Schizophrenia of the Redneck Sword Hero

by Actual QM

Meet ya boy Jim. He shall bring the word of god and raise some coons.

3. The President King

I rode into town as if the devil was at my heel, an he might as well be. Everyone 'round the place seemed to know what was happenin but dat didn' stop me from rushin my way past the outer wall an' through the camps. Soon I wen' through the main gate with CLiff jumpin over all the people in da streets.

Dolly held on tight as we bounded buildins an' wen' over dem soup kitchens. People all 'round us were startin to get into a spur but I wasn' mindin' em for I needed to talk to one man.

I found the Baron Guy, Rodak, standin outside 'is little castle. He was lookin worse for wear for sure while wearin 'is armor, "Are they coming?"

I got Cliff to come at a stop, the beast headin me right next to da man, "Aye, the Damned walk. I slowed 'em a little, so I'm thinkin we have two hours before they get 'ere."

The man nodded to me before turnin to 'is guards, "Then get moving!" The man yelled at 'em, "We need to get everyone ready for a fuckin fight of our live. I don't care if they are a girl, old, or a one year old fuckin baby! Get 'em all a crossbow an' ready to fight!"

He turned to me with a burnin will in 'is eyes, "Come on! Go out and get my troops moving! I don't care what you tell them I just want them moving!"

8,000 moderately trained troops.

50,000 Armed Civilians, most with clubs made of wood. Quality is fuckin random as heck.

100 Adventurers

50 Mages

The town is layed out with two walls and two gates on each. Gates are at the East and Western part of each wall. The town can only hold 20,000 safely. A Castle sits in the middle that can only hold 1,000 safely.

Enemy Forces, too many to count as of now

Well, how the hell am I gonna do this?

"Make as many explosives as possible and dig trenches surrounding the town."

"Explosives need to be made as fast as possible. Have the civilians get as many slings as possible so we can throw blunt projectiles. Trenches need to be dug and if we're on a hill soldiers need to be rolling explosives down it.""

Dig trenches and spikes. To slow the advance, hell a shovel is better then a shitty club, and any of them can be sharpened so do that?"

"Don't sharpen, blunt is better for undead."

"Get out the flame sword. Lets get some big kegs of moonshine, put them on the trebuchets, then light the kegs on fire and fling them into a crowded horde of the undead watch as they get set a flame like a forest fire. See if we can get some mage adventurers to blow winds to make the flames stronger and longer lasting."

We didn' have much time, an I don' know how half of this is gonna work. Either way it was gonna be a legend.

I arranged so there would be a trench surroundin the walls, armed with blunt thin's to get in da way. While everyone was workin on this, I got them magic folk together an' got part two of my plan rollin.

While we didn' have any Trebuchets 'ere, we did 'ave Cliff. So with the dag we scattered the reaminer of me Moonshine onto the front of da forest while some of dem magic folk got ready. With a strike of me [Elemental Strike] I set the forest on fire like it was Independence Day. With that, the Magic people started throwin a bunch of wind at it, causin the flames to grow inta a wave of destruction.

I made my way back, the trenches not even close to bein' done as the fire started movin in our direction. Well, it wasn' the main fire but the obviously flamin corpses of the army walkin towards us. Though once it burned though I noticed somethin' very wrong.

Fuckin hell there were a lot of 'em.

Even though they were droppin like flies, it didn' seem to fuck 'em over. I watched as over a hundred thousand corpses that were lit made their way towards us. They were comin in, maybe a mile away before I could see in the very back a massive fucker, the flames were nothin as they torched 'is chins.

I could feel a chill in da air as they stared at the army of damnation. These people were fuckin scared as shit an I couldn' blame 'em, these fucker were walkin while on fire!

They need somethin' to give 'em an extra umph. A rousing speech I say!

With a swiftness in Cliff's feet we made our way infron' of the damn forces. Men were scared in their feet as they were tryin to hold their hands.

I started speakin, my voice boomin over those fuckin flames, "Come on y'all just goin to kneel to some fuckin flamin skeleton! I mean half of em are gonna fall over before they fuckin get to ya!"

Cliff gave a victorius roar an' reared 'is legs, "So rain holy hell on these fuckin blights on da earth! Praise the lord and Pass da fuckin Ammunition! Come on men, I hereby declare against this menace a [Crusade, [Deus Lo Vult]!"

"Deus Lo Vult!"

The earth quaked with our fury as the undead gave for a charge. Thousands of stones rained form the wall above an pelted the fuckers by the hundred. The undead soon impacted the tranches as the men roared in fury to bash as many of their head in as possible.

It was easy to tell though we were outnumbered, the undead easily circlin the entire town with their number. I could at best say that for every human we had, they had three undead goin at us. This meant that the trenches should have fallen in a near instant, but they somehow held firm as if they were weildin the power of God 'imself. It was so odd I checked my level.

Level 71

Oh yeah, the flames from earlier probly killed half of the damned. With a rush in our step me an Cliff went out, carvin a nice line right through the undead ranks. Soon though I noticed a bunch of dem red eyes surroundin me, Wights.

Lookin at the forces, it seemed the trenches can last only a few more minutes (Two Posts) an they will fall from the sheer volume. Gotta think of somethin!

Well, what's next?

"Get closer and aim for the Wights with our Crusader sword andattack with [Ripple Strike].[Ability Boost] to cover our defenses and flank."

"I have an ok feeling about this."

Cliff reared 'is legs as we both looked down on the bastards before us, "[Ability Boost]!" I felt the power go through me veins as the Martial Art hit my god given body. With a single strike I swiped at the bastards, "[Ripple Strike]!"

With a single swipe I blew a good chunk of 'em away. The others tried to get us, but before they could even try I saw some dangerous glow commin from Cliff's mouth. Next momen' the boy releases a fuckin torrorent of Black Fire on the bastards, causin 'em to back off. Didn' help that the other two head went in an' started chewin on those who weren' runnin away.

I sent a few more slices at 'em before lookin around. The trench lines were not doin so hot, I could already see a number of 'em dead from either massive amounts of stabbin or gettin their neck ripped out. What made my heart sing was watchin them all continue to fight, not even considering fallin back as they all chanted "Deus Lo Vult".

I looked towards the horizen an saw the giant was about to arrive, maybe in about two minutes. What really caught my eye was somethings that seemed to blought out the star filled sky. They looked to be hooded figures that you could just barely see through, an' I got a bad feelin just from lookin at 'em. They seemed to be goin' straight for the wall.

Well, how am I gonna take care of 'em all?

"Assign cliff and Dolly to fight the giant. We should be rushing to kill the black hoods. They're the much bigger threat that Crusader Kings Sword better be in full use. With ripple strike being mixed with the most damaging to undead of the elemental strikes when within range of a holy Aura. Earth."

":D YOU JUST GAVE ME AN ERECTION!!"

"Use [Lord's Grace!]"

"Let's heal our guys en mass, and smash the black cloaks!"

My men are fallin left an' right, the dead are bought to make their way into the wall.

I turned to Cliff an Dolly, who was ridin with us, "Go attack the big guy, I'm gonna need to take care of dem flyin bastards."

She gave me a nod beofre I jumped off the boy an' started runnin for the wall.

I ran fuckin fast, faster than I ever did in my life. As I did the words I spoke were rollin off my tougne like moonshine, "I call upon the Lord above who I have sword my Faith too." I slaughtered a series of skeletons, seein the remainin' survivors of the trenched defence, "My Lord, bring upon my flock life so they will continue fighting in your name, [Lord's Grace]!"

I finished the prayer, an suddenly I got a warm feelin in my chest. I looked up, an watched as the stars in the sky started glowin brighter. I watched in amazmen' as the sky grew what I could only say were ribbons goin' across it. Soon those stars in the sky started gettin really bright, an… fallin?

All that fightin seemed to stop as the sky started rainin fuckin stars. They rained upon the town, goin into the bodies of everyone who fought to save 'emselves. Those who had their guts ripped out were now standin up, sonn chargin into the Hordes of Undead with rightous fury. They were dead, but God has given them another life to protect the flock.

The once almost collapsed trenches were fightin with fury, an while they will still surely die in this battle they will save thousands in death.

As I was standin at the base of the wall tryin to get up to 'em hooded bastards, I got a horrible feelin goin' though my gut. On what I could almost say was God's gift, I turned over to deflect a scythe that was gonna lop off my head.

Turnin, I saw a massive figure that seemed black as a moonless night. His face was that of a skeleton, an big fuckin Scythe made of bone in 'is hand.

Thanatos, Lv. 95

"So you are the Sword Hero, the Saint of War." It voice was somhow like clean water, "You truely live up to what my Master told me from his scrying."

"Oh he did? Then ya know God's on my side ya fuckin bastard."

The figure started noddin, "Yes, you are surely blessed by a Demiurge." He prepared 'is weapon, goin into a stance, "My Master wishes for your death, Saint of War, come at me."

"We just made sure that the enemy won't be able to overrun the battlefield. We'll have to find a way to make this quick."

"First, we gotta get our espee up. So switch to a espee suckin' sword. Then we bless our blade to maylay and throw [Pillars of Salt] at this false god fella."

"We don't have that. Instead we'll use sword cage and ripple strike to buy time. If he doesn't look to be damaged by holy Aura then switch from Crusader Kings Sword 2 to Christian crusader sword."

"Are you worthy enought to earn my hats backing? Yust barely make Jim proud winer!"

"An' I shall, ya damn fiend!" I gave a charge at the monster before me, a quick slice right into the bastard's arm. Using 'is other hand the bastard gave a swift slice at me, but I ducked under the blade.

'Is red eyes glowed like somethin was about to happen, so I backed up an' readied myself for what this bastard was plannin for.

"You shall end, [Cry of the Banshee]"

I felt my bones quake as the attack hit me, all the air in my lungs were drawn out , an I could feel myself almost fall. But I'm standin tall now, my faith in God that I won' die! I was so focus on not dyin that I didn' notice both the people an grass all dyin.

