WARNING! WARNING!
There are some repulsive contents in this chapter.
"Understood," the minister bowed to the king, then he asked, "So, what should we do with the hero?"
"..." After the king pondered for a moment, he answered without showing any expression on his face. "The current hero will be useless for us. But we also can't annul the engagement between him and my daughter for now. Hmm... for now, we can use him. When the war ends, we should kill him and make my daughter get engaged with Alexander to show him our sincerity. After all, my daughter will still be a virgin by that time."
The minister gulped down, "Understood."
If he also knew about Alex's pure fire element and all of his achievements, he wouldn't do all of this. He might have immediately killed the hero and got her daughter engaged to Alex instead. Or he might have needed to eliminate Alex immediately.
The king nodded, "Then what is the situation on the battlefield?"
"The current situation is very strange."
"Strange?" The king frowned, he was confused.
"Yes, the demon does not attack us as aggressively, so the situation is stagnant for now."
"Hmm..."
Those two continued with their planning.
***
In the military training ground, two men were fighting hard. The first one was a man wearing gallant armor. Meanwhile, the other one was a man wearing a more common soldier armor. The first man was obviously John.
On the side, three women were standing close by. Two of them showed a few bruises all over their bodies. Those two were Sandra and Ayaka. They put on a sad face. Sandra seemed to be contemplating her choice, was she wrong to choose John instead of Alex? This kind of thought kept appearing in her mind. Meanwhile, Ayaka's eyes gleamed with hatred for what had happened the night before.
***
The night before, John visited the two girls' bedroom. He first visited Ayaka's bedroom.
'Bang!'
John forcefully opened the door.
"Hii!" After several beatings she suffered in the journey, Ayaka seemed to be traumatized.
"You slut! Come here!" John shouted.
"No... no... don't come!" Ayaka was scared.
"You bitch! Look at this!" He pointed toward his crotch area, "You always begged me to do it before. But now, you dare to refuse me?! You bitch! you must be happy with my current situation, right?"
"Noo... no... please!" Full of tears, Ayaka kept asking John to stop.
"You bitch! You slut!" Without talking further, John started to beat her mercilessly. John was like a madman. He was insane, not only because the man that he deemed useless was able to beat him, Alex even cut his little brother and made him a eunuch. Everybody looked at him with pity and looked down on him.
After he finished beating Ayaka, he went toward Sandra's room.
'Bang!'
John forcefully opened the door just like what he did to Ayaka's door.
"Hii!" The same with Ayaka, Sandra was also traumatized by what this madman had been doing.
"This is all because of you, slut!" John shouted. "You slut was his ex, right? This is all because of you! These horrible things happened to me... bang... bang!"
"Please... stop... please... stop... ahh!" This scene was often seen in their journey. On some occasions, Ayaka and Sandra suddenly seemed to have been beaten up.
After a few rounds of beating, John finally went out of the room.
"Hiks!" Sandra cried. She got up with so much pain and started to wipe all the blood in her body. While wiping her blood, she cried, "Is this karma? Hiks... Alex, Maria."
After Alex beat John and even cut his 'little brother', John's became even more cruel and merciless. John often beat them in the inn during their journey and also in the castle. No low-ranked person dared to stop him, while those who had a high rank couldn't be bothered to stop his madness. John almost beat Princess Rieze too, but unfortunately, he was stopped by her teacher, the previous old marshall.
In the field, John was fighting with a soldier. But soon enough, the soldier was beaten up and turned black and blue with bruises and blood all over his body. After all, the average normal soldier was only a rank 3 or lower. They couldn't possibly fight John who had the power of rank 4.
After John beat the soldier mercilessly, he then turned to the other soldiers and said coldly, "Next!"
The soldiers were scared, they would be beaten if they left. But if they did not comply, the worst consequences would come after them. Finally, one of the soldiers reluctantly stepped up.
The soldier bowed to the hero, "Sir Eu... hero, please."
He almost slipped the word 'Eunuch' when he greeted the hero, unfortunately, John still caught this up. He became insane once again.
"Gah!"
The soldier was kicked by the hero in the stomach. After John kicked him, he immediately charged to the flying soldier and threw a punch on his face.
"What?! What did you want to say? What did you call me?" Punch after punch was delivered to the soldier. The soldier's face started to bruise and bleed. Teeth started to fly out of his mouth.
"I... bak! I'm... bak! Sor... BAK!"
The soldier was punched by John continuously, he couldn't even talk.
"What did you call me?" After beating the soldier for a while, John stood up. The soldier's face was disfigured and turned black, blue, and red all over his face.
"I'm sorry... I won't do it again."
John pulled out his sword, "Of course you won't do it again. Since a dead man won't be able to talk ever again."
"Aahhh!"
John first cut his d*ck, and he laughed like a madman, "Haha! Now you are also a eunuch!"
"Ahhh! I'm sorry... ahhh!"
