Six Heroes

[A/N : I've been receiving much power stones lately, so I decided to make the chapter a bit longer.

Also, I tried changing a little bit of my writing style.

Since english is not my first language (like what I wrote in the synopsis), there's a possibility that there are some grammar mistakes written in this chapter... I apologize for that.

Anyway, thanks for reading and enjoy.]

[ Timer left : 00M : 05D : 12H : 14M : 56S ]

After stepping inside the chapel, Persia was immediately greeted by few people wearing an armour that covers their whole body. They were none other than the members of the infamous Paladin Brigade that was formed by the Eastern Church, Indiges.

Persia gave them a nod, and the paladins lowered their heads and pointed their swords to the statue of a man, holding what seems to be a small sun in his hands, in synchronizing manner before going back to their position.

Without saying anything, she walked towards the room.

Persia took her time looking around the place for a little bit. The whole size of the room was almost around the same as the football field. There were pillars with an unfamiliar patterns drawn that leads around the statue. Above, there was a painting of a man reaching out his hand towards an angel.

"Woah..."

Seeing the painting above her, Persia couldn't help but look at it with marveled eyes. It was the first time for her to enter this church. Usually, since her Kingdom was near North, she occasionally visit the Northern Cathedral City, Invictus, the City of the named God, Sol Invictus.

When she was only a few meters away from the statue, Persia stopped walking and took a brief look at it. The moment her eyes caught on to the statue, she felt awe and amazement to the person who managed to create this beautiful piece of art. That person must've been talented for him to create beauty such as this.

"My my, did you perhaps liked what you're seeing, Princess?" She suddenly heard a man spoke in a playful tone. Persia turned her head to the direction of where the voice came from, and the moment she saw a boy that looked to be the same age as her, her expression turned surprised.

"Are you perhaps the overseer...? I know that person was supposed to be young, but I didn't expect him to be the same age as me." She mumbled to herself. This place was supposed to be sacred. Meaning, the people that was inside here must've either have a powerful background or powerful themselves. There's no way that they'll let someone inside without having those two options.

Clasping his hands, the boy smiled gently and replied, "You are correct. I am indeed the person who take care of this place. You can call me by my name, Naht Vilicus Veritas, or just Naht for short."

The boy who claimed himself to be Naht stopped walking and looked at her in the eyes calmly. Persia wasn't sure why, but for some unknown reason, she felt comfortable as if she was safe from something she didn't know that existed.

"....."

Persia didn't say anything and only went silent. She wasn't cautious about the boy's appearance, since she was informed that every Overseers of each Churches was powerful enough to rival the heroes existed from the previous era.

Though, that doesn't mean she was not curious about their existence. Why would hero exist in the first place if the Overseers already existed?

"Hmm, you seemed to be curious." As if reading her thoughts, Naht spoke as he turned his head to face the statue.

"Let me tell you one of the secrets of this world, Princess," Said Naht, clapping his hands one time. He seems to be interested for some reason at the wariness she was making on her expression. It was the first time someone had ever shown any kind of doubt to him, and he was actually happy about this.

"According to the past records, there are actually six heroes existed from the past era. Each of those heroes has the power that can bend realities at their own will, being able to rival Gods, Demon Kings, Demon Lords, and people from another world or universes."

When Persia heard the word 'another world or universes', she became confused.

Before she could even ask a question about this, Naht continued, "It is like what I said them to be. Those people existed from another universes that's completely different from ours. Their world, foods, culture, and races. Some things that even we could not bare to imagine could probably exist in their world. Isn't that amazing!?" Naht widened out his arms as his composed expression from earlier disappeared. Seeing this, Persia became uncomfortable for a moment.

"...Ah!"

Upon realizing what just happened, he soon recovered his composure and let out a dry cough.

"Those six heroes very existence is special. They have extraordinary abilities that could par against the many. It is believed in the past that their powers could spark wars from the people from another world. But as things are now, nobody desires such a war."

"Unlike those times, the other worlders constantly improve every days, or possibility years, like what is currently happening today." Taking out something from his pocket, Naht waved his phone to regain Persia's interest. "You see, the general idea on how these things work originally came from one of those other worlders. It was thanks to them that the world we see are with us today, yet... No one seems to remember. Those times are now labelled as myths and legends from today's era."

"Heroes today existed merely in bedtime stories. That wasn't how it was supposed to be from the past..."

Persia somehow felt Naht sadness. She wanted to comfort him, but she couldn't. She didn't know anything about those heroes up until now. What rights does she have to be curious if she never tried to figure about them in the first place.

"In addition, Arthur has yet to 'regain' the power of the past heroes, isn't that right? Highly doubt that." The moment she heard Arthur's name came out from Naht's mouth, she raised her head to look at him.

"What do you mean?"

"Oh, that's thanks to a certain someone I know for interrupting his growth..." Naht helplessly shaked his head lightly before heaving out a sigh. He looks tired for some reason. "You see, the hero's strength comes from facing difficulty and winning."

"No, what I meant to ask is Arthur one of those heroes' descendants?"

"Descendants? Nope," Naht replied bluntly as he tilted his head. "Descendants are not the best word to describe it. It was more of an successor... Probably?" He rolled his eyes elsewhere to avoid her intense gaze. Although what she was doing is quite disrespectful (that it can even cause a war between the churches and the royalties), since he doesn't want any of these to happen, Naht could only turn a blind eye to her gaze.

"Probably?"

