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--- Izumi's Garden

"You should be wondering why I brought you here again right?" Izumi asked Jay who was sitting down peacefully beside the gigantic treant, Fraxinus.

"It's something related to those Shurym demons right? Or are you going to make me feel even worse by telling how I f*cked things up again?" Jay said while he randomly touched the flowers around him.

"Well, you haven't f*cked up things that much since you managed to recruit a lot of people and your plan is still in motion. But the reason why I brought you here is because of those demons. Remember what I've said about those Shurym Demons?" Izumi said before she sat down in front of Jay.

"The brown skins are cannon fodder and the gray skins are the common soldiers. So those ones with the jet black armor and the octopus-looking helmet, I'm guessing their some kind of generals?" Jay replied.

"Yup. The reason why I brought you here is because of these Demon Generals. Your guild and everyone on it is not safe anymore the moment one of these Demon Generals saw it." After saying this, Izumi clapped her hands twice.

"Fraxinus, open the Warp Gate."

The moment Izumi shouted this, a gigantic bluish portal appeared near the treant. After this, Izumi gave Jay a small bead.

"Take this and assimilate it onto your guild hall. It does not matter where since it will just act as some kind of mark. After you do so, your guild hall and everyone inside will be teleported here." Izumi said and teleported Jay back outside the Golden Phoenix guild hall.

...

--- Golden Phoenix Guild Hall, Courtyard

"So that's her plan. I'm only telling all of this to everyone because Jay already dragged you in this. So I hope you do your part in the future too." Shera just finished telling everyone in the Golden Phoenix guild hall about what Izumi told Jay.

She also threw in some words of motivation to make sure everyone sticks with Jay and not leave him all alone in the future events to come.

Just as she was about to leave, she saw Yale mixed in with the crowd.

"Boy! Come with me!" Shera shouted as she pointed at Yale. After doing so, she used some kind of spell and dragged Yale outside the guild hall as she left.

...

"My lady, what is this all about? Please don't absorb my soul, I am still alive and well..." Yale immediately dropped on his knees and begged Shera since he does not know what was going to happen to him.

"Idiot." Shera said softly and gestured Yale to stand up.

"I'm taking you along with me. Leave your guild for now. I'm going to take you somewhere very far away in order to improve your skills." Shera said as she forcefully took the guild emblem pinned on Yale's armor.

"Please let me say my goodbyes first!" Yale said hurriedly but sadly, Shera already shattered his guild emblem.

"Don't worry. I will ask Izumi to tell Jay about this." After this, Shera opened a teleportation gate and took Yale with her.

On this day on and the future years to come, no one heard or saw Yale again until a certain day when he suddenly returns at a certain day in the future.

...

After a few seconds that happened, Jay suddenly popped up out of nowhere outside the guild hall.

"Where did those four go anyways?" Jay asked himself since King Arturus, Queen Aery, Aisleen, and Vardis were nowhere to be found.

He just shrugged and went towards the guild hall. He did not even step inside the place, and he already heard everyone voicing out their worries and how glad they are that he survived.

"JAY!"

"Master!"

The core members were the first one to rush out of the guild hall and tried to hug Jay. As for the rest of the people inside the guild hall, they were surprised to see Jay in a very good condition. It was as if he never fought with the demon.

"Oh yeah, I almost forgot. A Fatelord named Shera told us some things while that other Fatelord took you away." Roasted Boar immediately said to Jay.

"What things?" Jay asked while he placed the small bead in his hands on the walls of the guild hall.

"About the Shurym Demons. She also told us about how we are going to relocate to another place." Roasted Boar said hurriedly.

"I see. The people at the hunting outpost, the trading centers, and the farming villages, are they inside the guild hall?" Jay asked.

"I asked them to come here a while ago and they should arrive just about now..." Roasted Boar was about to say something but Jay spoke up again.

"Good. Just make sure everyone is within the guild hall. It does not matter where. If it gets too crowded in the courtyard or the hub center, everyone can first stay at the different rooms on the second and third floor. If it is still too crowded, let them stay at the bedrooms or the storage room. As for the core members, you can all stay at the control room." Jay said immediately since he saw that the small bead on his hands suddenly turned into a green liquid and suddenly increased in volume and covered the whole guild hall.

...

A few minutes later, when everyone in the Kingdom of the Golden Phoenix were gathered inside the guild hall, Jay gathered some magicka on his hands and activated the weird green liquid that covered the guild hall. After doing so, he got teleported together with the guild hall to Izumi's Garden.

--- Izumi's Garden

"Woah!" Almost everyone were surprised how nice the place looked like.

"Everyone, gather around!" Izumi suddenly shouted as she descended from the skies. So everyone left the guild hall and gathered around Izumi.

"Jay, stay beside me." Izumi said and gestured Jay to come over. After Jay did so, she spoke up again.

"First things first. Let me properly introduce myself. I know all of you knows that I am a Fatelord already, but anyways..." After a short pause, Izumi continued,

"My name is Izumi Forrester. Fatelord of Nature. The one in charge of this continent which was named after me, the continent 'Izumi's Abode.'" After introducing herself, she activated an archive formation and projections of different kinds of information appeared around her.

"I know its getting repetitive for everyone to hear about this planar invasion thing since Jay already told you about it and my friend earlier said some things about it, but anyways, I'm going to fill you in with everything the Fatelord know so far about the Shurym Plane and its demons. You guys might also want to sit down since this is going to take long."

...

After everyone was seating down and were focused on whatever Izumi was about to say, she started her long lecture.