"[Sword Cage]!" At my cry sword fell from the sky an' entrapped us together, "[Ripple Strike]!" With that I charged at 'im,. Swingin my sword to create a bunch of fuckin blades that sliced into the bastard.

He then charged me, this time he swept 'is scythe at me feet. I gave a quick jump, hopin over the sword an slicin into the bastard's shoulder.

He looked up at me with what I could only call a fury, "You are powerful, Sword Hero. May our fight quake the heavens."

He broke away from me, readyin his scyth for another round. A quick look at the battle fields an I could see the trenches are still fightin hard, not yet fallin. Though I looked at Dolly's stats an the poor girl was already at half from fightin the giant.

Jim's Stats: HP: 92% SP: 35%Dolly's Stats: 48% HPCliff's: 62% HP

"Call Dolly out of the fight, drink a healing potions and come to us. We still can't just hammer the undead fucker with smite. Our SP is too low. It should only take enough SP that we can use smite soon if we call out. Change out [ability boost] for [fortress] so we can tank out his spells as they are effect base. Barron needs to take the reigns on cliff and drive him and as many of his strongest men into the enemies back line to kill their support. Our mages need to be spread out to support as much of the defensive line as they can."

"[Fortress]!" I screamed at da top of my lungs at the bastard, my skin tightenin to a stupid degree. Just in time to as he came in for another stike with 'is Scythe, barely diggin into my skin.

For 'is trouble, I gave the bastard a stab in the chest, which seemed to go right through the guy. I watched though as 'is blackness seemed to simmer at the touch of the Crusader King Sword. We seperated for a momen', before goin at it again in what was amountin to be a slugin fest.

Dolly went off the Giant 'long with Cliff. He was comin upon the city walls now, the trenches barely over holdin out as the Undead only just started thinin out. After a few momen's though there was a openin from the gates, a bunch of horses flyin out with Cliff quickly grabbin onto the leader.

It was the Barron, 'is guards followin in a break for the undead backlines. What no one was expectin was the sheer amount of civilians wantin to come out, the mob of people chargin 'long with the Barron to break what this seige.

With a swift upper cut I threw the monster's weapon into the air, turnin it soon into a swift cut that ripped into 'is stomach. The being screamed roared in pain as it placed it hands onto the blades an' pulled it out.

Both of us were startin to feel shit right now. THe bastard was nearin a thrid of 'is health while I was bein' placed at half.

'Is eyes stared into me as he rose into da air, "You fight well, Hero of the Sword. My Master however desires this town to keep the meddling of your fellows." 'is weapon started glowin with a bright hue, "You are still in my way. I am the Incarnation of Death, Thanatos. You shall fall my blade just as Gods, Titans, and Mortals have, [Incarnation of Death]!"

Suddenly the bastard grew out four wings form 'is back, 'is spear becomin longer an more wicked. A black aura glowed from 'im as he brought it to bear, "We shall see if your Demiurge can protect you from [Death]." An he charged for me.

JIm's Stats: 48% HP, SP: 65%

Well how am I gonna deal with this!

"Pull a goku, 'eveyone send me your mana!' then blast strongest attack at full power, every last drop."

The bastard came in with a fury of fuckin blows, an I could only keep dodging without any chance to attack. I could already tell if I got nailed by 'is Scythe it'd kill me instantly, so I could only dodge.

With a massive swing he sent me flyin though da air, gettin my feet right underneath the giant. I stood strong though an shouted at the top of my lungs, "Everyone, give me you strength! Pray to the Lord!"

Those on the wall started muttering something, bit I was in the middle of defendin' myself form dat mother fuckin bastard an' now dodgin the giant's feet. Left, right, an upper strike, he was fuckin relentless.

I checked my SP gauge, seein it has reached right at 75%. I got a warm feelin in my chest as it was bout time for me to fuckin end this, "[Ripple Strike]!"

I tried goin on da offensive, but the bastard was relentless. I could only land two of my attacks before he came in for another round of slashin!As he came in though somethin happened, the guy suddenly fell over like he was tripped. I wasn' gonna lose my God given chance though, "I call upon the Lord above who I have sworn my Faith too." He tried 'is fuckin fastest to get up, but I stabbed my sword right into 'is back, "Before me is a being of pure Evil, an so I ask you to smite this being to salt before me, [Lord's Fury]!"

A massive cloud quickly appeared over the sky, coverin all the stars in da sky. Next momen' lightnin erupted from it, going right through the giant an' into Thanatos. I was bein covered in light, but I felt no pain at all as the bastard was soon turned into a statue of salt.

As the light finally died down I looked up to see the same things somehow happened to the Giant. With a spark in my heart I looked over to see the Barron breakin through the waves of the damned, the mob of people now turnin to slaughter the remainin undead. To be honest there was still a lot, but now I could fuckin kill them all!

Well, how am I gonna help clean up?

"Its not over yet! Them hooded scum gave me bad fealing you probably should locate them to make shure they dont do somthing underhanded. Would suck if gods miracle was ruined by them."

"Cull your way through the horde of the undead towards them cloak folk before they cut their loss of that false god and leg it."

"Also, call Cliff and Dolly to help ya get through faster."

"Don't forget liberal use of turn undead."

"Don't forget to absorb the salt and maybe Thantos's weapon. Gotta get that next sword."

After collectin the Loot from da salt statues of da killed bastards an unlockin swords, I quickly made my way to da wall not checking what I unloked, too busy.

While the mob outside was busy cleaning up the skeletons and zombies I came into the city to see dem cloaked bastard wondering round everywhere. They seemed to be Killin as many people as they could, sucking their life with a few swipes. The people fightin them seemed to have lots of trouble, their clubs not connectin with flesh.

"[Turn Undead]!" An so I started making round bout the place. They couldn' get through my sword it seemed, so I made myself busy wiping out the bastards.

Took a while though as it seemed them cloak guys occasionally grew from the corpses of people, all of whom seemed to have chosen cowardness instead of fightin under the name of God an Jesus Christ.

It was only the I sliced through the last mob that the sun was risin'. Since they were goin through walls it probly take weeks to clear em all out, but we finally got em to a nice level.

The horde outside was also bein cleaned up, though none really got into the city so the death toll was below half the people.

"Turn undead the rest of the walking corpses until we get them all out. Then talk to the Barron before resting in the cart and getting to the other city under seige. We still have to get this done before the next wave."

I popped open a small barrel of Moonsine I just made today while hangin out in my wagon. Today was the day everyone was recoverin, most were buryin the dead of the battle or rebuildin their homes from those hooded guys, which I guess were called Wairths or somethin.

Dolly was sleepin next to me while Cliff was helpin with the buryin shit since he was a strong boy. I poured my Moonshine into a small container while I checked over all I got from the Wave:

Sword of Azrael, the Angel of Death (Ability: Death Strike, Holy Aura H, Life Steal L)Nightwalker Sword (Ability: Giantification, Aura of Dread L, Enhanced Strength L)

As I finished lookin over the swords I got I noticed the Barron was comin over. Extin the menu, I got down an' the man gave me a curt bow.

He flashed me a great smile, "Well I finally found ya, who would have thought the legend in the making would hang out his wagon."

I threw 'im the rest of the Moonshine I was drinkin, "'Course I was, I'll be headin out to the next city 'ere soon. So hows everythin' goin?"

The man shrugged, "Well I say maybe 20,000 dead. I honeslty was expectin more." The man pondered for a momen', "On that note, I want to thank you for saving my Town Jim. Honestly there is not much I could give a hero such as you."

"An I'm gonna take it you will still try?"

The man let out a laugh, "Hell ya I will, I'm not gonna let this debt go unpaid!" While he stopped laughin at it all he seemed to still have a spark, "I will say I along with my army will follow you anywhere, an if you wanted to become King I'll fuckin sing to your tune."

I blinked for a momen', "Whatcha sayin? You wanna make me ya ruler?"

The man shrugged, "Yup, Kings dead an' most of children were in the Capital still. Being the guy who's gonna save the Kingdom, I don't think any noble will think twice."

"So, what do you say?" an what else you guys wanna do in this place?

"We'll go into detail on how to set up this new form of government later.""Kings are gay."

"Wait, these are the waves now? That can't be right. What of the other hero's?"

"Before we leave see if we can't do anything like make defensive plant or leave them with enough food they can hold out a week long seige."

"Make more food for the village then go back to the previous town we were in."

"We shouldn't go back, there's a second town up ahead under seige that needs our help before they become the replacements for the undead horde we just killed."

"Send dolly for reinforcements then go attack the siege."

"Great idea. She'll be so much faster than the wagonwe bring, that she'll likely bring enough forces to finish off the seige in the middle of the second day of fighting."

"Make sure to tell her to bring the trebuchet the villigers built."

"Without that false god in the way, we can truly put the fear of GOD into that trouble making Dr. Frankenstein."

"Turning all these loved ones into twisted, shambling parodies of their former selves is despicable. Even calling them parodies is too kind, as if they were supposed to make us LAUGH"

"Nah, I'm from a place where 'eres no King, but the people electin the leader. We need to finish our job right now before we are even thinkin of changin your constitution."

The man grew an even wider smile as he was hearin this, "Now thats an answer I' willin to listen too."

I gave the guy a noddin, "Yup, we need to keep on movin. I can have my folks bring in some big shit for us to break dat other city out."

With that we started workin, after sendin Dolly off to get more men an shit I started gettin thing's together. The people were really happy to see me movin, an I even got a nice force of people willin to follow me into the depths of dat hell in order to break em out.

As we were workin to bring together some food for the trip I noticed a weird bird cawin from the Window. Lookin more closly at it the thing was a fuckin undead.

Before I could slice it up though I heard a voice comin from its damn beak, "We finally meet, Sword Hero. I am Mrtvý Čaroděj, an Overlord Sorcerer and current ruler of Brusch."

