Heroes Return

Chapter 11

As the battle between Lin Jie and the giants intensified, giants were repeatedly struck by Lin Jie's spiked club and sent flying into the sky before crashing heavily to the ground, lifeless.

Faced with such a sight, even the most powerful giants couldn't help but feel terrified. And in Lin Jie's eyes, a faint red light was emanating.

When Lin Jie once again grabbed the body of a fire giant with one hand and smashed it to pieces, almost all the giants retreated at that moment.

They are actually retreating.

However, just as all the giants retreated, an even larger fire giant appeared before Lin Jie. Without a doubt, this was the largest fire giant Lin Jie had ever seen in history, and not only that, it was also undoubtedly the largest humanoid being Lin Jie had ever seen (excluding Dao Qizhan and the incarnation of the demon).

In the distant village, the man hammering iron merely glanced coldly at the giant before walking toward the roaring furnace: "How foolish. Excessive power can indeed blind any being."

After saying this, he entered the furnace and eventually disappeared into it.

"Human hero! State your name!! You have demonstrated your power, now you are worthy to let me know your name." The fire giant's voice rang out, and almost simultaneously, waves of heat erupted, melting almost everything around them. An ordinary person would not have been able to withstand it. But Lin Jie, facing this heat head-on, showed no reaction.

"My name is Lin Jie, a human otaku."

"Otaku? Is that what humans call a warrior like you?" Though somewhat puzzled, the fire giant still spoke, "My name is Surtur, and I am the King of Muspelheim! Let me witness your power, human!!"

As his words fell, a longsword engulfed in flames slashed down at Lin Jie. This flaming sword alone was already over two hundred meters long. Keep in mind that this sword possessed the power to destroy the entire world during Ragnarok.

Facing the attack of the massive longsword, Lin Jie's face remained expressionless. The instant the giant sword fell, Lin Jie's weapon had changed; the original spiked club disappeared, replaced by a jade-green longsword.

With his longsword in hand, Lin Jie directly swung it to meet the flaming giant sword that was slashing down from above.

A tiny figure collided with the massive flaming greatsword at that moment. With a deafening roar that shook the heavens, the flaming greatsword was sent flying into the sky by the powerful force. Even Surtr's enormous body swayed slightly.

Almost simultaneously, Lin Jie leaped high into the air once more. Due to the intense heat, Lin Jie's clothes were faintly ablaze, but this burning could not continue. With the emergence of Lin Jie's aura, the burning hem of his clothes extinguished once more.

Moreover, as the flames died down, Lin Jie charged toward the giant in the sky.

A deep, loud sound rang out once again. Lin Jie's fist struck the fire giant's face directly at that moment, and upon impact, the flames on the fire giant's body and the surrounding heat all swirled around, creating a sonic boom that was extremely oppressive.

Accompanying the sonic boom was the fire giant's head, knocked askew by a single punch, and its body swaying.

However, Lin Jie's punch didn't knock his opponent down. As the fire giant swayed, its greatsword slashed down at Lin Jie once more. But this time, just like before, Lin Jie's emerald longsword blocked the giant's sword of victory!

"No matter what you are, no matter where you come from, you're doomed today! Taste the resentment of someone who has lost their game console and computer!!" Lin Jie's voice rang out from the man's mouth. Almost simultaneously, the weapon in Lin Jie's hand once again erupted with a terrifying aura, and he slashed directly at the fire giant.

The emerald green sword energy collided with the massive sword engulfed in raging flames. Both were suspended in mid-air for a moment, but the next instant, the fire giant felt an immense and terrifying force. Even these giants, renowned for their strength, were unable to match this terrifying power.

Before the giant could react, Lin Jie had already flown towards it once more. His longsword pierced directly into the fire giant's chest.

With a roar from the fire giant, his body instantly collapsed. The flames extinguished, and his body crumbled like solidified lava. In the midst of this collapse, Lin Jie was sent flying. Before him stood another fire giant, slightly smaller, howling angrily. The fire giant still held the Sword of Victory, only now it was much smaller.

