AN: A quick note, I wont concentrate on the demonlord in this short story since that deserves one of its own.
At least not a lot.
And if anybody is wondering how long this short story will be: Like 3 or 4 more chapters.
Part 4
Today was a very special day. The whole capital city was in uproar and got ready to send of its own military plus the small little fact that me, the hero will accompany them.
Or better the military will accompany me huehue.
I somehow am envious of the peasants..
After all they will get the chance to see me for the first time. This must be like the highlight of their life. Sigh.. must be good to have such an easy life...
Well, anyhow. Right now I am helped by 3 different maids into my new awesometakular golden armor. I have not mentioned it before, but it ain't easy to get into it. Takes like half an hour..
The only good thing about is how the maids, all female and beauties of course, ogle my body from head to toe and breath really heavy whenever they get to touch it.
If only I also had an excuse to touch them... But unfortunately I have to be all hero and shit, not that they would not like it though.
Also my virginity is certainly reserved for the princess.. I thought that while liking my lips in anticipation. I am even sure that we share that wish with each other.
After my armor was on me and the maids made sure that everything was in the right place, and looked fabulous, I was led outside.
There he stood... My horse. A completely white one with light golden armor protecting it in the most important places. Its mane was waving in the air beautifully and I was sure that it was one hell of a horse, befitting of a great hero.
Behind me, on a balcony stood the princes and looked concerned as she waved her hand at me. I beamed her a wide smile and waved my hand back.
I sat on it and we rode towards the army. Ten thousand of the best men, armed to their teeth, will be riding with me into the battlefield to slaughter demons with me and the general as the supreme commanders.
Right now I think the general might be above me, I mean he was long here before me and all, but this will not be for long. Nothing against him, it is just that after a few level ups he won't be shit against me.
Now I wonder what the level cap is. Is it 99? 999? I guess that depends on how fast my progress will be. If I easily reach 50 than it can not be 99 but if it will take me years to reach even 20 then it must be 99. If there even is a cap.
And what level is the demon lord? From my understanding I, as a hero am the only person with the “hero assistance system” and levels and such. Others have to just train and hone their skills while I get stronger by killing my enemies.
So yes, what level or what would be the equivalent to the demonlords level?
Well, he is kind of the last boss around here, but then again, he is destined to be slayed by me so I will just meet him when the time is right and my level is high enough for it to be an epic encounter.
Together with the army we rode through the city. A straight pass with people standing by the sides and cheering at us while I lead them.
To my feet rose petals were thrown and everyone chanter “HERO TO THE WIN!” and the great lord of light and such.
It was the first time that I was outside of the castle. It looked pretty good. The houses were all in very good shape and looked like they were recently restored and cleaned, the city must be very rich to allow for such a thing to most of them.
The people that stood around us also all looked well fed and dressed, chanting for me with their happy families and were all smiles.
I also happily waved my hand to them and threw a few air kisses towards the pretty women. Their men did not even look all that jealous and were even happy for them haha.
When I looked to my left I noticed a lone small boy from an alley as he came forward. Strangely he looked very dirty and underfed.
As he noticed me he looked very hopeful and with astonishment at me. Since I was very goodhearted I waved towards him with a smile.
The guards that guarded the people around noticed the little boy and angrily threw himself at him. He was taken away and when the guards returned they smiled towards me as to reassure me that it was nothing to be concerned about.
Hmm, poor boy must have lost himself or something.
At the end of our road we arrived at a giant empty gate that led to nowhere and everywhere at the same time, a portal.
It would take us months to get to the border of this kingdom normally, but now we would be there in a few minutes.
I could feel enormous amounts of mana being gathered as the portal was about to be activated and as if the matter was being torn in between the empty gate, a rift of darkness opened itself and formed into something that I think resembles a black hole. A vortex that sucks itself towards the middle. You know, I never saw a black hole if you can guess, but this is what I think it would look like.
“IT IS READY!” Someone shouted and I got the honor to enter as the first man.
A quick loss of orientation and I saw how I stood somewhere completely else, a much smaller city by comparison. Here also a large crowd of people stood there and looked at me. I was already somewhat used to it and so I paid them almost no mind and waved my hand to please the crowd.
Half an hour later the complete forces crossed the portal and we continued our journey.
We rode and rode for a few days. It was noticeable how we crossed something like the border of this kingdom and it was very obvious that it was a different one already, the building and the culture as a whole was just different. Most of the houses were burned and were restored but some just stood there.
Humans just lived their lives here without a worry and welcomed us so I thought nothing of it.
The demons must have attacked here or something. I decided to ask the general who rode beside me the whole time.
“Yes.. This area was once owned by humans but the filthy demons took it over hundred of years ago. It was only recently that we have reclaimed our holy lands and we won't stop until our lands are our as a whole again. And once we are done here we will go and turn all the other human towards the one true religion.”