I took a momen' to realize the fuckin thing was talkin, an' then I realize, "So your the fuckin bastard who's been raisin all those undead!?"

The bird gave a nod at that, "I am, as you have declared. It seems you have taken the rightous path of a Paladin to a Demiurge, which means you likely hate me for all I did."

I gave that damn bird a death stare, "An why shouldn' I just kill this bird now ya bastard?"

"Well you see." The bird looked 'round for a momen', "I simply wish to learn about the man who slayed two of my strongest undead. And maybe you wish to know more about me."

I gave da bird a glare just like Charlie had, "So what in Sam's Hell are you? You some kind of super undead?"

The bird just gave a nod, "That is pretty close actually. I am a being known as an Overlord, an ancient race of undead the world has only seen from before the advent of heroes. Overlords once ruled numerous city-states around the rule, hosting immortal undead armies. I however am not one of these beings, but instead I learned of a ritual to become one."

The Crow moved its head to the side, "So Hero of the Sword, you are not form the land of Japan are you."

"Wha? Hell no I'm some random Jap." I slammed the table now as I looked at 'im, "So give me one good reason why you been raisin the fuckin dead an' killin all the people!"

The crow gave a small laughin, "Yes, I probly should explain myself. You see Sword Hero, I slaughtered the capital and rose them as the living dead because I saw the entire stock of heroes as incompetant fools."

"OH you got to be fuckin kiddin' me! You pist the Bow Hero killed the King too!"

The bird almost fell off the ledge laughin, "Well close, but I did not care for the Mortal's death. He only had maybe 10 years left to rule. No what I care about more was the simple fact the Bow Hero killed the man without question. I watched as the Parliment agreed to a Coup and then hired the bow to kill him. And you know what the Hero did while the Capital burned?"

I shrugged "I'm gonna say a guess an say got drunk."

"No, he instead philandered with some local village girls, acting so suprise she figured out he was the Hero of the Bow." The bird flattered further inside from the window, settlin on a chair, "Anyone with a brain could have figured out the Bow Hero did it. The King was a Porcupine by the time they realized his 'esteemed guest' had betrayed them. Add in the fact the Spear is mating with one of the Calamity's Champions, the Shield likely to be abandoning our world whenever he gets the chance, and you being in a forest for the longest time, I decided that I needed to protect the world."

The eyes on dat bird started glowin, "Now, what will you do with this information Hero

"Maybe switch stop him from making undead as last thing we say. Brsides that I think this is good. Have to drag his ass on a trip of self ralisation because while spears misslead the little ass is doing all on his own."

"We're only gonna give one chance, this guy holds his army, what's left of it, in a Crypt or tomb until a wave or we're gonna turn him to salt just like their undead."

"Well I'm goona defend Shield Boi, kid finally started smilin again after all da shit that bitch put 'im through. Spear didn' seem to cause much trouble, but its soundin like he will soon." I gave the bird thing a stern lookin, "Bow however has done somthin' I can' stand for in causin this mess. 'Is punishmen' will be comin' real soon."

The bird nodded to me, "Definitely. I do admit this is my first time interacting with heroes directly, its just I saw these events as a necessity."

"Yeah, well now I gotta move to ya!" I drew me sword at the bird, "You back off the Kingdom an' stop makin all these goddamn undead an I'll let ya not be a pile of salt."

"Fufufu," The bird's eyes were glowin a bit evilly, "While I would accept those terms knowing the world is in capable hands, however I have grown tired of being on the side lines of these Wars between our world and the Gods. I would like to make you a counter offer."

The Bird started to look a little more menacing as it stood up a bit more, "I will call off my forces from the Kingdom of Brusch and have them return to my home sin the mountains, but I will still create undead from the corpses of those killed not by my hands, directly or indirectly." It grew a kind of grin I didn' know a skeleton bird could have, "But in return, we become allies. I will join your party as an equal and we will face off the Calamity together. These terms will be enforced by a Geas of my creation."

"So how about it Hero of the Sword, are you willing to join forces with an undead for the sake of the world?"

"Nope, denying the dead their rest (along with cursing the land and potentially this geas thing.) is something we can't abide. We aren't making them an offer, it's a plea deal for all the death and destruction. Either she submits or it's execution."

"Neutral party overseing or bust.""Going for long shot. If things fail its back to killing him anyway's."

"Like hell I'd agree to somethin like that. Ya hold all the cards if ya be the one bindin us, so you gotta get someone in-between us to do it."

The bird cocked it's little head to da side like it was thinkin for a minute, "Well that would be a problem. For sure the Whip Hero is out, he is just another Champion of Calamity. Poor Ouryuu was shattered into a thousand pieces by Fitoria."

"Fufufu! It would be her!" The bird was on it's back, "Oh I could already hear her, 'I should destroy you, but if you are supporting a hero I will let you live.' Well then Hero of the Sword, why not make this our first quest together."

The bird went out the window as an orb of blackness appeared in da middle of the room. Stepping out was a tall skeleton wrapped in expensive clothin while flanked by wierd looking Knight an' another fuckin Thanatos!

He stretched out 'is hand, "As a show of faith and trust I have come to you, shall we look for that Heavenly foul together?"

Do you agree?

"I'd like to point out I do have my concern since we've been labeled as a paladin about 'falling.' "

"Lets find a bird. Speak to shadows they might actually have a valid opinion or just no good snoopers we find out witch."

"I'm not exactly kidding about the falling thing. The last thing we need is for our holy sword series to be locked."

"Shouldnt be a problem for now unless acually do somthing supid like support this skeletor in killing inocents. Now im more intrested in meating bird queen than actualy making a deal."

"I have no problem with this."

"I'll agree, I'm thinkin." I pointed me sword at 'im, "Just don' be goin' round usin' the corpses of innocents for your shit. If we are gonna join together we are gonna follow my rules."

Mrt, I think was 'is name was, looked a little down, "Very well, I guess that is acceptable. In this case I will recall my undead." he rose 'is hand, snappin 'is boney finger, "Now if I may ask, is the one hidden within your room your companion?"

"Sneakin? Dolly went to get the fuckin Trebuchets."

He pointed to a corner in da room, "Interesting, [Paralyse Species]."

I felt a sudden shift in da room as somethin' appeared in da corner. It looked like a gal, but she was wearin some black shit that made 'er look like one of them Ninjas. She stood for a momen' before fallin onto the ground like she couldn' move.

Mrt walked over to the fallen person, liftin' 'er into da air like a doll, "Well it seems I caught a Melrian Shadow. Honestly, I should have expected this, now what to do with her?" the Skeleton guy turned to me, "What do you say? She is no match for both of us even without the paralysis."

"Well fuck…" Looked at the gal futher, she seemed 'uman at first before noticin a pair of what I guess were cat ears, "Lets question 'er, like why the fuck do they have Ninjas."

Mrt shrugged, "I think the Spear hero in the previous generation thought this force up, Melromarc was after all his baby." He openned a piece of 'er clothin, showin a small circle on the gal's breast, "And it seems they are enforced by a Greater Slave Crest. As expected to Melrians, [Greater Break Curse]."

The symbol on 'er chest glowed for a momen' before disappearin from her breast. Seemin to be happy with 'is spell he place the gal on a chair and placed a small bell thing next to her, "[Cure Paralysis, lets began questioning."

"Oh shit." The gal stared at us like she was given a death sentance, but she kind of just did doge one

Anything y'all want to ask her?

"Sup?"

"Ask skeleton who this calamity is and what's this about a whip hero?"

"Did the king send them? and why are they spying on us?"

"Well," I turned to the Mrt, "how we gonna know she is tellin the truth?"

He gave a little chuckle and pointed to the bell, "This item will ring whenever a lie is spoken near it. I would admit that such an item would be immensly valuable, but it also triggers when either of us tell a lie. Hmm," He turned to the gal, "I am human." *ding*

"Alright…" With that knowledge I turned to the lady, "Well honestly I don' have much problem with ya besides the spyin, so you can get off pretty easy, got it?"

She nodded her head, "I… understand."

"'Right my first question is who in da world are you workin for?"

She swallowed before speakin, "I work for the Queen. I removed the traitor who was incharge of watching you before, Sir Hero."

"Alright, my turn," The Skeleton went down to her eyes, "You guys probably gave the Bow a Spy too right? Why did your associate not stop… my King's assassination."

She looked at 'im for a momen', a cold hatred in 'er eyes. Mrt gave a shrug an turned to me, "That is the only problem with the [Lie Detector Bell, if they stay silent it will not ring."

"Well its my turn now," I said causin the skeleton to back away, "What's the King been up to? He wantin' to see me dead?"

She gave a noddin, "Yes, King Aultcray has been angered as of late. He cannot believe the Sword Hero has betrayed his Kingdom to the Shield Hero and is currently searching all of Melromarc for both you and the Shield. Both of you are untouchable… in your own ways now."

I waited for the other guy to say somethin', but he just waved me off, "She will never give me a straight answer. You might as well continue."

"Alright," I pointed my sword towards 'er face, "Finally, whatcha got to say for your innocence? This guy gonna turn ya into a meat puppet or nah?"

The gal's face was drained as she turned skele guy. She slowly have me a shaken head, "I… don't have anything to defend myself with. I have no family to speak of nor have I had a life outside of the Shadows. I will be executed as I have lost my slave seal."

We both looked to see the bell did not ring.

"She'll make a good unit. Especially for spy work which we'll need. Have her prepare a demand for audience with the Queen in writing, we'll meet on the border on her return trip from this direction, otherwise we meet in Melromarc."

"Meanwhile we're gonna grab Barron and all of us head to the capital to find the dragon hourglass."

"Then your gonna be servin me." I took away the sword from the gal's face, "Go get that damn Queen to give us a chance to get together, written down! After that, you are gonna be meetin us at the border. Ya got it?"

