Up in the sky, Nicklaus was having a blast. Lagertha's flying was quite top notch and now, she was flying through a herd of Harpies as Nicklaus killed then with his katana he named Tsune whatever that means. The Harpies were in a frenzy as they saw their brethren being slaughtered but the heat from Lagertha's wings made them stay away. When any of them tried to fly away, they were chased after by her and he finished her off. Harpies had no males, they kidnapped and raped humans for reproduction and the humans who were used as baby makers once swore that once you had sex with a harpy you will never go back to the locals.
The Harpies saw him kill three of them at once and they lost their will to fight. They had been thinned out, now they were only a quarter of their numbers before. With shrieks of defeat, they flew off to different directions hoping he would not catch all of them at once. He could have stopped them by shifting space or locking it but he decided to let them go. He nudged Lagertha to land at a small lake nearby and rest for the night.
It was two weeks since the day he bought her. He had said goodbye to his friends and given the family head of Gayne paper charms to call him incase of an emergency. Where he was going he had no idea but it was a new world. He had come to know that the Dragon Force he used will be produced by his dragon dantian so he had no worries about losing that energy to cultivate. Right now, he was a Sky Rank peak stage cultivator.
The next realm was the Nirvana Rank where he had to go through heavenly tribulations so that he can get Immortal Qi or in his case, Immortal Dragon Force and have his dragon dantain purified and make more the more he went through the tribulations. The realm had nine stages and each stage represented the amount of lightning shall strike you and if you survive, the amount of Immortal Energy to get and how much it will be purified for later stages.
Nicklaus was looking through space cracks and he found a world that had an earth in the age just like his but this earth had heroes, villains and the likes. No, it was not Marvel or DC or any franchise, he had checked ten times. That was his destination for now. He had already checked what he will be, the most badass antihero there was.
Lagertha was done with her Harpy meal and they were ready to set off. Nicklaus got onto her back then covered him and her with his energy before using his law to transport them there. In a flash, the two were standing at a beach in the middle of the night. Lagertha was quite unsettled after that trip but he injected some Dragon Force (A/N:Imma start calling it DF from now on) into her Qi veins and she felt better once again. He got off her back then removed his helmet and took a big whiff of the air.
"Pollution, how I've missed the smell," he said. He turned to Lagertha. "You can go sleep in a mountain now. I will call you when I am ready to leave." Lagertha snuggled her head on his hands as confirmation then flew off.
First things first, Nicklaus went to a cyber cafe. It was not weird having a person dressed as he was now because of heroes so they did not question him. They also thought he was an upcoming hero so they just went on with their business. Nicklaus searched for everything about this world and he got it in bulk.
First, the world did not have seven continents but twelve. They were also not named as usual but as cities in alphabet like City A, City B and henceforth. Each city had provinces and we're headed by a Mayor. The Mayor appointed a superhero who graduated from a Hero school in his City to a province where the hero would serve. The provinces were named alphabetically and numerically like Province A-1 and so forth. The world had gone through three world wars which were orchestrated by villians and heroes. Heroes won the first two but lost the third one which led to the downfall of City F to the villains. It was the only City that was full of villians and also known as hell on earth.
The rest was about the top five heroes that governed a whole City themselves and the city was known as Heroes Paradise. It was the only City with a name. The place he was right now was City E, Province E-27. The hero here was known as Spark Plug for she uses electricity for attack. He logged out and went out of the café after digesting the information he got. People were taking photos of him as he walked down the street, making him uncomfortable. As if to save him, a large reptilian like rat broke through from the sewers and into the main Street. Everyone started running away from it as it looked around for anyone to mail before finally having its eyes on Nicklaus. With a screech, it launched at him, knocking away everyone in its path, surprising Nicklaus. In the other world, animals took one whiff at him and ran off because of his DF. He remembered a Chinese saying a young calf does not fear a tiger. This fit the reptilian rat perfectly.
