We finally reach a small clearing in the forest, there lies a humanoid skeleton with a Kingly pose supported by a boulder, A bit bigger than me in height.
"Warzheil told me that Higher dragons are very rare and can turn themselves into human form while reducing their mana and strength capacity temporarily in exchange for a compact body that hits like a sword tip with the force of a catapult."
I look at Warzheil who seems to be holding back his emotions.
"Forgive me, friend, I am too late. He must have fought with all he had, but power comes at a cost." He says as we move toward the skeleton.
But in the blink of an eye, a person clothed in light armor blocks our way and looks like a woman.
"Your reputation precedes you Thundersmith, I would like it if we settled on this without a fight." The woman says
Blue hair, light eyes, and her clothing clinging to her curves. The woman stands with a sword blocking our way to Drax's skeleton.
The environment darkens as clouds forms and I can see the old man emitting a lot of thunder, he is pissed no doubt. Good thing I have a mask on or else it would have been hard to get in human cities.
"The shamelessness of your Holy Empire knows no bounds does it? Listen here girl, if you humans dare lay a hand on my friend, I will not let you leave alive."
"I am truly sorry for your loss, but we need these bones to make a weapon that will aid us in killing the demon lord and saving the people of these lands."
"You guys aren't even worthy of being heroes, the only true Heroes these lands have known are Heroleas and the ancients, and one of them behind you is my friend and a god That saved your sorry ass empire when the Hell fiends Attacked and this is how you repay him?"
The woman flinches a little.
"I..[Interrupted]" she says
"We are truly grateful to god Drax and hope that His sacrifice will add to our power." Says a bald man that walks from the right side of the forest into the clearing followed by many paladins clad in armour.
"Can't happen, won't happen," I say stepping forward
"Commander! That hand of his." A paladin points at my hand and says
"A demon?!" she says noticing my hand.
"Oh, so the Thundersmith has joined hands with the demons now! Protect the Dragon god's skeleton!" the priest says with a suspicious expression.
The paladins take a fighting stance.
"Cruth, You know who the commander is right?"
"oh, yes pardon my insolence but that right there is the natural enemy of us humans. I couldn't stand Them! They killed Cardinal Sir Makroth in front of my eyes. I hate them."
The woman doesn't reply and turns towards me.
"You guys hold the Thunder-smith, and don't underestimate him, a single thunder can kill you." She says as she walks slowly towards me.
"You Stay out of this Ronin, this is my fight, now that you are half demon you are weak to holy magic."
"Shut it, old man." Warzheil shoots a confused look mixed with his previous seriousness as I continue to speak.
"my mind is clearer than before," I say
"You keep those paladins and the priest off my back and I will deal with this girl here," I say as I walk away to a separate space, Warzheil catches on and also moves apart steadily.
"Are you sure? she is one of the 7 heroes and is strong."
"you will soon know why I was the best in the field I was in before coming here."
"I will count on you then."
I move to a separate space but the hero doesn't budge and raises her hand.
" Hitman? How does he know about that? Now that I look at it that suit is nothing like what I have seen before, it's more like... well whatever." The hero thinks.
Before I knew it there were multiple spikes made of light in front of me in the air and with one wave of the hero's hand, the arrows shot at me.
I instinctively tried to save myself with my left hand because it seemed to have worked against the mage goblin. But one arrow hits my shoulder and vanishes in the air.
I feel no pain, I remove my hands and find myself unharmed, I look at the hero who previously looked unbothered by me but now she turns towards me.
"My attack definitely hit him and yet he is unscathed? Impossible. My light magic is strong enough to harm even the demon lord's base form even though I am level 340 and I couldn't hurt a peasant demon. Must be his suit. Let's see how long he can endure."
Hundreds of spikes appear in the air ready to shoot at me. This can be bad, maybe I was lucky before. She looks to be a mage, I must get close fast.
The hero drops her hand meaning the start of attacks. I ran towards her and noticed I was faster now, I had never had such a fast sprint before. This means I have gotten stronger, yes, I can win even if I can't use magic.
I run as low as a dog to make dodging easy as most spikes end up hiding in the ground. I made it into her close quarters. I use my spear as staff to hit her but she effortlessly blocks the attack using just the hilt of her one-handed sword.
"heh." She giggles.
I feel insulted.
"I was trying not to accidently kill you since you are a hero but it seems like you are a fine fighter. Allow me to go all out." I say but the hero leaps back really fast as if I were the one who was teleported back.
The hero summons more spikes of light but this time I will use the martial arts I learned from my grandpa. Well technically I learned most of it from him but I will be using a technique I saw in movies.
The Hero shoots the spikes at me. I take a deep breath and spin the staff in a circular motion and mix in some leaps and dodging whenever needed as many which I can't block with spin motions to keep the spear's spin going. It works I can block most spikes. I can't just keep defending. But suddenly the attacks stop. There is a lot of dust around at first I can't see anything but then my vision blurs. I fall on my knees due to weakness but then I look around and I can see colorful winds, is it even wind? I can see the outline of the hero standing outside this smoke I can see everything outside the smoke even the outline of trees and things behind. But only from my left eye. It is nauseating.
But I can make use of this power. And so I rush from the right of the smoke, this is what I was hoping for, there it is, a look of bafflement, the hero must not have expected me to deflect all of them.
