Evade The Hero and Flee!

Chapter 333

35. Flee from the Heroes (6)

#2 Their circumstances: The circumstances of a hero

– Come on, boy.  

Startled by the unnecessarily serious voice, I said.

What is this?  

“Hero of Nature?”

As I’m surprised by the voice calling me and regaining my senses.

Seeing the ogre roaring in front of me and thrusting down his fist, I swing my sword at it.  

“Ah, no.”  

One priest who called me hastily cast a blessing on me and said in a hurry.  

He seemed a little uneasy about my blank look on the battlefield.  

“Sky splitting!”

The golden sword aura splits the battlefield in half.  

Sky Splitting, a pretentious name.   

But its effect has the power to match that pretentious name.   

“Wow ah ah ah!”

As dozens of monsters are sliced ​​by my sword, the morale of the soldiers rises.  

Not even other monsters, but ogres and trolls were the basics.   

Considering there are monsters evaluated as descendants of dragons at a ratio of one in a hundred, it’s enough to raise the morale of soldiers by slicing dozens of monsters in one blow.   

“I’m here!”  

I spread my voice on the battlefield with magic power.   

I’m the leader of the Hero Alliance and the current strongest hero.  

Just letting them know I’m here significantly increases the morale of the soldiers.   

Well… No matter how much it increases, it doesn’t help…

– It’s not yet!   

At that moment, the Demon King’s voice echoed in my ears.   

“This is….”  

I was perplexed and looked around, but there was no sign of the Demon King.   

– Is this all there is to the Demon King?  

A cold voice and mocking laugh.  

The moment I heard it, I realized.   

“Damn…!”  

This is the voice of the instructor.   

The atmosphere was so different that I didn’t notice, but hearing it twice, there was no mistaking it.   

– Come on!  

Seeing the instructor shouting defiantly at the Demon King, I grit my teeth.  

“F**king…!”  

I realized why I could see the figures of the instructor and the Demon King.  

This was the instructor’s call.  

I’m fighting the Demon King, so come quickly.  

Among the various promises I swore to the Geas Scroll, the promise to defeat the Demon King before anything happens to the instructor is informing me of the instructor’s crisis.  

“Damn!”

The cycle of the vision was getting shorter. It meant that the instructor was becoming more and more dangerous.  

What if I fail to keep my covenant with the Gear Scroll?  

“I’ll die, won’t I?”

Can’t die even if I feel wronged.  

I’ve lived most of my life according to other people’s wills.  

The family, the instructor, and the religion and god.  

After this battle ends, I will say that I will retire as a hero because the battle with the Army of the evil god has put too much strain on my body.  

Yes, I will definitely say it.  

To do that, there was something I had to do in advance.  

I realized it while being with the instructor, though I didn’t know it in the past.  

In order to do something in the future, I have to stay alive first!

“I can’t die!”  

I tried to locate the instructor’s vision more accurately while biting my teeth.  

Taking your eyes off during a battle is very dangerous.  

In fact, I almost got hit by an ogre’s fist twice, and almost got bitten by a wolf-like monster five times.  

However, I survived thanks to my outstanding reflexes and the help of other heroes.  

I was able to figure out where the instructor was.  

“Damn! It’s outside the gate!”  

It doesn’t seem like the castle was breached, it seems like the instructor went out voluntarily.  

Considering the instructor’s personality, he must have had a plan to go out, but there is no guarantee that I am not included in that plan.  

“I’ll go crazy.”  

A hero from another religion next to me looked at me in bewilderment, but I didn’t care.  

No, it would be more appropriate to say that I couldn’t care.  

If the instructor had included me in his plan and I couldn’t get there, the instructor could die.  

Kueueung!  

“What the hell are you barking about!”  

I cut the neck of the huge wolf crying in front of me.  

After that, I knocked down the ogres, drakes, trolls, nameless monsters, chicken-like monsters, and half-squeezed, belly-shaped monsters behind them. Staring at the sea of ​​monsters in front of me  

“There are still a lot. Sh*t!”

My life is at stake right now, but there are too many monsters blocking my way.  

Of course, the number of allies looks several times larger, but since most of them are useless, it’s as good as nothing.  

Rather, Aria and Mirea would be more helpful than those hundreds of thousands of people.  

“Get lost!”  

I gather magic power and use explosion magic.  

I didn’t like using magic so I rarely used it, but I wouldn’t throw away my life over mere dislike.  

“Blast! X-Blast!”  

Kwah ah ah ahng!  

With a huge roar, the monsters in front are massacred.   

“F**king!”