Seeing the hole Lin Jie had pierced through his chest, the fire giant roared and slashed down at Lin Jie. He hadn't expected the human before him to have become so powerful; his own sheer strength in the clash had completely overwhelmed him. The giant's massive body, ironically, had become his weakness.

Facing the longsword slashing down once more, Lin Jie didn't waste any words. He simply stretched out his hand, and to the fire giant's astonishment, Lin Jie directly grabbed the massive sword, which was engulfed in raging flames, with one hand. He simply tried to grasp it in his hand.

The two of them landed rapidly on the ground at that moment, creating a huge crater.

"This is impossible! A mere human, without any trace of bloodline or descent! Why! Why do you possess such immense power?!" Surtr, lying on the ground after being pierced by the longsword, wore an expression of disbelief.

Destroying a human city was the request he made to his trade partner. In her view, a human city was undoubtedly a small request; although human cities had changed a lot, it was still not a troublesome matter for him.

But he never expected that such a trivial task in her eyes would ultimately cost him his life.

"Damn humans! I'm not reconciled! Die with me!!!" With his last breath, Surtr, pierced by Lin Jie, let out a ferocious roar. With that roar, the Sword of Victory in his hand flew directly into the sky. At that moment, all the humans on the entire planet, all the people on Earth, witnessed that apocalyptic scene.

The sky was burning; it was no longer the sky it once was, but a vast sea of ​​fire. Almost simultaneously, the fire began to fall upon the ground.

Surtr unleashed a furious strike, drawing upon the power of the Sword of Victory—a power capable of incinerating an entire planet. Naturally, no one could escape such a force.

Almost simultaneously, Lin Jie's figure soared straight into the sky. Finally, his hand rested on the hilt of the soaring Victory Sword. In an instant, countless flames enveloped Lin Jie.

"True Martial Hundred Battles!" As Lin Jie uttered his words, black energy appeared in his hand. With the appearance of this black energy, the flames began to shrink continuously. Finally, under Lin Jie's power, the Sword of Victory was pulled down from the sky.

At that very moment, the entire sky returned to its original appearance once again.

"This is impossible! How could you possibly use the Sword of Victory!" The fire giant lying on the ground was shocked as he watched Lin Jie take the Sword of Victory directly into his hand. Almost simultaneously, he stood up again and charged directly at Lin Jie.

"Hey, just how pathetic do you think humans are?!" Upon hearing this, Lin Jie simply clenched his fist and charged towards the fire giant.

……

"That was intense," Isabel exclaimed. "No wonder Captain Justice insisted on recommending him as an SS-class hero. No matter how you look at it, he's much stronger than that Galactic Warrior, even though he's a monster."

“Mr. Lin Jie isn’t a pervert!” Isabella interrupted her sister upon hearing Isabella’s words: “Actually, it’s just a misunderstanding! Besides, Mr. Lin Jie is a very capable person!”

"Oh? Speaking of which, you've been preventing me from getting close to the battlefield. So you trust Mr. Lin Jie that much?" Isabel looked at her sister with a suspicious expression: "Did something happen between you two without my knowledge?"

"No, nothing! Nothing happened between us!"

"Hmph! Something must have happened between you two. You can't lie to me, little sister! Tell me, what happened between you two?"

"It's nothing." Hearing her sister's teasing, Isabella simply responded with a sweet smile before running towards the direction of the explosion. After the explosion caused by the final violent collision subsided, everything calmed down: "It seems Mr. Lin Jie has already defeated his opponent."

"Hey, are you really begging Lin Jie to win? You know this monster is clearly no ordinary monster!!"

"No, Mr. Lin Jie will definitely win, because he has never lost before." Isabella ran over with a smile.

When the two sisters appeared on the crater outside the city, they saw a partially burned forest and a pair of stone-like objects with tiny embers still burning on them. As for the fire giant, it had vanished.

“I agreed, Zero… Mr. Lin Jie,” Isabella said to Lin Jie with a smile.

"Okay, all done." Lin Jie looked at the two sisters and said, "I feel much better after coming out to find someone to beat up. By the way, do you want to go get some spicy hot pot? Judging by the time, it should still be hot."

