53 Hero Mission!

TurnBack Forest.

Elsewhere, far off away from AsheFall Island, there was another forest located in the Continent. This forest was quite dangerous, but it wasn't on the same magnitude as Dread Forest. In a tall tower within this forest, there lived 3 witches.

However, this place was usually blocked off by extremely poisonous gas and clouds, so no one could enter and disturb the evil Trio. Sadly for them, with the becoming and summoning of the new heroes, this couldn't last!

At this time, a fight had broken out within the tower!

Suddenly, multiple armored Black Golems were crushed into dust by some muscular man. "Your days of tyranny are over, you can no longer do as you want and hide in this poisonous part of the forest!"

The man was around 6'1, he had curly hair with brown eyes. His weapon of choice were Gauntlets, they were Silver with 1 blue gem in each one of them. This wasn't it, there was another party here beside his, each of them was a hero party!

"A bunch of fools think they can take me down, I've lived for centuries and can't count how many times I've heard that!" The Witch sneered, she had killed many who ventured into her and her sister's tower!

"Ice Bolt!" Right as she was done speaking, a blue bolt was sent over toward her. The Witch quickly stuck her staff out, as the crystal on the tip of her staff turned red. This easily dispersed the Ice bolt once it was close enough.

"It looks like this won't be as easy as our last mission, maybe we should have chosen a different one." This was a hero and his name was Jack, he was one of the 10 heroes summoned recently.

Jack was here with his party members and another Hero party group. This was the man who recently smashed the Golems into dust, his name was Bieito Ford. Bieito was Pretty much a Brazilian man, but he was from a different world where Brazil was different, it was an empire!

"You lowly heroes are too young to fight on par with me, you guys are best killed in your cradles!" The Witch was well aware of the growth rate of heroes, so it was best to kill them now to prevent future troubles.

The Witch's killing intent grew stronger, she set a powerful barrier around her body. Her staff's crystal changed again, this time it turned Red. "You reckless heroes will be reduced to ashes with this attack, everyone's more beautiful as ash!"

The Witch gave a sinister smiled, as her eyes turned bloodshot! Her face wasn't pleasant to look at, she looked like the wicked witch of the west, minus the green skin. She was outfitted with the stereotypical clothing of a witch, except she wore all red.

"She's about to release another AoE Fire attack, everyone, set up a Barrier to counter it!" Jack hurriedly and Commanded. The Heroes were still noobs, but they had grown quickly, it just wasn't enough to fight this witch yet.

Bieito could use 4 Elements like the other Heroes, he mainly favorited the Water and Metal Element. Everyone in each of these hero parties were from good Academies or Rich noble families, so they were well trained.

"I won't make it so easy for her, she thinks she can freely charge up attacks in an attempt to kill us!?" Bieito didn't want to even give her a chance to launch her attack, so it began to use his skills to prevent her from doing so.

Bieito's eyes flash Dark blue, as his body was engulfed in Dark Blue Aura.

"Water Drill!" Bieito yelled out.

Water quickly formed over the Witch who was in the middle of charging a deadly skill. The water spiraled like a tornado as two spinning vortex-like drills connected with the barrier around her.

"You stupid fools, can't you see that it is pointless to try, just except your deaths! Don't worry, I'll hold onto your ashes, the ashes of a hero will be my trophy!" The witch laughed and taunted, his Water Drill couldn't penetrate her barrier at all!

Suddenly, the ground shook around the witch, causing her to lose her concentration for a bit. The barrier was then bombarded by the stones the tower was made of. This wasn't it, the barrier was attacked by several lightning arrows.

"You ugly bitch, you think you can stand up against the heroes and guardians of Light? You working for the Demon king was a bad idea!" The two that attacked the barrier were members of Bieito's party. They were both twins, their names were Nick and Nicolas, Nick was an Elemental Archer and Nick was a Geomancer!

"Everyone! Attack her all at once, destroy that shield and kill this ugly hag! Aim for her footing, she can't concentrate if she has to worry about where she stands." Jack was using his Hyper-focus Innate ability to find her weakness, he was the one who asked Nick to target her footing.

With that, Jack's Party members attacked altogether, of course, the healer's just sat back and watched if anyone were to get hurt. Each Hero party had 4 other people besides the hero, they always made sure to have a healer if someone got badly injured, they were a must-have for any party.

Healers were rare in this world, as most would flock to them to join their parties once they were found to be so.

"Y-you little bastard! Who are you calling ugly!? If my sisters were here, you all would be tortured while wishing for death!" The witch was pissed, but no one listened, her barrier was bombarded with skills from both parties.

With so many attacks hitting her barrier, she could no longer concentrate on charging up her attack. The Witch stopped charging her skill and gave her undivided attention to her barrier.

