit obvious. As the elves approach Selia spots Ullr.
"Tina, Ari look." Selia points towards Ullr.
"Is that a man?" (Tina)
"I think so. Check him" (Selia)
The elf called Tina approaches the unconscious Ullr.
"He is alive and he is not an elf!" (Tina)
"Human?" (Ari)
"No but he looks like he could be a half breed, if not he has elf blood. His ears are slightly pointed, but not enough for a half elf." As Tina speaks she leans down and places her hand on his. Suddenly after a second she jumps back.
"What is it Tina?!?" Selia says while quickly coming to her side.
"H-his mana, it is huge more than anyone's I have ever felt before!"
"What! That is impossible, he is a man, there mana pools are always tiny." (Selia)
"If you don't believe me see for yourself."
At this Selia bent down and touched his hand, as she does this she sees his injury as well as his LightSwords which are lying on the other side of him.
"You are right, might explain how he got past the barrier. Look at his wound, you can clearly see it healing, he seems to have extraordinary ability to circulate his mana as well."
This is actually not true. In Ullr's case the mana in the atmosphere is constantly flowing round and through him, this stimulates his body to quickly heal, this is on top of his races natural healing ability which is high anyway.
After Selia finishes Ari picks up Ullr's LightSwords.
"What are these? Weapons?"
"I don't know I have never seen anything like them before." Selia says while Ari passes them to her.
"What is to become of him?" (Tina)
"Hmmm, he has trespassed into the elven forest, normally that means death, but because of his massive mana pool I am sure that someone will find a use for him. When we get back put a slave collar on him, we will question him about these things and how he got here, then he will be sold."
At this the two other elves nodded in agreement, Tina walked over to Ullr and roughly chucked him over her shoulder. Then the elves and headed back towards their home.
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(Ullr's POV)
When I came to It was dark, after a few seconds for my eyes to adjust I realised I was in a stone room. It was only when I moved to get up that I felt and heard them. Handcuffs chained to the wall and some sort of metal neck choker.
They were very bulky with weird symbols all over them, but I was not concentrating on them, I concentrated more on my rage and fear.
All this situation did was remind me of my last life when I was a prisoner. I started to shake and pull the chains, they were well built but I could feel them starting to give, I could probably be free in about 45 minutes to an hour so I started to try and work myself free.
After about 20 minutes I heard the door on the other side of the bars being unlocked. I stop what I am doing and face towards the door. Two women walk in, they are both dressed in light leather armour with green tunics under them. Both have blonde hair are are beautiful, they also both have pointed hears much larger than my own. Are they elves?
"How did you get through the barrier into the Elven forest?"
'Yup they are elves, but wasn't I just fighting Kara, where the hell am I?' I go or the elf and turn away from them sit down and start to think.
'Ok I had just been stabbed in the stomach, which appears to have healed but that is not a nice scar. Then I lost consciousness, I think I re......'
"AAAARRRRRR" my thought wear interrupted by pain shooting through my body, it was no as bad as I have felt before but it caught me of guard, what did they do? I looked round at the elves I had been ignoring they both looked cross.
"Slave I order you to answer my question!!!" Slave what!? NO no I can be.
"Ah." Pain shot though my body again.
"I don't know what you are talking about and I am not a slave!"
"Humph, you are obviously lying. And you are a slave, once I have my answers you will be sent to be trained and then sold off. Oh and you will fetch a high price as you have a lot of mana. Now let's try a different question, what are these slave?"
As sh spoke she took my parents LightSwords out from behind her, and held them out In front of her.
"Are they weapons, or something you stole? Well ANSWER ME SL...." Before she could finish I force pulled them towards me, and they landed in my hands.
"What how?? You shouldn't be able to us magic! I order you to give those back."
Pain shot though my body, but I kept myself silent, I looked up at her and grinned.
"They are my parents weapons, which passed down to me when they died, now they are mine, and you will never take them from me again!"