When it was twenty metres away, Nicklaus took out Tsune from her sheath then slashed once and the monster was cut in two, perfectly symmetrical. The citizens stopped what they were doing, running away, and turned towards him. Someone started clapping then the others joined in congratulating him for his first save. Nicklaus looked at them incredibly, wondering if they had been knocked on the brain. Good thing his helmet was on. A reporter came towards him, her camerman jogging behind him and started her barrage of questions.
"Are you the new hero of the Province? Did the Mayor remove Spark Plug from the Province? Is your forte martial arts? What is your hero name?" and many more. Nicklaus decided to stop her before she drown him with questions.
"I'm not a hero and I'm not a villian. I am a mercenary who was minding his business when that thing charged at me. So, if anyone watching this decides to kill a hero, villians, destroy a province, save the whales by killing every hunter then they will get my number in two days time. Remember, no hero is too powerful and no villian is too evil, my blade will cut through them just as easily," he said. His words surprised the people and the world.
First, this News station was a world wide station that was watched by everyone in the whole world and all states for they did not discriminate heroes and villians, they interviewed them all so them hearing about a mercenary that advertises he could kill the villians and heroes without limitation was news for them. Second, there has never been any mercenary that promised to do that. The others knew some heroes and heroes are too powerful for them to kill so they never advertised they would kill them all. Third, it was his shamelessness. He was braodcasting in a well known station knowing well that everyone was watching this or will watch it later. He was bragging in front of the whole world and they thought it would bite him in the ass.
Nicklaus did not know about this so he was quite proud of himself that he had pulled this off. Once he had said this, he flew off, giving the people watching this a view of this ability. That night, people were brewing plots of how to take him down, heroes and villians alike.
Two days later, Nicklaus had spread paper charms all over the Cities with runes that they would activate if they have a contract for him. To the people, this looked like desparation but to him this was advertising with no charges, except the papers, ink and brush. He had distributed them with his Spatial Law while he himself was enjoying an ice-cream with money he stole.
Once he was done, he paid for the ice-cream and headed out, ready to start his new life here but on his way out, he bumped into a girl carrying two cups of coffees. The coffees spilled onto her blouse and she yelped out in pain as the coffee was hot. Upset mindedly, she quickly removed her blouse showing her two girls firmly held by her bra.
"Woah," Nicklaus exclaimed as he quickly removed his jacket and put it on her. She realized her mistake and quickly held on the jacket tightly.
"Thanks," she told him not daring to look around and see the reaction of the people there.
"Sorry about that," he said pointing at her blouse that was now on the ground.
"You should be, you almost traumatized me," she growled. Nicklaus picked up her blouse but she quickly snatched it away from his hand.
"Okay. How about I buy you coffee," he decided to apologize. The girl glared at him.
"You almost caused me trauma and now you are hitting on me, how sleazy can you be?" she growled.
"I meant the coffee I caused you to spill," he told her. Her eyes widened in embarrassment then she just nodded. Nicklaus went to the counter and ordered for two capuccinos. He paid for the two, gave them to her and she walked off without saying another word. Nicklaus just chuckled then realized he just went through another MC occurence.
"Shit, now Demicruses is rubbing his aura on me," he cursed and walked the opposite direction.
Later that night, Nicklaus got his first client. On the charm papers was instructions of how to use them. Just put them on your phone and he will receive the call immediately. There can be no bugging or tracking for it is using his DF. His phone rang and when he looked at the caller's ID, he saw the face of a teenager.
"Hello," he picked it with his deep voice.
"I saw in the news that you can kill anyone, right?" he asked him.
"That's right. You calling for a hit?"
"Yes. I want you to kill a hero and a villian,"
"Okay, but you have to pay my down payment first of five million," he said. There was silence on the other end so he traced them using his Spatial Law. He saw the boy whispering to other four boys who were whispering back excitedly. He then used his Mind Law and got their names.
"Listen here, Markus, Teddy, Phil, Henry and Kevin, I am running a respectable business here so if you try to prank call me again I will find you like I just did and I am going to break you slowly and painfully. Now go and play some Fortnite before I change my mind." There was panicking the other end of the line then the line went dead. Nicklaus sighed and put the phone into his pocket and went back to sleep. In the internet, the five boys sent out the video of them talking to him in the phone. Everyone was scared when Nicklaus mentioned their names seconds after talking to them. They all started coming with theories about his powers.
