Chapter four

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This is purely a work of fiction. Not meant to offend or incite, but to entertain and maybe inspire.

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THE STRONGEST THERE IS II

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The bloodsoaked battlefield was laden with fallen bodies and discarded broken weapons and shields. The songs of metal against metal ringing in the intense smog filled atmosphere where might and will collided against each other. Where true streghth was formed and tempered by the hammer of steeled resolve.

"Allies are here!"

"Yes reinforcements!"

We ran forward with the Lebklov in lead. I smelled enemies, ones stronger than normal incoming fast.

"Come Warriors we charg--" he was separated from his life in a way that left the others stunned. Told you so. A giant snow white furred gnoll that towered over everything hoisted a bloodstained war hammer over its shoulder. A disgusting display of monstrosities hidden beneath false purity. It's long tongue slid from side to side of its filty maw.

"Attack its heels!" someone prompted. The other agreeing with the voice and heading on to attack the giant dogman's feet. It easily evaded their strikes and pounded them to paste with its large hammer and feet. Screams of terror, grunts of pain and groans of agony were as a result of the beasts actions. More appeared.

[Saga: The one without fear, only an all-consuming, unending fiery rage]

I drew out my sword and held it straight and true. My muscles tensed and were drawn taut like loaded springs, I aimed. "ROAR!!" I lunged at the beast like a speeding bullet. With all its speed it couldn't react fast enough. The large sword going through its eye socket to the back of its skull. The battlefield turned silent for moments. And then erupted in a defeating roar.

"Whoooo!!!"

"Mighty Hulk!!!"

"Odin's warrior!!"

The runes flowled into me. I wanted more destruction. I pulled my sword out of the beast's carcass and threw it forward like a spear. The sword cut through the air at sonic speeds with an audible eardrum rupturing explosion, implaing another giant gnoll in the chest. I leapt at the one closest to it. "HULK SMASH!" My fist knocked the giant off of its feet crack! Smahming apart it's Jaws, creating a small shcokwave in the process. It fell flat spreadeagle on the floor. My feet dug into its face as I landed on it and pounded over and over again till it turned to a mush of purple blood and brain tissue. The runes rushing into my hands.

I turned, my mad gaze landing on the remaining dogmen giants, they flinched and then snarled. They tried to deny their instincts telling them to run, they charged at me instead, they didn't live to regret it.

"HULK IS THE STRONGEST THERE IS!!!" I roared out pounding my chest. How dare these puny ants act strong before me? They had the audacity to bare their crooked maws at me. I would show them what true power is. I felt the explosive power coursing through me, endless strength is what it was. Limitless, boundless power.

[Synchro rate: 10%]

[Saga: the Strongest there is!]

"Ohhhhh! The strongest warrior!!"

"Mighty Hulk!!"

"The unrelenting green one!!"

"All slayer!!"

I grabbed the giant's corpse and raised it high overhead tossing it at the charging three remaining giants. They tumbled and stumbled, I pulled out the sword from the other corpse and leapt forward crossing massive distances, sailing in the air.

"He leaps over stars with each stride!!"

"Star crosser!!"

"He walks on air!!"

"He jumps over the very skies!!!"

"Odin's warrior!!"

"Charge!! For Asgard!!"

The warriors were roused by my acts, they gave loud battle cries and charged at the smaller gnoll army some miles behind the larger ones.

The first giant beast to recover, raised it's hammer to defend against a strike, I didn't strike down, I brutally stabbed forward. I used inhuman instincts to makeup for skill, Shuck! The sword went through its windpipe and nailed the beast down to the ground.

Another angrily swiped it's Warhammer down at me. I gripped the swung hammer's head, my muscles enlarged and tensed, acting as super efficient shock absorbers, visible waves of air spreading from the impact. I tugged hard, bringing the beast stumbling forward, down to face level. It's eyes widening in terror, I reared back and slammed my head forward. Crack! A deep indent formed on its skull. Something slammed to my sides driving me back through the soil. I stared at the last standing giant gnoll that just whacked me with his hammer. My anger grew, my power multiplied. My rage burned, I roared and leapt. Not straight as it was expecting me to. It's hammer slammed the empty ground forming a crater and kicking up dust.

Crack I tackled it in the chest, breaking its ribs and sending it falling to the ground, forming a deep ravine. My hands dug deep into its soft sides and gripped. Using its own bones as weapons. Ripping out a bloody curved rib bone, and stabbing it into its chest, implaing it right through its beating heart. The runes from its dead body enetered my palms.

I smirked, staring at the last gnoll with an indented skull. It tried rising up but fell back down due to its scrambled senses. I stared at its blood filled eyes and punched both arms into the bloody indent in its skull, it howled in pain and tried lashing out. Gripping both sides of the hole, my muscles bulged, I pulled apart. Craaackkk! The skull was torn apart from the middle, it's very intact brain fell limply to the bloodied ground. The smell of fear was thick in the air, I stared at the gnolls, those that met my gaze cowered, howled and ran for their lives.

"Puny monsters" I said, satisfied but not satiated with the blood I had spilled.

The warriors and their commanders woke up from the stupor in thunderous battlecries and capitalized on the retreat of the gnolls to do more damage to their armies.