Chapter 12

When Lin Jie and the two sisters returned to the small shop, the owner had just served the freshly made spicy hot pot to the table.

However, things weren't so easy on the other side compared to Lin Jie's situation. While the giants were attacking the city, Thirteen was running somewhere within it. At Thirteen's moment, a man in a white robe was chasing after him.

"You should just give up resisting. With your strength, there's no way you can escape. It's better not to make such a futile attempt." The man said coldly to Thirteen, "As a piece of the puzzle, it's time for you to fulfill your mission."

"My mission? What's that? I have no interest in it!!!" Thirteen said to the man in front of him with a displeased look, "I have never agreed to any mission of my own!!"

As Thirteen spoke, he swung his long sword at the man behind him as he turned around.

"Huh?" Even the man couldn't help but look puzzled at the scene before him. After all, Thirteen's sword strike had had absolutely no effect. But just as the man was wondering, the natural gas pipeline beneath his feet suddenly exploded! Immediately afterward, a fire giant flew over and smashed into him.

"Hmph!" Faced with this scene, the man calmly reached for the long sword behind him. But when he touched it, he realized that the sword on his back had fallen to the ground at some point, and the strap holding the sword was broken.

That brief delay led to a series of unexpected events befalling him. Meanwhile, Thirteen used this opportunity to enter a building, a building destined to be anything but peaceful tonight. And the owner of that building was, without a doubt, Xiao Zhan…

"Are you underestimating me, Bu Feiwu?" Right there in the building, Xiao Zhan stood before Bu Feiwu, who was now cornered against the wall with nowhere to retreat. After forcefully pinning Bu Feiwu against the wall, Xiao Zhan calmly said again, "Are you underestimating me? I don't give you things you can refuse. Or do you think you shouldn't be associated with me, so you can't accept anything I offer?"

"I……"

"Stop talking nonsense. What I've given you is not something you can refuse." Xiao Zhan replied to Bu Feiwu with a serious expression. "Want to give it back to me? Impossible. Even if I've given you everything, these things are still not up to you to decide."

"Xiao Zhan..." Upon hearing Xiao Zhan's words, Bu Feiwu couldn't help but lower her head.

"Right now, all I want to do is enjoy life." Xiao Zhan still had that slightly cold and even domineering expression: "You want me to cut ties with you? Impossible, because the life I want to enjoy must include you; only then will it be complete. So, you're not allowed to refuse me again."

"Xiao Zhan..." Hearing the other person's words, although they were incredibly irritating and unpleasant, Bu Feiwu couldn't muster any anger in the face of Xiao Zhan's slightly domineering aura. She simply repeated Xiao Zhan's name repeatedly, her face unconsciously turning slightly red. Although Xiao Zhan usually seemed like a carefree goofball, whenever he showed this expression, Bu Feiwu knew that the little warrior was serious.

Although I felt really irritated, I couldn't help but feel my heart racing.

"Alright, now I hope you can join me for dinner tonight. We can also try out my latest equipment." Xiao Zhan said with a smile. Then he turned and walked out, and the instant he turned, Thirteen's face appeared in front of him.

"Holy crap!!!" Without any unnecessary words, Xiao Zhan's domineering CEO expression instantly crumbled!

"Hey! Your saliva is almost spraying my face, please control yourself." Thirteen, who had been sprayed in Xiao Zhan's face, couldn't help but say.

"Holy crap! I was just getting ready to enjoy my nightlife tonight! I didn't even bother to check the association's city attack notice! How the hell did you break in?!" Xiao Zhan asked Thirteen, his voice trembling.

Although he wouldn't mind being with Thirteen, it definitely wouldn't be now, because Thirteen's appearance would mean that his plans for tonight might fall through!

"No time to explain! Call for backup immediately!!" Just as Xiao Zhan was wondering, Thirteen suddenly spoke up to them.

"Holy crap! Why did you run straight to my building after getting into trouble?! We're brothers, right? Or are you really unhappy with my building?" Xiao Zhan asked Thirteen, puzzled. It's understandable that Xiao Zhan would react this way. After all, every time something happened, the building Thirteen was in was never intact. This guy's life was as tough as a cockroach; no matter how much he messed up, he never got himself killed. But Xiao Zhan didn't think his life was as tough as Thirteen's.

