False Hero - Chapter 167

It was early in the morning. So early that there was still half an hour for the sunrise. I walked outside of my room to the common hall of our dorm.

As I walked into the hall I saw that Walk was awake.

{Author: incase you don’t remember Walk is the name of the guy that took the exam with Grey. They live together in the same dorm.}

“Good morning, you are awake early?”

“Good morning, I usually train at this time,” answered Walk.

I walked towards the exit as I said “I see, then I will have a training partner. I have something to do outside, once I am done with it I will train along with you.”

Walking out of the dorm I saw that the sky was still dark. But the bird had already begun their sweet melody. It is a soothing sound to hear.

Closing my eyes I looked at the sky. The cold refreshing air hitting against my skin was truly calming. After a second I continued my walk.

At first, I thought that I would teleport to the grave but well I guess a morning walk wouldn’t be that bad. Walking through the academy I went through the second-year dorm, some of the lights were on.

I guess they were waking up early to train.

I saw a guy jogging past me. “Good morning!” he said and I replied with the same. That guy was a stranger to me but well that was nice of him.

At a distance, I saw a few people sparring at the common grounds. A professor was teaching a bunch of kids. I mean he wasn’t really teaching sessions, he was just sparring along with them.

The bald professor that was sparring with the kids was Shawn Meier, the son of sword king.

{Auhtor: By the way, sword and mana king belongs to the same family, the Meier family.}

He is the man that is in charge of the warrior house in our academy. He surely has a pretty serious-looking face.

As I was looking at him, he looked back and for some reason his face got irritated. “Hey kid, you are the son of Ranulf Hoffmann right?”

“Ah— yes,” I answered. The professor was standing at quite a distance and yet he nearly shouted to ask me that question.

Even from afar, I could say that the man’s face got even more irritated. He looked at me as he said “You better hope that you are not my student.”

I cupped my hand near my mouth so that he could clearly hear what I wanted to say “Too bad, I think I am your student!! well since I am from warrior class—- so looking forwards to learning a lot from you– professor.”

I heard him click his tongue as he said “Unlike your dad, you got some mouth.”

I didn’t reply with anything as I walked away as I waved them goodbye and for some reason, every single of them looked annoyed. Well, I clearly don’t know the reason for their annoyance so there is no point in thinking about it.

After a fifteen-minute walk, I reached the city graveyard. Walking through the gate, I entered the gate. I still don’t know where Lisa Blake is resting, but well I think I will have to look through each grave.

Looking around the grave I saw someone standing in the grave. it was a familiar guy, I walked towards him and hearing my footsteps he looked surprised.

“Good morning,” I said. The person who was seated there was

At first, he didn’t reply with anything but then he opened his mouth to ask “Here to visit someone?”

I crouched down to look at the grave of Lisa Blake as I said “I am here to visit her, Lisa Blake the greatest researcher that lived.”

He looked at me with even more surprise.

I kept looking at her grave as I said “Healing stone, an invention that saved countless lives in war and also outside the war. The list of her accomplishment is truly great but what I find greatest is that she was able to see things that others couldn’t”

He looked at me for a second before saying “Yeah— she was indeed the greatest. What was she for you?”

“She is nobody for me. I just came here since I admire the things that she wrote in the book, wanted to give her a visit.”

He looked back at the Grave as he said “You are a weird guy.”

“Huh? am I? —- by the way what was she for you?”

“She was my blood aunt.”

I looked at him in a little bit of surprise, I looked back at the grave. After a minute he opened his mouth asking “I am just acting like this since I don’t want my aunt to see the ugly side of me. I am visiting my aunt in the place of my mom since she can’t visit her right now. Honestly speaking, I hate you, Grey Hoffmann, you, and that April Mahine. I hate both of you. I hate the warrior class, I hope they just stop trying and let the strong ones like me take care of the rest of the things.”

Hearing the words that came out of him I couldn’t help but chuckle. “Reading the book of Lisa Blake. I got curious and researched more about her and her life. She wouldn’t just risk her body to do research, I mean she can but there had to be some sort of reason for it. When I asked professor Blake, he told me that she has a sister who is in a coma right now. The divinity in her sister’s body is corroding her body, so to save her sister she tried to research the divine.

Knowing that she is running out of time to save her sister. She used her own body in the research but that resulted in her own death. Even the invention of the healing stone was to preserve her sister’s body.” I looked at him as I continue to ask “That sister is your mother right?”

I got no answer in reply but that silence itself sounded like a yes.

“I am not aware of how your mother got divinity in her body but yeah—–”

Before I could say anything more. I heard a voice coming from behind us “Grey —— and Win, good morning.”

It was professor Blake. Behind him, the sky was getting bluer and bluer, so the sunrise will be soon.

“Good morning professor,” I responded so did Win.

The professor placed the flower that he brought near the grave. He sat there for a minute in silence, I think it was much more than a minute. But all three of us were there in silence.

But after some time Professor Blake opened his mouth asking “Why did you want to meet me here, Grey?”

There was a dry leaf that was falling from the tree. I flew in the air with the calm breeze before landing on my hand. I extended my hand to make it land on my palm.

I opened my mouth saying “I want your help.”

“My help?”

“I have something that I want to better use and maybe it would interest you. I think it would be greatly interesting. I will be honest with you professor. I have this ongoing enmity with gods and I think I will square up with one in the future.”

They had this look on this face that clearly said what this guy is talking about.

“Have you ever seen a god?” I asked.

“Yes, when I was I visited the Artemis nation. The ruling entity of the nation is a god, well I never got to meet the god but I have seen him. Those are the entities truly different from any mortal.” said Professor.

I continued  “I aim to kill entities like him. Not him in particular but yeah entities that are similar like him if not powerful. I have something that can help me to do it. Like poison kills poison, I have something that can kill gods, or at least that’s what I like to think. Of course, I have no fucking clue of how to use it. That’s why I need your help.”

With a confused look, Professor asked, “I still don’t understand what you need my help with?”

As the professor was saying that Win spoke “I will take my leave since I don’t have anything more to do.” he said as he started walking away

Extending my hand I said “This is the power that was given to me Ari, my friend. I want your help in understanding how to use it well since that asshole won’t teach me about how to use it, that damn demi-god.”

Gathering the divine energy in my hand. A while ball condensed in my hand, it was still and calm energy. The radiance of this energy was something that was a gorgeous thing to look at.

The sun had started rising and the sky was in a shade of orange.

I looked at the professor as I said “It’s sad that I couldn’t meet your wife earlier but I am now here in front of you. I am the answer that your wife was searching for.. I am a human that has divinity inside of him.”