In the morning, Nicklaus was woken up by his phone ringing. He looked at the ID and saw a man with a ski mask. With a sleepy sigh, he picked it.
"Hello,"
"I am impressed by your abilities. I want to hire you for a job, an assassination job. You see, I want a certain high level hero dead. Can you do that?"
"Who do you want dead?" Nicklaus asked him in his sleepy voice.
"He is one of the top five heroes, his name is The Chill," the man said. Nicklaus browsed his memory and knew The Chill was a hero was one who could produce ice strong enough to freeze over a small Province.
"Okay. Just put the bag with ten million cash on the paper then you will hear about his death in two to three hours. Then you will send the rest of the money the same way. If you don't I will still find you. So you better be away from Province C-54 , Bluetown in that little apartment," Nicklaus told him then hang up. He threw the phone away then went back to sleep.
One hour in, he got back up, took a bath, brushed his teeth then are his cereals. He then wore his golden armour, cape and strapped Tsune on his left hip then looked at himself on the mirror.
"Game face, Klaus. This will be your first time killing a superhero so you have to do a good job," he said then looked at the bag that had the money in it. He nodded resolutely then teleported away to Heroes Paradise.
The Chill was having the normal day as the usual day in the City. He was just about to be interviewed by a late night talk sho about his latest book Into The Chill about his early days as a hero. He was six foot two man with skin paler than wax because of his powers. He did not have any lovers for he could not have sex bacause if he c*m, he would freeze everything around him, he found out when masturbating.
Suddenly, a golden armoured man appeared behind him, scaring him. The surrounding started freezing but he felt the air a foot from the man was boiling! He then remembered the man from the hero meeting where they discussed about how to bring him down. He never thought anyone would be putting a hit in him!
"You must be very stupid coming after me or very confident of your abilities," he said in a relaxed voice. Nicklaus just went towards him. The Chill threw a gust of freezing winds towards him, freezing the room over but Nicklaus was not hindered at all. He just got hold of his neck like a vice and chocked him. The Chill tried to remove the grip to no avail.
"I'm just this confident with my abilities," Nicklaus told him then threw him to a wall.
The talk show was going on normally with the host talking about the latest thing trending the internet, the golden armoured mercenary. He was calling him a hack trying in desparation to make quick money that he could only overestimate himself. He said that The Chill was with them when their hero flew through a wall, across the studio and out of the building through another wall. Then they saw the subject of their ridicule come out of the hole from where The Chill came through. He looked at the people then ignored them and went after his target. All the cameras were in him now.
Nicklaus got hold of The Chill by his leg and started dragging him towards another studio that was shooting a medieval movie. Everyone saw him coming and quickly fled. Nicklaus dropped him then picked up a sword from the place. It was a sharp one and without remorse sank it into The Chill's femur, waking up the poor man. He screamed in pain and ice started spreading all over as his emotions went haywire.
"You are a walking time bomb. One small provocation and your powers are already out of control," Nicklaus mocked him. The Chill shouted at him and suddenly, a small tornado of hail and ice surrounded them.
Everyone watching from a safe distance were now clenching their butt cheeks. From how The Chill was thrown out of the building, this mercenary was powerful. Then, they saw someone stumbling out of the mini tornado. They recognized him as The Chill. They started cheering as he walked towards them but he suddenly stopped then went to him knees. To their horror, they saw the mercenary walking out of the mini tornado, his armour did not even have even have a flake of snow on it. He walked up to The Chill then removed an axe from his back. The Chill could not even grunt in pain. Nicklaus then unsheathed Tsune and beheaded The Chill in front of everyone. Tsune had a perk of globbing down a soul and using it to strengthen herself. A sudden burst of ice powers exploded from the beheaded body and the province was suddenly covered in ice! Nicklaus took the head and teleported away, leaving behind a quiet province and world. No one could believe one of the Five was dead