[Empty Town]

Hero, what is a hero? A hero is a real person or a main fictional character who, in the face of danger, combats adversity through feats of ingenuity, courage, or strength. The original hero type of classical epics did such things for the sake of glory and honor. However, such as in war situations, what is good for others will always divide opinion into opposing camps. Outside of the standard dashing war portraits of men/women facing the gates of Hell, the most heroic are often the most ordinary of people doing ordinary things for a greater humane purpose. From that point on the word hero will be tested by the world.

Becoming a hero is a unique occurrence that happens in times of need. No matter what gender or race the hero will always be the representative of the world to protect it from absolute evil. The hero was not meant for hu8manity but rather for the world itself. Additionally a hero can be defined as the real hero at the time of its greatest challenge, when one is put to the test, the hero will awaken.

In this moment Hero Sato is awakening his title as his power soared and temporarily stepped into the realm of the gods. With bright glowing eyes looking at his target, Hero Sato slashed down his attack as the attack that was in the realm of the gods obliterated the almagation of vengeful spirit. In just one attack both the earth and the sky was split open, as the hero's power dissipates into its original causing Hero Sato's sword to be vaporized and him losing consciousness. The last thing he saw was his classmates running towards him and Asagi giving him a curious look.

The moment he lost consciousness, all thing around hero Sato turned dark as he was left alone in this void of emptiness. In that moment, Hero Sato heard a female like voice coming from the darkness itself as it voiced out this specific words.

(First trial of the hero)

(Activating hero's sympathy)

(Re-enacting the trauma of the fallen)

In that moment a sudden sensation swallowed him whole as he was forced to experience the trauma of the people he killed. All of this while he was unconscious and his state of being was being tested. Naturally Asagi knew what's happening towards hero Sato as she used her system to probed the hero himself.

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Error!!!

Hero is undergoing the first trial, Cannot interfere!

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Seeing that the system can't even interfere with such event, Asagi then left the hero aside as she looked at the huge gorge that Hero Sato has created.

"That power... it has stepped on the realm of the gods didn't it?" asked by Asagi

"Yes your majesty! but it seems like the hero still cant control the power he wield" said by Jophiel

"He's wielding it like a toddler! there is no mastery in its movement" commented by Azrael

"I see... he has a great potential but lacking in experience... by the way i'm just curious, no need to be offended, but can you guys handle the hero if he managed to wield that power skillfully?" asked by Asagi

Hearing her question, both Jophiel and Azrael looked at each other for a moment before answering her question.

"We can! a human potential can only reach such height but never can go against the true divine" said by Azrael

"His feat is nothing but child's play, each and every single of of the archangels can destroy this world if we come in full power, the only reason why we seemed to be struggling against the creatures of this world is because we heavily suppress our power to the point that this world can only handle. This world can't hold us" said by  Jophiel truthfully

"Wait! you spoke of true divine? what do you mean?" 

The moment Asagi asked this questions, Azrael contemplated for a bit before answering.

"Your majesty! you know how there are multiple religion in the world right?"

The moment Azrael said this, Asagi thought back on the situation of earth. There are nearly 4,000 recognized faiths around the earth. However, almost 75 percent of the people follow one of the five main faiths which include Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. each religion go against one another, defaming the opposition, destroying their reputation, and even resulting to debates that are pure one sided coming from the pastor who does not know listen and twist the other religion. Through that, the modern holy war started between the believers as each religion tried to pull in people into their faith no matter what they may sacrifice.

"As there are multiple religion, there would naturally be a war of beliefs that proclaims their own religion is true. Some spokes of facts based on the record, some spoke of gibberish by their limited understanding... as long as there are religion in this world, there would naturally be a divine beings who are born from the faith of their believers"

"Wait! I thought there is no god in this world?"

"There isn't! but no one said there cant be other divine beings in this world"

As Asagi and Azrael exchanged words, she then thought for a bit as she turned towards the hero and all his classmates that are surrounding him. before coming in a decision.

"This is a mess, i cant handle this big of a group! prepare to depart! we are returning... also arranged a transmitted meeting with the other leaders... i cant possibly babysit all 30 of them... i'm not a nanny! i'm a freaking queen"

Hearing her words that contains slight dissatisfaction, the archangel begun following her orders as they gathered up everyone and Asagi using her spells to cast a wide teleportation for the whole group. In fact Asagi hated this spell since the preparation for such massive teleportation is so troublesome, so as much as possible she doesn't want to use such spell ever in this lifetime. Unfortunately the circumstances doesn't permit her as he was forced to prepare such a massive spell.