"Charge warriors!!! Victory is at hand!!"

"For Asgard!!"

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"God of destruction" Valkyrie Rasgrid muttered silently to herself. Her eyes scanned the battlefield and it left her in a sort of stupor. The green terror, the giant angry warrior left her in true stupor. She wasn't expecting much from this battle, she was just here to act as to see how things went, there should have been nothing special about this one. Since it was one of many thousands upon thousands of small battles fought throughout.

She didn't come with much interest, other than to monitor and see how the tide went.

"They've already won" she said to herself. The Green one had absolutely decimated an elite squad of giant gnolls. The deployment of a giant gnoll squad by inself was beyond unexpected. Giant gnolls were commanders in themselves,they directed the flow of the gnoll army. They controlled hundreds of thousands of gnolls and for a squad to be launched was something unexpected.

But then came the true surprise. The one they called the Hulk. The one who's physique defined the essence of the word musculature and strength. He went through the enemies like Odin's spear through a frost giant's heart. He was terrifying enough to drive back the army with just his mad gaze of anger and distorted battle pleasure, he ripped apart the very skull of the giant gnoll with his bare hands. In that very moment he was the most fitting representation of power. Thor was the god of strength, but that was it he was born a god. This warrior before her was born a mortal. Warriors of asgard were honest, more so a Valkyrie, she admitted, the warrior drew all her attention. Her mind drifted off to more sensual thoughts before she had to stop herself, this was the battlefield, she was here to fight not daydream. Everything else can come when they were back in Valhalla. That's where they could get pleasure and rest, they were in a constant state of war. If you don't take the presented opportunity while you have it, there might not be a second time. Wars have unexpected results. Especially wars like these—living today didn't guarantee living tomorrow.

"Rasgrid" A voice said from behind her. She recognized the voice, she turned to the night black crow perched on a tree branch and went down on a knee, bowing respectfully before it.

"Valkyrie Rasgrid greets lord Odin" the black crow was one of the two favorites of Odin, they acted as his eyes and ears throughout the nine realms. And also as a mouthpiece.

"Rise my Valkyrie. Tell me how the battle is progressing"

The Valkyrie nodded and rose to her feet.

"The battle went better than expected. We have miminimal losses on our side. The lost lands are already back under Asgard's protection."

The black crow of Odin, Hugin nodded. "It seemed to have been an easy victory, it was a small battle after all"

"It was lord Odin. But there is a warrior that has caught my attention."

"oh?" Odin was surprised. Rasgrid has been on many battlefields, she hasn't once mentioned of a warrior who stood out, to gain her attention was harder than calming a fire giant. Her standards for qualifying them as such were quite brutal, even more so for new warriors. "Tell me about this warrior of yours. In which legion does he belong?"

"Yours lord Odin, I believe you've met him already. He is the green warrior….." SShe began explaining.

Hugin sagely nodded its head. Odin smiled fondly, it was the warrior who refused to kneel but instead seemed to have his battle intent ignited. He listened to Rasgrid divulge his exploits. The king of Asgard was very much interested in this warrior.

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The battle was a steamrolled blast. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and as added boon I also gained more fame. Well that was obvious considering I was basically a one man army out there, and this was just my second time on the battlefield. I wouldn't be surprised if I had caught the eyes of the higher ups in asgardian management. I wasn't going to be down playing myself. I need to get promoted to a higher status to achieve my aims. In Asgard there's five ranks of warriors. The lowest rank being the similarly named lowest ranked warriors which consisted of the newbies and those with flimsy sagas. After that came the inferior ranked warriors, skilled warriors that were allowed to participate in the more intense battlefields and were granted better advantages such as new accommodations and weapons. Then came the intermediate which became commanders who could directly lead warriors on the battlefield, from then on you would begin to build up divinity. Next the superior ranked warriors and the top rank warriors after that. The advantages would continue to exponentially increase in relation to warrior rank as well as the level of danger you would have to face on the battlefield.

And if you managed to rise through all those ranks, well then you're on your way to becoming a 'god'. I suppose they too have their ranks. 'God Hulk' hmm, that actually has a nice ring to it.

[Saga: The Incredible, Immortal Hulk] [Synchro rate: 12%]

[Saga: The one without fear, only an all-consuming, unending fiery rage]

[Saga: The One who will not be decieved]

[Saga: the Strongest there is!]

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[Lowest rank runes: 452]

[Inferior rank runes: 129]

I gained a higher variety of runes and a ton of em at that. My synchro rate rose again and I had another slot for sagas. It was a good battlehaul.

*Clears throat* WHooo!!!!!

Fuck calm! Die in battle and go to Valhalla!!

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Obligatory rhyme - I died and went to heaven. I fell a floor and went to hell. Kevin isn't my name, ringing bells isn't a game, I'm not eleven. Well, you can prolly tell, I met the devil and wished him well then kicked him back into a pick up truck and grabbed my trident and went to a bar and yelled out "for sale!". I fell from the skies, a blessing in disguise, a natural disaster with a 1000 eyes, when you realize it's too late you're already encaptured and trapped, call me by the name, the acquired moniker, "hi I'm Rain", and this is a wrap.

Hell yeah, son I'm that great!!

Rain away!

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