Requiem Of A Failed Hero



At first, his joints were a bit creaky and hard to move but as he repeatedly folded and unfolded his arms and legs it got better.

It felt like his joints were getting accustomed to the freeze with each passing second.

The lady stood in front of Raith, dumbfounded.

Raith had become iceman. Instead of dying from a frozen heart and frozen body. He had taken the property of ice and was still well and alive.

Perhaps temporarily stronger than he was a second before now.

"You are supposed to be dead... how?"

The lady's voice quaked with shock as she pointed her thin white fingers at him.

"Actually, that part is something even I am still discovering. But I guess we can say that I don't run on the heart you destroyed."

Her eyes narrowed.

"Then I'm just going to destroy the heart you run on. Frozen Heart"

She clenched her fist harder than before. Her crumbling facial expression informed him of her failure before the abyss did.

[Heart of Creation is resistance to all kinds of magic]

'Oh, so that is it...'

Raith chuckled proudly and lifted his gaze to her.

"What are you?"

Her voice was still shaking. She couldn't believe what she was seeing.

But the next second her dazed eyes came together to form a scowl.

The air got tighter and heavier.

And a massive pressure fell on the atmosphere. Raith's generals who were watching behind fell to their knees and shivered at the might of the pressure but Raith couldn't feel a thing.

He needed to be alive to do that.

But right now, it was safe to say Raith was a dead man whose body had been frozen to preserve him. However, the only reason he could maintain his consciousness was because of the heart of creation and his unique body did the magnificent job of adapting to its new state.

Raith right could not comprehend the pressure that hung over the atmosphere.

'Dragon Fear is not working... but it worked on him when he was outside the door.'

Her scowl only worsened as she continued to see Raith defy her definition of common sense. She had never met a human like this.

"Alright then... if you will let me."

Raith stretched his hand sideways, materializing Bal out.

"Let's pick up from where we left off, yea?!"

Devil Flash

A thin black line was all that was left between Raith and the ice lady, all in a split millisecond.

Raith had drawn a powerful horizontal slash across the lady. But he clicked his tongue in irritation.

And rolled his eyes down to his hand. As his gaze fell on the hand, a white glint circled his hand, and it fell and shattered to bits of ice. Leaving just Bal on the floor.

The lady, on the other hand, cleaned off the Crimson blood on her cheek with irritation, large sharp frozen claws were revealed on her left hand.

'How the hell can she be so fast...'

Raith's mind wandered.

He was sure he was way ahead of her, but as he intended to sift her neck in two, she somehow could read his attack and managed to avoid and cut his hand instead.

He didn't think she'd be so fast considering that she had been using ranged attacks so far.

"Shatterpoint strike"

-snap-

With a snap of her fingers, Raith's pressure points which were already frozen began to shatter from within. He tried to move but couldn't.

The lady turned to him and walked closer, she put her hand on his head. Dipping her claws deep into his frozen skull. She tightened her grasp until the whole of his head crumbled.

And his headless body crumbled to the ground shattering to lesser bits of ice.

She glared down with a discontentious gaze, wrinkles were forming beneath her blue eyes.

It was as though she was curious as to what was going to happen and how it was going to happen, at the same time she wished he would just stay dead and not bother her any further.

Her eyes stayed on the ground with broken ice. However...

Raith's sword plunged into her back and came out from her belly. Causing even more wrinkles to form around her eyes as she creased her brow and eyes together and slowly looked back, then all her body began to freeze into ice.

Raith narrowed his eyes and was about to pull out when the ice exploded consuming him in it—everything was frozen, even the explosion itself froze, and inside of it was Raith...frozen.

-snap-

Sitting on the throne, she snapped her fingers and everything shattered.

Again Raith died.

Her eyes darted around to see where he would come from this time around. No matter how much she looked she wasn't coming but she didn't stop looking, Her senses were instantaneously honed to the brim but ten minutes later she couldn't still sense Raith or feel his presence anywhere.

After casting one last glance around the ice palace, she sighed and leaned back, and closed her eyes, resting her hand on the arm of the chair and her head on her hand.

Heavenly Destruction...

Her eyes shot open in an instant. But it had started long before that...

A dark and purple mass of energy swirled out of space razing the icy floors and effortlessly shattering the pillars as it hurtled toward her.

Wham!

Deploying a semi-transparent shield she blocked it.

The mere presence of the energy's force was causing disaster in her palace. Everything was being razed away at an ultrasonic rate and it was irritating. She had taken her time to carefully build this place and yet some dumb human was messing it up.

She frowned and opened her mouth.

Immediately she did, it began to suck in all the energy. And when she was done, she let out a loud bump of gas through her mouth.

"Uh?"

His face went pale.

"She swallowed it..."

'Hell yeah, she did...'

[New Quest]

Raith's gaze lowered down.

[You have met a vassal of the ruler of gluttony. Make her your vassal]

- Quest success: +10 rulership assimilation, ???

- Quest failure: –100 levels.

"Hell no, you dare not!"