Chapter 10: The Lion King

9 months later

Months passed by quickly since I joined the Church and became the leader of my team. A team that is becoming more and more difficult to handle. Indeed, while I earned Siegfried's respect and he accepted me as the team leader, it didn't mean that he listened to my orders all the time.

We were assigned dozens of missions in these 6 months, be it the extermination of a stray devil in Paris, capturing a stray magician that has been experimenting on innocents in Manchester and even wiping out a small tribe of werewolves in Africa who have been rampaging in the pursuit of their next preys. However, during all these missions, both of them were incapable of following a clear plan made by me or even listening to basic orders.

I didn't think that it was because they didn't respect my authority but mostly because they were not used to following orders and they tended to do things their way as they are both High-ranking exorcists.

Siegfried is the perfect example of a loose cannon. That boy is an absolute battle maniac who does not care one bit about the missions but only about the opponents we were going to face and how strong they were. During the werewolf mission, the second we found the werewolf's trails he immediately separated from me so that he could challenge himself against them. When I caught up with him, he had already killed dozens of them but the majority ran away and it took us days to find all of them. All this wouldn't have happened if we had ambushed them as a team and dealt with them in one fell swoop instead of needlessly looking for the enemies for days.

Another problem is his ego. It's as if he believes that no matter the situation there is absolutely no way for him to die. I honestly do not know if this is arrogance, a lack of self-preservation or him underestimating their opponents. Though in my opinion, I believe it is the latter and it is mostly because they've never been in a true life and death situation. He's never fought against someone that was so far above their level that the situation was completely hopeless.

To deal with these flaws and to keep his ego in check, I've been beating him bloody in the training ground practically every day but it didn't have the escaped effect as Sieg is always eager for a fight even one-sided as I do not fight against him with the intent to kill.

Being a team leader is harder than I thought it would be.

Though it wasn't like it was all that bad as we all became good friends in these last six months. Sieg and I both shared a passion for fighting and weapons, would often spend many times practising our sword skills together with the Teacher giving us tips to improve them. We were also a good team in terms of battle prowess and individuality. The only thing we lacked was good team cohesion. Though I realised that I was too harsh to blame their insubordinate nature and arrogance as the cause of all our team problems. I realised that I was also at fault as I didn't know if I should treat him as a friend or subordinate and still lacked the experience to lead a team.

This is why I've decided to use another way to finally make him tone down their arrogance and make him watch death face to face. And this method was to merely ask my teacher, Vasco Strada, to give us a dangerous mission where we could die at any moment, even for me.

Such missions are becoming rarer and rarer in this day and age, mostly because the Three Factions are on their biggest period of stability so I know full well that it was a foul gambit but I needed to do it or I may have no choice but to make them listen to me through fear or worse show them my Longinus to awe them into submission when I still do no trust them fully. Besides I did not want yes men as my teammates but people capable of thinking for themselves.

So I promised myself that I would never use such methods and would earn their loyalty through respect.

So after a few weeks after I forwarded my request to my teacher, he finally summoned my team about an important mission.

We waited in his office for him to arrive when he finally entered the room and addressed us.

"Ha, you're already here, good," Vasco began while skimming through a document in his hand. He then looked at us seriously. "Honestly I planned to give this mission to Dulio or Christaldi as it is an S-ranked one but I believe that you are ready for a mission of this caliber."

S-rank, finally, I thought in excitement. I could feel just Sieg grinning in anticipation for a fight.

the Church's mission is classed in order of importance and dangerousness similar to an RPG. My team and I have mostly done B-rank missions but it is the first time that he gave us an S-rank one. Ordinarily, S-rank is extremely rare in this day and age and when Heaven forward us a mission of such importance, Vasco or Dulio and the other top exorcists, the elites of the Vatican, are the ones sent on these missions.

It seems that my teacher listened to my request and is giving us more responsibility. If we succeed in this mission, the higher-ups will most likely send us on more dangerous missions or missions with important political repercussions.

"The mission parameters are thus," I was startled from my thoughts by Vasco's voice. "The wielder of Regulus Nemea was spotted in Greece, hunted by stray magicians. Your mission will be to help him escape the magicians and investigate the true identities of these people. However, there is an additional parameter to the mission. Longinus users tend to go berserk in the face of death, if that happens then your task will be to take him down and if you have no choice, kill him." Vasco finished with a grim voice but I was too shocked to see this.

