Chapter 3 – Daily Life of a Hero
“The method of operating divine power is basically not much different from the operation of magical power.”
He was a warrior who came down with a sword with the intention of training with a sword, but at the recommendation of Martha, who came down with him, he changed to training for divine power today.
“This power bestowed upon us by the great Lord is truly versatile.”
Sometimes it becomes a weapon that cuts enemies like a knight’s sword, and sometimes it turns into a power that heals itself like a potion.
In addition to that, the use of that power was truly limitless, such as summoning angels or holy water and strengthening one’s own physical abilities.
“First of all, before learning miracles, you must learn how to feel the divine power within yourself.”
Saying that, Martha gathered the divine power in her hand and demonstrated it.
The divine power gathered in Martha’s hand was as bright and warm as the sun in the sky, and just looking at that light seemed to calm my mind.
“Now, let’s try it, warrior!”
“Um, it’s my first time, so I don’t know if it will go well…”
Swallowing her uneasy heart, the hero put her hands together like Martha and tried to feel the divine power within her.
‘Is this…’
The hero closed his eyes and focused his mind to sense the holy power within himself.
Soon after, he sensed a warm aura that was different from mana and aura in his chest, and concentrated his holy power into his hand as if to gather his mana into his hand.
“Are you doing this?”
In the hand of the hero, it was small and shabby compared to Martha’s, but it was clearly filled with divine power.
“Excellent! I have never seen a case where I felt divine power and manifested it so quickly!”
When the saintess praised her by clapping her hands, the hero smiled awkwardly and scratched her head.
“Compared to Martha’s, it’s shabby, but what…”
“I’ve been learning divine power all my life, but the hero is only a few minutes old. But how are you comparing me!”
In fact, as Martha said, no one had realized the divine power so quickly, except for the hero and the saint whose name was left even in the Bible.
“Thank you for saying that.”
“This is my role, thank you. Actually, I wanted to teach you a little faster, but…”
The hero had been practicing various disciplines including archery as well as magic and swordsmanship, so there was no time until now.
“From now on, I’ll try to spend a little more time, even if I have to cut down on my sleep at night.”
“That’s not okay! Even now, I only get 4 hours of sleep, but they cut it down even more!”
“It’s okay because my body is strong.”
The warrior’s training, which was conducted while reducing sleep at night, was severe enough that an ordinary person would have died from overwork in the past.
Martha was worried that even a hero with a blessed body would not collapse after continuing to train like this.
“At this point, I would like to remind you to shorten the training time a little. If the hero is defeated, who will defeat the demon king?”
“… I’m sorry, but I can’t.”
Even now, innocent people are exposed to irrational violence.
The hero is weak now, but he thought that as a person carrying the title of a hero, he had to become stronger as soon as possible.
“… Then you can’t help it. Then at least I will miraculously erase your fatigue, so be sure to call me every time you train.”
“No, then Martha is tired…”
“Isn’t the hero tired as well! Think of your own body at least half as much as you think of others!”
When Martha leaned forward and said that she would not forgive her objection, the hero could only nod his head.
“… I’ll be careful.”
“Great! Then, continue training and first of all, the most basic miracle of healing…”
When Martha was about to use her holy power again to teach her how to use the miracle, she heard someone rushing towards her in the distance.
“Ha… Yo, warrior! You are here!”
The owner of the footsteps was Jimu, the adventurer’s guild’s exclusive messenger.
Perhaps he ran in a hurry, and Jimu gasped for breath, so the warrior took out water from a nearby table and handed it to Jimu.
“Eat this and tell me.”
“Go, thank you… !”
After drinking all the water at once, Ji Mu took a deep breath and said to the warrior.
“The guild master wants to see you urgently! Let’s go quickly!”
“… Did something happen?”
“I don’t know because I didn’t get that far, but it seemed urgent!”
“All right. Then let’s go right away.”
“Yes! Well then, I have to visit the mayor’s mansion, so stop… !”
After saying that, Jimu started running that way to the street where the mayor’s mansion was located.
“Seeing that you can even hear the mayor’s mansion, it doesn’t seem like an ordinary thing.”
“… That’s right. Gather the party members and let’s all go together.”
Returning to the inn room, the warrior and Marta went up to the second floor and encountered Lina holding a rag on the stairs.
“Lina, it was nice to meet you. A messenger has come from the Adventurer’s Guild, everyone needs to go quickly!”
“A messenger from the guild?”
He sent a separate messenger, so he must have guessed that something unusual was happening.
Narrowing her eyebrows, Lina immediately nodded and headed to her room to grab her weapon.
“Ah, but we all go to the guild together, right?”
“Huh? Of course we should all go together.”
“Hmm… The other kids seem a bit busy right now.”
The warrior, who was well aware of the meaning of Lina’s words, listened to her words and thought for a while before opening her mouth.
“… Then shall we go together? If I go out according to the story, I have to come back to the inn to prepare properly…”
“It’s not possible!! What the hell is the hero talking about!!”
Unlike the generous hero, Martha did not forgive the Horde party who were indulging in lust in an emergency situation.