Under one spell, everyone in the town disappeared as they all got teleported at the front yard of the white castle.

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[White Castle]

Located at the throne room itself, Asagi is currently on a transmission meeting with the kings, queens, and representative of various nations and lands. In fact this was an emergency meeting itself, after all Asagi had enough looking after the hero and his whole class. This was the western land, Asagi literally does not know what danger lurks within this land and the last thing she would ask for in this type of situation are a huge group of people who only wanted to enjoy and tour the whole world.

Truth be said, there is nothing wrong with that at all. The hero and all of his classmates have their own rights to explore this world, however as Asagi ventures deeper into this world and further involves herself with the mission given to her by the beings that put her into this world, she realizes that the situation just kept getting dire as she goes on.

So for the safety of everyone she hope to only involve  a small group of people to her exploration of the western land rather than a whole bunch of them who acted as if their in a field trip.

The moment the screens lit up and kicks in, Queen Celestia immediately noticed Asagi's condition, as Pope Michael quickly followed her words.

"Woah! Your quite stressed"

"Oh holy one! What bothers you so much that it causes you stress?"

Hearing all those words from the people who put her in such situation, Asagi then frankly gave her thoughts without withholding any thoughts that makes her annoyed.

"The hero and his class are a handful... They are like children, in fact they dont even know coordinated attacks and just attacks as if their spamming their power... There is no skill within them... Just how did you guys nurture them?"

As Asagi said that, she quickly looked towards the Orboume's kingdom King and Queen.

"Um abou-"

But before the king of the Orboume kingdom could explain his side of the story, Asagi quickly cuts him off as she said.

"Wait! Wait! Wait! You dont have to tell me, i already remembered it... You guys assigned some guards or people to help them in their hunt and adventuring... All to sake of letting them experience killing another living being themselves... In other words carry!"

"Carrying" is a term used in team games where one person wins the match for everyone else. Basically, the rest of the team was either useless or just played a supporting role to the one person who "carried" the team. In this sense the carry refers to the people who actually fought the monsters and the whole class are just people who they let to take the last hit.

"They are good and strong! I admit that... But they dont have discipline and skills to match their power. They're basically like a child who wields an unknown gun.... What i am doing here in the western land is not a joke, it is dangerous here and yet these guys act as if they were sightseeing... I cant possibly handle all of them at most i can only take care of five individual"

"Five? Then what would happen to the others?" Asked by emperor Rusch as he seemingly gathered his courage to speak up and ask that question

"The remaining 25 individuals? I was expecting you guys to help me out"

Hearing her words, everyone knew what's up, as they realized that making Asagi be responsible for the whole group, just gave her more stress, and this time she couldn't help it anymore as she begun to complain

"Alright! I can help you... Just send me some people who are mages in the group" said by Albion

"If thats the case, then just send the priest, priestess towards us! We need all the help for the upcoming event" said by Pope Michael

"Ill help too... Just send me all the people who didnt get pick on which side they would go" said by Queen Celestia

With that, Asagi's load had been lessened, as she was left with 5 individuals who she can manage easily

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While the meeting was still on going, Hero Sato is currently lying in one of the bed in the white castle, as he is currently being hunted by the nightmares in the dark.

Nightmares in particular are "dreams that are often connected to unresolved anxiety and trauma that our brain has not fully worked through. In this case since the trauma of the fallen was being shown to him, it will then be hard to break through this if one doesn't have a strong will.

In fact nightmares are quite a dangerous phenomenon, after all there is already a record back on earth of a person dying after having a nightmare. So in this case as long as hero sato doesn't give in, he wouldn't die a pathetic death.

While all of that is happening outside, hero Sato repeatedly tried to survive the first trial as he experienced the trauma of all the victims of the towns deserted ness. He was slowly going crazy as he held on and even tried changing their fate. Unfortunately even he a hero cant change what was done. At some point he somehow vomited as he saw the cruelty of man to their own kind and the massacre of the whole town. In fact he could clearly felt their desperation, despair, fear, and anger, the longer he interacts with them.

With that he experienced pain over and over again which almost shattered his will, until a single sound had popped into his ear and snapped him back to reality.

(The first trial has been accomplished)

(Unlocking the potential of the hero)

(10% => 20%)

After that was said for what seems like the voice of the world, the hero then finally woke up with tears in his eyes.

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