The Great Sage A.K.A. Roy last saw Bell Dyer run out of the cave like a crazy person looking for her children, and he didn't blame her, she wasn't in a normal state of mind after what she had been through.
She just saw her husband get killed right in front of her by her neighbors, which were people she had seen, chatted with, and some of them had kids of their own which meant their own kids could play with the other kids. Bell also held out hope that she had time to save her children before they were to burn to death.
And not only that but nearly half of her body was burned beyond repair.
As it turns out the summoning circle had a flaw: whatever scar, mark, injury the hero had before he had been summoned that injury would live with them for the rest of their lives. No healing potion, or healing skill would fix it, because the summoning circle somehow tricked the human body to believe that the injuries, marks, and scars on their body were a part of their bodies as if they were born that way.
If a hero had missing severed limbs, fingers, etc, that they got summoned from a horrible accident, they would remain limbless all their lives as there is no way to fix it.
At the time Roy wished he would have helped her and chased after her, but the sight of those monsters made him feel weak; he was just a newly summoned hero.
Roy hid in the cave with the other people. There was no point in leaving the cave.
Roy and the priest, Samuel, would take a few days to get used to the new world, especially Samuel.
Roy had been relatively calm ever since he was first summoned, unlike Samuel.
The reason he was calm is because of something he wouldn't realize until much later, Roy was blessed with two amazing abilities.
Since they were the first heroes to ever have been summoned no one really knew what the heroes were capable of exactly. The first thing they realized is that they had insane strength, durability, healing abilities, regeneration, heightened reflexes, heightened senses, and speed. But those abilities are what all heroes have upon being summoned.
Samuel would say how having such abilities was akin to witchcraft and was against God and blah, blah, blah. But his complaining would only last for a few hours until he found out just how amazing those passive abilities really were.
Samuel was an old, fragile man who was at the end of his rope due to his old age. Having such abilities made him feel stronger than he ever did when he was in his youth.
Roy would be the first one to find out about his first ability compared to the other three heroes.
His first ability was the power of the mind: that ability was the reason he was calm and collected even in a situation where others would be freaking out. It was how he is able to move things with his mind, read the minds of others, and speak to them telepathically, and other abilities.
His second ability, which he wouldn't find out until a day later, was the power of mana. With it he could conjure any spell, control mana, give others mana and make them into sorcerers.
It was because of this ability that the mana ores were given that name, at the time they were just called 'stone-stones' or 'ore-ores' they were placeholder names, but they were officially named after the Great Sage found small traces of mana in the mana ores and decided to rename it 'mana ores'.
During the following days Roy would spend his days alone in a cave, as standing in a room full of people made him feel nauseous as he could read all their minds at the same time. It would take him years to finally learn to control it. At the time he could only tolerate one or two people at once.
The caves were lit up by either torches, or a special flower that could light up in the dark.
However, Roy didn't realize he was making a horrible mistake, a mistake he had wished he would have fixed if given the chance again. He just didn't realize it because he was ignoring it.
Over the past several days Samuel, the priest, would use his years of experience as a priest to preach to others about God, of course by 'God' he meant himself and no one else, spreading a new religion to everyone, making them all his sheep, and making himself seem like God. And it worked.
Samuel has advantages over Roy, he was an older man, old people were considered to be a person of great importance as people did not live over the age of thirty. Samuel has years of experience controlling crowds of people, especially the ones in this world who were looking for a miracle to help them.
Samuel is used to control crowds of people and is able to convince them of many heinous acts. In fact he has burned over a hundred innocent women, falsely condemning them as witches, and having them killed slowly while reciting the words on the bible which he didn't believe in.
The reasons he would give for burning them always had to do with them being witches, but the real reason he wanted to burn them is because not only was he extremely sexist towards women, but he enjoyed seeing people burn and seeing them in pain.
Samuel enjoyed burning moms and daughters on a giant wooden crucifix which they were nailed to. Basically only women who come from loving families would be targeted by him, because he could also watch how their families cry over their deaths.
