Hero of Darkness

After Kahn finally managed to kill the Caladrius with his meticulous planning as he made it use its final card and delivered the Dimensional Cut thanks to his most powerful divine ability… he heaved a sigh of relief. 

But instead of following his usual routine of absorbing the ability and skills of the legendary rank monster as he does every time… Kahn had different priorities at the moment. 

The main reason being it would take him half a day just to complete the process and he didn't have that much time on hand as there was someone who needed immediate help. 

Thud!! 

Crack!! 

Both Oliver and Blackwall woke up from their forced slumber and Kahn ordered the titan general to pull out the deceased Caladrius from the pitfall including its head. 

As for Oliver, he commanded him to go back and bring back their warship that was 25 kilometers away, waiting for them to return. 

Kahn then returned to the cave where Armin was still healing Kassandra with the best of his abilities. Her sweaty forehead and palms indicated that her body was under some sort of distressed situation while her aura seemed much weaker than before. 

"Master… I can feel her soul and life force diminishing at a fast pace. Even my healing skills aren't working. 

She doesn't have much time left." spoke Armin while his hands full of green glowing aura were moving over her body as he tried to heal her damaged soul. 

"How much time does she have?" asked Kahn who stood behind them with a solemn expression. 

"At best… she will live for 8 hours. Because she is a semi-saint, her soul was already stronger than normal people. But the damage she received was also many times more because of it. 

I thought she'd have a day to live but minutes ago… her life force started dwindling quickly." replied Armin. 

"Means there's a chance that we won't even have 8 hours." spoke Kahn with a somber voice. 

Armin nodded in response, not denying the possibility. 

Soon, their warship arrived and Kahn boarded it along with Armin. He left Oliver and Blackwall who already returned to their human forms in charge of bringing more warships and carrying the ginormous body of the Caladrius to the capital Aesir. 

An hour later, they all returned to Kaldris, the site of the battle where the legendary rank monster attacked and had too many dead bodies of the fallen soldier. 

Omega and Ronin had come this morning and brought all the war relief supplies and reinforcements as Kahn commanded before departing Aesir. 

And now, Armin and Kahn had brought Kassandra into a mansion owned under Kahn's name that was close to the military outpost. 

In the past hour alone, Kassandra's aura had dimmed by half. 

"Master… tell me your final decision. The procedure can not wait for long. Her life force is diminishing rapidly.

If we wait… it will make things harder, even for me." said Armin. 

Kahn who still had a conflicted expression spoke as he looked at Kassandra who seemed to be in physical agony despite being unconscious. 

"I guess the saying is right…" he said and continued. 

"The hardest choices require the strongest wills."

Spoke Kahn and gave a determined look to Armin. 

"I will do it." 

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10 MINUTES LATER. 

Kahn now slept beside Kassandra and intertwined his left palm's fingers with hers. 

Not because he wanted to do the 'indecent handholding' but because Armin told him to do so. 

"System, give me Armin's current stats." ordered Kahn while the Healer subordinate was preparing for the procedure. 

[Following are the statistics, abilities & skills of the subordinate named Armin :

Name : Armin

Species : Heshen (Variant Hermit) 

Job : The Pathfinder (Legendary Class) 

Rank : High Lord

Level : 152

Strength : 2903

Agility : 1281

Dexterity : 5039

Defense : 2738

Mana : 9104

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Following are the Physical abilities & skills : 

Flora & Fauna (A Rank) (Passive) :

Allows the subordinate to make an innate telepathic connection with Plant & Animal lifeforms. The subordinate can command such lifeforms through his will. 

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Following are the Magical abilities & skills :

Atonement (S Rank) (Active) : 

The subordinate can remove 3 status ailments & debuffs at once from allies present in 800 meter radius. 

The range of the ability will rise with an increase in levels and rank. 

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Restoration (SS Rank) (Active) : 

Allows the subordinate to heal allies to their previous physical state one minute ago. 

Note : This skill does not work on deceased allies. 

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Guardian Spectre (S Rank) (Active) : 

The subordinate can grant 2 times physical attack and defense buff to all the allies in a 900 meters radius using mana threads. 

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Chain Heal (S Rank) (Active) : 

The subordinate can heal up to 26 allies at once in a 500 meter radius. 

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Elixir of Life (SSS Rank) (Active) :

Allows the subordinates to instantly regenerate 80% of a single ally's health and physical wounds. 

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Brewing (S Rank) (Passive) :

The subordinate has received an innate sense of understanding of the effects of herbs and medicines. 

This ability may help in fastening the Alchemy procedure. 

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Infusion (S Rank) (Passive) :

Allows the subordinate to mix different elements in Potions and Medicines, giving the special elemental attributes. 

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Cell Control (SS Rank) (Active) :

The subordinate can control the bodies of any plant life or wood elemental monsters. 

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Resurrection (SAINT RANK) (Active) : 

Allows the subordinates to bring back any ally or individual after the short time of their death. 

Note : The Host is an exclusion to this ability as all the subordinates will die after the host has died. 

The Resurrection procedure will require 10,000 A Rank mana cores or ores to successfully resurrect an ally in their peak state. 

The higher ranked the target is, the more and high ranked source of mana will be needed. 

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Soul Reformation (LEGENDARY RANK) (Active) :

The subordinate can heal the damage done to anyone's soul over time and even make it stronger by two times.] replied the system. 

"Are you ready master? This will hurt like hell." spoke Armin as he gave a serious gaze to Kahn. 

Kahn nodded in response and spoke in affirmation. 

"I am. After all… I always pay my debts."