The Fake Hero Is Too Strong Chapter 151

Trail continued speaking.

“Miss Neril. Please ring the bell. You must match the pattern precisely.”

Whoosh.

Trail, borrowing Adwin’s body, tossed the bell.

Neril hurriedly regained her focus and replied.

“Alright. Don’t worry. Adwin said only he could do it, but I can handle it too.”

“I thought so. There’s no one more suited for delicate work than you.”

“……”

“Mr. Offense, please erase all traces of presence for everyone here. Don’t use shadow sorcery. Mide will need to co back out later.”

Wiping away cold sweat, Offense replied,

“Understood. Oldest Hero.”

“……”

“I will greet you properly when things aren’t so chaotic.”

Trail quietly nodded.

Offense tapped his index finger.

With that, the presence of everyone in the group vanished.

Of course, if one concentrated, they could still be sensed.

But for soone of Trail’s level to need to focus to notice them, it was proof of how completely they had disappeared.

He led Neril, Xenia, Lisel, and the sleeping Mide toward the back of the carriage.

Just before they vanished entirely, Neril spoke.

“Thank you. And… I’m sorry.”

Trail only scratched his head without replying.

Once everyone was gone, he turned his gaze to Velosian.

“Not particularly grateful you waited. If you had a conscience, waiting would be the least you could do.”

“Hm. So, you’re one of Adin’s lackeys.”

“Go easy on . This body isn’t built for overwhelming power.”

“But the soul within it is imnse.”

Velosian’s eyes glead.

“When Adin created you, he poured everything into it. The Eye of Omniscience, the ability to manipulate ti, those aren’t things you can just pour into any soul.”

“……”

“You’re a vessel on another level from the rabble. I suppose I will have to put in so real effort.”

“I said, take it easy.”

“Let’s warm up first.”

In the next instant, Velosian vanished.

Trail reflexively bent his knees.

Velosian’s fist grazed just above his head.

Trail struck back at his abdon.

But.

BOOM. CRACK.

It sounded like a sword smashing against armor, and Adwin’s wrist snapped.

‘Damn. Sorry about this.’

But now wasn’t the ti to worry about a broken wrist.

“Hahaha!”

“Kh…”

Tap. Ta-at.

In the blink of an eye, over a hundred blows were exchanged.

With each clash, Adwin’s body broke, tore, and bruised.

Trail quickly realized this hand-to-hand fight couldn’t last.

If he pushed this body further, Adwin would end up in the Underworld regardless of the battle’s outco.

‘It’s already straining him just carrying my soul.’

As he had feared, Adwin’s soul was on the verge of being crushed under Trail’s.

He was already half-conscious.

Trail decided it was ti to gamble.

“You’re too weak. Are you really going to bore like this?”

Ta-at.

Trail shifted from clashing head-on to focusing on dodging.

He avoided Velosian’s flurry of punches and kicks, waiting for the right mont.

‘The Underworld has no concept of ti.’

He rembered countless tis he had killed Idria and gone to the Underworld afterward.

It was a barren, desolate place.

The Celestial God Adin had gone to great lengths to hide his existence from the world.

That’s why, in the Underworld, there was no one he had ties to.

He couldn’t et anyone in his “own world.”

He might have t Idria, his only true connection, but she never revealed herself.

So Trail asured days by the rising and setting of the sun and moon.

Once, after what felt like a single day in that place, he resurrected to find 100 years had passed in the real world.

Another ti, after 100 years in the Underworld, only 20 days had passed outside.

‘At first, I wondered what the standard was.’

But the truth was different.

Ti didn’t exist in the Underworld.

At least, not in any way connected to the real world.

‘aning, I can stop ti here!’

At that mont, Velosian lunged again.

Perfect timing.

Trail picked up Mide’s sword.

He recalled the techniques he had witnessed alongside Mide, and chose the one suited for now.

This stance should work.

‘Sword Throw! Damn it…’

Shhhk!

He hurled the blade at Velosian.

Thud.

The sword pierced completely into Velosian’s body, a body no other weapon had ever managed to penetrate.

“Urgh.”

Velosian was hurled backward, about thirty paces away.

‘Now!’

Trail had never expected this strike to kill him.

What he wanted was distance.

At least ten paces apart.

Ti stopped.

He let out a sigh.

“Phew. Now I just need to wait for Mide to return.”

“How will he return? You froze ti.”

Trail would have said, Because Mide can move in the frozen world.

But his mouth only hung open in shock.

Ssshhk.

Velosian, impaled and sprawled on the ground, began to rise!

“H-how?”

“Oh, right. Mide can also move in the frozen world. But wasn’t his limit around ten steps?”

Yes, Mide could move.

But barely.

Each step shredded his muscles and dislocated his bones, and he staggered in unbearable pain.

Step. Step.

But Velosian was walking forward as if nothing were wrong.

He had already surpassed ten steps.

“You used your head well. Or maybe I just got too carried away.”

“What the hell are you?”

“Looks like the Eye of Omniscience is tonight’s main event. Nothing more to see, so let’s finish this.”

Crunch. Shhhk.

He pulled the sword from his abdon.

And by then, he had already closed twenty paces.

Trail instinctively tried to retreat.

But he couldn’t move.

‘Ah. This body….’

The body he was inhabiting was Adwin’s.

Of course he couldn’t move it.

Should he release the Eye of Omniscience?

But what difference would it make to end the ability now?

Step. Step.

It was then.

Twenty-five steps.

And as Velosian was about to take his twenty-sixth step, for the first ti, his face twisted into a grimace.