Roy purposely avoided Samuel as he didn't like priests. His mom came from a very religious family, until she changed her ways after her own sister falsely accused her of being a witch.
He thought it was best to avoid Samuel and find a way home, not knowing it would have been better to know what he was plotting. And he never bothered to think about what hero abilities he got, which was another mistake.
Bell would be missing the entire time, never returning to the cave, many had thought she was already dead.
Ten days had gone by after he got summoned, Roy would finally leave the cave for the first time. After finding no way back home he thought he needed to look somewhere else. And he also wanted a place where he could be by himself, where he couldn't read anyone's mind anymore.
Roy wanted to stop reading people's minds, but he was like a radio that was always on and always picking up random signals. Most of their thoughts were about Samuel, which at the time he admits was a foolish move to ignore.
But the most important reason he wanted to leave, apart from looking for his mom, is because of the food, there was no meat at all. His portions contained weird mushrooms, grass, animal bones, dirty water, and whatever else people could find. That was the main diet everyone at the time ate. Roy really wanted some meat and delicious vegetables.
Roy would rarely not eat even back with his mom because they were poor, but the food from his mom was the equivalent of a 5-star michelin restaurant compared to the trash they were giving him.
The first time he left the cave was confront a dragon. It was only a dragon on the third layer, but seeing the creature in person didn't faze him at all anymore.
Roy flew towards the dragon trying to punch it back, instead he flew straight through the dragon's hearts, covering his entire body in dragon blood with the dragon falling to its death. Roy did not think that by merely flying fast he could kill a dragon.
"Woah… that was something." Roy would try to wipe the blood away from his face using his bloody covered hands.
He could sense another dragon was flying towards him at rapid speed. The other dragon could smell the blood of one of its kind and the scent attracted him.
"I wonder…" Roy decided to use his mind ability.
Roy clenched his fists tightly together and brought it closer to his chest. The dragon found itself floating in the air, unable to move, and feeling an invisible force was crushing him from all sides.
Roy continued clenching his hands tighter, the dragon's scales were cracking like glass, his bones were being shattered, his wings and limbs were crippled, his eyes popping out of its sockets, his body was being deformed like a kid playing with play-doh. He screamed in pain and agony but there was nothing he could do.
In the end the dragon's body exploded everywhere leaving nothing behind but a pool of blood and scattered pieces of its body.
It was the first time he had taken a life, and in such a brutal fashion.
"Okay… Thy went too far." Roy looked at his hands. The power he had was beyond amazing.
Roy, in the beginning, absolutely loved being all powerful, it was like a drug.
Taking a large piece of dragon meat, and cooking it by producing flames from his palm, he ate the dragon meat as soon as it was cooked well.
Roy spat out the dragon's cooked meat.
"Disgusting." Roy was sure that the meat was well cooked, but the texture and taste were horrible, it was as if he was eating burned rubber. The smell was equally as horrible, but Roy thought he could eat it without throwing up.
Something inside Roy began to awaken when he killed those two dragons. When he killed that dragon in the beginning, he did feel bad, for a bit, then he began to enjoy it every time he replayed it in his memory. And he went on a killing spree, killing monsters, trying to find anything that was edible.
What many people don't know is that Roy loved killing monsters in brutal fashions, but never did he kill an innocent human or elf in the next three hundred years. He would only kill monsters brutally. And yes, that also included humans who have done horrible misdeeds to other humans or elves especially if they had something to do with children, because in his eyes they were not humans anymore, but monsters wearing human skin.
After forty-five years of killing monsters secretly in every way possible he could think of, he got bored and stopped. And after repeating the same thing for hundreds of years, at one point, he was tired of it all and wanted to rest.
Roy would taste the flesh of every monster he could find, goblins, cyclops, trolls, red goblins, and so on. Later on he would think how lucky he was that he didn't eat anything that was poisonous, he did not know if he was resistant or immune to poisons.