She slowly nodded 'er head before disappearing before my eyes. Seems she didn' need much motivation to get away from Mrt. "Well, we better get goin, eh? We need to head over and get the Baron then go to the Capital."

Mrt gave a nod, "Yes, we shall. If I remember correctly the Wave was going to occur this week."

With that we walked our way down the halls, that Thanatos thing followin by Mrt's side. The place seemed to be gettin better ever since we won, guess all that food is helpin.

I decided to take it easy a little, "So, Skele Guy, you said your King so what did that mean?"

The Guy scratched 'is skull for a momen', "Yeah, umu, I guess I did. You see I admired the man for his victory against Siltvelt, and since I lived in the area he was more or less my King." He gave a soft chuckle, "I would admit my choices were clouded when I heard the King was killed, I always enjoyed the times when I spied on his court."

"Okay… an why all the Killin? Isn't the people who your suppose to protect from the wave?"

The Skeleton gave a shrug, "I thought it was the best decision at the time. I needed an army and strong generals so I made them. If only a couple million die to give me the nigh unstopable Thanatos or Nightwalker who in turn can save millions I don't see a reason why not."

He looked down for a momen, "Though I'll admit I went a little overboard. When I realized I had enough to create high-tier undead I already placed multiple cities under siege. Heh, I didn't really know what to do after that?" He did a quick flourish with 'is cloak, "I'm a researcher, not a Ruler."

I looked at 'im weird, "An so why the fuck you attack me?"

"Well that one was because I wanted to test you." He pointed at me, "You were obviously better than the Bow, so I wanted to see if you could win against my forces. And if you died I would have simply raised you are an Overlord."

"Yeah, you now tellin me you were plannin to kill me?"

"Fufu, I could have many times before. I decided not to though because you are an actual hero. Of course the opportunity to become an Overlord is open to you still."

"I think I'll be passin." Well thats fuckin enlightenin, "An what about this fuckin Clamity you keep talkin about? These fuckin Champions?"

"Oh her…" The guy somehow took in a breath, "I will keep my research explanation of the cosmology of the universe short for you, simply put there is a God currently being kept out of the world by various safeguard a Demiurge installed. While the waves used to be something else, now it is mainly her attempts to prod into the world and eat everyone's soul."

"And for those Champions, they are folk she brought along for the ride. Souls given a fragment of a God, they are rather dangerous individuals she infected our world with. I know of two, Tact the Hero of the Whip and Malty, first Princess of Melromarc." He brought out a small jar, "If given the chance I will take their souls for myself to experiment with. And before you say anything these souls are quite evil, their existences are only because Calamity is here."

After a really lengthy explanation we finally made it to the Baron's room. With a knockin we entered to see the guy lookin over the map, "Ah, Jim I have recived news that- oh shit!"

The Baron quickly drew 'is sword at Mrt, but the skeleton seemed to take it in stride, "I mean no harm now. I have called off my forces from the other cities, which leaves the Capital to me."

"Fuckin hell" I heard the Baron say as he put away 'is sword, "Well, does this mean we are not at war?"

I looked at Mrt before noddin, "I guess we arn't. But theres a fuckin Wave comin in to prepare for."

The Baron looked like 'is face lose all its color when he heard that. I turned to Mrt an' he gave me a nod, "We can leave at any time, I will just open a [Gate] there."

"If we have skeletons helping us we need them to look the part, let's see what we can do about turning this horde into a force of undead crusaders. See what papa bones has to say about it."

"We are a redneck after all, we should know by heart the recipe for gunpowder, and how to put together and take apart an AR-15."

"Potassium nitrate, sulfer, and charcoal. Figure out where to get the nitrate and then mix that and the other stuff together until you get a good enough explosion."

"ask him if he can teach us teleportation magic. zip zoop zop"

"I would imagine learning to read might be a better use of learning time."

"We need a magic user to teach us how to move faster."

"We don't know how to read yet. We need to work on that."

"Yea lets learn how to read."

"We truly do. Let ask this instead of guns."

"Okay Baron, let golet some of ya men goin around, we need to be keeping order right?"

The man nodded while still keeping an eye on Mrt, "I guess so if this person is telling the truth. I will be back later."

An with that he headed out.

"Ya know Mrt" I turned the to skeleton, "by chance can you teach me some of that magic stuff?"

He seemed to think bout it for a momen', "It would be easy as I can simply teach you the foundations. Have you learned Magcian yet?"

"What in Sam's Hell is Magcian?"

"Well, let us start from the beginning today." He said bringin put a small fancy lookin book, "I believe we should start with the Germainian Ritual Magic System as it is simply the easiest."

With that I was schooled through the entire fuckin night by a skeleton on how magic works. Maybe I should've just stick to my Lord's miricles.

By afternoon the next day Dolly had the reinforcements coming in from da town in Melomarc. She bout jumped out the window when she saw Mrt, but I kept 'er from gettin 'erself killed from that.

It was bout 4 o'clock as we stood in throne room together, me, Dolly, Baron Guy, and Mrt.

The skeleton guy took a few steps forward, "Since everyone's here, we can head over to the hour Glass, [Gate]."

Just as he came in, a giant blob of black shit appeared in da middle of da room. Without a care in da world he walked through it. We all looked at one 'nother, before I went my way in as well.

What I entered was somethin like a Church, Gold shit everywhere I looked an walls high into da ceilin'. Lookin forward, I saw Mrt studyin the Hourglass thing.

Just like before, I rose my sword to it, causin the thing to zap my sword.

108:45:20

"Well, looks like we are a little over four days." I said as the others came into da room, "I think we can get a bunch of people together before then."

The Baron nodded, "I believe so."

As we were talkin, I caught Dolly walkin closer to da thing. Next momen' she's zapped.

Class Up in for 'Dolly' has been initiated.

We looked at one 'nother in a little confusion, an then I looked over all da options that were infront of me, Illusion Wizard, Spell Thief, and even ascended Arisan. What really stook out to me was, "[Wild Scout]" and clicky.

Suddenly the Ray went at Dolly again. She tried to dodge the thing but instead got nailed by the attack. Her hood fell off a little, revealin a more wild hair than what she had.

"What happened?" She said lookin over 'erself.

"Ah, it seems she classed up." Said Mrt happily, "So now her level cap has been moved to 100."

Her surprise wore off quick as she nodded, "Then I'll be able to level again. This is good."

I had to sigh, "Too bad Dolly didn' level durin your assault Mrt. Maybe you should throw a few undead to da cause."

The skeleton gave a shrug, "The only ones worth while enough would likely be the Wights and High tier undead. It would be more efficient to have her hunt with them instead, so we have a stronger force." He seemed to think to 'imself for a momen', "and I could use the monsters to make powerful undead."

"So you said we have fours days?" The Baron said button into our conversation, "What are you all thinking."

"I'm thinking we should move most of the spread out population to a few more closer to the capital places, and house the majority of the civilians who won't be able to defend themselves or flee if a town falls into the capital where they'll be the most well defended."

"Also, get fire bomb production going."

"Well first thin' I'm thinking is get as many people 'ere as possible. Capital is da biggest place 'round so I'm sure we can get a lot of people 'ere"

"I believe it would be the safest concidering my undead are still around." Mrt said like it was nothin, "Unless you forgot about that?"

Well shit, I hope you guys didn', so, "Think of dis as a test before we start headin to get day damn bird."

"Umu, then I thank you for this chance." I feel like that damn skeleton face was smiling, though I don' think it was an evil one.

I went to da Baron, "Well you're gonna go get these people here. See if we can't get some shit like sword an' fire bombs made while we are at it."

The Baron turned to Mrt and the skeleton gave a nod, "Ah yes, umu, you shall have command over my undead. Say anything besides suicide and they will do so." An he snapped 'is finger all fancy.

"Shit…" he breathed in an turned to me, "I can get that all done Jim, but what are you going to do?"

"Well I'm thinkin of headin to Melomarc's Guild. Mrt, ya think you can get me there?"

"I can get us in the area," he said with a little weeze, "It is just that I will aim for the local area. Places I have been to a long time ago are hard to pin down a Gate for."

I gave 'im a shrug.

With a wave of the guys hand another of those weird orb things came up. I watched the guy putting on a red mask an metal gloves, coverin up them skeleton features before headin through.

I did the same, an we ended up I those Flatlands near the city, day forest flankin us. Bout 200 yards from us was the city

"Hmm, it seems I was off." He showed is hand towards the town, "It seems I was 150 meters away from my attempted landing spot. Well, I guess we shall start moving"

Whatcha guys wanna do/say at the Guild. I'm guessing it's advertisement to get some recruits.

"Recruit the adventures, similar to what we did last time. We're gonna need all hands on deck for this. So let's make mrt pull a hood up and close his robe so people don't start screaming at the undead mage we brought with us."

We made our way through the gates of da city an were soon comin close to da Guild. I quickly looked over Mrt, makin damn sure he isn' lookin like some kind of skeleton, before enterin the Guild.

Walkin in I noticed most of da people were just hangin out havin themselves a drink. They didn' seem to notice me enterin the place at first, well until one of the receptionist noticed me.

"Oh Lord he's back," Was what I heard from the gal, soon a couple of people turned to look.

"Oh shit! Its the Sword Saint!" One of 'em said before the place started eruptin in cheers. They seemed fuckin happy to see me, an I was happy to see 'em!

I got myself on a table, "Thats right everyone I'm back!" A cheer came through the place, "But my men of dis Guild, dere is another wave that is comin! It will be attackin Brusch in four days! We got everythin' from treasure and the armory. Hell, even dem undead are sidin with us for dis fuckin Wave."

The crowd was cheerin my name now as I was speakin, "There will be levelin, loot, and fuckin carnage! I'll promise y'all dat an more! Who is with me! [Dues Lo Vult]!"

Soon they changed their chant to that blessin of da lord, "I hereby declare a fuckin Crusade!" An' once again my list was now fillin up with fighter for da war. I could even hear Mrt laughin to 'imself as everyone was ready to fight.