I then turned one on sending the base through the shackles which then fell to the ground. I started to walk forward attacking the other to my belt.
"W-what, no stop, t-that is an order, STOPPPP!" Pain shot through my body but I pushed through it. One of the elves made a runner for the door but I held it shut using the force. As I got to the bars, the last thing separating us I sliced through them and stepped out of the cell.
It was then the elves both drew swords and attacked me in unison, seeing that the thing causing me pain didn't bother me they opted to either kill me or make me submit.
As they approached, I only thought one thing.
"Too slow" I swiped my LightSword cutting though both of their weapons about and inch from the hilt. Before they could properly react I sent them flying with a force push, the one who was questioning me was knocked out when she hit the wall, but the other one was not.
I dashed forward and pointed my sword at her neck. Fear was all over her face.
"What is causing me this pain?" She looked at me and hesitated but then answered me.
"T-the s-slave collar a-around your n-neck. Bu...." Before she could finish I brought my blade up to the collar around my neck cutting it off. As it fell to the floor more pain than I have ever felt before shot through me body.
"AAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRR" as I screamed I fell to the floor, as I did the elf used this opportunity to grab the other elf and run out of the door. For the next ten minutes I rolled on the floor in pain. It stated to fade, but slowly. After another 5 minutes it had faded enough for me to stand up.
Looking around I picked up my LightSword that I had dropped. I walked up to the door, just before I was bout to open it I sense multiple people on the other side of the door waiting to take me by surprise.
I take a few steps back from the door and then send a blast of the force towards the door.
It was a bit more effective than I was expecting, not only the door but part of the walls were blown away. As I walked through the now large hole in the wall, I saw 10 elves all laying on the floor unconscious, none were dead and only one was partially conscious. I walked towards him.
'Slap'
"Where is the exit." The slap brought him round just enough to answer my question.
"That way, up the stairs all the way and them straight ahead." He said pointing down the hall.
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At that I stood up and started to make my way out, I didn't run into anyone else on my up I now can see the exit ahead of me, I walk up to it but it is locked, getting annoyed I blast the door open using the same technique as before but with a lot less power behind it.
A walk out and realise that I am walking out of a huge tree. In front of me is an obvious used square but with nobody in it. Around the square are other trees with doors and windows in. There are also a few buildings made of wood and stone.
I walk out into the centre of the square, I can sense that I am surrounded, but they are staying out of sight.
"Come out." I say this loudly, and it echoes through the square. It is then elves start to show themselves. Some are in the trees others on top of building and a few on the floor. All of them are pointing their bows at me. 'I really wish I still had my armour and Blasters!'
I pull out both my LightSwords but do not activate them, but remain ready. After a few minutes I hear some elves approaching while talking.
"Is really one male causing all this?"
"Yes he is Princess Sylvia. According to the report he uses some strange wind magic, he also uses some strange magic weapons. We believe they are weapons of the ancients."
"These weapons must be powerful to make a male that strong. Hmmmm I will handle this, I am interested to see them in use."
"Yes my princess, but I must warn you from the report these blades of light cut through a sword like it was not there."
"Thank you for the warning but, do you think o would really lose to a male?"
"N-no I would never imply that, princess."
"Do not worry yourself."
I am not sure how but my hearing has defiantly got a lot better suddenly, I can clearly hear there conversation from quite a distance away. After a brief moment the 'Princess' makes her way towards me.
She is very beautiful like all the elves, except she has silver hair on a ponytail, unlike any of the others around me. An hourglass body with all the right proportions. B cup boobs, but she has a beautiful tight ass. Her rose lips and green eyes perfectly contrast each other.
She is dressed in a very beautiful and expensive looking battle dress, she has a rapier on her waist that has its own aura. The only thing that ruins her beauty is the arrogant look on her face.
"You there slave, you will hand over those artefacts and return to your cell or I will beat you to the brink of death and then take those artefacts."