Regulus Nemea, What the fuck? Since when there is a wielder of Regulus Nemea? Wait, if I remember correctly, the possessor was killed by unknown attackers and the golden lion somewhat materialised itself and killed them all. Later, Sairoarg Bael found him and tamed him but the details of the wielder's death were mostly unknown.

However, other details bothered me. How did the Church know about him? I voiced my question to his Eminence and he answered.

"I've been in contact with him for a few months now, trying to convince him and his brother to join the Church. He was close to accepting when he sent a distress signal to me with a message telling me that he was hunted. I planned to go myself but I was summoned by Lord Michael so I decided to send you all instead." He said with a sigh.

"I see." It's logical but what worried me are these magicians that are hunting him. It can't be a coincidence that a bunch of Stray magicians are hunting a Longinus user. They could be related to the Khaos Brigade.

I shook my head. It's too big of a conjecture. It might be a coincidence. What matters is to find that guy before he is killed and the Nemean Lion go berserk. There is also the possibility of encountering Sairaorg Bael. Thought for later.

Vasco left us to attend to other matters while we made our way to our quarters to pack our travel bag. "Can you believe it? An S-rank mission and we're going to fight the Lion King." Sieg chatted with a manic grin on his face.

I narrowed my eyes at what he said and reply

"Sieg, we're not going to fight him! Our mission is to save him."

"Yeah, but there is the possibility of him going berserk then we'll have no choice but to fight him," Sieg said with a smirk.

"Our mission is to investigate these magicians and save the wielder of Regulus Nemea. We need to do everything in our power to stop him from going berserk. Do not speak of a potential ally as if he was already lost in the madness." I said firmly.

Siegfried huffed.

"Now, go pack your things. We need to go as fast as possible before he is killed."

"Yeah yeah, Leader," Sieg said with a wave.

While they were gone I contacted Valarie with magic communication and informed her that I was going out on a mission and would be back in a day or two. Currently, Valerie and Asia were training with Sister Griselda, who had just given them a short break to rest before going back to their torcher.

"Take care of Asia while I'm gone," I told her.

"It will be done master, be careful on your end master I don't want to have to be left alone," She said with a worried voice.

"I promise, after all, I am strong," I said before cutting the call

Regulus Nemea huh.

Despite the confident attitude I was projecting outside, I had a bad feeling about this mission.

Let's hope that it is just a feeling.

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We were making our way in the woods, in the area where the wielder of Regulus Nemea was last spotted. I was constantly using my mana senses, trying to find his location but to no avail. "What do you think these stray magicians want with the Longinus user," Siegfried asked me.

"Who knows, they most likely want to extract his Sacred Gear and use it for future experiments," I answered, however inwardly I was worried about the identities of these strays. They can't be just random stray magicians?

"Ah yes, Magicians, a bunch of cowards using dirty tricks to get more powerful."He scoffed.

I forgot that Sieg looked down on magic users in general, mostly because he believe that the use of weapons is the greatest form of combat and anyone using magics in combats are a coward which is ridiculous as magic is just another card in one's arsenal.

I've been trying for months to convince him to learn magic but he refused every time as it is anathema to his goal of becoming the strongest swordsman. Magicians were also labelled as heretics by the church and they generally looked down on those that used magic so I can kind of understand why Sieg is stuck in the mindset of magic is bad as he was raised by the church.

The Church and their backwards thinking have a knack to greatly irritate me.

"Ironic coming from you, Siegfried," I told him while looking back. He looked at me curiously. "You know that your ancestor Sigurd, the King of Warriors, was one of the greatest Runes masters in history. Taught by his wife, Brynhild and knowledge that he acquired by eating the heart of an ancient dragon. Does that mean that your ancestor was a coward?" I asked with a smirk.

Siegfried sputtered in denial. "W-What! No ! Sigurd couldn't have been…" "And yet he was." I interrupted him.

Siegfried not being able to come up with a counter looked away and started silently brooding, but then started looking like he was contemplative about something hopefully about what I had just said. Maybe he will finally accept my offer to learn magic.

The reason why I was so adamant that they learn magic was because I wanted him to be stronger than he was in canon and magic would boost his battle power, as from what I had observed so far he had neither his sacred gear nor all the demonic swords so he would need to compensate it with magic and strengthening and defensive magic would do the trick. I also didn't want him to rely on his Demonic Sword too much as I had noticed every time he activated Gram's power it would tire him out quickly and from what I had read up on demonic swords it also reduces a person's life span. His overconfidence and over-reliance on the tools he was given was his downfall in the canon timeline from what I read as Gram eventually left him.