“If the hero doesn’t do it, I… !!”
When Marta tried to climb her stairs to summon the party members instead of her Hero, Lina stopped Marta from climbing the stairs, she said.
“How about it~ As Hero said, if you have to go far, you will have to come back to properly prepare… Let’s go on our own for now.”
“What about you… !!”
“Aren’t you in a hurry right now? It will take some time to change and shower?”
“… Awesome!!”
In the end, Marta glanced at the party members’ room on the top of the stairs and went back to the hero’s side.
“… I think I know this without having to come up with that stupid strategy.”
“Operations? What are you talking about?”
“No, this is the story. I will prepare quickly and leave.”
Just as she said she would come quickly, it took less than a minute for Lina to come out with her bow and all the tools she needed for scouting.
The warrior asked Lina as she and all Lina rushed down the stairs and left the inn.
“By the way, Lina, what was the mop you were holding earlier?”
“Ah… I have something to clean up.”
Although it was a bit bothersome to blur the end of his words, the hero left the inn without paying attention and ran to the adventurer’s guild.
When the hero and the others arrived at the guild in no time and opened the door, one of the receptionists waiting in front of the door said to the hero.
“Yoah, warrior. The guild master is waiting for you. Let’s go to the second floor quickly.”
“Yes.”
The hero, who quickly went up to the second floor, stopped in front of the guild master’s room and knocked on the door.
“Come in.”
Soon after, when the guild master’s grave voice was heard from beyond the door, the hero opened the door and went inside.
Inside the room, the guild master and the director of the Ecology Research Center were standing around a table with several sheets of paper that looked like a rubbing of a map or a beast’s footprint.
When Lina followed the hero inside and closed the door, the guild master said in a light voice that it was hard to believe that she was the owner of that deep voice.
“Welcome back, warrior!!”
Guild Master Geppetto was one of the few people in the city who knew that a hero was a real hero.
“I came in haste because you called me urgently. What the hell is going on?”
“Yes, in fact, I urgently found the hero in search of information that might lead to an executive in the Demon King’s Army!”
“Then tell me quickly!”
When the hero, excited by the information from the Demon King’s army, took a step forward, the director of the ecological research center instead of the guild master opened his mouth.
“I will explain that. First, look at the rubbing of the footprints.”
“This… Are those the footprints of an iron mountain bear?”
Iron bear.
Its skin and claws are as hard as iron, unlike ordinary bears, and its body is twice as large as that of ordinary bears, hence the name.
“You’re right. The hero is truly knowledgeable.”
“Because the scouts in our party often tell me this… Than that. This table tennis is a little strange. Iron Mountain bears are said to be big, but their footprints aren’t that big.”
In terms of the size of the rubbing, it is not unreasonable that it is 4 to 5 m, and at least 10 m must come out for such a huge rubbing to come out.
“It may be a simple mutation, but as you know, there are officers in the Demon King’s Army who work by strengthening their demons, so I came to find you. Then, let’s look at the map.”
On the map, there were several paths that were assumed to be the path the owner of the footprints had traveled, based on the direction or age of the found footprints.
“These are a dragon named Mario who received a request to deliver a certain special mushroom… , Based on the traces the adventurer found, this is the route of the Iron Mountain Bear.”
“Every… It leads deep into the forest.”
“Yes, deep in the forest there may be a residence for the officers of the Demon King’s Army.”
“… I will go right away with my colleagues.”
“Don’t be in too much of a hurry, prepare well and go. And if possible, I would appreciate it if you could deliver the body of the Cheolsan Bear in the most intact condition.”
“I will try to do that. Enough…”
“Yes, I will pray for the hero’s luck.”
*****
The warrior who came out of the guild while being sent off by the guild master and the warden sighed heavily when he saw the adventurer’s guild.
“What’s the matter? Come to think of it, every time I drop by the guild, my expression looks a little bad…”
“Just… Whenever other adventurers are called heroes, I feel a little frustrated.”
In order to hide who the hero is, all the party leaders of the adventurer party are called the hero, regardless of rank.
I knew that I had no choice but to deceive the Demon King’s army, but I felt uncomfortable because the hero seemed to be using them as bait.
‘I heard that there are even cases where promising adventurers were mistaken for me and kidnapped…’
When the rumor reached the hero’s ears, the hero was gripped with a deep sense of guilt and fiery rage.
Subdue the demon lord as soon as possible and return the adventurers to their original form.
Every time the hero came to the adventurer’s guild, he made up his mind.
“Lina, we’ll be renting a wagon in front of the castle gate first, so pack the necessary equipment and call everyone.”
“Huh. But didn’t you come from training? Just in case, I can take a day off today and go tomorrow…”
“There are many requests for gathering herbs and mushrooms in that forest, so beginner adventurers often stop by. And considering the village near the forest, I cannot afford to delay.”
When the hero showed a determined attitude, Lina nodded her head and headed for the inn alone.
“Then let’s go, Martha.”
“Yes! Warrior!”
The hero was overflowing with enthusiasm at the information of the executive of the Demon King’s army that he might meet for the first time.
