Hero Creator: The Last Hero
Ch. 13 — Sturdy Mountain

The battlefield full of destruction, the blood-soaking and boundless fear of corpses as well as the living shattered into blue light grains, instantly freezing in silence.

Leaving behind the loud roar of the Ape King, all who saw were amazed by the corpse of the dragon lying weakly on its feet.

“Is this ... It's over?” Evankhell who now had a wound on his chest stared in disbelief.

Even the dragons from different sides stopped their fight, realizing that the strongest dragon among their people had been defeated.

It is good news for those who want to liberate their people and those who want to be free but bad news for those who support Acnologia to dominate the world.

“Huh ... Thank goodness it's over. Although it is unfortunate we do not help much.” Leo fell to the ground and leaned against Garfiel.

“Yea, at least we have the achievement of successfully killing the earth dragon.” Garfiel forced a smile even though moving her face alone could trigger pain.

Leo was neither proud nor happy, in fact they did not actually kill the earth dragon because at times when they thought they were about to defeat him, the earth dragon behaved strangely with its body enlarged.

Leo thought that the earth dragon was definitely intending to make a transformation or the like but before it actually happened, the earth dragon turned into a bluish light particle and flew towards a place that was believed to be the main battle spot.

“A pride that we actually managed to survive in this battlefield, even my abilities increased significantly from the real fight.” Leo looked at his hand which was now filled with calluses.

!!!

A great tremor ensued, leading Garfiel and Leo to realize that the battle was not yet over, and that there were still enough powerful enemies to survive.

“What is this vibration ... My feeling is not good.” Leo thought that the vibration was not natural.

It would be good if it was indeed a pure earthquake of nature. But in the midst of a war that can destroy land, it seems impossible that the earthquake came from nature. Obviously not an ordinary earthquake, but something caused by a hard impact or something else.

“It's bad, Leo ... My instincts screamed very loudly and asked me to run away!” Garfiel started to sweat coldly.

Throughout his life, from the entire life and death fight in Darkness, not once did Garfiel feel the feeling he was feeling right now.

It felt really suffocating, his body really wanted to follow his honed instinct to leave this place as far as possible.

‘My installation cannot be wrong .. it will never be wrong. Something must have really happened.’ Garfiel started to rack his brain.

He's not very good at the brain, but at least it's better than not thinking about anything. If his guess was not wrong, the tremor came from a fierce power that was raging violently.

“I don't know who this is. But from the looks of it, a figure who can make this kind of vibration can be counted as a finger.” Leo had the same thought as Garfiel.

As Garfiel's face deteriorated, he could think of the one figure he thought was most likely to do something like this.

With doubt Garfiel revealed the figure he thought of, “Could it be ... the leader of the dragons, Acnologia who did this?”

Leo neither refused nor agreed. Leo agreed that Acnologia could certainly cause an earthquake of that class. After all Acnologia was a dragon capable of subduing its race and making their slaves.

Everyone certainly knows the actions of the dragon of disaster, because he was the one who caused the war so that the dragon race was almost extinct in the war.

“I myself do not know. In addition to Acnologia, there are still Fairy Queens, fathers and other Heroes clearly capable of doing so.” Leo pulled Kusanagi from his scabbard and placed the God Sword on his back.

“For now let's get to the main battle, my hunch says to get there.” Leo cleaned the dust that was stuck on his clothes.

Garfiel rose, “True too, although I wanted to run away to survive but as a man I didn't want to tarnish my pride.”

“If you are unable to fight anymore, please return to Region.” Leo smiled and mocked Garfiel.

“Hah? You insulted me? Escaping in battle is the same as death. My father always taught me about it, besides ..” Garfiel looked at the sky and smiled, “How could I leave the person who became my savior and my brother?”

Leo replied with a smile, “Then be good.”

He was grateful in his heart that he had a friend like Garfiel. Without needing to waste much more time, they hurriedly dashed towards the main battleground.

Often they find dragons in the Acnologia stronghold fighting with the Red stronghold dragons fighting great. Leo and Garfiel were unable to provide much help so they chose to avoid their fight.

In the middle of the road, a bright light of whiteness shone brightly from the place they were heading. Garfiel and Leo had seen him once and would not be able to forget him.

“That must have been Uncle Gahdevi's change! Something really happened, let's hurry faster!” Leo is in a hurry.

He knew his worries would be useless. But still he was worried about Rigel's situation. The reason chose to hurry faster because he wanted to know the condition of Rigel, a figure who was like a father to him.

‘I know dad is very strong, even a lot of his strength he hasn't shown yet. I'm sure he's fine.’ Leo convinced himself.

Garfiel on the other hand just silently glanced at Leo. Garfiel knew clearly that Leo was worried about Rigel, engraved clearly from his face.

Even so Garfiel did not intend to say irresponsible words. Even if Rigel is strong, that doesn't mean he's the strongest. Even while escaping from Darkness he was injured thanks to a great attack. However, Garfiel has one thing that can be ascertained directly.

“I don't know what's going on there. However, I believe that Mr. Rigel is still alive. He is not a fragile stone, but a solid mountain.” Garfiel patted Leo's shoulder.

Leo looked at Garfiel's confident face. Confidence is increasingly contagious to Leo who realized that it is not appropriate to worry about others in situations like this.

“You're right. Father is not a weak man who will fall at the hands of a lizard, father is a figure who will destroy lizard without rest.” Leo smiled confidently.

Although there were still doubts about his own words, for now he would choose to focus on the battle that was already in front of him.

“Thank you, Garfiel. Now let us devote all this strength and life to destroying the enemy before us!” Leo moved faster.

The rumbling from the loud impact could already be heard, Garfiel did nothing but pray in his heart.

‘If this is the last time I breathe, please take care of my brother, Hero.’ Garfiel did not pray to Rigel or any other Hero.

She prayed to the figure of ‘Hero’ who will protect her brother. Whether it was the man who would become his brother's husband or a donkey, as long as his figure protected his brother, for Garfiel such a figure was a Hero.