Why must the devil be Defeated?-Chapter 1072 - 936: The Identities of the Two Heroes

Chapter 1072: Chapter 936: The Identities of the Two Heroes

For a moment, none of the extraordinary beings present could utter a word.

Even though they had just achieved a triumphant victory, a time for celebration and joy, and cheers and various noises could still be heard from outside, here, not only was there no joy, but a deep heaviness weighed on everyone’s hearts.

It was an inevitable situation.

Compared to the return of the Beastman Race and the rescue of all the captives, the news Shane brought back was undoubtedly worse.

The enemy had increased by two Transcend Level powerhouses, and they were not ordinary people, but heroes who had once created various great deeds and miracles. Such enemies were truly not to be ignored.

Adding a mysterious Demon and a Great Spirit Body that manipulated Death Magic, the enemy now possessed a total of four Transcend Level powerhouses, all at the level of Demons.

This level of combat strength was already no weaker than the Kingdom, which had lost the support of the Demon Clan and most of the Divine Race.

Previously, the newborn [Primordial Demon] had only held an absolute advantage in terms of lower-level combat strength, but still disadvantaged at the higher levels compared to this side.

But now, it seemed this disadvantage had been addressed.

"Is this their real trump card, their reliance to start a war?"

Luoqi murmured, expressing the heavy feelings in everyone’s hearts.

Lidas and Anima temporarily suppressed their intense emotions, exchanged glances, and then looked at Shane.

"Tell us about those two heroes first." Lidas said, "What are their fighting styles? What are their Unique Skills?"

"Let us determine those two’s identities." Anima also said, "Although we already have some guesses, considering only those two could be awakened by Death Magic, it’s better to confirm."

Hearing this, Shane naturally had no reason to refuse.

Thus, Shane reported the information about the two heroes he fought against to Lidas and Anima.

Lidas and Anima listened attentively to Shane’s explanation and finally nodded with not very pleasant expressions.

"As we suspected."

"It’s indeed them."

Lidas and Anima seemed to have identified the other’s identity.

"So, what kind of heroes are they? Goddess Lidas? Goddess Anima?"

Luoqi couldn’t help but ask.

Iris also perked up her ears, paying close attention.

Shane was also no exception, watching the two goddesses, waiting for their explanation.

Lidas and Anima pondered for a moment before starting their explanation.

"First, we can tell you that, excluding Shane, up until Mitra a thousand years ago, Omni Potanssen had welcomed a total of one hundred and eight heroes."

Lidas said.

"One hundred and eight?" Shane raised an eyebrow in surprise, "So many?"

"Of course." Anima nodded and said, "When the First Generation Brave was summoned to Omni Potanssen, this world only had the Demon King and the Supreme God, so the history of heroes can be traced back long, long ago. At that time, even Lidas hadn’t been born yet."

Lidas, as the Goddess of Fate closest to omnipotence, other than the Demon King and Supreme God, was the world’s first truly birthed life.

Heroes came from the Otherworld, not native-born life.

The Demon King and Supreme God were born from nothingness, earlier than the world’s birth.

Therefore, the First Generation Brave was the first life to appear in this world besides the Demon King and Supreme God, but not a life born in this world.

Strictly speaking, Lidas was the first life born in this world, at the very start of all native life.

"But by the time I was born, the First Generation Brave had already passed away, and the second generation of heroes was summoned shortly after me." Lidas said, "Afterwards, about every few hundred years, Omni Potanssen would welcome a hero until Mitra appeared, defeated the Demon King, the summoning was sealed by the Mother Goddess, and heroes became a part of Omni Potanssen’s history."

Mitra was the one hundred and eighth generation hero, also, besides Shane, the last hero in this world.

Then...

"Out of a total of one hundred and eight heroes, including Mitra, only seven successfully transcended, stepping into the Transcendence Realm, becoming Transcendent Level existences."

Anima’s explanation made Shane and the others murmur.

"Seven?"

Luoqi blinked.

"That’s... quite a lot."

Iris was also somewhat surprised.

At this, both Lidas and Anima smiled wryly.

"I have to say, heroes are indeed special, not only being able to transcend on their own, and though compared to the total number of heroes born until now, those who succeeded aren’t many, just a few, yet even so, seven successfully transcended. If you add them all up, that’s more than either the Divine Race or Demon Clan’s Transcendent Level powerhouses."

Lidas sighed.

"That’s the remarkable thing about heroes."

Anima also sighed.

Luoqi and Iris immediately looked at Shane.

Shane touched his nose, as the current hero, unsure how to react.

Lidas and Anima ignored Shane’s awkwardness and continued.

"Sadly, those seven powerful heroes eventually all passed away."

"Indeed." 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Lidas and Anima both became a bit melancholy.

