Chapter 24 - Chapter 24: at his peak; the narcissistic golden mercenary

IS NOT A HAMJI..."

"Then what is it."

'IT IS A..... YOMA.'

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhhhhhh

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??? p.o.v: "What are you looking at? Livestock..."he said as he turned around to see two glowing giant eyes looking at him from the dark of the night and it was mainly looking at him.

"w-w-what i-i-it-t c-can't-t-t –b-b-be-e-e." the man stammered as fear filled his voice and he was paralyzed with fear also.

'THAT PATIENCE IS TOO RECONIZABLE TO FORGET.'

"What do you mean?" I had asked death as his voice had sounded serious.

'I MEAN THAT THIS CREATURE

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhhh!

I sat on the ground being paralyzed with fear as the yoma had finished roaring; while releasing a massive amount of mana and bloodlust, so much that the sheer force from its aura was able to clear a wide open field of trees; destroying every last one of them, while leaving an empty. I started to move backwards as the yoma had set its eyes on the s-class in front of me; who was also shocked and paralyzed with fear but then he started to compose himself and stared at the yoma with a confident glare.

"H-how dare you stand in front, you abomination." The s-class said with a little fear in his voice as he tightened his grip on his sword and a bright glow had started to incase the sword and his power had risen so much that I was too afraid to even get up… but to my surprise, the monster was just staring at him, with no expression on its face as even the s-class was stern at not losing his cool.

'The beast didn't even react… it's just staring at him with an intense focus and concentration, just what is it thinking.' I was confused by its careless expression and intense focus on the s-class.

" don't underestimate me you bastard! Arise! Golden chronicle!" the s-class had summoned a golden chronicle that was radiating holy magic; as the once sliver amour had changed into a golden amour and the light around his once big sword was now a long katana as the light had vanished.

'M-man, his power is really amazing… but why is the beast not showing any reaction, not even a flinch.' I was amazed by the s-class chronicle even though he did want to kill me; I really acknowledge his power…. But that monster didn't even flinch at this.

"Now you shall face the wrath of the lightspeed mercenary!" he vanished out of sight and had appeared at the back of the monster as he swung his sword at its back with so much force that it created a small shock wave at its back and dust had filed everywhere.

"Never underrate me, now that you know my real powe- what." He was shocked that as the dust had cleared. The monster was remained there, unfazed and unharmed but still had it focus on the s-class.

"Aaaarrrggghhhh stop underestimating my power!" the s-class mercenary had started to run towards the monster at a very high speed but then he vanished upon reaching the monster and had appeared close to its face; as he delivered a devastating slash at its eyes, but then disappeared and appeared almost in an instant at the nap of the neck and had sliced it with forced, but then he appeared far away from it, with his sword glowing an ominous golden light. He dashed at the monster with… light speed as he held his sword in a samurai combat pose.

"It's over you monster, at least you're not as bad as that livestock! Golden chronicle: ascending light!" he increased his speed to the point that all I saw was him backing the monster; as they were a sudden burst of wind and a sudden shockwave that had lifted the dust up to the air and my vision was blocked by this.

"W-what power, INDRA!" I had a c-class respond in awe by this, at least someone that I was familiar with; as he turned to me with a horrified look on his face, as he ran towards my side while checking if I was injured.

"indra what happened here and I hope you're not injured? you know that your sister will kill me if you ever get hurt... but what is sir ray fighting… because I have never seen him go all out like this; at this point he should be at least at holy hero level < Holy hero: lv 190,000>." He informed me about sir ray power level in which had amazed me yet again.

"i-I don't know, ruk… it's like some kind of… evolved hamji…. but I'm not too sure about that because the power level its releasing is crazy and it seems to be taking all of his hits with ease." I answered his question.

"I guess… but it seems that sir ray had used one of his most resourceful moves; meaning that there is a high chance that the monster is down for the count." He responded staring at the battle field while getting me up on my feet.

"Just how strong is that move that even you; who hate him with passion, had managed to acknowledge…. Seriously I'm shocked." I said with a skeptical look on my face and tone in my voice as he managed to get me all up on my feet.

