Battle Harem of the Heavenly Sword

"Let's begin with accepting my party request. Alan tells me we will formally be master and slave once we arrive at the nearest city."

Another thing Hiro learned over the past month, the system had built into the messaging module the party system. Similar to RPGs this allowed for sharing of EXP, loot, and messaging.

The unseen benefits ranged from location sharing, auto aiming of support skills, and immunity to friendly fire. While the last didn't exist in Valorious. The first two did. Three names got added to Hiro's party screen as they accepted.

Originally Hiro's health and calibers were shown on the bottom left corner of his vision, and the messaging and log system on the bottom right. The top right of his vision showed the map screen. Above his health bars, three sets of health and calibers were listed.

Fulgeo Renacida - [Master Tactician]

LVL: 18 | HP: 100% | MP: 100%

Aurum Standar - [Noble Fencer]

LVL: 20 | HP: 100% | AP: 100%

Larua Krich - [Eye of Odin]

LVL: 24 | HP: 100% | SP: 100%

All there were currently wearing tunics and pants Fulgeo had fiery red hair reticent of his name, Aurum was blond while Larua had black hair. None of them were muscular but they weren't exactly scrawny either.

Most people If they saw the main skills of these three would doubt the sanity of Alan. No slaver worth his salt would let go of such fine specimens right? Undoubtedly. but what If your eyes lied to you?

Hiro similarly passed by the first two at first glance but then saw Spirit revolving around their bodies. Upon closer inspection, the origin stemmed from the black-haired Larua. When Hiro used [Inspect] at full power he saw something that pleased him.

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[Eye of Odin] Lvl 2

Rank [S] Type: Active

A powerful skill from the spirit-based masteries. Grants a moderate boost to all stats. Allows the user to throw his vision for remote vision. Limit two remote eyes. Grants basic skill [Inspect]

Mutation: [None may Lie], status screen guards, and illusion effects of lesser rank than [Eye of Odin] will be rendered ineffective

Mutation: [Except Me], using Spirit grants the Host the ability to forge some details on the host or recognized allies, status screen. Forgeries will hold up only until inspection skills of the same rank as [Eye of Odin].

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'Ho? Forging status screens? On top of being an excellent scout, Larua is intentionally hiding information about the other two.'

Then when he inspected the two more closely he found out why.

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Name: Fulgeo Renacida

Race: Reincarnator

Past Lives: (Atsuhiko Kohei)

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Name: Aurum Standar

Limit Skills: Divine Arbiter [SS] | Follow the Money [S]

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Typically a reincarnator was someone harder to spot, however, they were in large part a different kind of human from those on Valorious. How they think, how they act, and ultimately how they feel.

The biggest difference lay in their belief in concepts such as democracy. Most of earth no longer condoned slavery. Those who know of freedom would think Valorious is downright barbaric.

Most reincarnators got found out due to them applying what they knew from their past lives in the current landscape. Usually, a hundred years of human evolution would be breezed through by such individuals being inventors or designers.

It did not matter if their ideas were altruistic or self-serving, the point is their minds were goldmines. Most anime and manga gave reincarnators plot armor. But as Hiro experienced. In Valorious having something of value and without strength would turn you into a fat and juicy target.

In the same vein having a [SS] skill especially one versed in negotiation and coercion became incredibly dangerous. Add to that a [S] rank skill for fortune making and you have a person most would give an arm or leg to acquire.

Unsettled by the silence the one who began discussions uncharacteristically came from the tactician instead of the negotiator.

"Uh, Musashi-sama why did you choose us? Or rather what would you have us do?"

The butcher then smiled as his blood started to boil, these three filled gaps in his plan to amass a force to assist him. Hiro with his high int did not overestimate himself. If a being of immense power like Alter Hiro failed to stop the invasion of the [Forsaken]. What chance did he have?

Patches, Alter Hiro, Rilu, the Fairy Saviors, and Rhyne. All gave a simple image. Hiro needed to fight the big boss no one ever won against. If he also needed to fight an unending army on top of it. It would be impossible.

After much contemplation, the heavenly sword believed this to be the reason why Alter Hiro failed. In his insistence on fighting the [Forsaken] his wives died and he lost hope of even challenging said big bad.

What Patches showed him became his blueprint. Patches while extremely powerful raised an army no matter how pitiful. And they allowed him to take Hiro and run. If they were stronger? They could probably give Rhyne's devoted a run for their money.

This last month, Hiro never slept, rested, and fought non-stop. It felt weird at first but desperation gave enough umph to kick everything else out. If the system said he already left the known limits of a human, why bother placing constraints on himself?

With the additional hours he saved from sleeping, his mind started to work nonstop. His fatigue washed away with every level-up, so Hiro thought more in the last month than he did all his lives combined. If the invasion would span the entire continent. There existed only two paths to overcome it.

Get strong enough to protect the entire continent, or raise an army large enough to do the same. The story from Alter Hiro influenced his decisions, the man eclipsed the power of everything and everyone. However, he could not stretch himself over tens of cities all at once.

So one either needed the ability to be everywhere all at once, gain an ability to remotely kill over long distances, or the most basic. Train a badass army who fights as hard as you do and place them throughout the continent.

Then came the troubles of raising an army, organization, funds, training, and a lot of time. With this trail of thought Hiro constructed a skill hierarchy that would make his plans a reality.

A tactician, an excellent scout, and a sugar daddy were among the highest on the list. The only problem came in finding the talent. But low and behold here he finds them in a cart all for free.

Initially, Hiro even wondered if these people were traps. But they were too enticing to care, thus Hiro decided to take a different approach. That is to make the working conditions by his side to be too good for the people to even think of leaving or betraying him.

Hiro raised his hand forward and dump three long swords made from forest wolf bones on the ground. He then looked into the distance and flicked his finger.

A burning ball of aura appeared in the sky and then slammed itself into the ground. Suddenly the ground around the impact point broke as it raised itself. A gigantic beast over 15 meters emerged from the broken earth and made unintelligent sounds toward Hiro.

"You currently are beyond useless, so we have some fun for now."