I also realised that by him not having the twice critical, which was a dragon-type sacred gear, he would not have to worry about Grams dragon-slaying attribute clash with his sacred gear which should allow him to eventually use its full power.

It would be stupid of me to grow stronger by myself without offering that same strength to my allies. This is why I wanted them to learn a specific kind of magic that fits their fighting style and maybe teach them Touki in the future when I achieve the rank of master. I could also upgrade their bodies with the help of Valerie and the Graal but it depends on them and their trustworthiness.

"Anyway, how do you know what my ancestor did," Siegfried asked as we kept moving.

"Well, it is one of the perks of being trained by the Great Sage, Sun Wukong, one of the oldest being of the world," I answered him. "Though I believe that it is mostly thanks to the Dragon King Yu-long that I know all these little tidbits." I heard a gasp from my teammates.

"You met a Dragon King and lived?!" Sieg said watching me intently.

I was surprised by his reactions but I guessed that for him the Dragon Kings were terrifying and violent existence.

"You're overreacting. Not all dragons are violent. Yu-Long is just a lazy bastard who likes eating and sleeping." It was even true. The Jade Dragon Yu-Long was a strange contradiction of lazy and lively very much unlike his brethren. "And besides you forgot that I was trained by Sun Wukong. Of course, I would have met his Dragon King partner. It is where all my history knowledge comes from. Every time I would challenge him to a fight, he would distract me by telling me stories." Yu-Long was known as the Dragon of Wisdom despite his lazy nature. If other dragons hoarded treasures then Yu-Long hoarded knowledge. He always bragged to me that he learned everything from every hero of history. It was kind of his hobby besides digesting good cuisine.

"You…challenged a Dragon King?" Sieg looked at me in disbelief. I scratched my cheek in embarrassment. "Well, I wanted to see how strong I was compared to a Dragon King." Not like he ever accepted. Every time I would come in his place in the mountain to badger him to fight me, he would always distract me by going on a tangent and speaking about my favourite heroes like Karna, Oda Nobunaga etc. I always fell to the ploy because I loved history in my previous life and was fascinated by Yu-Long tales as he knows things that were never written in the history books. After a time, I stopped to challenge him and would simply come to hear his stories.

Not like it bothered him. Yu-Long took a liking to me and appreciated the company.

"Do not let anyone tell you that you do not have balls of steel bro," Sieg said, impressed by my supposed bravery even though Yu-Long would have never hurt me.

"Haha," I laughed off their comments.

We continued through the woods while making small talk occasionally but still keeping an eye for our target until I suddenly felt my mana senses alerting me of a bunch of mana signatures all clumped together in the East. "What's wrong?" Sieg asked, having seen me go still for a while.

"I found him, follow me," I said to my teammates and started running in the direction I felt the disturbance while Sieg ran after me.

We came across a clearing and the sight that greeted us was shocking even to me.

The field was completely littered with corpses. They were some who seemed to have been mauled to death while others had giants claw marks on their bodies and did I mention that they were wearing magicians robes. What was stranger was the fact that I felt a few devils among the dead if the bat wings were any indication.

However, all this was unimportant compared to what I was seeing in the middle of the field.

A young and very muscled man was facing a gigantic golden lion with a maniac grin on his face while a young blonde-haired woman with elf-life features was watching from the sidelines with a worried face.

I immediately recognised the two figures facing each other. How could I not? One was releasing an overwhelming amount of Touki even bigger than mine while the other was a golden lion.

The Strongest Youth and Future Lion King, Sairaorg Bael, and the greatest of the Nemean Lion race, Regulus.

It seems that we were too late. The possessor of Regulus Nemea must be already dead and Regulus materialised itself in the world after his death and killed his partner's murderers, murderers that I suddenly have an inkling of their real identity.

While I rummaged in my head about the identities of these people, it seemed that the young devils finally recognised our presence and looked at us in surprise.

The woman with blond hair, who must be Kuisha Abaddon, Sairaorg's Queen, put herself between herself and us.

She looked at us with determination while my two teammates drew their swords and spoke, "Master, Exorcists." She seems to have recognised us and informed her King of our affiliation with two simple words. Sairoarg looked back at us in shock and muttered. "Exorcists? What are they doing here?" But that moment of inattention was his mistake. The Nemean Lion suddenly let out an earth-shaking roar and charged at Sairoarg with incredible speed. The golden lion collided with the young devil and despite the protection afforded by Touki, he was thrown away like a rag-doll.