"This is good. Promising even. Ask the receptionist what's gone on while we left, and about if there really was a murder contract out on the king before we ask them to spread the word of the crusade as far as they can. Then portal back to the other capital, this should give the crowd enough time to gather up to go through somewhat orderly and with all the gear they'll need."

Everyone was movin 'round now. Men were gettin gear together while the gals were strungin up dem bows. While this was happenin I turned over to da Receptionist.

She seemin mixed between wantin to strangle me or thank me, "Sorry bout takin all your men. Guessin y'all wouldn' wan' 'em goin to another country."

The gal let out a breath before straightenin herself, "Its not much of a problem, the Guild tries to keep itself isolated from politics, though our alliance a few years back does help."

"Yeah, I was wonderin by the way. Did y'all by chance put out a murderin contract on dat King, Rudolf I think 'is name was?"

The gal looked at me like I just jumped into a snake pit, "Why would the Guild publish an assassionation? Like I said before we don't concern ourselves with politics, and I surely believe having a King Assassinated would be against that."

"Well, I was just wonderin." An with that I wen' over to Mrt.

"It seems the Guild suffered a little corruption, I take it?" The mask he was wearin had a crocked smile on it.

"Aye, seems the Bow got duped. Idiot didn' think twice 'bout why the Guild would wanna kill a King." I pointed forward, "Can ya open a portal for any ready? We need ta get movin before dat King knows I'm 'ere."

With an outstretched hand Mrt openned 'nother of dem portal things. Usin da [Voice of God's Chosen] I announced, "Anyone ready to go come through dis portal!"

An with dat a bunch of people came through, I could already see the numbers buildin up but they'll be gettin bigger. Takin my own advice I wen' through.

75 Adventurers are in the Capital125 atleast will be in route.

Well, guess its time to get everyone workin?

"Adventurers should scope out good spots to set up shop as ranged and mage towers. Voice of God's chosen to request men fo digging trenches or setting up battle walls."

"Have the barron selected as general. He'll have the best chance of figuring out who to lead battle groups and how many to divide them into in order to guard all three places."

"Last thing we need is to get some flying mounts for our key figures, Dolly, Barron, us, Exe, and even Mrt. Then go down to our village on the border. Once the general has firm control we ask Mrt if the range of the wave will include the Melromarc border. If no we bring them in. If yes we have Barron consider who and what they will need for defense."

With the arrival of all of our people we were movin' pretty fast. I quickly got da Baron to take a firm hold of bein' a General, an let his free on what to do. I made sure however to have 'em build some towers an goin to hunt.

For Food we are lookin pretty low. Apparently dat fire I started back in the Baron's city made it all the way to da capital, so dere's been nothin but ashe. Good thin' was we can bring some food in from da Baron's place, so we can get by atleast da wave.

As we looked over the city with da undead buildin all the shit I went over to Mrt, "So how big of an area do these Waves cover anyways?"

The guy was hummin to himself, "That would be the natural borders of nations. So Brusch would be at its borders while places like Melromarc might have two or maybe three hourglasses around their nation."

"Huh?" I looked at da guy, "Dey only had one last time I checked."

He gave a shrug, "Then they might have forgotten about it. It would be in their little island chain if I were to bet."

"Alright," I was noddin with 'im while wishin someone had a damn map of dis place, "Any ideas on flyin animals by chance. One of dem adventurers had one an it was fuckin useful."

"Well I can easily cast [Fly] on a few individuals." He said in a matter of fact, "If we are talking flying mounts, I would suggest you get a True Dragon. At your strength you would be able to steal one from a nest."

"Alright." I gave a noddin.

"I do know where one might be. They sometimes infest my mountain, but I have not bothered to check ever since Calamity arrived."

With that our day ended, anythin you want to be doin tomorrow?

"Tomorrow we should have a complete stock taken of what's in the inventory of the treasury and armory so we can figure out what we can spare to pass out. This should be done by an assigned party while we go to that mountain with Mrt, cliff, and Dolly. If it comes down to it we can cast fly on cliff.""Since the wave won't garenteed land in Melromarcs territory, someone get Exe in here.""Obviously we need to check out the nest and get a dragon mount and if we have the time we'll start to learn how to read and maybe get some more magic training. We've got a litch(? ) with us and we need to exploit this.."The next mornin was taken by me an Dolly to go through da ol' treasury. It seemed to be locked by some massive door vault thingy but Dolly, bein the ever so resourceful one, already got started workin on the door.

"Finished," She said as the gal grabbed onto the handles of the door. She gave it a big spin an soon the door openned like it was easy. Lookin in the place wasn' dat big but had a few good things in it.

15,000 Silver Pieces (150 Gold)About 10 pieces of masterwork armor and arms.Magic ItemsSpitfire: An ornate Shotgun that uses one's mana as ammunition. The attacks are of course fire based and shoots in a short range cone like in video games.

Puresight: A gliscening Silver helmet who's vosor glows a Golden light when worn. When in use this helmet grants Truesight to the user.

"Well shit this place has fuckin guns!" As I tried pickin it up the gun was once again shocked out of my hands. I truly hate you sword, you wont even let me pick up the gun.

Seeing I dropped it, Dolly grabbed a hold of it like a sword, "Here Dolly your holdin da gun wrong."

With a little work we got the gal holdin it right an for the hell of it we did a test shot. It fired a large area of fuckin flames, which really wasn' what a shotgun was suppose to do. I mean, this thing fired in a cone.

"This will work." Dolly said as she messed with it for a momen'

I gave a sigh, "Well you'll probly be keepin it then." An with dat we left da armory.

With dat done we made our way to Mrt an had 'im teleport us towards dat nest he was talkin about. It seemed we ended up someplace like dem Rocky Mountains instead of da Alp like I'm use to.

Mrt pointed towards one of da points, "I believe they tend to roost over there about a mile out. I placed us here so we could have a chance to discuss how you want to approach the Dragon."

"Ask about any advice abot dragons, they mentioned some ryu or somthing back home that was one of the words geeks used to say dragon? We met one before in the wild but thats not gona fly probably. I mean theres only so many dragons you can fight and get drunk. Maybe a hinor duel for domination?""Honor.""Now how do Dragon even act anyways? Would I be able to beat them up an' they join me or what?"

"No, they are simply too prideful," Mrt shook 'is head, "they will chose death than be dominated, as they know a shard of their spirit will be carried somewhere else by their Dragon Pulse."

"So you're sayin they some kind of heretic or something?"

He shook 'is head again, "Not a religion but a fact of their anatomy. The only time one could truly manipulate a Dragon would be during their Lust Cycle, when they simply act as a beast in heat."

I gave a sigh, "I have a feelin it's easier on ya than me."

"Fufufu, much so," he nodded, "I will say I will not be joining you, for I am fairly infamous among their kind. I would bet this one would be angered by my appearance."

I looked 'im up an down for a momen', "Alright, but if day thing starts breathing fire your gonna be comin over to help."

"Aye, Jim of the Sword. I wouldn't mind having some draconic ingredients."

An with that I made my way to da nest. It didn' take too long since I got really fuckin fast. I was about to get into what I guess was a mountain pass when I saw somethin in da air.

It fell down to da ground real fast, revealin it to be a Dragon. This one was red though unlike the other bastard I fought, "Who dares approach my nest?"

"I am Jim da Sword Hero. I was coming over to see if ya could help us with da Wave comin up?"

He lowered 'is neck gettin a closer look at me, "I am more than contempt with my mountain, hero. Though I am not above what you mortals call, tribute."

'is eye glowed a little as he looked down on me, "I can sense it on you, a Shard of the Dragon Emperor. Give it to me and as you have paid tribute, help you in this wave."

"Shards a worth more for us than a one time alliance. If they want the shard we be needing lasting allegiance.""Other than that, we can garentee their mountain, protection from the other hero's who seem to be idiots, and fighting the wave ensures their hunting ground exist longer.""Well I got a counter deal for ya." I put a foot on a stone, "Hero's and Monsters are roaming dis world. And ya know, I got asked to become ruler of dis damn country an we are gonna be buildin a lot."

I pointed towards 'is rocks in da day pint to da sky, "Ya can keep ya mountain an' anythin' on it. Nothins gonna be built on it."

He growled a low Goran, "That is already mine Hero."

"Once I get dis place minin' we will be minin' I'll pay ya for work. I think maybe 15% of da material would be pretty good for ya."

Steam started comin out of 'is mouth, "You are ignoring my statement Hero, this land is already mine. Now if you are—"

"Do ya really think dat?" I question da now stunned Dragon. With me sword drawn I continued, "Ya already know dere's plenty of heroes runnin 'round now, one doesn' care what the fuck happens while da other is bein' led by a fuckin devil. I mean, not like I just beaten up one of ya kind little bit ago."

'Is eyes were widenin, "grrrrr. Your the Sword Hero, fuckin shit."

I grew a smile, "Aye, da one an only. So ya know I can garentee ya don' bother joinin dat Dragon Purse thingy anytime soon if ya work with me."

The damn thing took a while to think. 'is face kept on changin as he was tryin to figure out if upsettin me was da right thin' to do. Soon though he lowered 'is head, "Fine, I will work with you. You are however not above me, I can leave whenever I want and there will be no Slave Crests."

"Oh I understand. Come to the Capital to help prep for dis wave."

"Tell the big lizard to hurry to the capital with Dolly."" Go find our lich and have us go to the border village to meet Exe and anyone else who may have come by.""Ah, an before I go." I turned back to da Dragon, "Ya better bring ya eggs to da Capital just in case dat wave ends up bein 'ere.

The beast looked me up an down for a momen' before noddin, "I will claim one of the buildings as my own. No one is to enter or leave it."

"Aye, an take Dolly with ya. She can get ya in without bein' shot at."