"I'm not really sure if that's also the right word since it is said in the record of the Akashic Record that Arthur had once existed in the past..."

"Akashic what?"

"Even though the Akashic Record that this church has is merely a small piece from the real one, it's still enough to let us see through the past and the future. Although it may sound convenient, the real Akashic Record is more useful since you can basically manipulate few universes itself from what it said to be back from 30,000 years ago. I've only seen it once, and had experienced using a small bit of it's power."

"W-wait a minute! You said that the Akashic was from 30,000 years ago, but you're also exclaiming that you've seen it and used it before. No, how old are you...?"

When Naht heard her question, he lets out a light chuckle. He then replied, "Well, I've stopped counting after reaching 50,000. I got a bit bored counting, you see. Though, after leaving a few thousands of years, I decided to reincarnate myself... Actually, I'm what you may referred to as this church's God from my past life."

"You don't mean..."

"My previous name is Sol Indiges. The older God of the Sun. A pleasant way to meet you, Your Highness."

When Persia heard his reply, she froze up from her spot. All this time, she was being disrespectful to a God... A GOD!!

"I-I-I apologize!" She promptly bowed her head in apologetic manner. Even though her family was labeled as one of the powerful Royalties, being an enemy with a God means being wiped out from this world."

Persia was shivering in fear, her eyes was beginning to watered. When Naht noticed this, his composed expression from earlier disappeared, only to be replaced by panic.

"H-hey, calm down. It's not like I take such as what happened earlier in the heart. Beside that, I could no longer consider myself as a God since I ran away from my duty by reincarnating myself as a human."

It took a few minutes for him to fully calm Persia down, and when he did, Naht couldn't help but heaved out a long sigh of relief.

"Thank God..." He said to himself.

𝘞𝘢𝘪𝘵, 𝘸𝘩𝘰'𝘴 𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘢𝘮 𝘐 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘸𝘢𝘺?

A couple of minutes later...

"Nonetheless, the sole reason for the heroes existence is not about to unite every countries and races just like in bedtime stories, nor defeat Demons. The only reason why those five existed is to kill the real Enemy of Everything."

"You mean the True Demon King?"

"Him? No, I'm not talking about that pathetic guy-"

Somewhere inside the place called Hell...

The True Demon King could be seen enjoying his time looking at some people from another world using his magic.

He was about to change the perspective to something else when he suddenly felt annoyed without knowing the real reason why.

"One of the three chosen potential successor of my title seems to be talking about me..."

Back to where Persia and Naht...

"-The person who I'm currently talking about doesn't have any title or name. He's existence was already forgotten from this world, you see..."

"...?"

"Although he once existed in this world, for some reason, the relic, Akashic Record doesn't seem to hold any information about him, as if he was erased. So, I don't know much about him. The only thing that I'm sure is that once he was reborn from this world using someone as a vessel, not even the strongest gods or the otherworlders..."

Tilting his head sidewards, Naht placed his index finger to his lips and smiled.

"...Can stop him."

...

....

....

Somewhere-

"Achoo!"

Deus managed to cover his nose before he could sneeze. He didn't know why, but for some reason, he felt like someone was talking on his back.

...𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴... He thought, clicking his tongue and turning his head to face the window.

.....

....

...

"Anyway, I seem to have said much that I shouldn't have said... This is the first time I've became quite talkative in this life. Though, I'm quite thankful for this, actually." Naht ended his sentence with a clap before walking towards the stairs.

"Your Highness, why don't we talk about the real reason why I asked His Majesty, for you to be called today here at the Church with the relic you've been holding on for quite a while now." He stopped for a second to point his finger towards the hexagonal-shaped relic Persia was holding.

"This?" Persia lowered her head and looked at it for a few seconds before turning her head back up again to look at him with a confused expression.

Smiling, Naht nodded his head lightly and made a slight gesture, ordering her to follow him.

"Let's go. You didn't wanna miss tomorrow's event, don't you?"

***

At the same time-

[ 4 : 23 P.M. ]

Arriving at the Broaden Mansion, Deus looked at the time from his watch, that hidden Inside the pocket of his skirt. He is currently wearing a maid outfit. Not a normal maid outfit, perhaps. With a cut part on the center and the back, showing some of his flawless skin on the those areas, for some reason, this made Athena sigh deeply.

"How the hell can you look more cute and beautiful even as a guy...?" She asked, seemingly annoyed from what she was seeing. Deus only took a brief glance at her, all whist playing with his long from his ear using his fingers, before shaking his shoulders lightly as a reply.

"Dunno. Don't ask me, stupid." Deus rolled his eyes elsewhere to look at the statue of a man holding his sword above his head, clearly pointed at the direction of the sun. He didn't know why, but after staring at the statue for a few seconds, Deus felt aggravated.

"Hey, who are you calling stupid?"

"Ow!"

"S-sorry."

When Athena was about to raise her hands to smack Deus on the back of his head, she accidentally hit Arthur directly on the face with the back of her hands.

Seeing this, Deus had to hold his laugher deeply inside his stomach. He already avoided getting hit by Athena thanks to Arthur, why would he try getting himself tho trouble again?

Lilian, who was silently watching this scene, also stared at Deus with great curiosity. She seems to also wanted to ask him the same question as to what Athena said earlier, but refrained herself from doing so. For her, it was unnecessary to question someone considering that she was already asking him for a huge favor.

"You guys stay here." She said to the three behind Deus. They all nodded their heads in unison and remained quiet before re-entering the carriage.

"Athan, I will show you around."

"Okay."