Final Dream and The Last Stand

10 Years passed in an instant. Red or Nong Min still lived in Novantura. He had already built a large and better house.

Red also build a large warehouse next to his house. He needed a bigger warehouse to have a reason where he put so many harvests.

As an apprentice God, he had enlarged his first planet. He had planted various common vegetables. Actually, he wanted to bring some animals inside. But Master Rabbink reminded him that he would reincarnate again. If he wanted those animals to survive, he needed to make an ecosystem. It wasn't something easy.

Novantura became a bit better after Red came. He shared some farming techniques with the villagers. Red also shared Master's Rabbink perfected rice seeds with the villagers. The alliances even agreed to come to the village to purchase. This drove those low purchasing merchants out of this village.

This didn't create trouble since even the biggest landlord didn't dare to compete with the alliance.

Red couldn't wait for today. After saving for 10 years, he finally got some money to buy his dream buffalo.

[Nong Min really wanted this buffalo.] He smiled.

He actually had enough money 6 years ago, but a big flood happened in the region. Red got a Special Mission to help the villagers.

From the mission, he got a special energy that Master Rabbink said would be useful later. It was kept by Master Rabbink for his next reincarnation. He believed it would be useful. Besides Red was Nong Min. Nong Min wouldn't allow his family to suffer because of the flood.

2 hours later at the village entrance.

A small squad brought a large and healthy buffalo. They were from Heaven Thunder Merchant Association. The special paddy rice from Novantura had been famous in the area. The cultivators in the area would only eat rice made from Novantura's grains.

This made the village and especially Red become important in the association eyes.

"This is your buffalo, Nong Min." The fat attendant had become a manager. He personally came to deliver this buffalo to Nong Min.

[Lv 1 Mission: Get a buffalo.]

[Mission Completed]

[User got 10.000 Destiny Energy.]

"Thank you for your alliance service." Red said pleasantry.

"It is a good business with you, Nong Min." The fat manager laughed.

They spoke some small talks for a while before the group returned to the city. Red couldn't wait to try this demon beast. He brought it to his farm and used the portal to enter his universe.

[A new species of Buffalo-Type Demon Beast detected.]

[Earth Grinding Buffalo added to the Summon Demon Beast.]

Red didn't know it would be this easy. The next time, he summoned a demon beast from his core. He could summon this buffalo. Red actually could summon a rabbink, but a rabbink could clean all his fields. A single rabbink was even worse than a pack of rats.

Life turned even better for Nong Min. 2 months after he obtained the buffalo, he was training under a waterfall on top a stone. Red stood in a horse stance position, both his hands punched forward to against the falling water.

"Hua!" He punched.

"Hua!" He threw another punch.

Red personally designed this practice method after he found this waterfall. He practiced this to increase his lower body and his arm strength. It was challenging the physical boundary to its limit. This training was human versus nature. During this battle, as always, it was nature who would always win.

"Eugh!!! Splash!!!" Red fall into the river.

"Hah hah hah hah…" Red felt tired. He had practiced his body to the maximum, but on the other hand, his body also started to deteriorate because of age. It was the battle of cultivators, between getting into a new stage and to die of old age.

[Eh?] Red finally found his lost sense. He could feel the spiritual energy again. [I am a Primary 0-Star cultivator right now.] He felt happy. Finally, he managed to reach his reincarnation's goal.

"Congratulations Nong Min or Red Everflame!" Master Rabbink appeared. It rarely spoke to Red and played by itself with local beasts in the forest during his training. Sometimes Master Rabbink came to the city and stole some foods. Master Rabbink lived a happy and relaxing life similar to Nong Min.

"Thank you, Master. What should I do now?"

"You can enjoy your life until the old age." Master Rabbink smiled. "You can do what you wished."

"Or you can do your last mission. Which would you choose?" Master Rabbink seriously said.

[Special Mission Unlocked.]

[Lv 1 Special Mission: Protect the Villager from A Demon Beast.]

[Mission Reward: Master Rabbink will help to fulfill your next reincarnation's dreams.]

[Mission Description: Congratulations on reaching your goals, Nong Min! Congratulations for finally becoming cultivator again, Red! The thread of destiny calling a warrior. A demon beast would appear in your village. Will you fight to protect it? Will you bet your life for your neighbor? Your family?]

Red saw the mission. His facial expression turned sour.

[Do you want to accept? This mission will disappear in 30 seconds.]

"I do." Red didn't need to think. Nong Min would accept it. While he didn't need the help since he believed he could reach it himself, he knew he wanted to do this.

[Mission accepted.]