"There's nothing I can do. I just ran into this trouble at the last minute, and I can only stay here now." Thirteen said helplessly to Xiao Zhan, "I was originally planning to go outside the city to help out, but some guy who called himself the Truth Council came over and said he wanted to take me away to complete some mission! Who knows what mission I have! If it's one of those so-called missions they used to talk about, then I will fight to the end."

"I understand. I'll call Lin Jie right away."

"No!" Upon hearing the other's words, Thirteen interrupted Xiao Zhan directly: "Lin Jie is fighting those giants outside the city. We can't add to his troubles right now. If Lin Jie comes back to help because of my matter, there will probably be a lot of people involved." Thirteen said to Xiao Zhan, "So it can only be up to the two of us. I don't know where Glasses Brother has run off to."

"He said he wanted to train his new power, but we still don't know where he is," Xiao Zhan said helplessly. "The other heroes are probably all outside the city fighting the giants, right? Oh well, I've already sent a reinforcement signal to the Hero Association. Let's see if there are any heroes available."

Just as the two were talking, his communicator suddenly beeped. It turned out that an idle hero was indeed coming to help.

So after more than five minutes, the two people and the dog started staring at each other.

"DouDou, when did you become reinforcements for the Hero Association?!" Xiao Zhan looked at DouDou with a pained expression.

"Woof!" Xiao Zhan's response was a simple and clear bark from a dog.

"Speaking of which, DouDou seems to have become a high-level hero." As if remembering something, Thirteen suddenly said, "And an A-rank hero at that. So, it's not wrong to say that she's just reinforcing us."

"Wait a minute. What level hero did you say DouDou is?"

"Grade A".

"Wang!"

"Holy crap!" Upon hearing this shocking news, Xiao Zhan felt a sense of collapse: "I've painstakingly built up this for so long, and in the end, I'm still just a D-rank hero (last time, although I was released and allowed to serve as a temporary hero, my rank was frozen at D-rank). This dog actually became an A-rank hero!!!"

"Alright, stop complaining. Can your comedy world still be opened?" Thirteen asked Xiao Zhan. "Without it, we'd probably be dead in a few nights."

"Don't worry, it's still there." Xiao Zhan said, activating some devices in his building once more. Instantly, the building entered a completely different space from the one before them. In the sky, a crescent moon hung high. The giant, comical tree reappeared on the building's rooftop.

“Although the Time Government restricted my ridiculous weapons and took away all my machines, it doesn’t matter. After all, I’m the one who discovered them. Developing a few more secretly is still no problem,” Xiao Zhan said to Thirteen. “By the way, remember to leave a message for Lin Jie. Once he’s done with his side, have him come over and help us.”

As Xiao Zhan spoke, he prepared to press the transmitter again, but to his surprise, this time the signal was not transmitted at all.

"Holy crap! What's going on? There shouldn't be any communication jamming in the game world after I modified the machine."

“Because I’ve cut off all external signals.” Just as Xiao Zhan was wondering, a voice suddenly rang out. At the same time, a person dressed in white jumped in through the window: “So that’s how it is. There are completely independent laws here, so any magic or laws will lose their effect in this space. No wonder I didn’t get any results after trying for so long. There’s a reason why those guys in the council sent me here.”

"Who exactly are you? Don't you know that trespassing is illegal?" Xiao Zhan said to the person in front of him with a displeased expression.

"Let me introduce myself. I am a member of the Truth Council. You can call me Master of the Force." The man greeted Xiao Zhan politely. "I just hope your friend can come with me. It won't be a bad thing for him, so please don't stop me."

As the man spoke, he raised his eyes to look at the people present. Then, to his shock, he discovered they had vanished…

That's right, just as he was introducing himself, several people ran away.

"What an impolite person." Although he said this, the Force Master's face did not show any displeasure. He simply twitched his ears, then walked to a certain spot and threw his fist directly at the target.

With that grab, the Force Master ripped through the alloy wall. Immediately afterwards, a human head was pulled out from the other side of the wall by the Force Master.