Roy could not find any tasty animals such as rabbits, deer, or bear, and so on. All the monster meat tasted horrible, especially cyclops meat which was somehow worse than dragon meat.
The few animals he could find that were edible were giant birds, giant snakes and fish. Sea monsters were also surprisingly good after being cooked.
After three more days of hunting and having a full belly, Roy could relax.
He once saw Bell running around desperately searching for her family still. With no idea on how to help her Roy ignored her.
Behind him there was a trail of monster corpses. Everywhere he went monsters would die. At first Roy still hesitated in killing monsters, but as time went on and his killcount rose, he got faster and better at killing monsters effortlessly.
Surrounding him is a huge, colorful snake, wide enough to swallow a human and long enough to circle a castle. The giant snake would later be hunted to extinction by heroes due to how delicious it was.
Roy even made a small but crappy cottage house near the forest that looked like a cottage. It would serve as a temporary home for now.
At that moment, while he was cooking some fish, he sensed two unknown beings coming from behind him, and they were slowly walking towards him.
Roy stood up preparing to kill the monsters. Turning around, what he saw were not monsters, but people, a young man and a young woman with white fair skin, pointy ears, beautiful long blonde hair, clothes made out of animal pelts, covered with flowers.
Roy had never seen such beautiful people before. In his time hygiene was not of such importance, people rarely showered, never brushed their teeth, face and skin cream were basically nonexistent, shampoo was basically nonexistent as well. People didn't care about their hygiene not because they wanted to, but because they couldn't afford it and they didn't have the knowledge compared to the people in the modern era.
"Hello, being from another world." The man spoke, his voice sounded soft and gentle.
"Hello… people?" Roy didn't know what to call them. They looked like people but were too pretty to be humans, not to mention their pointy ears were not normal physical human traits.
At that point elves were nowhere as popular compared to the modern era, although their existence has been recorded in norse mythology stories, they were not very common for most people to know of their existence. Thanks to books and movies their existence is now well known compared to what it was before.
"My name is Silvas, this is my beautiful wife, Camilla. Can we have a talk with you?" Silvas dragged a deer from behind him that was fully intact.
Camilla brought four dead rabbits that she hunted. They were considered peace offerings, to show the hero they mean no harm.
Silvas looked nearly identical even after three hundred years had passed.
Camilla looked very much like Grace but older, a bit taller, and more muscles in her arms as a result of practicing countless hours with the bow and arrow.
They were able to find these animals inside Lea's forest, because Lea protects endangered animals. The number of animals living inside Lea's forest was staggering, the reason she protects them is because if she didn't many animal species would go extinct from all the monsters that would be killing them and eating them.
"Thee can talk." Roy gestured to them to sit on the ground. He was so infatuated by their beauty he didn't even bother listening to their minds at first.
Silvas helped Camilla sit down on the ground as she had trouble sitting down.
"Thou art well?" Roy asked Camilla.
"What was that?" Silvas asked, no one else was familiar with the way he speaks.
"Are you feeling well?"
"Yes, just a bit… tired." Camilla smiled at Roy.
"I told you I should've come alone, and you should not have hunted those rabbits in your state." Silvas whispered to his wife while helping her sit.
Roy frowned, he could read their minds. From what he could tell is that Camilla was suffering from a type of post-pregnancy injury.
Camilla had already given birth to Arbor nearly two months ago. During the pregnancy she had fallen ill and nearly died along with the baby. Luckily they had saved her and her baby using nature's resources.
Camilla had gotten better after giving birth. But lately she has gotten worse. No one could do anything about it and her condition started to worsen. As the queen of the elves they had tried to help her, but no matter what they did they could not find a method to heal her.
However, they have something that could save her, the exotic flower. Silvas wasn't too worried for his wife because he knew that the exotic flower would sprout soon from the exotic flower seed. With it he can use it to cure his wife and extend her lifespan.
