The SSS Beast King: Rebirth of the Legendary Predator
Chapter 35: Shattered Resolve

Chapter 35: Shattered Resolve

I fell to the ground, using my sword to support me. It was over, I don’t know if I could have handled that any longer. Not because my body couldn’t take anymore, after all, I had just been healed. Mentally, I was exhausted, Moon’s death and my failure from earlier... it had been too much.

I wiped the sweat from my forehead and smiled. Looking at the people around me. Their cries of happiness made me... happy? How they hugged each other with such joy, how their tears flowed down their faces. It had been a while since I was last happy for someone.

But I understand them, I mean, from what they know, no one had fallen in this battle. Of course, that wasn’t the truth.

"Hey! What was that cool attack from earlier." One man from the crowd approached me. Adjusting his glasses, he got up in my face. "You must be interested in skills..." I said awkwardly.

With his eyes showing through the lenses of his glasses, he studied my appearance, taking into account every part of my body. "But I do wonder, did your skill raise in level earlier? If yes, why?"

Come to think of it, why did it level up? Leveling up a skill is usually only done through slaying beasts. There are other methods, like clearing infected memories and some other ways, but I have done none of these.

"You must be special if that’s the case." My sudden change to a serious demeanor caught him off guard, making him back away.

Here was that word again. Special, chosen, extraordinary, I hated all of them. Do they think being special is something good, do they think I enjoy supposedly being chosen by The Core?

I tried to calm down, I should be enjoying this moment, not getting railed up by some random guy. It’s pretty disappointing to think this wasn’t even a scenario. I had done this for nothing... Moon had died for nothing.

I got up and looked at the horizon. It was beautiful, the sun was setting painting the sky in a bright orange, with its roots in blinding yellow. And how could I forget the grey...

"Huh?" I said, confused, but then I fell to the ground, remembering what I once read in a book. Something we had completely forgotten about.

"A giant’s scream isn’t just to intimidate. It’s a call for reinforcements." The others looked at me, not understanding the urgency of the situation. They looked at me like I had gone crazy, even though I had just saved all of their lives. "Even a beast would have shown more appreciation," I murmured to myself.

On the horizon, many other grey heads began to appear, and a little later, their bodies began to become clearer and clearer. The two tusks sticking out of their mouth, their three eyes, and four arms. Their cement skin tone wasn’t just for show but was entirely how tough their skin was.

It didn’t take a while for the other to finally notice the approaching threat. Some froze, while others screamed instantly, screaming their hearts out. It was... fascinating. How the atmosphere changed in just some second, only someone on a superior level could realize that.

As people passed me, I looked back, just to see that the giants were just coming from the horizon, they were coming from all directions, and those who ran...we were the first to die.

I got up, prepared for battle. I wasn’t going to win, but that wasn’t my goal. I wanted to distract so the others could escape. This was my moment, I wasn’t going to fail and get someone killed... "Not after I’ve failed you... Moon."

But as I was on top of the world, my pride burning hotter than ever before. My skills stopped working. I stepped out of my fighting stance, confused. I had been healed, so I should have enough energy to use my skills, so why couldn’t I?

Actually, it wasn’t that I couldn’t use my powers but that I was hesitant to use them. consciously, I was ready to give it my all, but deep down, I wasn’t even confident in my own ability. I was doubting myself.

My mistake from earlier had done great damage to me. So if I couldn’t fight, what else could I do...

I ran. Was my pride just a disguise to hide all my insecurities? But I’ve never had this happen before. Is it because I haven’t known my true nature all this time? Was I trying too hard to adapt to the cruel world that I had forgotten my true self?

Thinking of it, I had been pretty different before all this happened. A social butterfly you couldn’t hate, someone with a smile so stunning it radiated joy. And now, I’ve lost all of those qualities. Or maybe I really haven’t, and I’ve been just lying to myself all this time. Was I that pathetic?

"Shut up, shut up!" I covered my ears in desperation to stop the voices, my fingers drilled inside my head, trying to divert me from everything that was happening. Blood ran down my forehead as I continued to run.

After covering a good distance, I stopped to look around. Not that many people had succeeded in running away, most of them were ones that didn’t run instantly but waited for the giants to be preoccupied with others. "What a selfish strategy..." But didn’t I do the same thing?

I turned my head, having a front-row seat at the massacre happening right in front of my eyes. Their screams for help could be heard from all the way here. A part of me wanted to jump out of my body and go help them, but the other held it by the leg. When was this nightmare going to end?

Would it have been better if we didn’t try this plan? Many would have been alive, but they would be wasting their lives in there. And now, some were free, so the plan... had succeeded.

"Keep lying to yourself, it was an utter failure." I scoffed.

In the next second, I heard a strong fire erupt where the giants were. Setting everything on fire. In the middle of that fire, a human figure stood, but I couldn’t tell who it was.

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