Part 3

I woke up early in the morning and was completely awake instantly. I suppose I do not need as much sleep with my new body anymore. Damn, the world just keeps on throwing awesome shit at me without end.

Just like my new extra 5 centimeter in an area that matters.

I am of course talking about MY DICK!

Yep, I received an upgrade in every part of my body. I believe my mind got some too.

I mean I am not sure, my memory is better and my thought are clearer but how do you measure the capacity of your mind? You can't do something like push ups to compare/ improve on it, can you?

“Don't think there are clocks in this world.” I muttered as I was wondering what time it was.

Looking outside the sun has barely came out. The season was also somewhere in summer so it could mean that it was somewhere 5 o clock plus/minus an hour. At least I think so...

I just clothed myself in rather comfortable attire and walked outside.

“Breakfast?” I wondered but quickly dismissed this idea. I was never one to eat breakfast, more like wait till past mid day and then start slowly until you reach the time where normal people are sleeping and then eat all the junk food.

So yeah, breakfast did not sound as good to me as it might to others.

Walking through the castle I took another route than before as to see my new home. I reached something like the lobby and to my surprise I noticed there a big grandfather clock.

05:23

Wow, I was surprised. This world might be a little bit more progressed than I thought. I mean as long as they do not have internet I don't really care, but it is nice to know.

But then again, what do I need internet for when I got magic and women. Definitely an upgrade from before.

Outside of the giant castle was the quietness of an early morning. Most were still sleeping and only a few servants were doing their business that might needed to be done before the royalty wakes up.

Another noise that I could perceive was the noise of air being split apart, like someone was swinging something with high speeds.

Walking towards it I saw the giant man from yesterday training with a training sword that had additional weights on it.

“Sir Kotatsu, good morning.” He stopped for a second and continued swinging.

“Ah yes, you too. So ahm, you told me that I would need to be trained right? When do we start?”

“Hmm. Well, first we will need to evaluate your skills. The legend says that a hero will be powerful from the day he is summoned and will only grow stronger so maybe we will not even need any training and can start to exterminate the filth.” He answered me while still absorbed by his training.

“Now that you mentioned the filth... Can you tell me a little bit about this world please? There has not been any exposition on that part yet.”

He looked at me weirdly. “Ahm, sure. So basically we are at war with the demon race, those filthy animal degenerates..” he spat out full of hate. “We, the proud and chosen race of the great god of light have not always been so liberated and mighty, centuries ago we were a race of slaves. It has taken us a lot of effort to establish ourselves as a free race but now that we are getting more and more powerful the others are fearing us.” He laughed. “That demon filth has openly declared war against us.” he spat on the ground.

“What about the other races?”

“Pff.. The elves are an arrogant bunch that has never moved their ass to do anything useful and have never helped us. The dwarfs are filthy miners that only want riches. Demi humans are barely intelligent enough to form communities, if they are not busy waging war for retarded reasons. The others are irrelevant and too far away.”

Was that racist? NAH! “Well, are there other kingdoms that are aligned with us against demons?”

He grunted. “The Obsidians to our south are barely more useful than the dirt on the ground. The Gomanials to the north only care about money, they have no honor! No we are on our own in this holy war and you are our biggest hope hero.”

I nodded. “Yes the demon race must be generally evil.

The race as a whole.

Without an exception.

I will be sure to banish them from this world. By the way is there someone that is leading them. I don't know.. something like a lord? A Demonlord?”

The general nodded. “ Yes, he has been a pain on the ass for a while now. To my shame I must admit that no battle was won when he stepped himself on the battlefield.”

“Only good you got me now.” I laughed wholeheartedly and he joined me.

The next couple of hours we spent talking with each other and the general told me about his family and the days of his youth, cool guy.

I also got to swing that sword of his and he was astounded since I was apparently the only man beside him that could ever lift it and swing it more than one time. Well, what can I say... I am awesooome!

Soon other soldiers joined us and the general did what I think was the standard military training. Running, sit ups and stuff like that. Just for fun I joined them and could happily see how I was above most of them in my physique.

Fast forward another few hours and we were now on a wide training field with most soldiers watching me.

The general wanted to test my strength and wanted me to spar with a few of his men.

I just told him to pick a few capable ones since he looked like he wanted to start very low, but I ain't no noob...

A very muscular and dangerous looking man faced me with a training knife in one hand.

On start the fight started and as if the battle mod in my mind was activated, my sins got very sharp and my perception of time got much faster.

His fist flew very slowly towards my solar plexus as his other hand got ready to strike me with the knife.

I smirked and dodged barely to the side. The poor man was only to be pitied... With barely a tenth of my strength I hit him in the gut. Like a rod of metal, my arm almost burst out of the other side of his body and before he knew what hit him, the man was sent flying towards his comrades with most of the bones in his body broken.

