A Forgotten Hero - Volume 1 Chapter 6 Nobility Prick
Shana saw Jack expression, causing her to feel a little scared of him, as it was filled with fire of hell itself like in any moment an explosion to shake the continent would happen at any moment!
Alice saw Jack but to her he did seem very angry but also distraught about hearing the hero’s. The reason Shana was seeing much more rage then Alice was because in her younger days she was adventurer who was at level 40! This was considered a huge accomplishment for a commoner as unless you are born with a richer background or had connections to powerful people it was considered extremely hard for someone like Shana to reach that height. Naturally from her experience, she is able to detect others level unless they where too high or used some item or magic to conceal it. With Jack that was not the case as even if someone hidden their level then it would appear as a question mark, which was not for Jack as it showed nothing of a level but just the cold aura that he gives off. Through the aura Shana guessed that he is around level 15 to 23 at best and through experience she has a good grasp of people’s emotions.
Before Shana could open her mouth once more a loud scream could be heard outside their house, surprising Alice,Jack and Shana. The screams interrupted Jack and his thought causing him to come back to reality.
“What the hell was that”
“Oh no… he is at it again!” Alice said with fear in her tone
“Stay here Alice” Shana said with a reassuring tone and proceeded to leave to see what happened.
Jack saw Shana leaving and decided to follow her.
When Jack stepped outside he saw brown horses that showed exhaustion from there faces. Three men with fine navy blue shirts and shoulder plates were on top of there own horses. There was one off his horse, he had blond sleeked hair, with a white robe made off good equality materials that seemed to cost more then the entire village. He gave an aura of nobility and had his hand around his back to show his authoritative demeanor. As Jack got closer to them, he saw a girl with unknown features, as her whole body was burned to the point of being unrecognized!
“How could you do this Renald!” Shana shouted to the blond man
“Oh, Shana here you are. Also what could you possibly be talking about? This women did not give her payment and proceeded to insult me. The ones who seen what happened will even justify for me” Renald commented with calmness in his voice.
The people who witnessed what happened all nodded in agreement to Renald but inside they felt fear off him. The truth was that the women did not have the money to pay him, that was true, but Renald would not have that and tried to grab the girl, to take her to his place so he can have his way with her. The women refused and proceeded to struggle which caused her to accidentally smack Renald in the face. This angered him and he burnt her while she was alive!
Shana was very pissed off as she knew what kind of person Renald is, he is a rich snob that uses the fact that he is the son of the ‘cross’ family who is the 3rd largest trading business in the earth territory. In hindsight this is not that big of a deal but in the earth territory they are seen as very important. Renald goes to poor villages and threatens them saying that his family owns the place and that they all must pay tax for staying. However he did not touch Alice’s village until recently because of Shana living there, protecting the villagers. Even though the ‘Cross’ family was important in the earth territory, Shana originated from the fire territory causing there authority to be non existent to Shana and since she was level 40, if news spread, no questions asked, the fire territory would intervene.
“I get bedridden for a few months and you started exploiting this village!”
Renald was offended by Shana’s shouting “tsk, a commoner like you dare say these things to ME, seems like your out of bed but I doubt you could protect them” He said with full of arrogance.
What Renald said was true though since right now Shana is still weak and is just starting to recover.
Jack, who has been listening and understanding that Renald is no good, started to laugh like a madman making everyone notice him.
“eh? who is this man?” Renald asked
“Look at this child trying to act like an a.d.u.l.t” Jack answered in a condescending tone
Baffled by Jack’s tone, Renald got angry “who do you think you are talking to me the SON of the cross family!”
“I am glad you admit your a child who relies on his family for authority. Also why would I give a shit about some family name. I was in a very bad mood and to my luck some people brought themselves to me! I didn’t know you four wanted to die so bad”
Renald and the 3 men laughed at Jack, thinking he was some lunatic to try and pick a fight with them
“oh your very funny, what is your name?” Renald asked while giggling mockingly to Jack
“Sadly I can’t say my name, so you can call me Jack” Jack smirked
“Alright Jack, since your so bold I will fight you myself without my guardsmen and make you suffer for daring to insult me and my family, but I may let you off with losing a limb if you grovel and apologies”
“Jack please don’t do this and just apologies, its better then death! He is at the peak of level 30 and his guardsmen are all level 34. Sadly you don’t have a chance” Shana explained in a worried tone.
In fact the entire villagers pleaded that he just apologizes. Even though its their first time seeing Jack they did not want another death in the village especially someone who is “friends” with Shana.
Of course Jack didn’t listen, he already knew that Renald is powerful without being told his level but he honestly didn’t care. He needed something to take on his rage and four “strong” assholes was what he needed.
Jack concentrated his ice energy onto his fist causing them to freeze, making them a quarter of the ice rock that he was inside in terms of hardness. Unknowing to Jack, the ice he was in was so hard that people around level 80’s with all their might wouldn’t even cause a crack in the ice!
Jack charged towards Renald, clenching right fist, to attack him! Renald jumped backwards by pushing his right leg from the ground before Jack punch lands him.
Instead of hitting Renald, Jack punch collided with the ground causing the ground to crack in pieces to the point that even some of the rocks flew off from the ground. Everyone gasped in shock from Jack’s punch especially Renald, the guardsmen and Shana since they all thought Jack was around level 15 to 23 but the punched said otherwise.
In an instant to his punch, unfazed to what he did himself, Jack looked up from the ground and breathed cold mist straight of his view thus causing the ground to freeze in a sheet of ice. Unlucky for Renald this caused him to slip when he landed on the slippery floor, falling down on his backside.
Before Renald could react he saw Jack in the air pointing his right arm right at his face. Renald was terrified, when he saw Jack’s first punch cracking the ground into pieces, he knew if that landed it would have killed him or caused life threatening injuries. Now without any time to dodge, he was about to take the punch which is now increased in power as it acts alongside gravity straight to his face!
BOOM! More rocks flew out of the ground, with the ground being completely destroyed causing a small crater of a few feet. When the dust clears, everyone including the guardsmen were shocked to see a headless corpse with a burst of blood where the head used to be and an ice cold fist emitting cold energy from it…the headless corpse was Renald’s!
“Some level 30 he was hahaha!!!” Jack started to laugh again like a maniac, everyone around him felt scared of this stranger named Jack, even Shana had a little fear of him after seeing this.
“You will pay for the murder of Renald Cross!” The guardsmen shouted with anger and all of them got out of there horses to charge at Jack
“Bring it on, you will be joining this snob soon!” Jack shouted releasing a lot of killing intent at the guards. his right fist started to become even colder releasing cold mist that covered his entire fist.
“TIME TO DIE”
Jack charges…..