Elves naturally have a long lifespan, but with the exotic flower elves can live longer.
From what Roy could tell, the elves wanted to simply form an existent friendship with Roy and the other two heroes to protect the elves where their goddess could not.
Their Goddess had told them how three powerful beings had been summoned to this world and to not fight them outside of the forest.
Silvas and Camilla would simply chat up with Roy as if they were friends. Roy was so captivated with their beauty that he could not recall much of the conversation. All he remembered was having a good time talking with them. What felt like minutes of talking actually lasted for hours until the sun was rising.
When the sun rose, Silvas and Camilla had to bid their farewells to Roy.
Roy would continue on with his day like nothing had happened, although he did savor the meat the elves had brought to him.
The next day, the elves found Roy again and with the same offerings as last time.
For the next five days Roy would find himself chatting with the elves and enjoying their company. On the fifth day Roy found himself talking to Silvas alone. Camilla had to rest as her condition slightly worsened.
Somedays Camilla would be better, other days she would be not so well. Lately she had been pushing herself too much to talk to Roy and accompany Silvas.
It had now been 16 days since Roy had been summoned to this world. He had grown fond of Silvas and Camilla during their talk, and all three had gotten to know each other.
During that time Roy had come to understand more about his power. The one annoying part is that he doesn't know how to control his mind reading ability, it even got stronger as he could now read the minds of monsters he would come into close contact with.
Roy was flying higher than the clouds just barely exiting the planet's atmosphere. He could see the entire planet. It was a magnificent sight for Roy, especially since in his time no one was even close to reaching the skies.
Of course he was in the sky because he had circled the entire planet looking for his mom. He already knew he was in another world, but he thought it was worth a try.
"I miss thee, mother." Roy began to feel upset.
At that point Roy decided to go back to the cave where he was first summoned to find a clue to go back.
Before he could fly towards it he found himself already there as if he had teleported there with a thought.
Roy was so shocked to see himself in a dark cave that he flew up and made a giant hole in the roof of the cave. He thought it was possibly a trap and reacted quickly to escape.
"What the?"
Roy peeked his head down and saw underneath him was the summoning circle. He could barely see anything because his eyes weren't adjusted to the darkness. And there were also people looking up and were all equally shocked and confused.
This was the first time he had used his teleportation ability. With a thought he could teleport anywhere.
Many years later a thought had occurred to him and tried teleporting back to his home on Earth. But any attempts on doing so would never work. He didn't know why it never worked, he could teleport to the other side of the world with ease..
"Hello." Roy flew down to the summoning circle and ignored the group of people who were looking at him.
'Ah… my head.' Roy could hear their thoughts, with so many people present he couldn't hear himself think or even make out what one person was thinking. With his ability growing stronger he could hear more voices in his head and see their memories, it's one of the reasons he left the cave.
Roy knew that the summoning circle was the key to returning back home, but no matter how long he studied it he could never find a way back home.
How he wished that the only man to know something about the summoning circle, Kleo, didn't have to sacrifice himself to summon the three heroes.
"Um, excuse me." A young woman came up to Roy.
"What?!" Roy asked in an annoyed tone. He could barely hear her talking to him.
"Did our lord and savior, Samuel the Saint, say when he was coming back?"
"Who?" Roy asked, confused and annoyed.
"Samuel the Saint, that is his name. He said he would go to find you and the Witch to save your souls."
Hearing her, Roy thought something was weird. Was Samuel, the old horrible priest, actually referring to himself as a saint?
Roy had secretly read Samuel's mind, his past actions replayed in Roy's mind, it was so disturbing that Roy had thrown up several times. What he had done to many families, especially to young women, even in his old age, made Roy feel beyond disgusted. It is why he wanted to avoid him.
Roy began focusing on what the people were saying in their minds: he could hear them talking about Samuel, how he was a god, how he was a saint, how he was all knowing, how he was all powerful, how his name is the only true name, and so on.