Seeing the aggressive nature of the Nemean Lion I immediately summoned a light spear, but before I could give out clear instructions to my teammates I heard an excited voice on my left.

"Finally, a challenge!" Sieg intoned and summoned his sword Gram.

Dammit, Sieg! I thought in frustration as I watched the swordsman throw himself at the golden lion, ready to cut the beast into pieces. Except it wasn't what happened.

Gram is considered the strongest demonic sword and yet it didn't even scratch the Nemean Lion. If Sieg's shocked face was any indication, it never happened before. However, I was not surprised the Nemean Lion skin is said to in penetrable and unless Sieg could activate Grams power he would not be able to cut the skin.

Sieg wasn't deterred by his failure and tried, again and again, to slash him into pieces but to no effect. After a few seconds, Regulus seemed to grow bored with his attempt and decided to retaliate. And what a counterattack it was.

The lion's paw blurred and dealt a devastating blow to Sieg's chest making him cough blood and made him crash into a tree. But the Golden Lion wasn't finished with him. The beast launched itself at the demonic swordsman destroying the ground as he did, ready to maul him to death, but before he could do that Sieg got up just in time to dodge the lion charging make it continue ploughing through the trees of the forest. Sieg then pulled out his other sword and changed the lion again hoping to get a different result. It didn't and when that happened the lion turned around and at the

You must be wondering why I haven't joined the fray. The answer was simple. Siegfried needed to face the lion himself.

The reason I accepted this mission was to make him understand that there is always someone stronger and in his case there is many. I wanted to humble him so that he stops making rash decisions during missions and instead listen to my opinions first before deciding to go in. He needed to accept his weakness and move past his arrogance. And what better way to do this than to face the overwhelming might of the strongest Nemean Lion, a beast that even the great Hero Heracles had trouble defeating.

It was cold and pragmatic but I need to be a bit of both of these things if I want to create my faction and protect it. Plus it's not like I'm gonna let him die, I'll stop the lion before it can cause permanent damage to his body.

I watched the lion crush Sieg into the ground with his paw and I thought that it was enough. I reinforced my body and my light spear with Touki and looked back at Sairaorg who was getting up with the aid of Kuisha. We made eye contact and we both nodded to each other, understanding that we were allies in this fight. Besides, I simply needed to aid Sairaorg in the battle and wait for him to tame Regulus. Better than the lion stays in the Sairaorg's hands than mine as I had no way to control the beast.

I launched myself at the same time as the strongest youth in the direction of the Nemean Lion who was preparing himself to deal the finishing blow to Sieg. I used the blunt side of my spear knowing that cutting him would be useless. I enhanced the weapon with magic for good measures.

Once I was in the range of the lion I lifted my spear by the handle above my head and slammed it into the back of Regulus sending him into the ground. At the same time, I looked at Sairaorg who was charging an enormous amount of Touki in his fist and watched as the air around his fist distorted and a thunderous noise was heard coming from the movement of his hand.

"AAAAHHHH." Sairaorg let out a war cry and punched the Golden Lion Straight after my attack. Despite Regulus's unbreakable skin, he was thrown away by the force of our attack but we didn't waste this opportunity as we both appeared in front of the flying lion, due to moving at incredibly fast speeds, and sent a flurry of blows with both my spear and his fists.

Our blows impacted the beast and created several shockwaves but the Nemean Lio seemed to have enough of our attacks as he twirled around in the air and clawed us on the sides. As we both impacted the ground and tried to get up I watched the Golden Lion let out a defying roar and smash the ground with his paws. The ground erupted and several gigantic earth spikes were sent in our direction.

I watched the incoming attack coming in my direction and prepared a spell to protect myself but before I could several black holes appeared around me. The black holes redirected the attack in the direction of the golden lion. I watched to the side as Kuisha Abaddon raised her hand and sent back the earth spikes.

The Nemean Lion dodged all of them and the earth spikes impacted the ground, creating a rising smoke that was hiding the lion from view.

When the smoke cleared out, the Nemean Lion was nowhere to be seen.

"Where is he?!" Sairaorg cried out and I used my mana sense to find his mana signature.

After a few seconds, I found the beast and he was rushing out of the forest with incredible and was going in the direction of a mountain. I prepared myself to run after him but I looked back at my teammates who were getting up and reconsidered.

Instead, I went in the direction of Siegfried to check upon them. They both seemed to be fine despite the blood coming out of Sieg's mouth but they both had frustrated expressions. It was also clear that they were both somewhat troubled by the experience. But again who can blame them? Facing the wrath of the Lion King was even intimidating for me without my Longinus.