Still, there’s too many. Too many!  

Do those cheering humans behind me know how I feel as I burn? I wish they would help me out if they knew.   

“As expected of a hero!”  

Looking at the hero next to me with glittering eyes shouting, it seems hopeless.  

No, before that, aren’t you a hero too?  

If you’re a hero, please help save people in distress.

“The enemy is swarming.”   

“I can see it too….”  

I involuntarily sigh at the hero who only talks about facts they already know without doing anything.  

“We have to kill them all.”  

Drinking a magic recovery potion taken out of my pocket, I glared at the monsters in front of me.  

Let’s see if I live or if you guys live!  

“I’m going to die!”  

…After 5 minutes, I conceded my defeat.  

The illusion playing in my head gets faster and faster, but the monsters show no sign of decreasing.  

Now I have to use my head.  

I have to take these incompetents, fight and defeat the Army of the evil god, and get to where the instructor is.  

How should I do? How on earth should I take these people and….  

“Ah!”  

After repeatedly struggling, I was able to find the answer.   

“There is no answer like this.”  

The answer is that there is no answer.   

In the first place, the problem was wrong.  

Why should I take these incompetents and fight the army of the evil god?  

I have to fight the army of the evil god to survive, but the Demon King was the top priority to kill.  

If only the Demon King is removed, the army of the evil god can eventually be removed by human power.  

In other words, I don’t have to try to overthrow the army of the evil god together with these incompetents.  

No matter how incompetent they are, aren’t they heroes? Aren’t they the Order? Knights and soldiers, right?

They all came here risking their lives, so there should be no problem even if I’m not here. 

There won’t be. Because I’m not here…

“The Demon King is over there.”

“Huh?”

“I’m going to go catch the Demon King.”

“H-Hero sir?”

I smiled brightly at the startled guy looking at me.

“As a divine oracle from the God of Nature, I will attack the evil Demon King.”  

“Th-that’s reckless!”

Yes, it would be reckless. But since it’s Instructor’s plan, there must be a way we can win.

“The one who can step up first and fight when everyone calls it reckless, that is a hero.”  

I grabbed his shoulder and smiled confidently at him.

“That’s us.”

“U-Us…”

His eyes grew wide at the word “us.”

“Yes, us.”

As Instructor said,  

The word “us” seems so simple but represents an incredible sense of belonging!

Just using the word “us” for those who feel isolated can make them feel a tremendous sense of intimacy!

“I’m a hero. And you’re a hero too. We are heroes.”

Chosen by the gods, heroes.  

Simply making him realize that fact was enough to change a person.

“I… I’m a hero!”

Shouting as he drew his holy sword, the hero began fighting the monsters valiantly.

“I guess he really didn’t know.”

Since he kept following me around calling me hero, I figured he didn’t know he himself was also a hero. But seeing how worked up he got when I told him he’s a hero, it really seemed like he had no idea.

“Well, as long as he takes care of the evil god army properly.”

Leaving the loud noises coming from all around behind, I used the stealth techniques learned from Howling to secretly slip out of the battlefield.  

Until the moment I ambush the Demon King from behind.

“Just what is Instructor thinking?!”  

I hear the furious voice of the Demon King.  

Looks like Instructor’s provocation worked well.

Now is my chance.  

Never attack until the opportunity arises.  

Abiding by the assassin’s ironclad rule learned in Howling, I lie in wait for the perfect chance.

Calming my mind, I continue compressing to prevent any leakage of magic power.  

The magic power gathering inside my holy sword moves, trying to be discharged, but I forcibly contain it.

10 meters, 5 meters, 1 meter, and 10 centimeters!

At the moment I’m certain my sword has pierced the Demon King’s neck, our eyes meet.

“Gahk!”

In that instant, a tremendous shock sends my body flying into the air.

“Cough!”

The suppressed magic power begins surging out of control.

I barely managed to restrain it, but taking damage right after I started was a huge blow.

“How… Did you…”

As I glare at the Demon King while wiping away the blood flowing from my lips, the Demon King frowns and raises his hand.

“Too shallow, it seems.” 

My question is casually brushed off, truly befitting a Demon King.  

“Figure it out yourself”  

Of course Instructor’s disciple wouldn’t readily reveal his secrets.  

He said revealing your skills during battle is tantamount to suicide.

“I have no time to bother with a petty hero. So… Die.”

As the Demon King waves his hand, black energy shoots out.

“Damn it!”

My injuries haven’t fully recovered yet, so I use the ambient magic power to erect a magical barrier, but the Demon King’s black energy passes right through the magical wall and comes at me.