'Should I have not ignored Samuel?' Roy thought.
Thinking about Samuel, Roy found himself in another location outside of the cave near, and found himself near Lea's forest.
'What? What's going on?" Roy was taken aback to find himself in a different location, again
"HELP ME YOU IDIOT!"
Roy heard Samuel calling out to him.
Samuel and the Witch were fighting, or to be more precise Samuel was flying away from the Witch, Bell Dyer.
Bell had conjured a comically large scythe and began chasing down Samuel with the intention of killing him.
Bell had five abilities, flight, which was a common ability for powerful heroes like them, as well as immortality, weapon conjuration, zombification through diseases, and total control of the zombies that she infects.
For a while Roy thought her ability was more like necromancy, but she didn't need to kill anybody to turn them into zombies, even corpses could also be turned into zombies, she just needed to spread the diseases. And the weapons she can conjure out of thin air carried that zombie virus that can affect all living beings.
Roy tried to find out what was happening, but the minute he was teleported Bell flew towards Roy with the intention to kill him as well.
"WAIT! STOP!" Roy flew away. Roy had practiced flying more than them so naturally he flew faster than them.
Something inside him told him to avoid her scythe at all costs, Samuel had that exact same feeling as well which is why he was running from her. He hasn't been this afraid since he saw his first dragon.
He didn't know why Bell was chasing him down with a scythe when he had done nothing. He tried to read her mind but all he could hear was 'KILL! KILL! KILL!' and nothing else.
Roy tried communicating with her while keeping his distance, but Bell wasn't listening to him, it was as if she had been possessed.
Roy saw how Samuel ran away and hid. Roy had read his mind for a short moment, and Samuel thought how Roy should handle Bell for a bit while he prepares to take her down using his hero ability.
Roy would then try to fight her. With the abilities he learned during the past sixteen days killing monsters he decided to put them to use.
He first tried pushing her down, she got back up and gave chase. He tried burning her, electrocuting her, crushing her, but nothing worked. It was then when he realized that Bell was an immortal.
Roy was actually stronger than her and had more experience using his abilities, and also had more abilities in his disposal. But it seemed that the more they fought the stronger she got.
After an hour Bell would be able to ignore Roy's onslaught attacks, and even slowly started catching up to him.
Roy was thankful he had a large pool of mana where he could spam his abilities without feeling tired.
"HEY!"
Samuel returned to help Roy. But Bell focused his attention on Samuel this time.
"SHIT!" Samuel didn't expect Bell to be faster than before. He decided it was safer to run back.
Roy would attack her to get her attention by launching fireballs at her.
Bell would screech like a banshee while grabbing her head and dropping her scythe. As she screeched she conjured blades out of thin air and made them shoot out everywhere. Samuel and Roy would be able to dodge her attacks.
Two elves who happened to be there were not as lucky. One of the elves used his body to cover the other elves body, thus sacrificing himself to protect her, and almost immediately turning into a zombie before being binded by the tree's roots. The elf who survived was none other than Rias.
"HEY!" Samuel yelled at Roy, none of them noticed what happened to that poor elf. "I NEED YOU TO KEEP HER ATTENTION ON YOU!"
Roy didn't have time to read his mind as she attacked him. For the next twenty minutes Roy had successfully distracted her.
Roy would at the end exert all of his strength and mana to hold her in place for a few seconds. Samuel took that moment to use his ability.
Opening his palm, Samuel hit Bell in her back with his open palm. Roy remembered seeing a portal open up behind her, and Bell was being forcefully sucked into the black hole. The pressure coming from the black hole was so strong that it even managed to forcefully pull many nearby trees from the earth, as if it were a literal dark hole.
Bell would grab the edges of the portal as she was fighting from being pulled into the portal. If it weren't for her immortal body, her spine and bones would have been crushed into thousands of pieces.