Hero's Perspective:
Starts running to avoid Ronin.
"He deflected all of my spikes with a staff? Only the primordial class weapons can do that. Does that mean his staff is a primordial class? Not only that, but he is not your run-of-mill fighter, I have never seen someone with this level of skill in this world." She thinks
"I need to end this before there is trouble."
The Hero starts chanting while simultaneously shooting spikes but this time they are few so I can run straight in, normally I wouldn't do something so reckless but I need to take chances or else I will just end up exhausted.
I run at the hero, there is fear on her face but suddenly her expression changes to a smile.
"Got you." She says as I hit her but something feels off.
Suddenly I see a blade pierce my chest. As the hero disappears from my front. The blade missed my heart by quite a margin, in fact, quite the opposite of where it is
"Light of goddess: Exorsism Blade!" she says.
The sword glows a little but the glow disappears as quickly as it came.
"Huh? The skill didn't work?"
"Hey, are you mocking me? You had such a good chance to stab me in the heart."
The Hero looks shocked as she immediately takes out her sword and leaps away.
"You are no ordinary demon. I used holy magic on you but it didn't work. It would work on any being regardless of race. And why are you not dead even though I stabbed you through the heart?" she says with confusion in her eyes.
"My heart? Isn't a heart supposed to be towards the center from the left side? It seems to me you miscalculated."
"To the left? But that was the case on Earth! Wait is he by any chance..." she thinks
"It seems like your men are giving the old man a hard time," I say as I turn to look but Warzheil looks like a possessed Viking. He doesn't look like he needs help.
"Hey, did your mana run out?" I ask
"Wait, I haven't introduced myself, I Am Ava Rays. One of the top 7 Heroes."
"oh, I See you are Ava....."
What? that's my sister's name, but she is nothing like what I remember. Must be a coincidence.
"O-oh, my name is Ronin."
"by any chance, are you from a land called Earth, mister Ronin?"
"Wha....? How do you know?" I can't let this slide. This cannot be by lucky guess. She knows something.
"I assume you are from The Shadow company?"
I can't if she knows my identity then she must know my sister. I can't let her leave until I know where she is. No wait, I need to calm down, this cannot be luck, is it possible she is my sister?
"yes. I am from the Shadow company."
"Oh, my Code name is Dark. Wow, can you show me your face? I assume you are human too?" she says sincerely
I can't risk revealing my face, what if she recognizes me? From what I know, my sister was fed hatred toward me telling her lie that I sold her to the Shadow company to make extra money. From what Frey told me, every time the company rewarded her all she asked was my location so that she could get revenge but they never fulfilled it since I had become their top Hitman by that time.
"no I can't show my face, if you are from there then you know why right?"
"wasn't that rule only for the top 10? Don't tell me you are one of the top 10?"
"yes, I am no.2"
I must find out if she is or is not my sister. If not then I must rid of her.
"What is such a high ranker doing here? Did you get reincarnated and asked for this demonic body from a god?"
"I am on a mission a very close friend of mine gave me. He found some locations where she might be and told me to help find his beloved sister. He became the no.1 there, but when he found out that the Shadow company hid his sister's whereabouts and were the ones who had kidnapped her years ago he destroyed it and we went separate ways to help him find her. But I ended up here. And coincidently your name matches the name of his sister. You don't look quite the same as he described though so I let it go but since you know about The Shadow Company then the doubts are cleared."
"by any chance is your friend's name Shar Rays?" she asks with a hostile look.
"So you are his sister?! Well, I finally found you. Unfortunately, I don't think I can take you back though."
"Take me back? I don't even have a blood relation to that bastard now. And He was the one who sold me to that company to begin with."
"I don't know about you but after being in the same line of work with him I know how nasty the company was, they told you that your brother sold you to them but never let you know his location, why do you think that they didn't tell you? Because they were manipulating you. Your brother tried hard to meet you, he loved you dearly Ava. It pains me now that we have met. I know all that happened to that dude. He never gave in ...[interrupted}"
"Enough! So what? I have a family here now, I have a son and a loving husband. I never liked it there. All that the world had given me was pain. I died in the Chambers of a lab, but Goddess Ethis gave me a new body and a purpose in this world. I have friends here. He couldn't give me any of it. If you ever return to Earth, please tell him this, "go, f**k yourself."
What do I do? She doesn't need me? But I did all that for her! Should I show her my face?
"You wanted to see my face, right?"
I gather the courage to remove my mask. There is a glint of surprise on her face.
"Like I thought, you are human. You look around my age too, But what's with that black eye? Is it robotic?"
She doesn't recognize me! Well, I guess I can't blame her since she was small when they kidnapped her.
"Hey! Are you crying?" she says
What's she saying? I rub my cheeks to find out that a stream of tears has started flowing from my eyes. When did I last cry? I tried, I tried my best Grandpa. But I couldn't keep her happy or safe.
Ava moves closer but stops shortly after.
"Sorry I don't know what pain you are in. but mygoddess commands me to kill you. And to be honest you look like a nice guy. ButI can't you leave now that I have told you who was a part of the shadowcompany. I will ask the goddess to reincarnate you in this world. Though I can'tguarantee you to remember your past. Mister Ronin, I hope you find peace.Please do not fight back, it's useless since I will be using my special powerwhich grants me god power.
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