"The Shurym Plane is inhabited by Shurym Demons as we call them. There isn't really that many of them, with their population count that is around 400,000 or something." After saying this, Izumi removed all of the projections except one and zoomed in on it.

The projection she was showing to everyone was about the brown-skinned demons.

"At everyone's current state, probably only Jay, the guy in blue robes, and the muscular old man can fight these demons directly." Izumi said as she pointed at Horace and Roasted Boar.

"If these brown skins were rated according to the 'Power Tier Scaling' in our Fatelord Plane, they are around the 8th or 9th tier. These guys are just the cannon fodder of their armies." After saying these, she removed the projection of the brown-skinned demon and showed the gray-skinned demons.

"These gray skins are around the level of Half-divines. These guys are the regular soldiers of their armies. So far, only Jay can fight these guys head on. The rest of you are just flies to these gray skins." After this, she removed the projection of the gray-skinned demons and showed the one with the octopus on their heads.

"These guys are the generals of their armies. Based on the information provided by a friend of mine, he said that there are only 200 of these guys. Their power level is the same as Divine Beings." After a short pause, Izumi continued and removed the projection of these octopus-head demons.

"As for their powerhouses which we Fatelords are still collecting information about, we only have small details about them. What we know so far is that they have 50 of these powerhouses, 10 Lords, and their so called War God, Shurym. Sadly though, we still have to see what they look like and how strong they are. But I am guessing only the Fatelords can fight these guys."

While everyone was processing these information in their minds which is obvious from the confused expressions on their faces, Izumi stored the archive formation and continued speaking after a short break.

"Next up. About Jay's plan to turn you all into an army that will fight against these demons. Jay, go ahead and tell them before I continue." Izumi said as she sat down and gestured Jay to speak up.

"I already told the core members of the kingdom about this, but I will just repeat it to all of you..." Jay started telling everyone about how he plans to rally players and NPCs all over the continent they were on to help them fight against the Shurym Demons.

"I know everyone is still not powerful enough so I wanted to do something about this." After saying this, Jay took out the Shadow Puppet.

"Hellson, Chicken Lord, I will let both of you decide who will possess this Shadow Puppet." Jay told Hellson and the Chicken Lord before speaking to everyone again and telling them about the use of the Shadow Puppet and how a powerful being will use it in order to train them.

...

--- Jay's Soul Space

"You should go first. You're a Fatelord anyways and you know a lot more stuff than me." The Chicken Lord immediately said to Hellson who was looking at him seriously.

"But if I do that, I won't be able to guide Jay properly..." Hellson was still speaking but the Chicken Lord interrupted him.

"If I do it, I won't be able to help Jay in tricky situations though..."

The two were currently troubled over this problem but in the end, the Chicken Lord decided that he should be the one who should possess the Shadow Puppet since he has more combat experience and can help everyone train better.

"I remember that Jay and I have a 'Soul Binding' contract on us. So we can still communicate with each other even when we are hundreds of miles away from each other. I hope Jay knows what he is doing though..." The Chicken Lord thought to himself before telling Jay that he will be the one to possess the Shadow Puppet.

...

Back at Izumi's Garden...

The moment the Chicken Lord possessed the Shadow Puppet, it changed its form and turned exactly like how the Chicken Lord was supposed to look.

BAWK BAWK!!! ("Greetings!") The Chicken Lord immediately spoke up but forgot to speak in human tongue. So he faked a cough and said the same thing again in human tongue.

"Woah! A chicken guy just like Jay!" Everyone who knew of Jay's chicken form thought to themselves as they looked at the Chicken Lord.

"Do what you want later, I still have something to say." Izumi stood up and shushed everyone.

"Since Jay already told you about his plan, I am going to tell you about what the Fatelords think about this and what we've agreed on."

Izumi suddenly placed her hand over Jay's shoulder.

"Jay Castle, as one of the people leading the fight against the planar invaders, as the one who will lead everyone, we Fatelords decided to make you as one of our own..." Izumi still haven't finished speaking when Jay suddenly became shocked.

"WHAT?!"

Everyone also had the same expression as Jay. Even Hellson had the same expression of shock.

"WHAT?!"

"Shut up! I'm still saying something..." Izumi said angrily and shushed everyone.

"After a long discussion on what his title would be, after reviewing all of the things that happened to Jay, after seeing him do things, we decided on this title..." After a short pause, Izumi patted Jay on the shoulder and looked as if she was pitying him.

"The Chicken Hero... we all thought it was a bit weird to call him The Chicken Fatelord... so this will have to do..." Izumi said and tried to stop herself from laughing, but she laughed anyways.

"Hahaha!!! I'm sorry! It's not my fault! Hahaha!!!"

Everyone sighed and did not know how should they feel about this. They even pitied Jay for receiving such a... unique title.

"Chicken Hero.... Chicken Hero..." Jay kept repeating the words to himself and showed a ghastly expression on his face. If his soul can leave his body, it might have came out of his mouth already, floating on the air.

After Izumi stopped laughing, or rather, controlled herself from laughing, she continued.

"Jay, I will give you a day to prepare yourself before going with me to the Sacred Song Isles. As for everyone here, start whatever plan Jay has started." After saying this, Izumi flied up into the air and vanished from sight.

As for Jay, he suddenly slumped down to the ground, still thinking about the unique title he got.

"Why... Why can't I have a badass title like Fatelord of Ass Kicking or something... Just why..."

Title: Jay Becomes The Chicken Hero