Pain.
My insides feel twisted. All of my muscles tear apart. The pain lasts for a full minute but in just a minute I began to lose the feeling of pain.
Pain.
The second time was worse. The scream I made. I must have been like a kid. I tight clenched my heart, tears falling.
" We should talk."
After suffering in front of them, they speak. They make me like this. That's the first thought that appeared in my mind. They did it to me.
The middle one spoke to me with an indifferent voice, " You should focus on your strength. And yet you were playing around this whole time."
While laying on the floor and coughing, I asked, " What do you mean by that?"
The middle one waved his hand and the light orb appeared. He pointed the orb in my direction and throw it at me. I tried to dodge the orb but my body can't move because of the pain.
It passes through my head. Soon new memories materialize in my mind.
I was screaming at the sky holding my broken sword. The rain enters my mouth. The anger on my face said all about the situation I was in. I was standing on the countless corpse pie. Some people lose limbs, heads, and their blood form rivers.
This is the first time I see this madness. I scream. We are fighting against the demon. While I was stalling demon king, all of my alliances were dead, left and right. Their scream and horror affect me. I promise their family. This is the first time I thought being hero sucks.
I hate myself. If only I can kill the demon army myself.
If I don't take a hero position.
If I don't promise my people.
If I propose my love.
I have so many regrets. I wasn't able to express my feelings. I wasn't able to run away from this hero title. They tied me down. They made me a god. They used me to unit humans. They explored my genius talent in political situations. They didn't give me freedom.
I don't want any of this. I want to feel love. I want to feel the warmth. It's cold. I curse the world.
" Haha."
I look at the demon king who is laughing at me. His condition was not that good either. I cut his hand. He laughed with joy.
I don't have any energy left to fight. My precious sword also got destroyed because of my attack.
" I didn't expect a such attack from a mere human."
Mere human? I sighed. I used my ability " slash" to cut space and time. So it is obvious that it can damage the demon king. I cut him past, present and future.
I give up.
Demon king continued to talk about my attack. His voice stopped. Even the rain stopped in midair. Time stop ability.
I shake my head. Demon king's ability is *****. What is happening?
The light descends on my place. The status opened.
Name - Aguilar
Title- Hero of human.
Energy orb rank- +SSS.
Skill- space-time slash. Sword of hero
Unique ability- Slash Rank -" S"( Awaken)
[ Do you wish to make a deal with ten gods?]
[ You will be able to kill the demon king]
[ We will give you transcend power for a few seconds. You will give us your soul for thousands of years.]
Gods? I read the status carefully.
" Deal."
I said. I have a stupid idea in my mind. Time resume. Seems like the demon king sense something, he examines me carefully.
My wound healed, and I feel like a god looking at an ant. The previous scary demon king was now an ant. I don't have any time.
Name - Aguilar
Title- Hero of human.
Energy orb rank- transcend.
Skill- space-time slash. Sword of hero.
Unique ability- All things Slash Rank -" S"( Awaken)
Infinite Rank-" God"
New ability? Doesn't matter.
I slash using my hand. Slash at what? I slash at the things that I hate the most.
HERO!
I slash at the logic behind the hero. I don't want anything. I can demon king if I want to but I want to be a selfish person. I use my remaining power to slash the demon king's life force. He will likely awake in the next thousand years.
Who cares? I want to fight the demon king with my hand.
" See you later."
My body vanished.
That is the end of memories.
" Hero Aguilar? Demon king? Ten gods?"
The middle one said to me, " You are Aguilar. Well, you can declare yourself as Aguilar. But only half of his soul remains in you."
" What?"
" We toy with hero soul. Although we are gods, we can't make the soul. We want to experiment soul so we make a deal with the hero."
" But due to our experiment, his soul was damaged. So we have to find a solution to cure it. We fuse the hero's soul and the outer god's soul. You become. The hero's last wish is to defeat the demon king himself. The world's energy forced us to explain the full explanation."
I am wordless. I am a hero.
" We give you everything. Our deal is over. Go home."
I wake up from my bed. I was ditched in sweat.
I walk outside. It seems like the sun is out fully in a few minutes. I walk to the river to clear myself. I need to cool myself.
After washing my face with cold water, I sit on the rock. Ten gods. They're the ones who make me. They said that they fuse the hero and the outer god's soul. Who am I?
I am a hero? What is outer god? They don't even give me a full answer.
" Status."
Name - Lucian
Title - Broken H***, outer god.
Energy orb rank- +D
Skill- intermediate swordsmanship. The flow of unknown.
Unique ability- seal Rank-***
( active ability. able to unseal ability through gaining control over energy. )
Strengthen Rank-" B "
( enchant everything.)
Infinite Rank- " God."
( able to surpass logic.)
My status change quite a bit. My infinite ability disappeared. I guess all combine into Infinite. I rank up as well. The title is a new one.
I guess I will have to find my origin with my strength.
I walk toward the camp. Irene is running with her sword. Her energy flow is much better than last time. She stops her exercise and looks at me.
I smile at her. She walks towards me. " Good morning."
" Good morning."
We exchange greeting. I asked, " Where is Wilfrid and other?"
" Wilfrid, Selena and Kyla went to find food. Reynard is over there." She pointed at the tree where Reynard climbed last night.
" Oh. I see that you can use energy flow."
She nodded.
" We will train after eating breakfast. You should rest as well."
I sit down near the campfire, now the ash takes place instead of fire.
She sits beside me.
" Did something happens?"
I turned my face to her. How did she know?
" Your face looks different from last night. There's a sad look on your face."
I touch my face subconsciously. ' Sad? What a strange face. '
I sigh. Women's instinct is scary like Emily said.
" Yeah. Something did happen last night."
" Do you want to talk about it?"
I shake my head while lighting my cigarette. I inhaled.
" I will find the solution myself."
" I see."
I glance at Irene who is looking at the sky. I don't why but I feel guilty.
Shame. Thinking about people suffering, I feel like trash. I could have ended the demon race and yet chose not to. Was it worth it?
I make humankind fear for thousands of years. I make this team's life at risk. Now that I have to see what is war with my own eyes, I now know the terror of war.
Will I be able to live like nothing happen knowing that I let the demon king escape?