"You have to much arrogance. I will not hand theses over as they belonged to my parents, and are not yours. You could never wield them anyway." The reason for this is I set a dna reader on the switch so only I can activate the LightSwords.
The princesses face goes a bit red but she gives me the most malicious smile I have ever seen.
"Ha you think you, a male is my equal in combat. You may have those two artefacts that boost your power but even with them you are still no match for me!" As she finishes she draws her sword and energy starts to gather around her other hand.
"You think my LightSwords give me power, fine I shall fight you without them." I clip both of them back onto my belt.
"Then this will be quick!" A fireball appears in her hand and flys towards me. I jump to the side and prepare myself.
(Third person)
When Ullr dogged Sylvia's fireball she was honestly surprised, not many had the reflexes able to doge one. As she was about to prepare another spell, blue lightning flys out of Ullr's fingers.
On instinct Sylvia casts shield, the lightning hits the shield, some of it passes through and hits Sylvia, her shield also cracks from that that does not pass through.
"ARRRRE" the Lightning does not last long as one of the elves fire at Ullr causing him to dodge.
"DO NOT INTERFERE!"
Sylvia is now more cautious of Ullr, he had again used a strange magic that partially passed through her shield. Not taking any more chances she casts, wards and buffs to herself. All this time Ullr just watched.
Once all the buffs and wards were done she decided to attack with her rapier. It was a powerful magical sword made of mithrill.
Using a magic called 'swift charge' Sylvia attacked Ullr, she aimed for his heart, but much to her surprise he dogged. Unknown to her, in a lot of the fights Ullr had been in, this was a very common move, so he could doge it quite easily.
She carried on striking at vital points but Ullr kept dogging, but he did get a scratch or two.
Gathering the force around his fist Ullr prepared to attack. The ability he is about to use, raps the force around your fist then when striking the target you release 3 waves in quick succession. It is a relatively easy technique to learn and is very useful when fighting with no weapons against an armoured enemy as it can destroy armour and cause heavy internal injury.
Ullr let Sylvia catch him in the shoulder, so she would be open for his attack. As her sword penetrated his shoulder, Sylvia could not help but smile at causing him pain. But when she looked at his face and saw a smile she realised she had fallen for a trap.
Ullr's fist hit Sylvia's ward a centimetre from her stomach. From the first wave some passed through the ward, and damaged her armour, and bruised her tummy, the next wave did the same but did a little more damage, the final wave from the punch broke the ward and hit her full in the stomach causing internal injuries, and sending Sylvia flying back.
As she flew, Sylvia dropped her rapier, and it landed 5 meters from her. Standing up she was In a sorry state. Her armour around her stomach was falling apart, her hair had come lose and blood was leaking from her mouth.
The elves surrounding the square and watching this battle were all in shock, their princess known for her battle prowess was losing to a male. She might not be the most powerful person in the elven kingdom but she was not weak, plus her opponent was unarmed and had only used two visible techniques.
Among the elves the princesses handmaiden was recalling what the princess had said five years ago when her mother tried to arrange a marriage for her.
'I will not marry a weakling, only if someone can best me in a duel will a marry them.'
Sylvia cast a healing spell on herself, and then realised she had dropped her sword, she ran to it to pick it up but before she could touch it, Ullr pulled it to himself with force pull. Catching it he started to examine the sword, he still could not work out why it had an aura.
"G-GIVE THAT BACK!!" Ullr looked up at the disheveled princess.
"It is not wise to return an enemy their weapon, especially in a battle."
"Why you!" The princess was going extremely red in anger. As Ullr looked at her he saw a huge amount of energy (mana) starting to circulate around the princess.
Sylvia was preparing to case her most powerful spell, 'Tempest blades' it compresses the air into thousands of blades witch then form a tempest that launches at the target/targets. Usually this spell is used against multiple enemies.
The spell will use up most of her mana but Sylvia is sure it will be enough to defeat Ullr. Smiling she launches the spell.
