My Weekly Refreshing Mentor Spirit-Chapter 99 - 97: Heroes Burn in the Sunset
"Meteor Spear!" Achilles unleashed his spear.
In an instant, hundreds of arrows and spears flew into the sky, each resembling a grand meteor shower, beautiful and dazzling.
Like falling meteors, under the setting sun, they shone with unparalleled will and brilliance.
"Meteors, how beautiful..."
Xue Dili smiled, behind him, the Great Light Wheel spun, blooming with thorns.
"Trying to escape?"
The Great Light Wheel instantly covered the Evil God, the wheel represented the apocalypse’s war, pestilence, famine, and death, trapping and inversely eroding the Evil God.
This was specifically the Four Apocalypse against "demons," purging all demons and demon beasts from the world, an annihilation for the sake of salvation, giving birth to the Great Light Wheel.
Xue Dili began to burn too, the thorns were ablaze, his pure white robe was ablaze, and even his skin was covered in scorch marks.
"I’m sorry, Fafnir, father has to fulfill his mission..." Uncle Brave touched Fafnir’s pink hair.
It was the first time he touched his daughter, and perhaps the last.
Uncle didn’t pick up the Beloved Holy Sword because he no longer needed the sword that accompanied him all his life.
But even without the sword, he was the strongest below Tier Five, forged through a lifetime’s struggle within the Interstellar Corps, now the world’s strongest man.
It’s not the one who picks the sword that is the hero, but the sword held by the hero that is called the Holy Sword!
He casually drew a sword from an attendant, and charged forth, roaring into the blaze: "Interstellar Corps Third Squad, Heroic Lot, reporting!"
This scene left the entire world in shock, followed by unmatched jubilation.
Heroic Lot, the name that stirred the continent sixteen years ago, the hero that sealed the Evil God for sixteen years.
He’s back, he’s back, the hero of the past has returned!
At this moment, the world erupted.
"Hero, we admire you! We admire you!"
"Heroes, triumph! You must win!"
"Aeneas, haven’t you always boasted as a god-slaying hero? Stand up! Stand up, hero!"
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This moment, the world no longer concealed their emotions and adoration.
Since days ago, when the Demon King’s cadres attacked the city and began to boast of their names, people were forced to hear their tales.
Yet words alone hold no proof, though those heroes indeed showcased valor beyond compare, their fighting spirit and martial prowess were astonishing, it all felt unreal without seeing it firsthand.
But today, before their eyes, as witnessed by the world, they saw those self-proclaimed god-slaying heroes charging at the Evil God.
Fire could not burn their resolve, scorched bodies could not move their hearts.
At this moment they ceased to be merely boasting heroes of legend, but truly those marking this world, fools charging at the Evil God.
Not those from the past Hero Squad, blowing their deeds out of proportion in records, but truly those they saw, heroes crowned by flame and laughter.
"Win, you must win, heroes!"
"Heroes, we admire you!"
Regardless of gender, age, status, the world watched this scene, their admiration, their emotion, all invested in this battle.
The energy named "faith" began to gather, Xue Dili controlling the Great Light Wheel to inversely pollute the Evil God received it all.
He gazed skyward, more faith flowing, his lips curled: "Old friends, the whole world is calling for our miracle!"
"And what we must do, is not to seal the Evil God, leaving a mess to descendants, but here and now, utterly annihilate this Evil God!"
"Roar!" Battle cries echoed the skies.
A row of arrows and spears launched again, the celestial meteor shower returned, arrows pierced the Evil God’s body, spears impaled its exoskeleton.
Sanguine liquid splashed, its blood inherently potent in pollution and distortion, yet now, that distortion was inversely twisted by Xue Dili’s Great Light Wheel.
The green blood dripped onto the earth, transforming into burgeoning thorns, blooming into flowers, becoming so beautiful.
The Evil God stared intently at Xue Dili, its fury seemingly hysterical, ignoring the other pesky ants, its colossal body resembling a super beast from a Tokusatsu show charged toward Xue Dili, terrifying tendrils attacking!
This scene tensed everyone, heroes cannot afford further losses!
"Don’t think of harming the teacher!" The light blade of the Beloved Holy Sword sliced the tendrils like a hot knife through butter, a crowned young lady stood before Xue Dili.
She panted heavily, the Holy Sword in her hand flickering and fading.
"Good job." Xue Dili casually responded, continuing to suppress the Evil God with the Great Light Wheel.
"Well done, Princess! You’ve done well!" Everyone cheered.
"Yes!" Fafnir nodded firmly, she held the Holy Sword before her, staring intently at the Evil God’s assault.
Distortion and pollution were suppressed, reproductive capabilities castrated by Xue Dili, along with its soul and life being severely depleted.
At this moment, the Evil God felt unparalleled frustration.
On the other side, the man was exhausting his efforts to create every advantageous condition for them, then set countless unfavorable conditions and curses on it.
It was calculated from start to finish, not stunned by momentary outbursts like past heroes, but gradually led step by step into the abyss, tasting the pain of slow death.
And when he truly struck, it was the killing blow.
Second Hero, you bastard!
The nascent Evil God strained its all, trying to think, using its remaining brain to find a way out, it could only make one last desperate move.
It roared, towering forty meters high, weighing tens of thousands of tons, by sheer size placed in a Tokusatsu world view the equivalent of a super beast, charged at Xue Dili like an out-of-control aircraft carrier.
Extended tendrils each attack blocked by Fafnir’s Holy Sword.
"Clang!" This time, the Holy Sword shattered, but simultaneously Hercules, with other heroes, severed its joint.
Green blood gushed, the Evil God seemed to sense its impending demise, it screeched, surging energy coalesced before its maw forming a massive energy ball, like a last-ditch effort.
"Form up!" Hector shouted.
Greece’s Giant Shield rose, the Blazing Heaven Covering Seven Rings’ light enveloped everyone.
Yet, the moment that energy ball was expelled, the Evil God didn’t even look back, like a mutt fleeing desperately!
Escaping, fleeing this planet! 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎
This planet harbors an ever-immortal, summonable heroic spirit brigade! Don’t come! My kin! Don’t come!
We cannot deal with unkillable monsters! We can’t win, they’re maniacs, unstoppable insect race killing machines, never approach this planet!
Its pheromone shot toward space, it aimed to transmit this planet’s intelligence.
However, this pheromone was blocked by the atmosphere, the clumsy World Consciousness finally intervened.
Uncle Brave grabbed a standard Greek Sword, leaping atop the fleeing Evil God, the place he last pierced with the Beloved Holy Sword.
Moreover, he was the world’s foremost authority on the Evil God’s weakness, bar none.
The Evil God emitted a shrill cry, collapsing, carving miles of ruin through the earth.
"Triumph! Heroic triumph!"
"Win, heroes! Destroy all evils of this world!"
"We admire you, admire you!"
At this moment, countless faith and admiration gathered around Xue Dili, the adoration for heroes, for him, everything converged now.
Xue Dili reached Fafnir’s side, smiling, picking up the shattered Beloved Holy Sword: "You’ve fulfilled your mission, Fafnir."
"Teacher..." Fafnir gazed at the boy beneath the hood.
Under the sunset sky, his narrow silhouette cloaked by autumn winds, the hood fluttering in the breeze, the broken sword in his hand, yet it exploded with greater power.
"You are my most proud student, next is the last lesson taught by your teacher."
"It’s not the Holy Sword that made the hero, but the hero that made the Holy Sword." He smiled, looking at the fleeing Evil God, "Next, watch closely, this sword in my hand, it is no longer ’Beloved Holy Sword’..."
"Its name is, Savior Holy Sword!"
