Without so much fanfare, Adam is declared as the winner of the duel. The whole Arena erupted into a loud celebration.
Amidst the loud cheers, the King's banner was raised and a tall man with a golden crown stood up.
Loud horns were blown and the crown went even crazier. There's only a few reasons why the King would go up the stage after a duel, and even fewer reasons when one of the Kingdom's hero is defeated in a duel that he initiated.
They watched in great anticipation as the King walked down the stairway towards the Arena.
He is being escorted by two other Hero Knights, one in Black Armor and the other in Red.
The King stopped when he reached the center of the fighting stage. He then turn around to face the crowd. He gestured for everybody to settle down with his hand.
A few moments later, quiet ensues in the entire arena.
"People of Cavalon, it is an honor to present to you the victor of this duel. A man who surpasses all of our expectations. A traveler from a world very far from our own. A man who rules a vast Empire. A man more powerful that anyone I know."
He paused and turned his whole body towards Adam.
"People of Cavalon, let us give our biggest applause to Adam the Destroyer."
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A day ago.
A wizen old man in plain clothes and short white hair is staring lazily out of the throne room window.
He is deep in thought and every few moments sparks of electric aura is visibly seen arcing through and enveloping his entire body.
He suddenly seems to realize something from his musing and turned around to face the only other person in the room.
"My King, the War Maiden has just arrive in the city. Lady Morgana is at the outer gate and is currently heading this way. She'll be requesting to speak with you alone and in private."
The tall man sitting in the Throne stop reading the book in his hand and paid attention to his oldest and most trusted friend.
"What is it Merlin? I can sense that you have been distraught for the last few days."
Merlin turned his gaze back towards the window.
Merlin is the very first Hero of the Cavalon Kingdom. In reality he is the Kingdom's biggest asset, he is the main reason why it is still standing today despite it not being as powerful as some of the other kingdoms. The Five Knights of Cavalon is renowned worldwide but Merlin is their actual leader. The only people who knows who Merlin really is are few and belongs only to the King's inner circle.
"Arthran, my powers have been giving us advantages against our enemies for the last hundred years. It has always made us a few steps ahead of any threat. The threat that we are about to face have the possibility of killing everyone not only in Cavalon but the entire planet. My daughter's arrival to the city now and the news that she's about to report is one of the triggers to an event that I have been dreading to happen since I first seen it in the future."
He paused and looked at the King in the eye.
"A man from another world will visit our Kingdom later today. He is the most dangerous monster that I have ever seen. He has the power to extinguish planets and even stars with just a casual snap of his fingers."
Drops of sweat is visibly rolling down his face as he nervously recount his journey.
"I have tried to walk and change thousands of our future but he is simply too powerful to kill nor preempt. He can summon millions upon millions of dark metallic creatures as powerful as some of the Heroes in this world. From my visions, I saw gigantic floating cities above Cavelon raining fire and destruction. He is always surrounded by six demons that are individually as powerful as a Class SS hero."
Merlin paused the sip on a mug that suddenly appeared in his hand.
"In every scenario that I have lived when we we decide to face him, always ends with our kingdom and even the whole planet being destroyed. The difference between the hundreds of them is either he choose to destroy us in the first five seconds of him stepping inside our walls or a few months later when he decides that he'd had enough."
"In all the possible futures that I have lived, there is only one route that we can take to ensure that this world survives beyond a week of his arrival. You have to follow my instruction to the smallest detail."
Merlin is a time traveler, he is capable of going forward and backwards in time. He's been able to prevent or preempt thousands of disasters that have befallen Cavalon in the past.
He is the only Human born in this world who even achieved a Class SSS rank Hero.
The King and the Time Traveler is looking grimly at each other.
A loud bang at the door signals the arrival of Merlin's daughter.
"King Arthran, Father! My spy in the Elven council has just sent me an urgent message. Prince Tyrandel along with two hundred elves in his royal hunting party were killed in the Elven forest of Shyreithel."
The lady warrior paused as she handed the king a scroll before she continued.
"The Prince is a Class SS Hero and his party consist at least two Class S warriors and there should also be least twenty Class A and B warriors in that party as well. They're saying that Prince's squad was alerted by their priest that a man and six females were roaming their sacred forest and he immediately rushed to the site. The same priests later also reported that the Elven Hunting party was killed in a span of a few seconds after the initial attack."
The two men in the room was shocked at this report. A Class SS ranked Hero with 2 Class S escort is enough firepower to pose a serious threat even to Cavalon. If they can't subdue an opponent, the Prince should have had ample time to escape.
Morgana continued her report. In her opinion, this is the most important piece of information in the entire scroll.
"The group was last observed traversing the unpassable jagged mountains of the Demon's Thorns and they are heading this way."
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Author's note:
This world have special individuals who are born with abilities. Their abilities allows them to be Heroes for a Kingdom.
Their Abilities are being ranked by their effect, the number of people or area it can affect and the number of uses it can be activated per day.
Ex.
A Hero that can freeze a part of his body and use it as defense or offensive weapon. His ability will be ranked Class D.
A Hero that can cause a small area to get cold hence making enemies inside it go slow. his ability is ranked Class C.
A Hero that can insta freeze another individual from a distance and making him completely stop in his tracks can be considered as a Class B hero.
A Hero that can insta kill one person by completely freezing an individual and turning their molecules to water. That ability will be ranked Class A.
A Hero that can freeze the whole City. That ability can be considered Class S.
If he can freeze an entire region. Then that makes him Class SS.
If he can freeze the world whenever he wished without limits. Then that's a class SSS.
A few factors here are the times that they can use their skills and how long do they need to cast the skill. Another factor is how many times they can use the skill in a given time.
Adam in this world.... His ability to create a black hole and destroy the whole planet alone is enough to categorize him as a Class SSS. If the inhabitants of this planet we fully aware of all his capabilities, he should be technically labelled as a godlike creature here.
From my character creation list. I only have 4 individuals on this earth who is categorized as class SSS.