Requiem Of A Failed Hero



The white ant flashed forward with retractable claws slashing through the air and leaving trails of fire in its wake. It clashed with the cloaked individual- discharging a massive air wave that spread around the ruination and made all the lower ants doing their thing tremble with fear.

"Not bad for an ant like you." The man pointed forth a finger–

Immediately, the ant sensed the danger of the coming attack and made a leap several steps backward before realizing it. The ant narrowed its compound eyes to a slit, observing the man from his distance.

'What is this? What is this coursing through my veins, I don't understand why my body is shaking and my legs want to move backward...I am the Supreme one... what is this...?' The ant monster contemplated the new feeling that he began to feel due to a presence that seemed would have overwhelmed him with just a single finger.

That is right before now, every single opponent the ant monster had met, it had overwhelmed and killed and so it knew not what fear truly felt like, this was the first time, it had ever been subjected to the feeling of fear.

whush!

The ant spread out all its claws stubbornly and lowered its upper body,

Tssssss

Instead of a steady air breathy from its mouth what the ant exuded as he seeped out air through his mandible was steamy air and flames that escaped from both corners of its mandible.

"Oho?" The man's lip curled upward as he watched the ant lower its upper body to take an even more powerful form and–

Wham!

Faster than anyone could have followed with their naked eyes, the ant became a blur–

"Snipe"

BOOOOM!!

A sonic black beam exploded out of his index finger, quickly ravaging the whole scene that was in view, spreading as far as over five ruined buildings that were in view.

screeeeetch

The ant groveled immediately, the distance between the beam and its body was just a hair's breadth and it was wise enough to know that his man didn't miss, he just decided to spare his life.

"That is the right attitude. I shall introduce myself to you, I am Demon Prince Amon and I have come to grant you liberation.

The ant was genuflecting as the man spoke and quickly replied, "Are you finally going to tear down the barrier?" It asked.

"No, my dear son. No, I won't... the world of Therut is not yours to destroy, I have placed another one there. I want you to focus on a real world, a world that will ignite the wrath of the celestials against the fiends." The man said, smiling.

"But first, let us grant you a name."

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Raith and the others got ready for Raith, they all arrived at the scene from their various locations and in their various luxurious cars. Raith and Mok Jae-Hwa were the last to arrive and they were already complaining.

"Come on guild president, what took you so long?! I thought you valued punctuality more than anything!" Shin whined, flipping his chestnut brown bangs with a hint of yellow to reveal his almond eyes.

"My bad, there was a little delay in trying to get a sword for Hunter Raven."

"He uses a sword? I thought he is a summoner?!" Chong-Yol spoke, with spite oozing from the tone of his voice.

"Yes, he is a summoner." Mok Jae-Hwa replied to him.

All of them gathered together as Mok Jae-Hwa reached the front of the gate.

The gate itself was massive and just at first glance is bigger than all the gates that Raith had entered before now, plus the swirling edges of the gate were black colored‐ that alone told a significant difference between this gate and the ones he had always seen.

Every other guild was envious of the Rain guild, even Lee Se-Chul was present at the location– he wasn't the only one, other guild masters were also present more from the top ten guilds.

P'il Jeong-Hun of the Earthmight guild which was the third strongest guild in South Korea, Cha Ji-Hu of Du-Ho guild which also held the position of the sixth strongest guild, Ah Yeong, the fluttering flower of the Sakuraba guild, and other guild presidents were available at that spot.

Mainly, to see the catastrophe rank hunter raid his first official gate which was an S rank. Even the citizens who watched from home and could see the gloomy atmosphere that loomed over the gate were commenting to themselves saying:

"It is possible that our catastrophe rank hunter should not enter that gate, it looks so dangerous"

"Oh my God, Raven oppa please don't die."

"I pray you will survive this hunter raven."

From different homes to classrooms to workplaces, they all watched as the entire place was filled with crowds of reporters, affiliated and unaffiliated hunters, everyone surrounded the front view of the space but still left a very wide space of over 20 radii for the main party that would be raiding the gate.

"Thanks to a particular person, this is blown out more than we intended" Chong-Yol grunted, scowling at Raith.

"Stop it Chong-Yol-ssi. It was bound to be this way as long as we are hunting an S-rank gate." Mok Jae-Hwa responded harshly to Raith.

"Hunter Raith, are you not going to put on some battle armor?" Jae-Hwa said as he put off his black suit jacket, loosened his tie, and began to strap on some top-grade armor.

"I'm fine," Raith replied. 

"Tch, you feel you don't need it eh?" Chong-Yol scowled at him again, as if he just couldn't stand hearing his voice. "...I bet you are those kinds of people that sell all their weapons loots from raids because you feel you are better off the money. See let me tell you something?..." He said moving closer to Raith but before he could go further with his speech, Jae-Hwa and Sung-Min dragged him back.

Ga Yun using that free moment immediately cling to Raith for a quick selfie and immediately excused herself,

"Don't be weird, this is for my social media page" She stated as she left and typed her phone, posting: Selfie with South Korea's First Catastrophe rank hunter before the gate raid. #catastropherankhunter #koreafirst #gateraid #hunteraven.