“Hm? What’s this? Why isn’t my body moving?”

“……”

“There’s no way just this little distance could be stopping .”

And yet it was true.

Velosian could move no further.

Like a statue frozen in place.

The only part of him still able to move was above the neck.

He rolled his head around and muttered,

“This feels like it’s gone beyond Adin’s ‘Eye of Omniscience.’”

“……”

“It’s not that I have weakened. No… it’s that you have grown stronger.”

“What?”

“At least when it cos to manipulating ti, you have surpassed Adin. Strange. How did it co to this?”

He muttered under his breath

“Co to think of it, Mide’s other companions were already beyond what could be called human.”

“……”

“Could it be that Mide? No, how could he possibly make his party this strong? Wait. I have seen sothing like this before.”

“……”

“Impelium.”

Velosian’s face contorted in an instant.

The smug, sly grin he had worn all this ti completely vanished.

“Impelium also made his party mbers stronger.”

“Impelium had party mbers? He had companions?”

“I don’t understand. Is Mide truly Impelium? That makes no sense.”

For now, Trail could breathe a little easier.

Whatever the case, from the twenty-fifth step onward, Velosian couldn’t advance.

All Trail had to do was wait until Mide returned.

When he did, he would find a way.

That man always inspired such expectations.

And then.

“This is sothing I will have to discuss with Adin.”

“……!”

“But first, I will kill you.”

CRACK!

A terrible sound ca from Velosian’s leg as sothing shattered.

But in exchange, he managed to take his twenty-sixth step.

He staggered forward again.

This ti, blood trickled down his lips.

“Just three more steps, that’s all.”

“……”

“No… only two steps left now.”

He raised his leg again.

And just as he was about to take the twenty-ninth step…

“Stop right there, you lunatic!”

When I opened my eyes again.

My companions around were all frozen like statues of ice.

My mind spun like lightning.

I understood everything at once.

‘Velosian is here.’

And they had fought.

But they must have been pushed back.

Adwin was nowhere to be seen, which ant he had surely borrowed the strength of so overwhelming soul.

‘Trail.’

Who else could it be, but the oldest Hero? The one who had slain Idria countless tis.

But even Trail must have been overwheld.

So, as a last resort, he used the Eye of Omniscience. To stop ti itself.

“The problem is, even for , moving is a struggle…”

I let out a faint sigh.

And then I heard it.

“This is sothing I will have to discuss with Adin.”

“……!”

“But first, I will kill you.”

A voice I had never heard before.

And precisely because I had never heard it, I knew exactly whose it was.

‘Velosian!’

But how?

How could he speak in this frozen world?

“Just three more steps, that’s all.”

“……”

“No… only two steps left now.”

Step.

His footsteps echoed.

I twisted my body upright with all my strength.

This carriage where we were hiding, judging by the sound of his voice, the distance between Velosian and Trail was…

‘Damn it. Way more than ten steps!’

I staggered toward them.

My instinct told , the distance between Velosian and Trail was razor-thin.

Move.

Faster. Freer!

[You can move if you wish.]

‘Impelium?’

[You still don’t understand?]

‘What?’

[Don’t you know why you have been growing stronger and stronger?]

I asked through gritted teeth.

‘Wasn’t it because you strengthened my blood script ability?’

[Blood script has nothing to do with it, you fool.]

‘But after I began seeing the blood script of the dead, I did grow stronger!’

[All I did was enhance your blood script so you might uncover the world’s secrets a little sooner.]

Impelium’s voice flowed gently.

[You have learned to harness the fa piled before you as your own strength. You have mastered that thod.]

‘…! That’s impossible. Fa is only sothing you accumulate to beco a Hero!’

[That’s how Trail must have explained it. He never knew more than that.]

“……”

[But you already know. You have grown incomparably stronger than you were before the regression because you have begun using fa as power.]

His voice carried a hypnotic weight.

Though he gave no proof, I found myself nodding. Yes, that must be it.

[But unconsciously, you have been holding yourself back.]

‘Why would I?’

[Heh. You’re asking ? If I had to guess… maybe you don’t want to go ‘too far.’ Maybe you still want to remain within the limits of what could be called human.]

“……”

[But when Idria or Adin threatened to kill your comrades, you released that restraint. And now, whether it’s fortunate or not, your comrade Trail is in danger. As is Adwin, whose body he is borrowing.]

Sparks lit in my vision.

[Release the restraint. With your fa as it is now, you might even be able to put down this weakened Velosian.]

“Weakened… heh.”

With a bitter chuckle, I steadied myself.

Using fa as strength.

How?

No, Impelium had said I was already doing it.

All I had to do was lift the restraint I had placed on myself.

Had I really shackled myself? Was that possible?

‘Impelium said I didn’t want to go too far.’

That I wanted to remain close enough to be called human.

Why? Why would I want that?

Then, in a flash, a word struck .

—Retirent.

Yes.

I wanted to finish all this quickly, and live out a retirent with my beloved and my comrades.

If I went too far, that might beco impossible.

I might lose the ability to retire of my own will.

Was that what I feared?

“I will recite a spell.”

[Oh? I’m curious. Let’s hear it.]

I drew in a deep breath.

And whispered,

—I forsake retirent.

In that instant.

The frozen world that had been crushing suddenly lifted, light as air!

I drew my sword and burst out from behind the carriage.

“Stop right there, you lunatic!”

TL: Now that I think about it, it was probably Impelium who bound Trail to Mide. That way, he allowed Mide to regress as well, using Trail. Well, I doubt he would have let Mide die, considering their relation which is awfully obvious.

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