Capítulo 69: Heroes

After making his preparations, Alex waited as Cao Cao rushed him. He brandished his spear and aimed directly at Alex's heart, only for Alex to use Ascalon to swiftly redirect it, and he sank his fist into Cao cao's stomach. The young hero nearly vomited blood from the impact of the hit, until Alex was forced to move back to avoid Sieg's attack. After using the brief pause to recover, the two looked at Alex, and readied themselves once more. Neither seemed to realize that they were steadily getting heavier.

As Alex fought the two at once, the flame serpents that he created were busying themselves with keeping the shadow monsters occupied. The shadow monsters would use moves they learned from fighting various factions, and shot beams of light at the serpents. The serpents however were made from flames, and would reform almost instantly from the fire around them.

From the limo everyone was dumbfounded from the fight, as Alex held back all the opponents singlehandedly. They watched as Seig and Cao Cao rushed him at once this time, and Rosswiesse felt a moment of terror as she watched their weapons sink into Alex's chest. She was about to scream, until she noticed that Alex didn't even seem to react from being stabbed. Then he seemed to fade, and everyone heard laughter above them.

"Hahaha, after image technique, I've always wanted to use that one. Taste this." His hands started glowing, as Alex then spammed ki blasts on the two on the ground. The two screw annoyed, and swung their weapons, effectively slicing apart the ki attacks or rendering them powerless. They were about to ready themselves for another attack, when,

After hearing that a great roar of flame descended on them, as Alex used dragon gods breath. They both jumped and tried to get out of the way, only to see most of the shadow monsters being destroyed, and the flame serpents growing even larger. Suddenly Cao Cao felt large amounts of ki going towards them, and swiftly used his spear to repel the next attack. They could only defend the large number of destructo disks flying at them, until they were destroyed by his spear once more or deflected to the surroundings.

"I'll have to thank you Cao Cao, you kindly provided this place for me to fight without worrying about the surroundings." Cao Cao was sweating at Alex's words, he excelled at close combat and hand to hand, but Alex was spamming long range and area of effect attacks one after. He then said to Seig,

"Let me fight him on my own." Seig was surprised to hear Cao cao's order, but still stepped back as Cao Cao rushed Alex once more. The two then engaged in a high speed duel of close combat, with Alex being in position where if Cao Cao got a direct stab with his spear then he was dead, and if he managed a good hit on Cao cao, then he'll be similarly defeated. Cao Cao was glad his deduction was correct, he noticed that Alex focused on area of effect attacks when he and Seig fought him at the same time.

His thought was that he could stand a chance at winning in close combat, but the fight was proving harder than he thought. Not only was he unable to hit Alex, he also felt as if he was getting heavier as the fight dragged on. Suddenly, it clicked. Cao Cao then fell back and said to his comrades,

"We're retreating, he's been increasing gravity so the longer this is dragged on the harder it is for us. Next time red dragon, we'll bring the rest of our forces. Until then." When Alex heard his words he swiftly dispelled the fire serpents, before finding himself back in the real world. He sighed at failing to actually beat them, and returned to the limo where Rosswiesse and Yasaka were waiting. As soon as he entered,

"Are you alright?!"

"That was quite the performance."

The two girls said, Rosswiesse was concerned for him while Yasaka complemented him on his fight. Alex smiled bitterly and said,

"I let them get away, but at least I drove them off. But I suppose I could've done worse against one whose among the strongest humans. But I suppose if he brought the rest of the Khaos brigade then I'll be in trouble. At least the second years are arriving tomorrow, and Serafall said something about backup, so the next time will be the last." Everyone was dumbfounded as it sounded like Alex was putting himself down for not beating them all singlehandedly, when he forced them all to retreat. As they were trying to make sense of him, Lauren suddenly said,

'Tell the truth, you were going easy on them. Your capabilities are a lot higher than Cao cao's, even if he's at the peak of humans.' Alex laughed mentally, and explained,

'He's studied martial arts all his life, I felt as if he's the one I could polish my technique against best. And I wasn't trying to kill him, maybe Seig, but not Cao Cao. Hell be necessary for the future, especially after I leave this world and others would probably come. The world would most likely need heroes then.' Lauren didn't say anything, as she recalled what she learned from the meeting. It was very likely that people would have similar goals as Alex, and would come here to attack and take those they want. If not then to terrorize the rest. Alex was right, the world would need people left behind to fight them. They would need heroes.