The black hole would disappear and Bell was still fine. Both Roy or Samuel could have pushed her in but they couldn't react in time.
"OH SHIT! KEEP HER BUSY AGAIN!" Samuel tried to run away.
'Nope!' Roy teleported away, leaving Bell chasing Samuel.
Roy was tired and tried to think of ways to defeat her. It wasn't until he saw both heroes fighting again that he thought it would be better if he helped Samuel defeat Bell. He does admit Samuel was amazing at running away from Bell.
Bell was growing stronger, while both heroes were getting slower and tired, and every minute Samuel and Roy were centimeters away from being turned into zombies. For the next two hours both heroes would fight her together instead of running as they were left with no choice.
If it weren't for her zombification ability they wouldn't have had to worry about her so much, because one touch from any of her conjured weapons could infect them and turn them into zombies. The feeling they got from her weapons made them shiver in fear, their gut was telling them not to touch her weapons at any moment.
They first saw her turning a dragon into a zombie servant by throwing a weapon at it by accident. The dragon was an apex dragon, and it turned into a zombie in less than ten minutes. A zombie dragon was much harder to take down compared to a living dragon, but the Great Sage merely crushed its entire body.
After two hours had gone by, which to them felt like an eternity, Samuel would prepare another attack after this time. While Roy was keeping Bell busy barely hanging on to dear life, Samuel managed to touch her back again.
Bell let out a small gasp, and the life in her eyes had returned to her once again. Roy and Samuel did not notice the look on her eyes.
There was a moment of pause and silence before Samuel yelled, "GET US THE FUCK OUT OF HERE! FUCKING NOW!"
Roy, who had barely gotten used to his teleportation grabbed Samuel and teleported the both of them to safety/
Another black hole appeared, this time 10x as larger compared to the last time. This time the hole could swallow a dragon whole.
Roy and Samuel saw Bell being violently sucked into the black hole and everything around them as well leaving a large crater. Bell reached out but the hole consumed her. Bell was to never be seen again.
Roy would then fall to the ground, tired, and gasping for air. The plot they were in now was far north, where in the future the Empire would be built.
Samuel flew beside Roy and sat down beside him.
"You did great in helping me take down the Witch. She deserved it for nearly killing us." Samuel wiped off the sweat from his forehead using his sleeve.
"Why… was she… like that?" Roy asked, still tired.
Roy had just arrived when Bell was already chasing down Samuel. No matter how anyone looked at it, Samuel obviously had something to do with it.
"She was a witch. I mean just look at her hideous appearance. It was obviously because she had made a contract with the devil before she arrived here, and the devil was simply taking back his payment."
Roy squinted his eyes at him. Roy knew exactly what Bell had gone through. But, his eyes were wide open when he read his mind. He knew what had happened.
At this point no one knew Roy could read people's minds, and so Roy read his mind.
'Dammit! I was this close to enslaving her if it weren't for that tree! Oh well, I can still use it on him as well.'
Roy's eyes were wide open.
Samuel would then quickly put his open hand on Roy's chest before he had a chance to react.
Samuel's finger made contact with Roy's chest right where his heart would be. Roy tried to stop him from touching him, but Roy was so tired and unprepared that he didn't have a chance to stop him.
"NO!" Roy jumped, screamed, and pushed away Samuel's hand.
"What?" Samuel was taken aback not knowing that Roy knew what he was plotting.
Roy opened his hand toward Samuel, and closed it.
Samuel's entire neck was crushed, his head rolled off his body and plopped to the ground. Roy would then crush his entire body, turning him into a smoothie, before incinerating him to ashes.
Roy could feel something planted in his chest, it was as if there was someone's hand that kept pressing onto his chest.
Samuel had two powerful abilities: he could curse anybody with powerful curses, and he could also seal living beings into another dimension.
With his curses it was pretty self explanatory, he could inflict all types of curses on anyone he touches with his right hand.
