This is an era known as the "end times".
Every ugly thing imaginable roams the world, and wherever they go, all human defences are defeated and all resistance is ineffective.
Legend has it that when the world is plunged into such chaos, a Chosen hero will save the world, and the legend of this hero is the only hope people have in this chaotic world.
Yet there's no evidence of the hero's holy sword? No one can find it.
Candidates for heroes? Too much too much.
Every person claimed to be a true Chosen Hero, but it turned out that every person who called themselves a Chosen Hero was a fraud under the guise of a hero.
There was a nameless mountain bandit who wondered every time she lay down on her horse to rest if such things as Chosen Heroes were just lies that people made up to comfort themselves.
She was born and raised in a group of bandits, and was named "Red Lotus" because of her red hair.
Her stepfather was the leader of the mountain bandits, and although he only robbed the rich, he also tortured his heart from time to time, for he knew that such tactics were not justified at all.
His fears were proved when they stormed the royal capital, and it seemed, it was time to accept some truths, Red Lotus mounted her horse and took her sword with her to do something she wanted to do for a long time - she was going to practice true justice, she rode her horse and jumped over broken walls and looked around amongst the ruins, and finally saved a girl.
This girl is the princess of the kingdom, and in gratitude for saving her life, she is taken to an altar, in the centre of which is the legendary Sword in the Stone.
By all rights, this would be the traditional plot at this point, yet Red Lotus was very resistant.
For she knew in her heart of hearts more than anything else that heroes were nothing more than lies.
But none of that is left to her, as a group of monsters appear to surround them.
Though the legend of the hero is a lie, at least it is a sword.
If she could pull it out, she would still have a shred of strength to fight.
Her hands gripped onto the hilt without hesitation, and even though the blade in the stone was as solid as a tight fit, she fought to pull it.
Suddenly, the blade of the sword emitted a blinding light, and along with it, the blade released searing flames that burned out all the monsters that came at them.
Red Lotus gained power, and with the princess's prayers, she could finally begin to practice what her foster father had never been able to do, bring hope to the people.
She had been a mountain bandit for a long time and learnt her skills, thus turning her into a capable knight who could even single-handedly take on a mountain bandit who could force a warhorse to stop his charge.
But since it's the Chosen Hero, it must be about the Hero's Sword!
The raw materials for this sword have been around since the creation of the world, and they change abilities and styles to suit the needs of each generation of Bravehearts.
The first generation's power was wind, the second generation's power was earth, but the sword that best suited Red Lotus was the "Flame of Hope".
As a result, she also possesses the magic of flame, which is the most suitable magic for her among all the generations of Guts, the magic that converts hope and faith into flame, the more hope and will she gives to the people, the more fiercely the flame burns.
The timing and direction of the flame's explosion can be freely controlled, and the power of Courage grants her life-giving fire.
She senses the presence of anyone with willpower and hope from her meditations, and if she has ever given that person hope herself, she can borrow their faith. By detecting changes in the fire, one can also see changes in their emotions, and in this way can even be used for lie detection.
In addition to the Flame of Life, the Red Lotus also has the hallmark long range attack, which is the Flame Sword that forms the Flame Wave Flame Bomb.
As well as most notably, the Eternal Flame, which burns forever as long as there is hope in the world, as well as in the face of evil monsters, which includes the ability to burn in vacuums and on non-combustible materials, unless broken with a stronger willpower when burned.
This iconic skill was also more than enough to justify Red Lotus' status as the hope of the people.
Though she had been rather lazy for a while, she could feel that fire burning within her when people needed her. Regardless of what it once was, that fire had burned away any traces of the comfortable life it had brought and turned into a rushing blaze.
As time passed, the monster attacks became more rampant by the day, but luckily the princess found the source of the monsters, the top of Mount Tartarus.
If the Chosen Hero really existed, then, how could the prophecy of monsters and heroes relative to each other not exist?
Red Lotus embarked on a crusade to destroy the source of the monsters, and finally reached that legendary place.
Then she found out that the real enemy she had to face was not some demon king, but the heroes of the previous generations.
It turned out that they were guarding this place for the purpose of keeping the balance between humans and monsters, and they gave her two choices, to return or to stay here like them, but Red Lotus chose the third option straight away.
Under the successive battles with the first generation heroes and the second generation heroes, Red Lotus used almost her entire body's strength to fight, and in the course of the battle, she even used her flaming sword to tear apart a cloud!
However, even if she did her best, the powerful strength of the previous generation heroes still made her use up all of her magic power.
As for the sword, it had watched Red Lotus fight for twenty-five years, experiencing suffering, setbacks, falling, and rising again, and it had long since recognised in its heart that Red Lotus was the true hero who could bring hope to all, and the first one who had the courage to break the cycle.
The first generation of heroes obsessed with power, the second generation of heroes who only cared about fame had fallen long ago. She is the only one who can truly fulfil the responsibility of being the hope of all.
She decided to focus on fighting with the power of hope of the people to bring unimaginable power, but ...... this would come at a very, very dangerous price.
Everyone would forget her, forget that she had brought hope, forget who she had been, but it was enough to bring hope, to make the people, and the loved ones happy.
As she wielded her own sword, the Mountain of Tartarus, was destroyed by a fiery blade, and the cycle of hero, ended here.
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