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It was hard to hide my wide grin as I tried to look apologetic.

Loud cheering was heard from everywhere and people stared awestruck at me.

“Wow, only the general was able to show such strength till now..” A soldier said out loud.

“Ha ha ha HA HA HA HAHAHAH!” A loud and dominant laughter echoed everywhere and the general himself came forward to give me a clap on my shoulder. “To hell with training! We will move out to cleanse our lands from the filth! As soon as possible!”

The man was carried away by happy comrades.

We quickly made plans to ride out. On a horse. Always wanted to ride a horse.

I was also told to go and get my armor and weapon. I hope its is badass and shiny.

Slowly my hunger got the better of me and we parted ways. While the soldiers were training, I went for lunch. Maybe I get to see the princess again...

A blushing maid told me the way to where lunch was served and was even adamant to lead me there by herself.

Once I entered I saw the king talking with the pope looking guy from yesterday and no princes.. Well, no romance for me today it seems.

“Oh! If it isn't the hero!” The king called out to me with a smile and mentioned for me to seat right beside him.

Once I was seated the pope came to me. “It is such an honor to have you here.” He stared at me like at an antiquary and looked like he wanted to touch me for some reason.

“Now that you are mentioning it.. Is it not common to summon heroes in your world?”

The king shook his head in bitterly. “Unfortunately the chances of the ritual succeeding are extremely low. It has been hundreds of years since it succeeded the last time. Most do not even try even. The hero himself has also to be a very special person and as such you could say that our summoning of you was more of a farce. This is until it actually succeeded and we could only stare in awe.”

The pope joined our conversation. “No, our almighty god must have seen us as the only last force facing against the filth and must have blessed us with the hero!” His eyes were sparkling as he stared at me.

“Hahaha. Yes, a blessing indeed.” The king patted me on my shoulder. “Eat my hero. Eat and stay mighty and go and win the war for us, for our people, for our religion, for me! Do that and I will be sure to reward you handsomely.”

After the cool speech we just sat down and enjoyed our quick meal.

Fast forward till the evening of an other rather uneventful day and I stood before my new armor and my amazingly epic weapon.

A full body plate armor made out of gold. Engraved in symbols and lions and eagles and other creatures. Must have been magic runes that enchant the armor, totally. It also had small wings on its back. The helmet was extravagant and also had wings on it.

It must weight like a ton. Not that it is gonna be a problem for me though, pff...

The sword was also on some frostmourne shit, I tell ya. It just looked to friking epic. It was a two handed giant sword with its blade twisting and turning and forming all kinds of shapes and having spikes that must all have a reason for them to be there.

The smithy in this world is on some other level...

With my new height and body shape I conveniently fit right into my new gear.

Not giving a damn about what the others might think I said out loud. “Show gear stats!”

The others seemed to not mind but unfortunately I also got no notification... Hmm, weird. Must be broken or something.

Everyone congratulated me on how mighty and heroic I looked in my armor and we talked about how tomorrow I would ride into my first battle. Can not wait to level up. It is sure gonna be a grind, not that I am complaining.

That night I just slept like a happy kid with his new toy. In my case I slept with my new sword as it was sheathed.

A few more days were spent like that in an enjoyable manner. I got to spend time with soldiers and nobles alike, often time those were the same people.

This whole time I have been looking for one special person that I really wanted to meet again, but often only saw her from distance. The princes and me had virtually zero chance to talk privately. What a shame.

Always have I noticed her longing glance towards me.

Then a week later, one day before I would ride out to the front lines, after a tasty lunch with the most prominent dish being cheese, she subtly mentioned for me to follow her and so I stood up from my seat 1 minute after she left and did just that.

We arrived on the same balcony where we spoke the first time.

With my best charming smile I greeted her. “Good evening Anna.”

She was looking far away but then turned around and slowly came towards me, but stopped when she reached an arms length. “Good evening sir Kotatsu.” She looked shyly at me. “I am glad you got my message. I was not really sure whether you would follow me here...”

I was daring today and as such touched her right cheek carefully and stroke it with my thumb. “All this time here I have been waiting for a chance like that, how could I not.”

Anna looked extremely happy at that and got a hold of my hand. She lovingly held it towards her own cheek.

“Sir Kotatsu.. I beg of you to be careful on your crusade, not that you will need to be. “She smiled. “But please return to me victorious and healthy.” She also decided to be daring and winked at me while having a slight blush. “The king would surely allow his victorious hero to have any kind of reward that he might wish for, be it a castle or even maybe the hand of his daughter.”

My eyes lit up from excitement. “No demons will be spared, I promise it milady!”

The princes beamed me another smile and gave me a quick kiss on my cheek before she ran off in embarrassment.

Once she was gone I started to giggle and went back to my room.