"Haha! The ugly hag stopped charging up her attack, keep attacking, we almost got her!" However, over time, her barrier didn't collapse at all!

"Hejejejeje! Did you think with your measly Mana Power you could break my shield!? What a bunch of ignorant fools, I'll have you all die here!" The Witch was upset because her concentration was ruined, this usually couldn't happen even if she was attacked from all sides. She knew that this was because of the Hero's special Passive ability, Hero Aura!

"Damn! After all of that, we still can't break her barrier, I need to go back and train more!" Jack was irritated, he was obsessed with perfection, as failure was something he couldn't accept.

The witch began to quickly power up another skill, this time, it was a Dark element attack!

"How evil! She can't stay, she can't live!" Jack's face turned ugly, he wanted this witch dead!

"Relax, everyone should use the light Relic that was given to each of our parties, this should work at stopping her Darkness Element." Bieito calmed down, they were still noobs and were actually nervous. They only trained for a month before being able to choose a mission to complete to test their skills.

"Right, we have our relics, this should defuse that attack!" Everyone pulled out their relic, but found something strange, they couldn't use them!

"What!?"

"Why can't we use our relic's, what is this!?"

"Something must be wrong, I test it out earlier!"

Everyone started to panic somewhat, their Relics were not working.

"Oh! Hejejeje, did you think I didn't put in any countermeasures, I used my own special relic to block the use of any relics within this tower!" The Witch laughed contemptuously as she continued to power up her attack. Most of her attacks were high powered AoE skills, so it would be bad if she finished her charge!

"What Relic could stop the use of other relics!" The healer in Jack's party was shocked.

"The relic must be at least at Legendary level, or worse, maybe higher to stop the use of other relics!" Nick couldn't help but speculate, it only made sense if it was at this level.

"Hejeje! You're a smart kid, it's too bad that you'll have to die, but since you're going to die, then yes, it is higher than Legendary!"

Everyone's face fell, higher than legendary!? One must know that you'd be extremely fortunate to get an Epic Item, so higher than legendary was only a Myth to people. The Order Of Light had one Weapon that was higher than Legendary but they would only use it for emergencies.

Each Light Affiliated force had one Legendary weapon, any higher could only be made by legendary Blacksmiths, mainly Dwarves. Just when everyone was about to go into a panic, the void twisted and opened up around the barrier space of the witch.

"What!?" The Witch was shocked, she managed to dodge, but she still got slashed on the face. The attack wasn't targeting her, really, but the staff in her hand!

"Y-you! Nooo!" The sword penetrated the crystal on the staff, it then cracked and exploded into dust!

"How dare you sneak attack me and destroy my staff crystal!?" The Witch screamed seeing her barrier Crystal get destroyed. This type of crystal was hard to make and obtain, but it was destroyed just like that.

"Wow, your aim is as good as ever, that ugly witch didn't see it coming at all!" A woman dressed in green spoke fondly of the member of her party.

This group of people just arrived out of nowhere!

"Bella, you're flattering me again, it is nothing once you've trained enough. Let's beat this witch and head back to the Palace Of Light."

This could be no one else but Aria, she was accompanied by her party. Sadly, she only had two members within her party, they had yet to be assigned more people yet. In the shadows, another person was watching, she was also affiliated with the Palace of Light as well.

"You! Were you the one who destroyed my Crystal and damaged my face!?" The witch glared at Aria, as killing intent flared in her eyes.

"Well, yeah, you were going to kill them, so I stopped you from attacking. Besides, your face is already damage, I couldn't damage it anymore than what it is." Aria spoke bluntly, it only made sense to destroy the source of the problem, the crystal. She also made sure to taunt the witch while she was at it, many people almost broke out into laughter but this was a serious situation, they couldn't laugh now.

"Good, Good! Another hero to add to the death count, you all will serve as a warning for ev..." The Witch couldn't finish when Aria arrived in front of her with a glint of violet light. The witch couldn't react in time and was kicked flying upside down through a wall!

"What!? What was that skill just now!? How can she move that fast!?" Jack was stunned, he couldn't understand how she could move so quickly, he wasn't told about such a movement skill!

"There's a rumor going around, did you see that Violent glow around her? She can use an ultimate element, the Space Element!" Norman from Jack's party had long gathered information on the newly summoned heroes, so he knew a thing or two about them all. Norman was a Duomancer, so he could be considered talented amongst his peers.

"S-Space Element!"

'Why does she have such an amazing Element? Why couldn't it be me!?' Jack was stuck in a dilemma, as jealousy was starting to make itself present in his psyche.

"Wow, she's my kinda chick!" Bieito touched his chin and smiled, as he stared at Aria's back.