So I have no choice but to tax my already injured body to narrowly dodge it, worsening my wounds.

“You cheating bastard….”  

I get that penetrating or smashing barriers, but just passing through?  

It means magic is useless against that.

“Not bad, but still just a brat!” 

“Gah!” 

Clang!

Our swords collide, the clear ringing sound echoing.  

“Ptui!”

“Pathetic!”

I spit out the blood welling up from my throat along with my saliva towards the Demon King’s face, but he lightly evades it and slashes his sword back down at me. Having already prepared a movement spell, I activate it.  

I move about 30 meters away and take out a few small bottles from my pocket which I pop into my mouth.  

“This is driving me crazy!”

Drinking magic power recovery potions and healing potions from the Religion of Nature, I recall the battle from earlier.

Firstly, magic didn’t work. And when our swords clashed, I didn’t feel much recoil either.  

“As expected, he has no magic power.”

No, it surpasses lacking magic power, the rules of magic don’t apply to him.  

An ability that renders not only his own magic power useless, but also everyone else’s.

In a way it seems unfair, but in a way it also seems like a really weak ability, yet unfortunately for the Demon King, it was an ability that could truly be considered unfair.  

“Just my luck the disciple of Instructor had to become the Demon King.”

With sword skills on par with Instructor, he was not an opponent I could overwhelm with technique.  

With magic sealed away, I guess I can consider him an opponent around my level.

“To keep fighting a Demon King like that….”

Instructor is nearing fifty years old….

“I’ve been wedged between monsters and monsters and monsters.” 

The Demon King monster is overwhelming enough, plus there’s the monster called the Instructor and another monster called the Imperial Army.  

My pitiful life struggling desperately not to meet a miserable fate sandwiched between those monsters truly deserves sympathy.

“Damn it! I’ve got no choice.”

Tossing away the empty potion bottles, I deploy my magic.

“Haste! Physical enhancement!”

First, magics to lightly enhance my body’s condition.  

They were basic yet extremely versatile spells.  

“Will this much be enough?”

Primarily, the magic I used was to check if my body had recovered enough from the buffs to be able to use magic. 

It looks fine, so next step.

“Burn! Fireball!”

I summoned spheres of fire and my body was still unharmed.  

One, two… Five… Ten.

I gradually increased the number of spheres to over a hundred.

“Looks like I’m okay.”

Even summoning a sky-full of fire spheres caused no problems.

“Go!”  

I launched all the fireballs at the Demon King as I drew my holy sword.

“Oh divine one, bless your apostle.”

With the blessing exclusive to heroes placed upon my body, I steadied myself as I looked upon the Demon King who was uninjured even after being hit by hundreds of fire spheres.

“After all, your body is a human body!”

Though the Demon King can regenerate even if his heart is pierced, he cannot come back to life if his neck is severed or his heart gouged out.  

I heard even severed limbs could be reattached, but if reduced to ash there would be no coming back.

He is a tough opponent to beat. However, he is not an immortal invincible being.   

So if I can just land one critical hit!

“Ugh!”

I charged through the curtain of flames but was easily sent flying by his counterattack.  

I tried to confuse his vision with illusion magic as I stabilized myself, but the magic itself seemed not to work as only the real body was clearly left exposed and got smashed.

After that as well, I could not withstand the Demon King’s attacks and was sent flying repeatedly, and after that, and after that as well… And even after that!

Despite failing 10 consecutive attempts, I did not give up.  

“You damn cockroach!” 

“Gaahhh!”

I was sent flying again from his 13th attack.

“Ugh…! Not yet!”  

But I stood up again.

For the sake of the world! And for my freedom!

“It’s not over yet, Demon King!”

I was able to keep standing up because I had something I believed in.  

The fact that I was facing the Demon King head-on meant Instructor had some sort of plan.

When I got hit by the Demon King’s attacks earlier, I saw Instructor preparing something.

No matter how powerful a Demon King is, he cannot escape if caught in Instructor’s schemes.   

Isn’t that right, Instructor?

“Hmm?”

“……”

As I turned my head with such faith, I saw with my own eyes Instructor sitting casually on the floor, eating something pure white.

Instructor grinned as he casually took out more of the pure white stuff, bringing it to his mouth.

-I. Am. Putting. My. Utmost. Faith. In. You.

“Ah….”  

Leaving those words behind, Instructor went back to snacking on the mysterious white substance, and I realized upon seeing that,

“There was no plan at all!”

But by the time I realized that, it was already too late.  

“Die!”

The Demon King with eyes bloodshot red was charging at me once more.

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