An with that I say dem off, Mrt walkin up to me when da Dragon hit da skies, "It seems you managed to convince it, a pitty I must admit."

"Ya wantin to add a fuckin Dragon to ya collection?"

He gave a little laugh, "Its been so long since I've collected True Dragon ingrediants you see. I've mostly just been dealing in crossbreeds, even ones that go back three generations in Dragon's blood. None of them however can compete with the real thing."

I let out a sigh, "Well in any case, you need to get me to dat border town in Melromarc."

With that Mrt got me to da town. Things were getin pretty busy as I was gettin through. Makin my way 'round I noticed Exe walkin over to me, "Ara ara, you have been causing a lot of trouble lately haven't you?"

"I been more fixin most of it. What trouble you sayin?"

She gave a small chuckle, "Well, there's currently an Exodus of Adventurers going towards Brusch last time I heard. Why, the King was about ready to call a state of emergency."

"Well I wanna see 'im try," I point over to Mrt, "D'is guy's been a good help gettin me 'round."

She looks him over for a momen' before 'er face pales a little, "Oh my, you are… something."

A little flutter comes from 'is cloak, "It seems my disguise needs a little more work. Well then John, shall we be off?"

"Check the food supply here if there's not enough get the farming sword and make some.""Might as well.""See if we can get some Trebuchets loaded with firebombs or water jugs to go through the gate so we can move them into position to scorch or drench hordes of wave creatures.""Oh, Merchants! Excellent! Let's make sure some make it to the capital before the wave starts so we can take advantage of them.""My hat is freely given to you."...I spent the day with Exe workin on gettin some of the Trebuchets through da portal. Seems by the times I came back they already built about three more, puttin us at about eight fuckin units. I mean, we are goin' to be fuckin over whatever these bastards hit.

Once headin back, we took a stock of all da foodstuff an' realized somethin. We don' really have enough to take care of all da people comin over from Melromarc.

Reason I now was runnin my way through the fields with a sword an' shit. As I was doin so I watched over head as a Dragon wen' over it with Dolly on 'is back.

Anyways, the day ends without much issue.

"We have 2 days left. So let's get some of the arms and armor in the armory distributed. Claim ownership of the helmet. Figure out how much money we can afford to pay the Adventures if any survive and then make an announcement.""Go on a date with Exe.""Yea! Exe time!""If we paid all the 200 adventurers from the guild hall only 10 silvers, it would subtract 2,000 from our treasury of 15,000. This is without factoring in the cost of paying the soldiers, subsidizing rebuilding efforts, or putting aside enough funds to make the investments necessary to rebuild the kingdom. We're currently riding on 'everyone must do their duty' but that won't hold over when the wave is over and people need to live their lives until the next one.""Simple plan to fix it, announce a tax break for a month and send the merchants and guildies to spread the news. It will bring in some people who would want to start production industries and a few merchants willing to invest. Meanwhile we can subsidize a temporary food shortage while we help get the farmers back on their feet. They have to understand we can't just make more food for them all the time.""Plus we have the best moonshine around, we can make an effort to export it out of the kingdom to find our treasury. We'll need to be strategic about this so we can still leave the area to do hero shit."After a good nights of sleep I went my way 'round da city. Mrt has started lendin out undead to some farmers to get dem crops harvested. The Baron has already gotten it in 'is head he wants a wall, so he started makin one out of stone sayin to me, "You fucking burnt all my forest!" Dolly was still figurin out most of 'er skills as a [Wild Scout, so she's been huntin in whats quickly becomin a plains.

As I was walkin da castle I got a good wiff of somethin, a nice fruit wine if I wasn' mistaken. So I made my way towards dem fellows who agree dat drinkin in da middle of da day was a good thin'.

Makin my way round a corner I caught Exe next to a barrel with some fruit, "Oh, seems you caught me." She grew a sly smile, "You want some drink?"

"Sure as hell I would." I walked over to da barrel an looked in, "So what is dis? Strawberry or Raspberry wine?"

"Ara ara, I forgot you come from another world," She brought up a fruit dat looked like a red pineapple da size of an apple, "This is a Lucor Berry, something of a novelty in Melromarc's Apocalego."

She took a knife to da thing an cut a piece of it, lettin it drop into da barrel. Soon da wine turned into a more dark red, "This berry contains a large amount of Alcohol and Sugar, enough that it can easily put an entire barrel at about thirty proof."

I grabbed a Goblet from 'er stuff an took a swig, "Damn, dats good stuff."

"Oh it is," She gave it a stir before throwin a bunch of fruit into it, "Soon it will get much better, just need to wait a few hours." She turns to me with a glint in 'er eye, "It will get… much better~"

"Well what we gonna do before its done?" I take da lid an' put it on da barrel.

"Well~", she taps of 'er tray, "Usually I go out and train, develop a new [Martial Art] on the side."

My body achin already I pipe up, "Why don' we go huntin instead. I mean, you got somethin' you been wantin to kill?"

She taps on da barrel a little, "Well, you know I really want to kill a Magnumlion."

With dat we ended up outside a cave on the other side of Melromarc with a [Scroll of Message] to call Mrt back an' da barrel of wine. Exe had 'er sword ready, waitin for me to go in.

"Hunt the thing Monster Hunter style. Sneak around tracking it then we get it's attention and tank with [fortress] and our Azrael sword.""So, whatcha thinkin?" Exe asked as looked practiced with 'er sword.

"Hmm, I'm thinkin we sneak in on it." I said changin the sword to da Azreal mode.

"Well, I guess that could work."

So we made our way in, crouchin so we wouldn' be noticed. Place was pretty wide an' we didn' seem to get noticed. Though…

"It seems he's not a clean eater." Exe said pokin at a hangin intestine.

"Pointin out da obvious." We had to stop just to look 'round da cave we were in, "Fuckin blood everywhere."

"From what I've learned, the Magnumlion likes to play with its prey." Exe gave a small chuckle, "He would bring them to his cave an release them, seeing if they would try and run for the exit."

"Dis thin' sounds like a big cat."

"Fufufu, thats how the survivors described it."

We continued on, checkin out da fuckin grewsome scene.

It was 'bout fifteen when Exe put 'er hand up, "Its near."

"Well, what it doin? Sleepin?"

"Yeah," She pointed down a tunnel to da left, "Its breathing is calm, come."

Sneakin closer, it wasn' hard not to hear the bastard. Slowly but surely we came into a small room, the beast in full view of us. It was definatly a big fuckin lion, which I'd pit at a size of a large shack. Though it wasn' just a lion but parts of it were like a Dragon, mainly its tail an legs.

Magnumlion: Level 68

It was sleepin soundly though, an not doin anythin on dat note. Only other thin' 'ere was a head of some deer.

Well, how we goin at dis? I think we start da fight instead of a Coup de Grace.

"Let's wake it up and fight it. I say we buff up, slap it in the face with the flat of our blade, and duel it till Exe wants a turn.""I'd like to try to learn the Martial Art [big stick policy] and massively increase our knockback on strikes.""Wake it up by bashing it's forehead with the pombal of your sword.""I want to fight it first." An with that I made my way forward towards the bastard. Slowly but surely I snuck towards the thing, its load purrin vibratin the earth below me feet. It didn' seem to notice me when I snuck up next to its head, an I started windin up my sword like a Golf Clud.

"[Fortress]!" An with a yell I smacked the fucker in da face. The smack sent the fucker on its back, which seemed to daze the fucuker for a momen'. Since it wasn' gettin up, I gave it another fuckin smack in da fuckin face.

With that the thing stood up on its feet, lookin more like an oversized cat dan some lion. Didn' stop it from bringin' its claw down ontop of me. I went off to da side, once again smackin it in da face.

It hissed at me as I readied myself for another hit, "[Big Stick Policy]!" this smack sent the fucker rollin to da other side of the fuckin room.

"Ara ara, you have gotten stronger. What level are you at Jim?" Exe said as she walked over.

"Eighty five Miss. Hes yours I guess?"

"Yes," She said as she walked towards the Magnumlion.

The thing rolled 'round, lookin at Exe with like something weird happened. Since it was a dumb animal though, it decided to run right towards 'er.

Exe waited there for the thing, the monster comin right on 'er an bringin its paw down on 'er. With swift skill, she forced the thing's paw into the ground before slicin at the foot. The attack however just bounced off it, to which the creature once again swipped at Exe.

"[Fortress, [Ability Boost]." With 'er form glowin she met the thing, usin 'er sword to block the paw before duckin under another paw comin in from da right.

"[Greater Ability Boost, [Field of the Sightless Eye]." An with that she drove 'er sword right up through its arm.

As all this was happenin I noticed somethin. From when Exe started she was gettin faster an faster. When she didn' have anythin happenin on 'er however she was slower den even Cliff.

When you think I Should go in?

"If she looks like she's about to make a mistake or the beast might get a lucky hit, then we'll Parry the damn thing and give it a counter blow. She needs the EXP more than us so she should go for the finishing blow."The fight seemed pretty tied from my view point. Exe was clawin 'er way through its health while da beast could kill 'er anytime it lands a hit.

She rolled under the thing as it tried to bite 'er head off, the thing's back now exposed to 'er. She pulled 'er blade back, "[Senses of Celerity, [Six Fold Dimensional Strike]!"

Suddenly she struck at its back, but instead of da single attack suddenly its legs, back, tail, an ass got nailed with a fuckin deep cut. It screamed in pain, bringing its claw round to take 'er out. Exe varely brought up 'er sword an this time, bein' tossed quite a distance from da beast as its claw hit 'er.

Decidin that was enough, I went in with me sword, goin in for a slice at da fucker. Since it now had its back towards me, it made a seventh strike right in its hip. It screamed in pain as wegot it fuckin sandwitched.

"[Three Fold Dimensional Strike]!" An with a quick thrust of 'er blade she struck at its head, turnin it into three pieces dat slumped onto da floor.

