Requiem Of A Failed Hero

‘Congratulations?’

As Raith’s eyes rolled down in that split moment the message appeared, the Orc’s large hand crushed his head, smashing him to the floor. Immediately, the Orc kicked him away sending him into the sky and gave him a follow-up smash that lunged him downwards, crashing into the ground and causing a webbed crack with him in the middle of it.

Gbam!

As the Orc landed on him, the webbed crack shattered, razing the ground supersonically. Not even a miracle would have saved Raith from dying.

[You have died]

[You have gained +7 stat points]

[Level Up!]

[Level Up!]

[Level Up!]

[Congratulations]

[Skill ‘Multiple Cognitive Resonance’ has gained one level]

[All Sub-skills have gained 10 levels]

[^#^#%#^…#^##%#]

The Orc was standing on Raith’s body hence didn’t know what was going on.

Raith’s body began to devolve into Black liquid that squirmed about, the red Orc looked down and wondered what was going on.

[Congratulations]

[Passive Skill ‘Devourer’ has reached level 10]

[A subskill has been created ‘Merge’]

[Devour(EX)]

– Stomach

– Merge

[Do you want to use sub-skill ‘Merge’]

[Automatically merging saved ego]

[Merging ego Goblin King(C) + Red Orc Chief(S)]

[Merging… 1%…2%…3%…5%…]

[…67%…74%…77%…80%…]

[…87%…93%…98%…99%…]

[…100%]

[Merging Completed]

[You have gained a new ego]

[Do you want to name the ego?]

[Due to title effect you will be resurrected]

“…*pant*pant*pant*…” Raith rose with unsteady breath. But that was the least to worry about. ．𝙘𝙤𝙢

The main raid team of Rain Guild now shared his precious secret.

“Hyungnim…did you see that?”

“The Orc was swallowed in whole by a black thing…”

“And the black thing became hunter Raven.”

All of them said one to another, with shaking eyeballs and trembling lips.

“Yes,” Raith responded, looking at the lingering black tab in front of his eyes.

[Give the ego a name]

“Ghan”

His naming sense was very whack and too random.

[Are you sure you want to name the new ego ‘Ghan’]

“Yes”

[You have named ego ‘Ghan’]

[Ego Information]

Name: Ghan

Level: 00

Skills: Metallic Defense, Rage mode, Indomitability.

Class: Warrior

Attack power: 55

Defense Power: 322

Strength: 310

Speed: 200

Stamina: 190

Intelligence: 20

– Ego can be imbued into a weapon, when Ego is imbued into a weapon ego stats will affect the weapon.

– The ego can be imbued into a body you carve out of darkness, when the ego is put into the body, the body will undergo evolution to match the stat of the ego.

– Ego can be fused with the user, when you fuse with Ego you will gain all its skills and stats (this function is locked until you unlock sub-skill: Override)

‘Interesting, it has never given me such information on a large scale before. Is it because Devour reached level 10?’ Raith wondered rubbing his cheek as he stood to his feet, butt naked and he didn’t even realize it.

All the boys covered all the girls’ eyes immediately, both from Mok Jae-Hwa’s party and the red Orcs.

[Congratulations you have completed the Trial of strength]

[You have gained 100+ strength stat]

[The 100+ strength stat won’t be in effect until you reach level 100]

[You have defeated the red orc clan leader, by all right you will be their leader]

[A New Trial Has Been Generated]

[Trial Of A Leader]

– Crazily massacre all the red Orcs.

“Huh?” Raith cocked his head.

This had to be the height of it.

Massacre all of them after becoming their leader. Raith turned around to observe their face, suddenly they weren’t looking like hostile ferocious monsters anymore but instead were now looking more like people who need help. Among them, were kids and babies–

‘Why are they all covering their eyes though…’ He wondered as he turned around and then lastly looked at himself.

“Oh…” He walked forward, not particularly doing anything after saying ‘Oh’

‘I’m supposed to murder all these orcs… I don’t think I can…’ Raith inhaled and exhaled with a bit of determination.

[If you fail the quest, you will lose class ‘Monarch Of Darkness’]

Raith’s eyes widened, “What?!”

“Hunter Raven, I think you will need this…” Mok Jae-Hwa said and covered him with a black coat he had brought as extra.

“Say, Hunter Jae-Hwa.” Raith’s low tone caused a warm embrace in his heart, it was the first time he had heard Raith call him.

“Yes, Hunter Raven.” He responded with vigor and delight accommodated with a sheepish smile.

“Do you think it is okay to kill all these orcs even though they look like they have surrendered?”

Mok Jae-Hwa took a moment to look at the Orcs, their young ones and females, the strong males that had fiery look on them before now were all looking at Raith with some kind of sparkling eyes. By looking at them, he could tell the point Raith was trying to make.

“Honestly, I don’t know… but we won’t be able to live the gate unless we kill them.” He replied.

“I see…” Raith rubbed his chin. ‘…the abyss, at times I like it and at other times I hate it so much’

[You’re welcome]

‘That wasn’t a fucking compliment’

[One more penalty has been added]

[Your level will reset if you fail the trial]

Raith swirled his sword and walked forward, “Stay back…” He said as he marched forward with arched brows and teary eyes.

“I’m so sorry guys… I have come too far to end it here. But you know what, I will give you all an equal chance of killing me too.” Raith proclaimed as he ran into the crowd of orcs with his sword raised in the air, recklessly slicing through the orcs.

At first, they all ran, but after seeing the crazed state that he was in, he slashed and swiped off the head of their babies with no remorse in his attacks but tears flooding down his eyes, they began to retaliate.

“I don’t know why… this sorta feels immoral.” Sung Min said.

“Says the man who would do the same thing,” Yujin replied to him with her arms folded. All of them were looking at Raith.

“Don’t talk like that, I don’t have a choice because I’m a berserker.”

“It’s Hunter Raith’s expression for me, I can’t believe he is crying in a situation like this,” Ga-Yun stated looking at Raith.

Even though it was ethically justifiable, Raith looked more like the monster in this situation than the red Orcs themselves.

Yeon-Woo looked up and squinted his face, “Something is wrong.”

“Huh?” Shin-Hye was the one next to him so she was able to catch up quickly on what he was saying.

His eyes stayed glued to the sky for a few minutes before they finally shot wide open and he shouted.

“Everyone!! Duck!!!!”

Before his voice spread across, flame poured down on them as figures of flying things could be seen beneath the red sky.