Ullr sensing the danger creates a force shield, and valves himself. The tempest collides with the shield, Ullr slides back a few meters but his shield holds and keeps holding. The spell lasts for 30 seconds before staring to dissipate.
Sylvia is smiling thinking she has won, as the spell disparates she is laughs thinking she had won.
"Hahahahaha see, you still are no match for me. Hahahaha" despite her words, she did realise how powerful Ullr is.
Just as the last bit of dust started to clear Sylvia heard a voice that sent chills down her spine.
"Is that all?" Sylvia looked closely and saw Ullr standing there unharmed with the rapier still in his hand.
Before she could react Ullr used the force to propel himself forward, arriving in font of Sylvia almost instantly, he placed the blade under her neck.
"You lose princess." Ullr then quickly stepped forward and around Sylvia placing the flat of the blade against her neck, and then grabbed her.
"You will now bring me supplies, a cloak, a bow and arrows, and a map. Or well you get the gist."
Many of the elves were in shock, not only had their princess lost she was not a hostage.
"I will kill you!" Sylvia said in anger and embarrassment.
"If you don't shut up I will cut your ears off." Ullr did not know this but for an elf to have their ears cut off was a great fear as it was done to slaves by humans at a point in the past and was a sign of weakness.
Unsurprisingly the princess shut up and remained quiet. Sylvia's handmaiden was the first to recover and stepped forward.
"Please do not hurt her, we will get what you want."
"Good, if I receive the supplies and safe passage out of this forest she will not be harmed. Also if you poison the food know that I will make her try everything before I let her go."
"Yes we understand" the handmaiden started shouting orders at other elves, it was 15 minutes later that everything was brought. But Ullr was not happy as he could sense some energy radiating form some of the things he had brought and not others. Unknown to Ullr he could sense tracking magic on the bad and the cloak.
"I am not a fool, bring me back equipment that has not been tampered with, next time she loses an ear!" The handmaiden has a surprised look on her face but takes the bag and cloak away to be changed. Once she comes back Ullr can't sense any energy. Nodding he gets the princess to pick up everything at the while keeping the blade firmly against her neck.
"None of you are to follow, if you do you will only cause your princess pain, once I am at the edge of the forest I will release her unharmed. Do we have a deal?" Ullr looked at the handmaiden.
"Y-yes we do, none shall follow you, you have our word."
At this Ullr with Sylvia in tow left heading to the edge of the forest.
(Ullr's POV)
We are nearing the edge of the forest after traveling for over 8 hours, from what Sylvia has told me, when she is not swearing at me, one of the human kingdoms borders the elven forest, and the closest villages are all about 20-30 miles away.
The elves kept their end of the bargain and didn't follow. Sylvia's mood has been getting gradually worse as we near the edge of the forest. I have realised that she is just a big spoilt child, hopefully losing to me will do her some good.
We have just reached the edge of the forest, I can see flat planes ahead of me and another small forest in the distance. As I reach the very edge of the forest j am stopped by some sort of barrier.
"You are an idiot, the forest is surrounded by a barrier, only mother and a few others can open it. I suggest you surrender as you will never escape this forest."
Ignoring her I took out one of my LightSwords and activated it. I then started to gather the force around the blade, then I charged the blade with force lightning. This is a technique my parents taught me, it is extremely devastating at short range.
Putting all my strength behind it I slashed at the barrier. For a few seconds nothing happened, frustrated I did it again and again, and finally on the 17th slash the barrier cracked, and then on the 18th it broke, but not fully. A hole the size of a small house formed. Smiling I looked back at Sylvia who was shocked to her core seeing the man who beat her make a hole in the barrier that even her mother pups not dent.
The reason for the barrier breaking was the other energies that were used in the attack, the barrier was not made to stop these energies and so caused it to break.
Not wasting anytime Ullr picked up the pack, bow, quiver, and the clock and made his way towards the hole. Looking back he threw the rapier that he still had at Sylvia's feet and then using the force to propel him disappeared off into the distance before Sylvia could say or do anything.
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