We took a breather, "You doin alright Exe? Ya seemed pretty bad dere."

She breathed for a momen', sweat stainin 'er clothin. Gotta say, looks like she was givin it 'er all, "Yeah, it was about as tough as I thought." She made 'er way over an patted me on da back, "Thanks for the save. Maybe I should reward you~"

"Oh," I grew a smile as we walked our way out of da cave, "An whats a nice lady like ya goin to pay me with?"

She gave a small laughin, "Booze of course. Do you really think I'm that cheap~"

"Ahahaha! Nah thats ust the kind of thing I was wantin! Lets get fuckin fucked up eh?"

She gave another laugh while bringin out more of dem Booze Berries, "I'm planning on it."

"Guess it's safe to start out with the 'where we came from, what people are like there', basic getting to know ya stuff. Don't forget to feed parts of this thing we just killed to the sword.""We need to get Codon and Karin (our slaves) here after the wave codons lvl 70 so could be deacent palice guard or somthing as for Karin maidI dont know teach her alchemy(?). We need to interact with them more anyways.""Karin is a thot and should live at the mercy of the acting regent as a serving girl. Her reptillian lover can play guard duty.""While I see your point moustly I dont think its as urgent as you think. Anyways lets hold our opinion till after we have some more interaction with them."Da barrel was goin half empty as we chewed down on some of dat cat demon. We cooked it pretty well, usin some of dat wine to marinate it. I gotta say, "Damn this shit is good."

"Mmm, I guess this is what they always meant when my family talked about my ancestor's food." She took a big bite out of a chop she was holdin, "Ya know, we might still have his wine in our home."

"Damn, dat shit must be gettin old." I said as I layed on a rock.

"About a hundred an' a half years~" She while sittin next to me, "Damn its been too long."

"Aye, thats been a long time." I said, "So where ya from anyways?"

"Cowsted." She said with a chuckle, "Its a small town in Zeltoble thats known for having too many cows. Normally someone would have pillaged 'em, but I taught them fear the Executioner."

"So dats why ya bein' good at sword fightin? I still don' think I could beat ya."

"Kukuku, you would be right~" She grabbed 'erself another round of wine, "I don't normally fight monsters, humanoids are so much easier to deal with. Their muscles tell me exactly what they are thinking of doing, and their flesh is so much easier to cut into."

"Fuckin hell dats gruesome. Ya soundin like Uncle Charlie."

She turned to me with a sly smile, "And do you mind that I can easily cut you down with sheer skill, that even at your level I stand a great chance."

"AHAHAHA!" Her smile grew as I broke out laughin, "Just means I shouldn' get ya mad. Ya know, what level are ya anyways?"

Exe downed 'er glass before lettin out a breath. Slowly she stated restin on da rock, "Level 40, right where I should class up. Fufufu, Zeltoble's hourglass can't give class ups you see. After that, no nation is dumb enough to class up a person who can easily slaughter the Seven Star Heroes that belongs to another nation. I mean, thats why I came to Melromarc to teach you, they said if I teach you they would give me a Class-Up. Another Drink."

"So why ya come to me then?" I said dippin for another drink for 'er, "Pretty sure Spear Stud could've learned ya Art stuff."

"Fufufu~" She took a sip from 'er cup, "Yeah that King was trying to stick me on the Spear Hero. His little companion just gave off a bad vibe you see." She poked my nose, "I believe its when I looked out on their balcony and saw you with all those adventurer and thought, 'He would be a lot funner to be with.' And I was right."

We both gave off a laugh an I filled my drink to full, "Den a toast to us, the people who said fuck you to dat king!"

"True to that~"

An with a click of our glasses we drank da night out. But damn she was good at drinkin as she was somehow standin up to get more drinks before I started forgetting what happened.

"Well, what you guys wanna do the next day? I believe this will make it two days before the Wave. Get Exe her class up before meeting the barron. Then give a big motivating speech.""And check on the moonshine/firebomb production task we ordered so we can blast the wave creatures.""The old proposed speech was good.""My hat finds you worthy!""I think, if we are the 'Sword' saint, and we have Martial arts, we should take a page from Bleach and either during this wave or after it learn [flash step]. Unless we can figure out a more American name for near sudden teleportation.""How about either [Freedom Step] or [Star Step]?""Eagle or bust! But seriously, star step sounds generic enought to not be out of place while still carying meaning.""[Lone Star Step] cause the step is as big as Texas."...I woke up in my bed with some bad fuckin hangover. Lookin round, I didn' see anyone in da room an soon I was out to look about. Makin my way round I noticed Exe was in da dinin' room havin 'erself a meal.

"Ugh, what happened last night? My head hurtin like hell." I said while takin a seat at da table.

"Fufufu," She took a bite out of 'er bread, "Well you started slurring while talking about your Coon Farm. Since we were still having fun, I challenged you to see which of us could drink the most Lucor Berry Wine."

"Did I win atleast? My hangovers tellin me I did."

"Nope~." She tossed some bread infront of me, "I won when you collapse after the fifteenth. Had to call Mrtyr to come get us from the Cave, he was… entertained."

"Well I know what were doin first thin' today." I too a bite out of da bread.

We made our way down the streets of da town, people movin about doin some repairs on da buildins. Funny enough they were now tearin down places, if I remember da Baron said somethin like, "We don't have enough people for all these buildings."

What caught 'im off was dat Mrt decided to give city work a try. Seems the Skeleton wanted to test some shit an organized the place. Though he said I could always put in some input I dunno what to do.

Soon we hade our way to da Church, an since no one was dere we went straight to da Hourglass. The sand was slowly goin out, about three handfuls left on da top.

Exe took a few steps infront of da thing, "So do you know how to work the Hourglass?"

I shrugged as I got close, "Thing just zapped Dolly when she got close, but it doesn' seem to be doin it now." I gave it a smack, "Come on, get workin!"

I felt somethin go through my head as I touched it an a thought came through my head. I pressed my sword on da glass, an some of the sand somehow fell into da thing!

New Magic Discovered: Activate Class-Up, Knighting

"Uh... " I waved for Exe to come over, "Uh, could ya kneel for me?"

She did as I asked lookin fuckin confused. With da sword I placed it on 'er shoulder, "Upon my words, the Holy Lord as my witness, I hereby knight you. [Ritual of Knighting]."

She started glowin for a momen' as if bein' given the power of God. Before long I noticed a small thing appearin at the top of my screen, [Knights: Exe Fur Immer, Lv. 40

Companion Sword II Unlocked (Companion Growth Correction M)

Exe looked infront like she was lookin at some screen, "Why, it seems all my stats have increased a lot." She grew a small smile as she stood up to face me, "Thanks Jim, I was right to join you. Definitely~"

"We are not the king, we are THE President. Or at least the acting President.""Heh. I just remembered FMA. F̶u̶h̶r̶e̶r̶ President King Borris sounds great."Makin my way to the castle I finally found the Baron. The guy was currently in a room 'long with Mrt, a map of da city layed out before 'em, "Hey Baron, I finished me thinkin."

He looked over with a little confusion before goin in a more wonderous look, "So, you've decided to become King then?"

"Well, I can' leave dis place to rot after da wave. I was thinkin for now I be enactin' as president, an when the waves are done we make dis place a Republic."

He looked a little confused for a momen', a glint of flame in 'is eyes now, "A democracy is not what we need Jim thats what caused our nation's downfall. You will be King, Absolute Authority will be given to your name."

I think to myself for a momen', "Well then, how about President King Borris? I'll take this place over only if everyone agrees to it. I'm in no place to take over just because everyone's fucked over their asses."

The man seemed to think it over, chew on what I just said. He then gave a sigh, "Very well, you will be President King Jim Borris the First. I will say this, because you saved all our hides I'm betting everyone will chose ya."

I let out a laugh, "Ya never know Baron, I know a bunch of people who would try ta kill me for doin dis."

The man simply smiled, "Killing you is gonna be tough, I'll make sure of that."

I gave a sigh, "Well its time I give da speech. Da people need to know I'm gonna be runnin dis place."

After a few hours I was on a Balcony watchin over everyone. We sent word through town about an announcement hopin we get people. Ended up gettin half da entire town to show up.

At my left was Exe an' Dolly, on da right was Mrt an' da Baron. Since dere wasn' much more fanfare we needed da do, I stepped on forward with the [Voice of God's Chosen] active, "The world has not been good to the people of dis country. You have been punched, kicked, fucked over an then gutted like a fuckin animal. Even now, we will be fucked over by the Waves in a couple more days."

I paused to let da people suck all I said in, "But we are still livin, somehow livin those who fucked us against those who are gonna fuck us more. I came 'ere to try an make things right, an I decided dat to rebuild y'all are gonna need a leader. So, today I have decided to take up dat job an become President King Borris the First. I will make you strong an able to fuckin Kick back against da world who fucked us over. I hope y'all support me, an when we are strong I wish to be completely sure of it. Until den, let us all become strong together!"

A roar came from the crowd who came over to listen. Cheers of 'King Borris', 'Saint Borris', an I think even 'Fuhrer Borris could be heard among everyone. Kind of made me a little sad dat no one was sayin 'President Borris' but hey, seems dese people didn' have many Presidents.

With dat, the sun when down an da next day came.

"Fuhrer got used before president or Imperator? Who let a fucking German into this world and when?""Actually in all seriousness. Let's try training while drunk.""[Samuel Adams Style!] Hahaha!""Ask the dragon if he has heard of a thing called close air support.""Visit the dragon see how they are setling and to confirm that we apreciate them being willing to help."I made me way 'round again, everyone was already gearin up for da Wave tomorrow. Seems a few smiths were gettin whatever forges were left runnin. Others were simply usin' pieces of debris to make some pikes to run things through with. The rest were messing with small jugs to make some good ol' bombs.