"Are you alright?" I asked him with concern and feeling a little guilty that I let him get injured to teach them a lesson.

"Yeah," Sieg said with a frustrated tone.

"You don't have to act like-"

"I was useless." Sieg interrupted angrily.

I looked back at him in surprise but he continued. "I didn't even last a minute against the beast while you and a freaking devil went toe to toe with the golden lion." He said with an angry tone.

"Siegfried, you realise that it was the strongest Nemean Lion that we were facing, a beast that was sealed inside a Longinus. It was never going to be easy in the first place. Your mistake was to think that you could defeat such a monster by yourself. There is a reason why only Heracles was able to single handle slay a Nemean Lion. Sometimes one's need to swallow his pride and ask for help if one's want to triumph against a stronger adversary. There is no shame in that." I scolded him as gently as I could.

Siegfried seemed to contemplate what I said and answered after he seemed to realise something. "You… You're right. I have been arrogant all this while thinking that I could defeat everything I came across simply because I am a hero descendant and was chosen by six high-tier Demonic Swords. I was just a big fish in a small pond. I understand after seeing you, the lion and even that devil, that there is many people stronger than me on this earth and if I want to grow stronger I need to stop thinking that victory will simply come to me due to my lineage." He said seriously and looked back at me with conviction and bowed. "I apologise for my insubordination, Leader, from now on I will follow your orders faithfully so that you could lead us to victory."

I was pleased to see Siegfried mature so much from this experience. It seems that he is ready to achieve his true potential. I gripped his shoulders and told him seriously.

"That's all I ask, Sieg."

I then looked behind me at Sairaorg who was closing the eyes of a corpse while Kuisha was standing vigilantly next to him and watching us like a hawk. "Come, we need to find the Nemean Lion before it goes on a rampage," I told them.

Sieg was now sending a suspicious glare in the devil's direction.

"We'll need to ask the devils for their help," I said while moving in their direction.

"WHAT?! B-but they're devils !" Sieg cried out.

"So?" It's not like I had a choice as Sairaorg was the only one who can tame the Golden Lion. We needed his help to resolve this situation peacefully and besides, it wasn't the Nemean Lion I was worried about but the attackers. They may send reinforcement and render this situation even worse.

"B-but!" Sieg stuttered in incomprehension.

I sighed. "Sieg, you know that we need their help to capture the lion. We won't be able to succeed by ourselves."

"But they could be allies of the attackers. They may be the last survivors of Lion's rampage." He pointed out to me.

I doubt it but they didn't know that. "Well, why don't we ask them then?" I said while walking in the direction of Sairaorg and his Queen while Sieg followed me in confusion.

I watched as Sairaorg breathed deeply and looked sadly at the corpse he was attending. It was the body of a young man with long grey hair, wearing greek armour. I guessed that this must be the murdered wielder of Regulus Nemea. For some reason, I felt like I know him or at the very least some who looks like him. Sairoarg sensed my presence and looked at me stoically, Kuisha took a step forward to put herself between her King and us but he raised a hand to stop her.

I looked at him for a few seconds and spoke. "Cao Cao," He looked at me with surprise and confusion but I continued. "That's my name and this is my teammate Siegfried." He nodded reluctantly. "We are exorcists from the Vatican as I'm sure you figured out."

Sairoarg seemed shocked that an exorcist would greet him with such politeness to a devil-like him but soon regained his calm and introduced himself in turn. "I am Sairoarg of the House of Bael and this is Kuisha Abaddon, my Queen." He said politely while Kuisha nodded curtly.

I hummed in thought and looked at the dead body. "What happened here and who killed him?" Sairoarg looked at me strangely. "I'm surprised that you do not suspect us to be the accomplices of the attackers. There are a few devils among their numbers after all and I could have tried to forcefully reincarnate him for all you know" He said calmly and Sieg tensed at this and put a hand on his weapon. I shook my head. "If you wanted to reincarnate the Longinus user into your peerage, I do not believe that you would have done by force as it is known to be unwise and suicidal to try it with a Longinus user with the risk of them going berserk. No the only ones stupid enough to do this is either the Old Maou Faction or the most stupid and arrogant of the young devils. I do not believe that you are either of these things."

He raised an eyebrow in surprise. "You are a strange exorcist."

I smirked. "And you are a strange devil, I've never heard of a devil capable of using Touki and with such proficiency p."