"Whether you will fail or not, you have passed the challenge. It is the time for me to go. Until we meet again Nong Min." Master Rabbink disappeared.

Red nodded. He used the portal to return to his universe. He knew this might be his last mission in his life. Since he became Nong Min, he really loved this village. It was the simple life that he dreamed. It was peaceful and relaxing.

Yet, in the end, to protect that, one really needed power. He finally had some power, right now.

It was the time to use this power.

He appeared in his room. There was a roar heard outside his home.

"Groaaar!!!"

"It must be the demon beast." Nong Min took a weapon. It was a short saber which he used for protection in the forest. He purchased it for 1 gold coin in the city a few years ago.

Red came outside and saw the beast. It was 5-meter-long and 2-meter-tall tiger-type demon beast. Its white fur and black stripes showed a magnificent power, the king of the jungle. Some healthy villagers still tried to defend the village.

Red saw Xi San went outside her house. "Nong Min, I couldn't see my daughter." She looked very stressed.

"Just run into the jungle first! She might already be in a safe place. I will search for her in the village."

"Yes." Xi San started to run.

Her husband died because of a beast attack 5 years ago. She lived with her daughter alone. During this time, Red often gave a lot of support for her. Red had already treated the daughter as his family members. Perhaps, that was to remove the loneliness on Nong Min's heart.

Red went into the village looking for Xi San's daughter.

What he was afraid of happened. He saw an unconscious body of a young kid. The young kid was Xi San's daughter. She got a slash from the tiger.

Red was a 10-star doctor and also a 10-star pharmacist. He quickly applied some medicines to the kid. It was an emergency treatment.

"Bring her to outside the village!" He asked a running villager. "I will stop the Tiger."

The villager stopped and saw it was Nong Min. Everybody in the village already knew that Nong Min was the most powerful man in the village.

He had practiced martial arts in the last 10 years. He also had repelled a demon beast one year ago.

"Yes." The villager carried Xi San's daughter.

[Good bye.]

[Eh?] Red didn't know, but why he seemed to cry.

He took his weapon and saw some villagers already started to get more injured. Their weak battle power couldn't contain the demon beast.

Red was no longer an Arch God. He used to kill this weak demon beast with just a thought.

His current method was to use his martial art. He could only use a tiny bit of spiritual energy since he was just a 0-star cultivator. However, there were many martial arts on his mind that could be used without spiritual energy. He had already mastered them, it only his body couldn't perform them as well as his mind wanted.

He used a saber movement with his weapon. Red tried to jump into the beast and slashed it.

However, the beast was an agility type. It jumped when Red tried to attack. Yet, the attack afforded some valuable time. Some villagers managed to stand and recover their weak position. They surrounded the beast again. The villagers only left a small space for it to return to the jungle. It was the other direction that the running villagers.

"We can defeat it!" Red made the people stood together.

"Yes." All shouted. They had defeated several demon beasts under Nong Min's guidance.

[This beast is a Top 0-star demon beast] Personally, Red doubted his chance.

Red used another saber movement that he had learned a long time ago.

"Dragon Ascending Combination!" He screamed and went into the battle. He made a horizontal wide slash.

However, the beast was strong. The beast avoided Red's attack. It ran, circled, and attacked the other guards.

"Ahhh!!!" A guard screamed. The beast managed to bite his hand.

Red continued his attack, while the beast enjoyed his bites. The saber power came from the slash, it had to be domineering and powerful. Red had tempered Nong Min's body to the maximum. He could feel the muscle on his arm tightening with power.

He made a high jump and chopped the beast's body.

"Groarr!!!" The beast finally realized this human could hurt him. It needed to be focused.

"Nong Min could hurt him!" The other men were happy.

"Follow him!" The other men tried to help Red.

Red knew it was impossible. The other men couldn't damage the Tiger. It was the difference between a demon beast and common people.

While it was only 0-star demon beast, it had tempered its body with spiritual energy.

"We could only buy time!" Red said. He made a jump to avoid the tiger charge. He had become the focus of this demon beast.

"The injured should run with the other villagers." He declared. Red had to block some attacks for the injured people. They couldn't move as fast as they used to be.

"What about you?" The people knew they could only delay. They helped by becoming a target while Nong Min attacked it. If they could, all would try to run. Yet they knew if they ran, their families would be attacked. This was their village. It was their home. It was their family.

"We should try to save as many people as possible." Red had already prepared for his last stand.

"Go!" Red jumped into the demon beast again. He slashed, slashed, and slashed. He needed to maintain the momentum. He knew that a battle was a fight to maintain momentum.

