As the roars starts getting closer to the crowd, Astaria immediately turned around and shouts, her sole order spreading across all the people in the battlefield, their eyes trembling as they also never expected that this being, with stories used to scare children to sleep, will wake up during their days of defending the city, this realization making some of them tremble in fear while holding their weapons more tightly than ever before.
The land trembles and the earth shatters,
Even the skies shakes as it moves closer,
All of the world’s attention will focus on its wake,
The time when the hero’s life, will go into forsake,
Oh brave warriors, with their stories unsung,
In front of this calamity, what they amount to is none,
As the only thing that can stop its rampaging,
Is the blood of the hero, that will force it into sleeping.
As everyone recalls the old passage that nearly all of the household tell their children, the people of the Frontier City all involuntarily look at the valiant figure standing at the very front of them, riding a horse while holding her guandao, unmoving as she looks at the already shaking chasm that they just previously blocked.
“What are you gawking at for!?? Hurry up and return to the city!!!Don’t waste any second here anymore!!!” with the ground starting to tremble, signaling the approach of the terrifying creature, Astaria waves her free hand again, pointing to the walls of the Frontier City while staying still on her place, as if telling all of the people that she will remain here.
The stronger people were even unwilling to follow her instructions, deciding to throw themselves to the fire and sacrificing themselves if it means that they can sacrifice their lives and seal that calamity in exchange for saving the City Lord’s life, but the determination in her eyes warded them of from trying to do so.
As they helplessly return to the city, the heroic figure starts talking to herself, muttering that she’s meant to do this and there’s nothing she can do to prevent this result, as that beast is far more terrifying than anything she had ever encountered before.
Looking at her who’s currently cleaning the guandao, Wu Xiaotian watches in interest as he also recalls the passage that he heard from the people of the city, initially passing it off as some kind of telltale or legend, only connecting the dots now as the [Incomplete Physique] previously displayed in her information finally reveals itself.
[Name: Astaria Seraphina]
[Age: 28]
[Affiliation: Frontier City (City Lord)]
[Cultivation: Perfection State Qi Refining Realm]
[Physique: Eternal Hero’s Battle Physique]
[Qi: Purple Origin Qi]
[Stats]
[Strength: 250,000]
[Agility: 240,000]
[Intelligence: 260,000]
[Stamina: 250,000]
[Vitality: 300,000]
[Aptitude: High Quality Celestial Level]
Looking at her current stats, Wu Xiaotian couldn’t help but admire her strength, reaching a state far beyond that of what normal genius from his planet could reach, entering the realm of geniuses with strength similar to that of Wang Sheng and Huo Chen despite being born without any proper cultivation guidance in a planet like this.
With the lady preoccupied by the thoughts of what probably is her last moments in her mind, she fails to realize that the immortal-like young man that disappears into nowhere previously is standing beside her now, only snapping back into herself as she heard his familiar, deep and masculine voice while he looks at the trembling chasm.
“Hero huh… what an absurd word…” he said more to himself than to the lady beside him as he recalls his time on Earth, living more for the sake of others as he works selflessly for the better of the world, placing nearly everything that he’s earning to the orphanage he’s in.
Despite living the life of a mercenary, receiving money for every job he did, he could truly be considered a hero back then as he only did job related to hindering or possibly even destroying evil groups, something that changed now as even if he’s still someone with clean conscience, he no longer puts the world into consideration as there’s already people that weights more than the entire world to him.
“Say, Miss Astaria, are you doing it because the people important to you need it, or are you doing it to prove something to the world?
Something like ‘Frontier City defends the entire world against the brutal beast waves of the Blood Beast Mountains and everyone must respect its citizen'” Wu Xiaotian asked in a curious voice as he held the reign of the horse, the wild horse that never approaches anyone other than Astaria calmly rubbing its nose on his hand, the creature complying as he asks it to move the lady down on its back.
As the lady goes down the horse, he pointed towards the Frontier City, causing the horse to move towards the walls of the city while the two of them stares at the chasm shaking more and more, her answer to his previous question only coming out of her mouth now.
“All my life I thought that I was doing this out of duty, as it is the role of every person in my family to return the Calamity Beast to sleep with our own life and blood” Astaria stated before turning her gaze back, taking a good look at the city behind them before she goes back to her explanation again.
“Then I grow older, saw everything this city has to offer, I grew fonder of my subjects, now I want to defend them with all I got, even if it means sacrificing my life in the process, something I know all of them will do in order to save me as well… something that I will never allow to happen” she said more like an affirmation to herself rather than an explanation towards the young man she’s talking to.
“Do you know? When my mother and father was dealing with the Calamity Beast, I never cried when I saw them being eaten whole by that thing, as it is clear from the pride in their face that they’re happy with the outcome of their battle…” she paused for a bit to pull herself together, trying her best not to cry before she continues.
“The only regret I saw in their eyes is when they look at me during their last moments, they look at me with a helpless smile as if they’re telling me that they wish they could be together with me for a so much longer”
As she tells the young man bits of her story, the looks on her face remains serious, with the only trace of her sadness being her now slightly red eyes, the reflection of the light from the surrounding also highlighting the fact that the eyes of the lady are now watery, the water starting to affect her vision as it blurs her eyes.
“You can fight along with your people more, even after this you know? There’s so much more you need to do, and you’re not going to die here anyways” Wu Xiaotian declares while handing a clean cloth to the lady, asking her to use it to wipe her tears as he moves in front of her, walking steadily towards the chasm trembling from every step whatever is coming from the other side takes.
“What are you trying to do?” the once valiant-looking lady asked with a puzzled and helpless look on her face, staring blankly at the back of the young man in front of her.
“I told you before, right? I’ll show this world what I am capable of” the immortal-like young man said as he steps on air again, walking higher and higher until he reaches the peak of the landmass separated by the chasm, standing there calmly while waiting for the arrival of the Calamity Beast.