Chapter 118
The Figure of a Hero
Translator : PolterGlast
He was needlessly overflowing with confidence, and deep
down, I thought he was an unlikeable guy. However... he was a person vouched
for by Julian, the leader of the White Phoenix, a newcomer who
had nonetheless achieved overwhelming merits in the Royal Capital.
No aura, one-armed, elderly, and a D-Rank adventurer.
Since I had never actually seen the battle of this old man calling himself Graham,
watching him charge into an army of monsters only brought the word
"reckless" to mind... but his fighting style was as if I were
watching an illusion.
Charging alone into a horde of monsters and scattering them
with overwhelming power. Watching from above, I could see it clearly: despite
being surrounded by massive numbers of monsters, he hadn't taken a single hit.
Even with his comrades protecting his back, he was under
continuous assault from undead from three directions. And these weren't
lower-class monsters like Ghouls or Skeletons, but numerous monsters equivalent
to C-Rank and B-Rank like Bone Soldiers, Bone Fighters,
and Bone Knights.
Dodging attacks from such monsters as if he could see the
future, he cut down the Bone Soldiers lightly, as if slicing through
pudding. That figure was like a hero straight out of a story—
"............Too amazing."
It was such an overwhelming sight that I involuntarily
muttered those words. I, too, had reached S-Rank, the highest rank for
adventurers, and prided myself on being one of the most capable individuals in
the world, but this person called Graham is on a different level.
I can't understand why a human of this caliber was unknown,
and I now understand the smug expression Julian showed me when I
approached him with skepticism. He is exactly the kind of human called a hero
or a brave; as long as Graham-san is here, we won't lose even to
this army of over a thousand monsters.
While I was dumbfounded thinking about this, the undead army
of nearly a hundred was annihilated by Graham-san's hands in the blink
of an eye. The Dead Priest, likely the commander of the undead army, was
also killed instantly. His fighting was so spectacular that I wondered if there
would even be a turn for us.
"Hey, Julian. Just who on earth... is Graham-san?"
"I don't know either. I thought he possessed
exceptional strength, but the fighting style we are witnessing now far exceeds
my assumptions... and there is a possibility he still has more in
reserve."
"More than this? Surely not... right?"
Thinking he might be joking, I looked at Julian's
face... but sweat was beading on Julian's forehead, and his expression
was dead serious. There was absolutely no atmosphere of joking.
If this wasn't his full power, he would be an existence far
surpassing even heroes. While strongly thinking that was impossible, I couldn't
help but look down at Graham-san below with a feeling of expectation.
Appearing before Graham-san and his group, who had
easily annihilated the undead army, was the second wave of the Demon King's
Army. It was a flying unit composed of bird-type monsters, an army
seemingly formed to see through our shallow plan of using the terrain advantage
to attack from high ground.
Since Graham-san attacks with a katana, he can't do
anything against them, so I thought our turn had finally come after doing
almost nothing until now... but my thoughts ended as unfounded fears. Against
the flying unit of the Demon King's Army that passed over Graham-san's
head on the ground and headed straight for us, Graham-san chanted some
kind of magic toward the sky.
I couldn't hear the incantation from this position and
didn't know what spell it was, but seeing the amount of magic power, I
immediately understood it was a spell outside the norm. While a roaring,
intense sound resonated, dark clouds began to gather even higher above the
flying bird monsters.
And in the next instant—accompanied by a flash of lightning
that turned my vision white, Thunder Magic assaulted the flying monsters. It
was a level of magic I had never seen, and aside from its power, its accuracy
was such that it caused absolutely no harm to us nearby.
While not a single one of us could do anything but stand
there in a daze, every last one of the bird monsters flying in the sky was
burned to death. Silence descended upon the area.
Only S-Rank adventurers were here, people brimming
with confidence. If there were monsters, they would race to be the first to
defeat them, and if someone else took the credit, they would immediately go to
claim their own.
In this place filled only with people who were
overconfident, for better or worse, a silence so deep you couldn't even hear a
breath flowed. Every single person was captivated by Graham-san, their
hearts seized to the point of breathlessness—I know this because I am here
among them.
Cutting down monsters with overwhelming power, and
annihilating enemies out of reach of his katana with magic that would make even
a Sage pale. What was there was the unmistakable figure of a hero, and I can
declare that no human who enjoys battle could fail to be captivated by this
figure.
"............H-He really was still hiding his power. I
heard he could use magic... but I never imagined it was magic to this
extent."
"Neither did I. To think he had such magic when we
fought in the Exchange Match... No, it
means he didn't even need to use magic of this level. —Fufu, Hahahaha!
Amazing, truly amazing. Jack, let's burn this into our eyes. Right now,
we are able to witness with our own eyes something even greater than a heroic
saga!"
There is no one here who would laugh at Julian
shouting that in excitement. Everyone thought the same thing, and with the
excitement of witnessing a fragment of legend—the fact that we were being
attacked by the Demon King's Army vanished from my mind, and my heart
began to pound louder than it ever had in my life.
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