Reincarnated Hero System

**KAAABOOOMM!!!

In the distance, a towering column of fire and smoke shot up into the sky, its roar deafening. Buildings near the epicentre of the blast crumbled as the shockwave rippled through the area.

The explosion’s force shattered windows, and debris flew in all directions. Immediately, screams of pain and fear filled the air, echoing through the streets as people scrambled for safety.

[GROOOAAARRR!!!]

A loud, guttural roar followed, resonating through the city and making the ground tremble.

Hearing it, Evan and Eliza couldn’t help but ask.

“A monster?”

“Yes, a monster, smack dab in the middle of the city.”

“Just what is going on?”

Eliza asked, her voice filled with concern and confusion. As for Evan, he just shrugged nonchalantly and suggested.

“Why don’t we go check it out?”

Hearing his suggestion, Eliza narrowed her eyes at Evan, suspicion clear in her gaze. The boy’s expression didn’t change, and he looked at her with clear eyes.

‘He said not to call each other by names, had us change clothes, bought a mask for me even though I don’t need one, and then this happens.’

Eliza was very suspicious, but she didn’t voice her concerns and simply nodded. Evan smiled at her reaction, leaning in to kiss her cheek before whispering something that made her blush.

She put on the mask in her hands to cover up her red face, and Evan just laughed out loud as he put his on.

He then grabbed Eliza, using the Farsight skill to spot a distant rooftop and teleporting them there with Blink.

Looking down, they were greeted with a shocking sight.

A massive fissure stretched across the earth, spanning hundreds of meters in length, with monsters of different shapes and sizes pouring out, their eyes filled with a crazed frenzy as they attacked everyone around them.

Adventurers and soldiers tried to fight back, but the momentum of the monsters was too overwhelming for the first responders to handle.

Ignoring the chaos, Evan fixed his gaze on the fissure and used Lethe to conceal himself and Eliza before pulling her along.

“Let’s go to the source.”

“Mhmm…”

Eliza nodded, her gaze a bit absent-minded as she sensed something off in the air but couldn’t quite put her finger on it.

Jumping into the fissure where the monsters were emerging, they found themselves inside what looked like a large warehouse.

Hundreds, possibly thousands, of magically reinforced cages filled the space. Ninety percent of them were broken, and the remaining intact cages held frenzied monsters banging against the bars, desperate to break free.

“What did we stumble upon?”

Eliza asked as they delved deeper into the warehouse area, passing many well-dressed individuals who were screaming and running for their lives.

Not noticing Evan and Eliza, the monsters focused their attacks on the other people, while guards, adventurers, and mercenaries fought to contain the chaos.

Moving down a long hallway, they arrived in a stadium-sized arena with spiked gates at each end.

People who looked like obviously wealthy merchants, foreign nobles, some Tribal Chiefs and even normal civilians all scrambled for exits which seemed woefully insufficient.

Evan glanced at the monster corpses strewn around the arena and analysed them. They bore no wounds from weapons or magic; instead, they had been torn apart by claws and jaws—revealing they were killed by other monsters.

“This looks like a monster fighting ring, and now the monsters have broken free and are wreaking havoc.”

“Evan, you forgot to add the part where this is ‘Illegal’.”

Eliza responded, looking around and touching the sand on the floor. She rubbed her fingers together, examining a few grains.

‘It’s faint, very faint…but I sense death essence.’

As a Life user, Eliza was very sensitive to the opposite element, and ever since they saw the fissure, she had noticed a faint concentration of death essence spreading in the air.

“Give me a second, Liz. I need to get blackmail-worthy information.”

Evan said, retrieving his camera before dashing off toward the fleeing foreign nobles and Tarsian tribal chiefs. He took pictures of them, ensuring the arena was prominently captured in the background.

Given the illegal nature of the monster fighting ring, if word got out that these high-profile individuals were involved, it would severely damage their reputations. There were already civilian casualties, so none of them wanted their names to be tied to such an incident.

Sadly, Evan had every intention of tying their names to it…unless, of course, they bent to his will.

“Oh, this guy is an affiliate of the Demonic Hand.”

Evan noted, spotting a confidant of the Aneford Region’s chief. Putting his camera away, he grabbed the man’s shoulder, dragging the confused individual and tossing him in front of a Grandmaster-level werewolf.

The monster tore him to shreds, and Evan watched with a cold gaze.

Tarse was a nation split not into ‘States’, and ‘Counties’ but ‘Regions’. Each Region was ruled by a ‘Chief’, the equivalent of a Democracy’s State Governors.

The City Lords of the cities within a Region answered to the Region Chiefs who then answered to the Sandfire Throne.

These ‘Region Chiefs’ were the ‘Nobles’ of Tarse. They were also the targets of the Demonic Hand, who sought to exploit Tarse’s energy hotspots to execute the Wildcard Protocol—summoning demons from other worlds.