In response, Shane actually spoke up.

"They’ve already reached the Transcend Level; how can they die so easily?"

This was something Shane couldn’t quite understand.

It’s important to know, after achieving transcendence, whether strong like Goddess Lidas or weak like Anima and Nadura, they have never encountered life-threatening danger.

Logically, once reaching transcendence, even if they can’t win, they could at least escape. Being killed would be extremely difficult, so neither the Three Great Goddesses nor the Six Great Demons have died, persisting for tens of thousands of years.

Yet, the Heroes have died one after another, which really puzzled Shane.

If it were those Heroes who hadn’t achieved transcendence, their weaker strength would lead them to death on the battlefield, which wouldn’t be surprising at all.

But all seven Transcend Level Heroes died one after the other, which Shane found to be an impossible scenario to understand.

Of course, under special circumstances, Transcend Level existences can still be killed.

For example, Shane, when on the other side of the world, if forced into a corner by those two Heroes, there would be no escaping, as it was a gap within the world, where even fleeing to the ends would allow easy pursuit.

Also, like in Helimis’s situation, targeted by large-scale sieges from multiple Transcendent Level existences; even if he successfully escaped in the end, he was still poisoned by Camina, inevitably ending with his demise.

It’s not that Transcend Level existences can’t die; it’s just very difficult.

But for all seven Heroes to die while other Transcend Level beings are well alive is quite ridiculous.

After reaching transcendence, even their lifespan increases. Not to mention the Goddesses adept at various miracles could easily extend a lifespan or delay aging, wouldn’t they?

That means outside of being killed, it’s difficult for Transcend Level Heroes to die of old age.

Then, how did these seven powerful Heroes die?

Shane was very curious about this.

Actually, Shane instinctively forgot.

"...Even if a Transcend Level Hero is mighty, they remain vulnerable before the Demon King."

Anima was silent for a while, then bitterly smiled and said this.

These words enlightened Shane.

"Right, the mission of Heroes is to attack the Demon King and save the world. Since they’ve transcended, they’ll surely challenge the Demon King, right?"

In other words, Heroes were all killed by the Demon King.

Even as transcended beings wielding the evolved Holy Sword, they seemed inadequate facing the Demon King with extraordinary measures.

Once, Mitra proved this.

Upon transcendence, he became the strongest Hero, rivaling the Goddess of Fate, but still needed to cooperate with Supreme God Ominis to pierce the Demon King’s heart with the Holy Sword and kill the Demon King.

Even so, Mitra suffered a counterattack from the Demon King’s dying powers, enduring incurable injuries, and at death’s door, sacrificed himself to the Holy Sword, leaving it in this world.

If such was Mitra’s fate, one can only imagine the outcomes for other Heroes challenging the Demon King.

Not dying was impossible.

Indeed, that was the case.

Only the Demon King could still have means to slay Heroes after their transcendence.

However...

"The Demon King’s power is incomprehensible even to us, the supreme Mother Goddess, rendering any miracle ineffective against it."

Lidas abruptly said.

"Like with Mitra in the past, wounded by the Demon King’s power, not even us, nor the Mother Goddess, could heal his injuries, and he inevitably died."

Thus, the Heroes slain by the Demon King’s power had no means to reverse their deaths.

Even taboo Magic like Death Magic couldn’t possibly surpass the Demon King’s power to revive Heroes slain by it.

Unless the Hero wasn’t killed by the Demon King.

"In history, out of seven Transcend Level Heroes, two were not killed by the Demon King."

Lidas finally referred to this matter.

"Two?"

Shane, Luoqi, and Iris were all taken aback.

Undoubtedly, those two Heroes were the existences revived by Death Magic.

Lidas and Anima had long speculated until now revealing their identities.

"These two, one was the 18th generation Hero, the other the 72nd generation Hero."

"The 18th generation Hero was named Reinart, whose Unique Skill ’Divine Power Penetration’ could penetrate all external materials and power, inflicting injury directly to the fragile inner body, severely harming even demons if struck directly."

"The 72nd generation Hero was Philip, whose Unique Skill ’Arbitrary Transformation’ allowed him to transform into any flowing element, escaping any environmental constraints, unharmed by any power, epitomizing an undying body."

Anima disclosed the names of the two revived Heroes to Shane.

The abilities of these two were aligned with the two Undead Knights Shane remembered.

Among the two Knights Shane fought in the other side of the world, the Black Knight’s attacks continually resonated within his organs, while the White Knight transformed arbitrarily into wind, fire, rain, cloud, and other flowing elements, evading Shane’s attacks repeatedly, outside Shane’s sight.

Now, the identities of these two are revealed.

Hero Reinart.

Hero Philip.

These were the identities of the two revived Heroes.