"I could say the same about you. An exorcist using Touki is just as strange as a Devil." He shot back with humour in his voice.

We smirked at each other. That's what I liked about that guy. A true hard worker with neither the arrogance and sense of entitlement as the rest of the devil nobles. I remembered why he was one of my favourite characters in the canon.

"So, who is he ?" I said coming back to the matter at hand while looking at the dead body of the young man. Sairaorg crossed his muscular arms and looked at the body sadly. "His name was Alcides. He was one of my clients."

"Were you trying to convince him to become one of you filthy devils ?" Sieg interrupted with suspicion.

"How dare you insult Sairoarg-same?!" Kuisha said with anger while Sairoarg tried to calm her down.

"Sieg, enough," I said firmly looking at him in the eye. He looked away while I looked back at Sairoarg who was scratching his cheek. "But my teammate has a point. Were you?" He shook his head in the negative. "No, Alcides just wanted a sparring partner and I was more than glad to do this. It's not every day you can fight with this generation of Lion King. And besides, he told me that he planned to join the Church with his brother." He explained.

"I see, and the attackers then?" I asked him while looking at the dead bodies littering the ground.

"Like you, I believe that they are from the Old Maou Faction. Maybe they wanted to extract his Sacred Gear for themselves but, strangely, they will associate themselves with Stray magicians." He said in curiosity while I nodded in agreement.

At this time, The Old Maou Faction were not known to associate with foreign powers, especially Stray and human magicians. That happened, only because they were part of the Khaos Brigade. So it means that the Brigade is probably already active in some capacity, not surprising considering who their leader is.

I was startled from my thought by Sairoarg's voice. "Alcides must have summoned me with his contract so that I could help him fend off the attackers but I was too late and when I was summoned, The Nemean Lion already ended his rampage and set his sight on me. It was then that you all appeared and you know the rest." He finished sadly.

"I have seen it means that we have to find him before he goes on another rampage and ends up killing innocents."

"'We'" He said in surprise.

"Yes, we will need your help to deal with the beast as I do not believe that we will succeed with just the two of us." Well, I could but it would mean showing more cards than it is necessary. "I've seen you hold your ground with the Nemean Lion and I believe that you and your Queen will be a great help," I told him seriously.

He looked at me in surprise and let a big bellowing laugh. "Hahaha, you are a strange exorcist Cao Cao. I thought for a second that I'll have to sneak on my own to fight the Lion." I raised an eyebrow at this. "Vey well we will help you but at one condition." He said.

"Shoot."

"I wish to capture the Lion alive, I believe that it can be reasoned with." He told me seriously.

Sieg moved to protest but I raised my hand to stop him as it was exactly what I wanted from Sairoarg anyway. "Very well but if he starts killing innocent people, we will not hesitate to put him down," I warned him.

He nodded in agreement. " It's a deal then." He said and offered me his hand.

"It's a deal," I said and shook his hand.

However a second later I felt another mana signature coming in our direction as well as something else, I raised my head in alarm while Sairoarg felt the same disturbance and put his guard up.

A moment later, several missiles, yes freaking missiles, came in our direction with incredible speed. I put myself in front of my teammates and raised my arm, instantly forming a light barrier around Siegfried and me. Others came toward Sairoarg and Kuisha but they dealt with it by literally punching it away and creating holes to redirect them.

Several explosions were heard from all directions and a second later someone came out of the woods.

It was an imposing young man with shoulder-length grey hair and wearing some sort of greek armour. A furious expression was plastered on his face.

I stared in shock because I know exactly who it was.

"YOU…YOU KILLED MY BROTHER! YOU WILL PAY!" The wielder of Variant Detonation hurled in anger and fury.

Okay, What the fuck is Heracles doing here?

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Hi again

So the 10th chapter is here, Yay, now I don't have to hear about bloody copy and paste all the the time it's just gonna be completely my writing, so if you don't like it then I can't help you there fam. other news I'll be now post chapters once a week on Saturdays or Sunday. I don't want to do every day because I actually have thinks to do and simply can't be doing this everyday. I also don't want to experience burn out like other writers and then abandon the fic, something which I really hate. So don't worry about me ever abandoning this fic I will see it through to the end even if it means I'll only update once a month.

With the introduction of Sairaorg we now have rival for our MC and he will be a recurring character as I liked him in canon(I'm not sure who doesn't like him). Him and his peerage will also be a lot more powerful this time around so look forward to that.

so until next week peace