As Evan thought this, he glanced at the thousands of people inside the Arena who hadn’t yet escaped, thinking it’d be a hassle to search them all for Demonic Hand-related people.

He decided to enlist the help of a certain goddess to which he had a direct line of contact.

‘Artemisia, you there?’

Evan asked through his connection with the system but he received no answer. With the easy way offline, he resolved to do things the hard way.

He dashed around, identifying Demonic Hand members and affiliates, knocking them out, and placing them in the paths of rampaging monsters.

While doing this, he noticed some Junior Fifth Division members and he shocked them all with powerful lightning, paralysing them before kicking a rampaging Gorilla in their direction.

The monster raged at being kicked out of nowhere, but when it looked around and saw not the one who kicked it, but a bunch of paralysed Demonic Humans, it used them to sate its anger.

[Fourth Exit, Cat beastman wearing a red shirt.

Second Level, Sixth Exit; the two Dark Elves fighting off the Cockatrice.

First Level, the Noble surrounded by Six Guards.]

Those three strings of text suddenly appeared in Evan’s vision, and the boy smiled as he moved according to those instructions.

Artemisia had finally looked over and upon noticing him killing off Demonic Hand Junior Members, she directed him to where the remaining affiliates were.

He worked his magic, making sure that they were killed by the rampaging monsters before turning around to return to Eliza’s side.

Before he could teleport, he noticed a particular Terrokian Minister, twisting his lips in displeasure at the sight of the man.

‘That’s the guy who pissed Laurene off before, isn’t he?’

Artemisia hadn’t even sent a reply when Evan dashed over and grabbed the man, slamming his forehead on the ground before teleporting to Eliza.

“What were you doing?”

“Watching some people die, bashing the head of an idiot who pissed off my lil sis.”

He gave Eliza an honest response and the young woman just nodded, not too bothered about the specifics. Instead, she was more concerned about the death energy she sensed spreading in the air and informed Evan about it.

“Dealing with that would not be an issue. All we have to do is prevent as many Adventurers, Mercenaries and Soldiers from dying as we can.”

“Not the Civilians?”

“Yes, Liz. Not the Civilians.”

Normally, the powerless civilians would be the priority in a situation with monsters rampaging, but Evan suggested otherwise. Eliza instantly figured this was related to why Evan wanted them in Zlunard in the first place and she nodded in affirmation.

“I’d tell Roselia and the others to stay put, so let’s go above ground and kill some monsters.

They’re not too much for us to handle so as far as none of the monsters has a summoning ability, we should be fi-!”

Evan’s words were abruptly cut off and, Eliza, who had taken a step forward, turned towards him with a deadpan expression.

“You just had to jinx it, didn’t you?”

“…”

The Hero had no words to say.

Both of them sensed a surge of magic power above, followed by an exponential increase in monster presences. It was as if the new monsters had come out of thin air, which wasn’t possible so the only explanation was that they were summoned.

Sighing with exasperation, Evan took out his SS rank adventurer card and hung it on his neck, before speaking.

“Let’s try not to use skills and abilities people know us for. And our first target is the monster summoning other monsters…wherever it is.”

Eliza nodded as she pulled out her Adventurer card and hung it over her neck, then both of them made their way over to the fissure and leapt out of it.

The battle above ground was fierce, with collapsed buildings and hundreds of corpses strewn about.

Zlunard’s adventurer population was fairly high, and there were many S Rankers present. However, these S Rankers could not fight at full power as they had to be careful not to wreck the city any more than it already was.

Sadly, the monsters did not have this concern, so the situation was not good at all.

Evan deactivated Lethe, his gaze locking on a Level 500 giant gorilla that was beating its chest while roaring.

After that, the monster proceeded to start backhand-slapping buildings out of existence, doing the same to nearby Master Level adventurers.

“I’d try to end that in one strike. As for you…”

“Don’t worry about me. I’d use the Codex and fight like a Pulgist or Mage.”

Eliza responded to Evan as she summoned the Radiant Codex, a support magic catalyst that Evan had given her years ago.

|Radiance of the Everlasting Moon (Radiant Codex)

Type; Magic catalyst.

A catalyst that carries the memory of a string of lovely jasper from the deep sea. It shines with a pure radiance like that of the moon and is just as ever-distant.

Effect;

Healing Bonus is increased by 10%.

All support skills and magic cast with the aid of this catalyst enjoy an increased efficiency and power of 50% each. |

It was an artifact that looked just like a large orb, one about twenty centimetres in diameter. It had a ring made of bronze around it with two pieces of a cloth-like material tied to the two edges of the ring. Looking at it reminded her of when they first met in Luka Town.

With a snap of her fingers, Evan felt three buffs layered on him, and he kicked off the ground and dashed into the distance.

Evan reactivated Lethe and noticing him disappear from her senses, Eliza silently buffed herself and let the Radiant Codex float in the air.

She then cracked her fingers and did some light stretches, before leaping into the air and punching a giant bald eagle out of the sky.