John then cut the soldier's body parts piece by piece, starting from his right leg to his left leg, then to his arms. Then finally, he beheaded his head. After he beheaded him, he kicked the soldier's head to the side. The scene was gruesome.
No one dared to say anything or approached this mad hero. They were all scared. All the soldiers' faces turned pale, Ayaka and Sandra shivered in fear, they kept recalling what John always did to them. Until Princess Rieze suddenly rushed in.
"You... you are the hero! Why are you doing this to your comrades and soldiers?" Rieze was angry at John's cruelty.
"What? Do you want to switch places with them? Sure! You bitch! I can't touch you because of your teacher. Now he is not here, so I can beat you up! They can't do anything to me even if I beat you up! After all, I am the Hero!" John sneered.
"You!"
Rieze pulled out her sword from her waist. She got closer to John slowly.
"Hmph!" John suddenly jumped out to her.
"Sword Strike!"
"Hero Strike!"
The two Sword Strike clashed with each other. But the outcome was clear. The current Rieze's Sword Strike was not enough to stop John's strike.
Rieze was pushed back because of the strike, while John kept charging toward her recklessly.
When John almost reached her, he swung his sword toward her. Rieze saw that John move recklessly, then her eyes brightened. "Zircodina Sword Style, Second Style, Migan!"
She ducked in and threw a few slashes as she moved past John.
"Aaahhh!" John screamed in pain. After a while John realized, there were two cuts in his body. "You... you bitch! You even dare to hurt me now? Since you have done this to me, I won't stop beating you even if you are begging me!"
John used all of his strength. "Hero Step!"
He instantly arrived in front of Rieze and swung his sword. But on the contrary, Rieze was able to see his movement. She used her sword to parry his sword.
John's Hero Step was similar to Alex's Boost Step, but the speed of John's Hero Step was nowhere near Alex's speed. After experiencing Alex's movement, she somehow could see John's fast movement.
"Zircodina Sword Style, First Style, Licht!" The sword in Rieze's hand started to glow as she swung her sword.
"Hero Aura!" An aura made by Mana appeared from within the hero's body. The aura suppressed the glow in Rieze's hand, but he didn't stop there.
"Hero Strike!"
"Sword Strike!"
Rieze's Sword Strike lost and she was blown away. "Kyya!!"
The shockwave caused a few cuts in her body. Blood started gushing from her wound.
"You... you are not a hero!"
"I am the Hero, I can get everything. Even on Earth, I can get everything. Women and money are my playthings. That bitch from Acacia Kingdom dared to reject me and that bastard, Alex dared to do this to me. I will kill him. And that bitch, I will ruin her. I will disfigure her, wound all over her body, and throw her to a brothel for free services!"
Everyone was disgusted by his words.
"Haaa!" Rieze was angry and started to attack John again. Even though Alicia was a princess from another kingdom, the things that John had said just now were not acceptable. He looked down on women including Rieze. She couldn't accept it.
Rounds after rounds of swords clashed, and Rieze started to run out of breath. After all, she was only ranked 3. Although John was also a rank 3, he had the power of rank 4 because of his big status at the beginning. So, Rieze started to be suppressed by John.
"Pant... pant!"
"Haha! You can't beat me and now you're almost lost. Prepare yourself!" John laughed.
"You!" Rieze glared at him.
They started clashing again and a few shallow wounds started to appear on Rieze's body.
Rieze was very exhausted. Her consciousness started to become fuzzy. "It should be my last attack."
"Zircodina Sword Style, Fourth Style, Viper Strike!"
A sword wave flew toward John, but...
"Hero Strike!"
This strike was also weaker than John's strike and got destroyed easily.
"Hah... hah..." Rieze almost collapsed to the ground.
"Prepare yourself!" John laughed, then he charged toward her.
When John charged toward her, she passed out. She already prepared herself to be tortured by that mad hero or even killed by him. But before her consciousness was completely gone, a shadow appeared in front of her. She called weakly, "Teacher..."
That's right, her teacher, the previous marshall, had arrived at the scene. He immediately helped her to not let her fall to the ground. Then, he glared toward the hero with hatred, "You BASTARD!"
He kicked the hero which left a few ribs broken with that kick alone. With that kind of wound, the hero should be bedridden for a few months. Then he helped his pupil, Rieze, with a pain in his heart.
***
After a few months, the hero was fully healed from the wounds. At night, two people were talking discreetly in a dark alley.
"I want you to kill a person."
"Don't worry, I have a legendary poison. This poison is incurable once it enters the body."
"That person's name is Alexander."
"The one from the Acacia Kingdom?"
"Yes, do you have any capability to kill him?"
"For now, it will be difficult. But since he is a student, he will need to go out for an event from the academy. At that time I can kill him."
"Sure, make sure he is dead."
***
This incident became one of Alex's biggest regrets.