I couldn' find Exe dis mornin, Mrt told me she went to Melromarc to raise 'er level.Speakin of the Skeleton, he was tryin to figure out where da Wave was gonna hit. Lastly, Dolly was helpin out da Baron with somthin' on da lines of, surveyin for any spy activity.

After a bit of walkin I noticed a nice size buildin dat no one seemed to be checkin out. Makin my way over, I heard a small flappin of wings before da Dragon from earlier came before me.

"Who dares- Oh, it you."

I gave a wave to 'im, "Yup, its me big guy. Ya settlin in well?"

A breath of steam came out of 'is nose, "It took a little bit but none of the Humans or Undead bother me anymore. Why have you come here, Sword Hero?"

"Well I wanna just check an make sure ya know whatcha doin for da wave. Ever heard of Close Air Support?"

Another breath came 'is nose, dis one kind of firey, "No I have not."

I shrugged, "I wouldn' blame ya. Simply ya need to kill the monsters when a big group gets close to our men."

"That seems simple, Sword Hero. I can easily do that then."

"Aye, just make sure ya don' nail any of my men. Ya hear."

"Fufufu." He turned back for 'is nest, "I'll be sure not to do so."

Anything else you guys wanna prep?

"That dragon dosent even know how profitable this will be for them. We have damn big dragon growth corection and if she counts as deamon beat there another boost they obiously will be in crusade party as othervise their just wasting extra time on deployment. Point being they will benefit from far more than they tought.""If dragons not in crusade party add it otherwise cant think of nothing.""Well make sure ya join da Crusade stuff. Its gonna be worth ya time." I hollard dat to the idiot.

"Fine." it yelled back at me. Lookin at the systems the Dragon join, markin 'is name as Rorio. The bastard already made 'is way back to 'is nest so I can' be bothered to chase 'im down.

With dat done I decided to just train in da lawn of da castle. Had a few drinks while I was trainin, which of course made it dat much more fun. 'Course it didn' help me very much in the actual form of trainin.

As I was in da court yard I saw somethin goin over da castle walls. Suddenly before me was Dolly an' da Shadow me an' Mrt fucked with.

Dolly had the person from behind, "Jim, she claims to have a message for you."

I laughed a little, "Course she does, I told 'er to do it for me."

Dolly nodded before producin an open letter, "I opened it to make sure it did not have any poisons."

I took it from 'er, readin over the words over a couple times. It said:

Dear Hero of the Sword,

To start, it is my sincere apologies that I was not able to be in Melromarc when you were summoned. I have heard that my Husband has caused a sum of issues that I could not even describe within this letter.

As for a possible audience, I am afraid that it will be some time before I am able to return. Due to the recent events in Brusch and our unexpected summoning of the Heroes, I am forced to stay longer than originally planned. It might end up being weeks before I can return, though I will have a Shadow contact you when this occurs.

I have heard however that you are fixing the problem in Brusch, going as far as turning the Undead into our allies. I thank you for having the ability of foresight in these trying times.

Sincerly I thank you,

- Mirellia Q Melromarc

After readin the letter I turned my attention to the Shadow. Once I got a glimpse of 'er she started talkin, "The Queen did not expected you to take over the role of leadership in this country, President King Borris. As a country leader, you are allowed into the Conference of Rulers being held in Faubley. So if you truely wish to speak with her as soon as possible, you may do so."

"Ya did good, Dolly you can release her." Dolly let go of the Ninja's arms, "Well get yourself ready, its almost time to fuck Dese Waves."

"Lets fuck up this wave.""Take my hat!""We're done with prep. Time to fight the wave."...

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5:45

5:44

The clock is tickin down as I look over da legion I've got put together. Two hundred Adventurers came from Melromarc, a Hundred Fifty thousand undead from Mrt, and a force of 10,000 civilians all stood out before da Castle's balcony.

Exe, Dolly, the Baron, Mrt, an now even da Dragon were all behind me, waiting for my speech.

Honestly I never expected my time in dis world to make such a force of people. I was jus' a simple Coon breeder before I ended up here because of a tractor accident. Now though I was a mother fuckin President King of an entire country.

"Rather than a speech, let's ask they join us in prayer, and pray the usual, grant us strength for victory, see to it as many make it through the battle safely, and those who aren't will find their souls at rest. Then start singing the Battle Hymn of the republic.""My hat is off my head and im singing for the glory of coon breader.""GLORY GLORY HALLELUJAH!""WE WILL SONG THE SING OF OUR PEOPLE YEHAW!"I felt the power of my lord flowin though my voice as I stepped forward, my armor reflectin the sun. The thousands of people ready to put their lives down to keep their nation, nah, our nation safe.

"Today I'm not gonna give a speech. Instead I wish to lead us in prayer, for the Lord has given us da strength to get by on dese tryin times. May he give us strength for victory through dese tryin times an for peace in death knowin dat we won da day."

Everyone seemed to be pretty sober for dat, "Follow me in a prayer of my people, those who have been tried an true when it came to war!"

"Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord

He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored

He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword

His truth is marching on"

"Glory Glory Hallelujah! Glory Glory Hallelujah!"

Soon the crowd was catchin on to what I was singin. While ofcourse dey didn' know da words they were catchin on to da praisin of da lord. It ended with a cheer, 10 secs to spare.

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"Everyone, as I have said once before."

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"We fight to protect our people an in the Lord's name."

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"Y'all know what to say."

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"Deus Lo Vult!"

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Once again we shifted to a place I never been to. The sky turned into a dark purple as da sky was ripped open to reveal a bunch of monster fallin out of it. Lookin into da rift I could already see a monster, a Chimera, just like da one I fought before riddin into the plain below.

"Charge!"

An with dat everyone made their way into da battle.

Need tactics an' how we're gonna do this.

"Have the adventurers evacuate any civilians they find while the undead army take down the small fry and the dragon lights up any tough looking enemies. We go find the boss and take him down.""We should fight at the front. Give time for heavy weapons and defender mages to get prepared. Dragon should be called to with voice of God's chosen so we can keep the undead forward line from breaking under excessive enemy force.""And let's use liberal amounts of big stick policy to hurl enemies into eachother.""I propose we rename Brusch the Republic of Yank.""[Ability Boost, [Big Stick Policy]!" An with that I joined da charge on foot with everyone else. From 'ere I watched as Cliff tore a fuckin line through the monster's ranks, makin 'is way towards what I could guess is some villages. On 'is back was Dolly an followin was the majority of da forces.

I swung my sword, the knock back sendin' their carcases tumblin towards eachother an wreckin their ranks. I watched from behind as Exe was followin up with me, slicin' up as many of the fuckers as she could.

"[Cry of the Banshee]"

Only a momen' later I watched all the dead infront of me fall onto da ground like somethin yanked deir batteries. Takin the que from Mrt, I charged forward towards where we saw da Chimera flyin.

As we made our way to da thing I noticed it was already in a fight. Seems dat Dragon wanted to take up the fun, the two havin a dog fight in da air above us.

The two fired a round of fire at one 'nother before da monster came chargin in like a fuckin goat at the Dragon. Takin da chance though, the Dragon dug 'is claws into da monster an took out a piece of da other's flesh.

It was best to saw though they were matched, "Exe, you got anythin' that could help us?"

"Nope," The gal shook 'er head, "Never really bothered with flying beast before. You know, killer of men an' such."

"Ah shit…"

Well how we goin to get dis bastard down!

"If i remember correctly sword cage comes from the sky. Sword cage the wings.""Do what we did last time modified. Pair smite with a ripple strike on the Chimera.""Where the fuck are those useless Spear/Bow/Shield heroes? Surely they must have heard of our exploits?""That would mean them leaving the country and king cant alow that as its bad enought that we did it so they are kept in dark or just reashured that its not sutch a big deal.""We're carrying this shit so hard."Well, let try dis out, "[Ripple Strike, [Sword Cage]!"

On my words a point in da sky flashed for a momen' an swords started fallin from it. Day came down an' wrapped 'emselves around the bastard's wing. I grew a smile as for dis momen', dat bastard wasn' goin anywhere.

"I call upon da Lord above who I have sworn my faith too." I brought my blade up with the Ripple ready, "May my blade fall this foe before me, [Smite]!"

I sliced cleanly through da air, a ray of light cuttin into da fuckin bastard. I smilled as even dat attack sliced da snake tail off an dat wing I captured. Soon enough da bastard was fallin from da sky.

Of course I wasn' da only one fightin dis bastard. As soon as it was fallin, da Dragon tried 'is best to roast the thing whole sale while Exe was right on it when it landed.

Quickly lookin at its health, I noticed the fucker only had a fuckin forth of its health left. Okay, I knew I was gettin better at dis but I didn' think I was gettin dis much better.

I watched as the thing got up, da Dragon head tryin to burn Exe alive. Luck on 'er side, she dodged to da side an' stabbed it right through its neck, killin the head like a shish kabob.

"Decapitation strikes on the remaining heads. Or murderstroke the chest so it crushes everything as we knock the bastard back into the air with big stick."

"WOOOOOO!" I started my charge at da bastard, "Leave some for me Exe, I wanna go chopping some heads!"

Exe gave a smile as she stood back, "I guess I could let the hero have his chance."

With da running start I was at the bastard within a momen's notice, the creature barely getting a chance to bite at me. I battered the head to da side though, the knock back makin 'im spin im place.

I didn' really have a choice on where to hit it, so I grabbed da hilt of the Crusader King Blade an' gave 'im a murderstroke right in da back. The sound of all dem bones cracking were music to my ears as I carried my blade through 'is back.

Next momen' the skies clear up, the thing fallin onto the ground with earth shackin strength. Without much issue we quickly went 'round an made sure everythin was goin' well. Seems the Monsters weren' proven much issue to the veterans who came with me. Hell, dey are even couchin the Civilians in killin a bunch of da bastards.

Watchin da last of dem Goblins fallin down I looked up into da sky, sun high in it.

I've got a nation to run, an I'm gonna fuckin make it greater den its ever been before.