With the power of sealing, he could basically imprison anyone in his tiny little world where no one could escape from using his left hand. The problem was Samuel wasn't adept with this ability, even he didn't know what he could do with it aside from sealing others into his own world.
Samuel had secretly used people to place curses on other people during his short time there. Thinking that he had enough practice, Samuel would go to enslave both Roy and Bell, as both are equally powerful beings compared to him.
Once he left the cave Samuel went to find both of them. By sheer luck he managed to find Bell first.
Bell was emotionless, as if her will to live was gone from her eyes. She was leaning on a tree for the past few days as she realized a few days ago her family was long dead, and she could never see them again. The realization was eating her alive.
For the past eleven days she went nonstop looking for her kids, but it was no use.
Monsters would try to kill her during the past fifteen days, but no monster could ever kill her.
Bell had accidentally learned to use her newfound abilities while looking for her kids aimlessly around a foreign world. She hated using her powers.
She wished instead she could die and join her family in the afterlife, but her immortality didn't let her.
Samuel recognized the look on her face, it was a face he was all too familiar with. It was the same face he would see from the families of the women he would condemn to their deaths.
Samuel's attempt to enslave Bell would fail, instead he placed a curse that would make her act bloodthirsty and violent. He didn't expect at that moment his plan would backfire and gave her another curse.
Before Samuel could touch Bell, a root of a tree came out of the ground, managed to trip Samuel, but he managed to graze her cheek which inflicted a different curse than he had planned, which is why Bell ended up like that.
When Samuel touched Roy he had also placed a curse on him. Samuel wanted to plant a slave seal on Roy, which would have worked if he managed to place his entire palm on Roy's chest for a few seconds. But the only curse he could place on him that time is that he could never talk about what just happened, that included the Witch, and how Samuel wanted to enslave both of them, if he did his heart would stop.
Roy thought that perhaps if he had killed Samuel the curse would also disappear, it did not. But killing him also made him think that the Witch would return, which she did not.
Roy did not know what curse he was inflicted with in the beginning. He would only figure it out after he tried to tell people what really happened, but every time he mentioned it his heart would hurt like hell, as if thousands of needles made of fire were piercing his heart. If he were to go any further in trying to explain what happened, he was sure he would die.
A few times when he had to talk about the Witch and Samuel, Roy would feel incredible pain from his heart, but he would always hide it from showing. Even the last time when he spoke to Silvas to talk about the possibility of Bell returning, because of the zombie, he could feel the pain in his heart, but he didn't show it.
And every time he would talk and would accidentally tell someone what really happened, his heart would be inflicted with imaginable pain. Since then he would stop talking to people, and he would only ever talk using his telepathy when necessary, as he found he was less likely to be inflicted with the curse's pain if he talked that way.
For nearly two hundred years he used only telepathy to communicate with others, and he would never speak again.
Roy was more than ready to take on Bell again after killing Samuel. As it turns out she never returned.
From that day on Roy would live in fear thinking that Bell would one day return. Perhaps one day the seal she was under would expire, or she would find a way to break free from the seal.
He was sure she was still cursed, as the curse on his chest was still there which meant the curse on her body was also there. He got a glimpse of what she was capable of, and if she returned this time he had no way to stop her without Samuel.
Roy would indeed try to find ways to seal living beings like Samuel did, but he wasn't born with such abilities. He would also try to find a way to inflict and remove curses, but the closest he got was using cursed enchantments which only inflicted more curses instead of removing them.
Since Roy could never tell anyone what really happened, and everyone wanted to know what happened to Samuel the Saint, he had to tell everyone that both him and Samuel tried to kill the Witch after she turned evil, but the Witch had killed Samuel and he killed the Witch.
The story of the Witch would continue to live on after hundreds of years, but Samuel would be forgotten. Now whenever someone talks about the first three heroes everyone would always think about the Great Sage and the Witch, but no one would ever think about Samuel and would even often forget his name, now people only know him as the hero who sacrificed himself to kill the Witch.