Soon we arrived at the demon border and saw how they were ready to fight us. A few scouts must have notified them.
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It was the first time that I actually got to see a demon. They looked just like humans but with redder skin and horns on their heads, maybe a tail or something that I do not see right now. It is really scary how similar they look to humans.
Well, looks can really be deceptive...
They had a force of about 5 thousand waiting for us.
I quickly started to chant my 2 buff spells.
Like a beautiful song the chant left my mouth and I started to shine in holy light and the morale of our army exceeded all possible limits as they screamed in joy before battle.
Feeling the thrill before the fight, I could not contain myself and just jumped right into them over several hundreds of meters.
When I landed the demons around me were blasted away. Quickly I started to swing my sword with all my might and slaughtered tens of demons with each swing as they screamed in in horror. I did not even have to defend myself as their attacks did not even go through my armor and even when it came trough, my skin was still harder than stone.
“SURROUND HIM AND TAKE HIM DOWN AT ALL COST!” A demon screamed for everyone to hear but was not smart enough to see that it makes no difference.
From the side of my eye I saw that my army also started to attack after they saw my heroic attack.
My surrounded by burning light sword was thundered down onto a young demon as the light remained on his wound and kept on burning with a whitish yellow flame and made him suffer from that deadly wound tens of times as it was the norm.
Well, of course it was a one time thing as all the other demons were sliced by me with one swing and lost their lives instantly. If they were lucky, or not, they only lost limbs.
I was like a storm of death while I slaughtered them left and right right in their mid and send horror to their hearts.
My endurance seemed endless since I could go on like this for days without taking a break but slowly I had enough.
“Oh great lord, send me the power to banish all the filth that dared to invade your holy grounds as I am your servant and will serve you with all I have to offer.” I sang out loud and demons could feel my mana being concentrated before it shot outwards with me standing at the center.
An explosion of blinding light shot out and killed many demons instantly while sent others flying, only few remained in the large shining area that remained after my spell.
One particular dangerous looking demon lunged himself towards me and swung his sword at me. I thought that I would easily block his swing but unfortunately this was a feint and I was stabbed in my shoulder.
“ARGH!” I screamed from the pain and rammed my right foot in his chest. He was pushed away and we started to exchange blows for a few minutes until the general arrived and helped me to kill him.
Surprising or not, but I do not like pain at all.. I hate it! My heavily bleeding shoulder, even through my armor, burned and I had to get myself together as to not cry right here in front of all those people.
Quickly I started to chant my healing spell and only 7 seconds later the pain disappeared.
Like this more than half of the enemies force was destroyed easily by me alone and humans roared from the obviously awaiting them victory.
The remaining and mostly hurt demons started to retreat but were still slaughtered by us. Only a few managed to run away but if I wanted to I could still easily catch them.
I just roared behind them. “TELL YOUR LORD THAT A NEW HERO WILL COME TO CLAIM HIS LIFE!”
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The next few months I fought lots of such battles. We pushed the demons back much further so they had to retreat their forces back.
We pushed our borders much farther away and manned them before we were allowed to celebrate for days without end.
The only interesting thing about that was that I for the first time in my life could drink alcohol and that I could tolerate a lot more than others.
Also during my battles my level rose to 58 now. I got 5 points per level to put into my stats, so a total of 285 points to spend.
From a few test I got that strength and vitality were the best of all of them since they boosted my physical powers by a lot. As such I put 185 points into vitality and 100 into strength.
By now there were rarely ever demons that could even scratch me but they also rarely ever even attacked us. They seemed to have enough and hid in their lands or whatever.
Anyhow, victorious I rid back to the capital to be welcomed as a hero, hehe.
Unfortunately we could not take the portal since it was not an urgent matter to get back but it was not so bad traveling through the kingdom and being treated like Jesus fucking Christ and being showered by gifts of all kinds.
One thing I noticed was that other cities were by far not as clean and rich as the capital, but that was like a minor detail.
Well, sooner or later we arrived and were received by an even bigger crowd of people than before and they all chanted my name.
I was received by the king and all the important nobles who all congratulated me and I was told that tomorrow a giant celebration would be held to my honor.
In my room again, I changed my cloth and went towards the bathing area.
Once inside I relaxed and waited for a maid to clean my body.
Behind me the door opened and I turned my head around to only be completely amazed by what I saw.
A naked woman stood there only covered by a towel that went from barely covering her nipples and under her private area.
I gulped loudly and got very red. However I did not look away, this thought did not even cross my mind once as I stared at that woman.
“Hihi. I am honored to serve the great hero. “She came forward. “It would be an even bigger honor if the great hero remembered me. “She shook her hips seductively.
For the first time since she came inside I took a good look at her face.
It was the maid that I have healed on my first day here that now looked at my body with hungry eyes and stopped in between my legs while biting her lower lip.
“My name is Katarina by the way. Nice to meet you. “She smiled in a way that send all the blood in me to one part of my body in particular.