The SSS Ranked Demon King Goes to the Hero Academy-Chapter 50: Fighting the Monsters of the Cracks. (1)

The Argos seemed to be sailing in a sea of stars.

Hundreds of glimmers shone over a blue veil.

A beautiful landscape that would undoubtedly have caught the heroes’ attention if not for the gigantic monster on the "ship’s" deck.

It was a giant monster with dark black, rough skin like a rhinoceros’s.

A great mane of black hair covered down to its shoulders and from its head protruded two large horns.

Its face was covered with a chilling bone-white mask.

But what stood out most was its size—it measured almost ten meters tall.

Though it was also true that that wasn’t really impressive for heroes.

They had simply been surprised to see the monster so suddenly.

"Watch out!" Noelia warned with a shout as the monster raised its wooden mace.

With a quick movement, the monster brought its mace down against the ground, causing a shockwave.

Quickly Noelia transmuted the texture of the ground and raised a wall right in front of them to protect them from the shockwave.

Gerald planted his staff in the ground. He knew they had a great disadvantage.

From what he had seen so far, Noelia could transmute surfaces, and Ariel seemed more like a mage than a warrior.

That was very disadvantageous. They had no tank or anyone who could compete physically with the monster they were facing.

That’s why he had to act quickly and summon something that could face that beast.

In a few instants, magic circles floated suspended in the air, pulsing bright energy of orange and green colors.

Then three troops were summoned.

They were [elite orcs].

Muscular orcs that measured around three and a half meters tall.

They wore quite imposing but simple steel armor with thick, dense steel plates.

One was armed with a spear and shield, another with two curved swords, and the last with a chain from which hung a spiked ball.

"You disperse!" Gerald ordered as he ran to one side.

Ariel obeyed, and Noelia did the same, though first she touched the door so it would fuse with the wall and not let the monsters in the hallway escape.

At that same instant the monster attacked.

Running toward them while raising its mace again and bringing it down against them.

However, the orcs intervened.

The orc with the shield positioned itself in the attack’s path, blocking the mace’s blow.

The blow was so strong it caused a shockwave, however the orc had flexed its knees at the right moment, transmitting all that force to the ground.

At the same time another orc spun its chain and threw it around the creature’s neck, making it coil around its neck.

The orc pulled the chain with great effort, pulling the monster backward.

The monster however tried to resist, placing its fingers under the chain trying to get it off, but it didn’t work.

Right at that moment, the other orc took the opportunity to launch an attack, using its two curved swords to aggressively cut the monster’s Achilles tendons.

Purple blood splattered on the ground when that happened. The damage was done.

With that wound, the monster couldn’t maintain its balance and fell backward, hitting the ground roughly, making the floor rumble.

The orc with the spear didn’t waste that opportunity. Already with bent knees, it could jump forcefully and launch itself at the monster, thrusting its spear at its eye using all its weight and speed.

The spear passed through the hole in its bone-white mask and pierced the eye, reaching the brain.

Without hesitating an instant, the orc stirred the inside of the wound with the spear to make sure the monster was dead.

"Good," Gerald congratulated himself, seeing how his trio of elite orcs had finished off the monster.

However, he knew that wasn’t over. He could hear it.

A few meters away, the sound of a fight could be heard.

Several people were fighting, surely other heroes fighting more monsters.

"Tch, what the hell is happening?" Gerald wondered with disbelief.

He had just realized something.

How was it possible that this was happening?

Yes, it was very hard to believe the Argos was being attacked by monsters. After all, it was supposed to be a safe place.

An institution in charge of training heroes from different worlds shouldn’t be able to be besieged so easily, especially by monsters that didn’t seem too powerful.

It was hard to believe those who had organized all this could be so easily besieged.

It was there that an idea came to him, an almost conspiratorial thought.

What if all this had been organized by those people?

What if they had organized it as a trial?

Then this was another exam, perhaps something necessary to pass.

After all, in the trial, he shouldn’t have passed, and while they told him he had passed the trial for supposedly showing the courage and principles of a hero, perhaps this trial was a form of definitive filter that would determine if it was really worth training him.

Perhaps that "space ship" was actually the place where everyone who had failed the first trial had appeared.

Maybe it was even a way to get rid of them.

"No, if it were to get rid of us, the enemies wouldn’t be so weak," the boy reflected with a thoughtful air as he adjusted himself. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

Moreover, he was sure that if they wanted to get rid of someone like him, they could do it without problems.

"Then this can only be a trial," Gerald deduced, still deep in his reflections.

Gerald was someone very reflective who liked to think.

When he got fully into his thoughts, it was hard to pull him out, perhaps that’s why he didn’t see how a stream of acid was shot toward him.

"Watch out!" Noelia warned as she deformed the texture of the ground to create a wall that blocked the acid.

Gerald turned. Behind him was a kind of elongated reptile with purple scales and a scorpion tail. The ribs of its chest were exposed and acid dripped from its mouth.

Apparently the monsters didn’t stop appearing.

Gerald decided to leave reflections for another time. Now he had to concentrate on combat.