"Of course I do hate him; since he treats humans as manure and sees them as begins of imperfect nature…. But just because of that, it doesn't mean I should ignore his power…. I have been with him in some past missions and from the way he fights, to his mana… then I will say that he is a very brilliant warrior and the move that he had done was one that he used to eliminate an entire horde of hamji reaching 800 in numbers… and what he is doing, is that thanks to his speed and accuracy; he was able to attack and target all the weak points and mana flow pass way of his opponent in just 0.2 second… meaning that, that monster has been cut off from both its mana source and physical strength." Ruk explained to me as I was stunned by this revelation but then turned my attention to the battle.

"So that explains why he was given the name the lightspeed mercenary, huh." I saw that sir ray had started too walked out of the dust cloud with his sword emitting smoke.

"This fight is over…. Maybe you could have drawn out some few sweats from me, hahahaha… ruk I guess you managed to get here huh." Ray was approaching us as he had a crack on his chest plate and the end of his blade is blunt in a way but I wondered why… something is wrong.

"Of course, I have to keep Indra from getting hurt by the… likes… of... You.... Something is not right." Ruk suspected that something is strange.

"Y-yes it has been awfully... quite." I mentioned with a worried tone but sir ray just laughed at us for being too paranoid at the situation, and was claiming that he had ended the monster.

"Hahahaha you both are just jabbering, the monster is defeated hahaha can't you tell with the silence." He boasted, as I just turned to ruk; who was focusing at the dust cloud.

"Hmmmm… that's strang- INDRA GET BEHIND ME! RAY GET THE HELL OUT OF THERE!" ruk exclaimed, as he got in front of me and had started to panic, but ray became furious at ruk.

"How dare you command me you pitiful c-class. Know your place." He retaliated but this just made ruk get pissed at his behavior as he was trying to warn him but his ego had gotten to him far too long.

"JUST LISTEN TO ME AND GET THE HELL OUT OF THERE NOW!" ruk tried again warning him to get away from there but sir ray just gave him a deaf ear.

"Enough ruk, I will not listen to you any longer… no one who is below me… orders m-.ack!"

A large beast like hand held ray's head with great speed and to everyone's surprise the monster rose and tossed sir ruk to a tree after absorbing some of his manna leaving him unconscious.

INDRA P.O.V:

I can't believe it, it was able to drain sir ray's mana and drove him unconscious…. So that's why ruk was panic… just what that thing is?

"T-h-h-hat wasn't a hamji, i-t-t-s a yomaaaaaa!!!!!!!" ruk said with hesitancy in his voice.

"YOU LOWLY HUMANS ARE GONNA SERVE AS MANURE FOR MY GROWTH" the yoma said with a deep and monstrous voice.

"NOW DIE HUMANS!!!!!" the monster said and attacked with the aim of absorbing ruks mana, but something didn't sit right in me… my dear friend might die because of this…. Because of protecting me… no, I can't let this happen. I will become strong no matter what; I will protect my dear ones.

"Don't die for me… you have done enough for me and my family… so much, so let me." I dragged ruk to the ground and rose up to where he was once standing as everything started to move slowly… and I could see the yoma already in front of me with a sadistic smile, that sent chills in my spine… but I just smiled.

"Return the favor." I said accepting my fate, as ruk was shocked by my action and my sister and the rest of the c-class had just arrived to see a horrific scene.

"Indra… what are you doing."

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO" Everyone was scared and his sister shouted, wanting to save me, but was pulled back by her friends; with everyone one in anticipation and fear, but suddenly out of nowhere. A man about 18 years old, with a tatter cloth and bandages wrapped on his right arm; had grabbed the yoma's wrist and redirecting it towards the clouds… while stopping the attack in the process, as the yoma attack had exploded, clearing the clouds and to everyone's amazement, seeing that a mysterious person had come and immediately deflected the attack of the yoma leaving the yoma amazed,

"It seems that I had forgotten to get rid of the entire pest." The strange individual had started to remove his bandages releasing so many auras that it was making the air think enough that even a sword can't cut through it, as he revived his arm having multiple ring on his fingers, each with different colors… each with different type of mana flowing through them; as the wind around him had started to pick up in speed and had started to blow violently… just who is this.

"COME."