The beast was also smart. It knew it couldn't easily defeat Red, while the other humans were weak. The other human couldn't hurt him. Nevertheless, their attacks would be dangerous if those attacks directed to its weakness.

The tiger decided to attack the other humans. It used its agility and charged into the weak humans.

"Gah!!!"

"Ahhh!"

"Help!!!"

3 people were hit by his sudden attack. A big beast like this tiger could deal a great amount of damage with just its charge.

Soon the tiger started to hunt the villagers one by one. There was no one left besides Red and an injured person.

"You should go too." Red said.

"I couldn't leave you alone, Red."

"I believe the elderly and women already left some distance away. They should be safe." Red said.

Red raised his saber and looked deeply into the beast.

"Go!!!" He jumped and used his martial arts. While Red was weaker than the demon beast, his experience was there. He also used the best martial arts that he could use at this level.

"Roarrrrr!!!" The beast felt happy, it had managed to remove all noisy human and could fight with this powerful human.

The beast had already imagined the power it could receive after eating this human. Of course, the tiger needed to trade those flies with some injuries on its body. During its attack, Red always chose to deal the most injuring attacks to the beast.

"Do you want to eat me? It is not easy." Red smiled. Ever since he was just a mortal bird, he always fought the hardest.

"You should prepare to see the spirit of an Arch God." Red started he had tried to gather as much energy as possible from the air.

"Shadows Steps!" Red suddenly disappear. This was a movement technique that used a small amount of spiritual energy. It could allow Red to move very fast in a short distance.

"Roarrrrr!!!"

Red managed to injure the Tiger's left eye. The Tiger started to scratch everywhere. It was very painful for it.

Red dodged by rolling backward.

"Roar!!!" The tiger finally used its ability. Demon beasts had inherited knowledge in their minds. They could learn strong abilities from it.

A huge claw appeared above the tiger. It was directed to Red.

Red tried to side roll to the left, however, he got the blast of the attack.

[There is a difference.] Red had to admit. He had used all his power and stamina. He felt all his body was painful.

[Red! Call me!]

Red heard a familiar voice.

"Flame, is that you?" Red felt happy. This was the same flame that had accompanied him to the peak.

[Yes. I am still weak. I only could help you to deal 1 attack. Remember this will cost you, your life flame!]

"I am Red Everflame." Red stood. He raised his saber and pointed to the Tiger. "I am never afraid. I will fight until the end. The ever in my name will show that I will always return and back, stronger than ever."

[Good.]

"Heaaaa!!!" Red said his battle cry. He threw the saber into the incoming beast. This made the beast needed to jump to its side.

"Taste the power of Eternal Flame!" A flaming sword appeared in Red's right hand. It was Red's life sword.

"My soul! My life! My spirit! The Everflame." He slashed the sword into the beast. A huge flame sword materialized. It followed the fall of the flaming sword in Red's hand.

"Booooommmmmmmmmm!"

A huge shockwave appeared in the village. The villager who had run into the mountain looked back into their village. They couldn't avoid looking because the voice was very loud. It was like the heaven turned angry.

"Nong Min!!!" Xi San looked into the village.

Xi San had reunited with her unconscious daughter. From other villagers, she knew Red still fought in the village with the tiger.

"Is Nong Min still in the village?" The village elder asked.

"Yes, he is the last man. He told me to escape here." The second last man told the elder.

"We have to help him!" Some villagers said.

"Yes, the village is our home."

"We didn't have anywhere else to run."

"Who is coming back with me?" An injured person asked. "A big demon beast like this could eat the entire village and still feel hungry."

"I am…"

"I am…"

"Let's go back! We will die fighting." The village elder said. "The woman should run into the city. We don't know whether you could make it, but we will delay the beast."

The woman and kids started to cry.

"We are the hero of our family. Protecting you is my duty. Promise father to protect your mother and sister!" A man hugged his family. He asked his son.

The son could only cry and nod to the request of his father. Men in this world born brave and women born strong. The man looked into his wife and smiled. The wife cried but gave a gaze full of assurance. She would raise and protect his children well.

Similar events happened to other men. They all ran back into the village as a hero. The men needed to buy time.

However, what they saw in the village would make those brave men cried.

Nong Min died protecting the village.

The final attack used Red's entire fire of life. However, he died standing while his empty hand raised to a carcass of a dead tiger. The last attack of Nong Min cleaved the beast into 2.

"He is our hero." A man said.

"He is our brother."

"He is our family."

"He is our Nong Min."

[Lv 1 Special Mission: Protect the Villager from A Demon Beast.]

[Special Mission Completed]

[Master Rabbink will help to fulfill your next reincarnation's dreams.]