The Max Level Hero Has Returned!

Chapter 791: Davey Enhancement Project

Davey felt dizzy.

Illyna couldn’t see his empty eyes because she was kissing him before she knew it.

She had run toward Davey, who was slumped against a pillar, to hold him in her arms. She had grabbed his shoulder with one hand and held his other hand with hers. Her face had turned red as a tomato, as if it was about to burst at any moment.

“Hmph…Hmph!”

Illyna, who was kissing him with passion, widened her eyes at the sudden, unique touch.

‘Wait a minute?!’ she thought.

Isn't this it?

She then realized what she had just done and was about to pull away. She had imagined this moment several times in her mind, even dreaming of spending the night with him, but she never had the courage to actually do it.

She knew she had to pull away now. But then, just as she tried to get away after relaxing herself, Davey went for her. In an instant, he put her on the floor and kissed her back, his eyes wide open. Then, he realized he didn’t know where he should reasonably go from here.

He was overwhelming her. Illyna, body stiff, couldn’t resist Davey’s skillful movements. This continued for a while. Finally, Davey, who seemed to be struggling with his sleep, slowly pulled back, leaving Illyna breathless, her face blank with shock.

"Ha…Ha….”

Illyna pushed Davey away, wiping her lips with a tearful face.

"My… What have I done…”

Only then did she begin to panic, not knowing what to do, as she was embarrassed by her unexpected actions.

[It was nice to see, but I wonder what the royal family would think of their princess going after a patient.]

“I-I’m aware! Kyaaa! I must be crazy!”

She breathed heavily, placing her hands on her head and making a fuss as she looked at Davey lying on the floor. Panic then set in as she covered her face with both hands, unsure of what to do.

[Descendant. Please place your hands on his body.]

Then the spirit of the Sword God Ares next to her spoke up. Illyna, still embarrassed and confused, carefully placed her hands on his chest.

Hum…

Then a unique energy began to flow from her body.

“Fortunately, he doesn’t have any major injuries… Well, it might be more accurate to say the major ones have disappeared.”

He had clear traces of injuries all over his body and clothes—wounds that would have been fatal for an average person. However, when they checked him he only had minor injuries, having somehow continued to recover.

[It’s a miracle from God. But now that you’ve encountered him like this, there’s no turning back. With a series of goals already accomplished, it’s time to bring this to an end.]

“But… there’s still one god left. Wasn’t the reason our ancestors stayed hidden from Davey to avoid drawing the eyes of god Thanatos?”

[It is highly likely that Thanatos has already noticed the existence of you and me. In that case, it would be better to focus on achieving our final purpose.]

Final purpose.

She sighed when she realized what that meant.

“Then let’s go to Asgard…”

She figured everyone would be surprised by her presence, but she decided that it would be better to take Davey there.

[I'm sorry, but I’m not sure if I’m ready to see my daughter yet. I was hoping we don’t go that route.]

“But you don’t know when you’ll next get the chance to see her again.”

[Is there any need to give trouble to a person who is living well? Rather, how about taking his clothes off?]

“His… clothes?!”

[We need to give him first aid, even if his current wounds are only minor.]

With a reddened face and clumsiness, she carefully touched Davey’s upper body. Looking at the blood and torn clothes strewn here and there, she thought for a while before carefully unbuttoning and removing his shirt.

“Kyaaa!”

She then covered her face with her hands out of embarrassment and slightly widened her fingers to look at his upper body—it was a fit, balanced body. She felt even more embarrassed, as the body in front of her was one she had always imagined in her dreams but never had the chance to see.

“This… This is just for medical purposes. Medical purposes…”

[What are you muttering to yourself about?]

“Stop… Stop being pushy with me!”

She then took out some items from a sack she’d stashed nearby.

“Earth’s medicine truly is amazing.”

She took out disinfectants and gauzes, then carefully using and wrapping them around his affected areas. As she skillfully completed first aid, the dark moonlight illuminated his body. She looked down at Davey in silence and shook her head.

“Get yourself together. He’s married. You can’t have an affair, Illyna.”

Although she had already made a mistake from the moment she kissed him on the lips, she seemed to think that she had to regain her senses now. But even as she repeated this in her head, her eyes were focused on his lips. She couldn’t help notice that his eyes were still closed…

“It’s now or never…”

And, before she knew it, she was closing in on his lips. After tucking her golden hair that seemed to be flowing with honey behind her ear, the moment she tried to carefully kiss him again …

“What are you doing?”

She widened her eyes as large as could be the moment she heard him talk.

“Why are you here?”

She turned into a statue as he slowly opened his eyes.

“Why are you in a suit to boot? What’s going on? I don’t remember bringing you to Earth…” Davey said slowly. He then focused his gaze on the figure behind Illyna.

“It was you.”

Davey muttered as if he finally understood what had happened.

“The hero on Earth.”

[What a quick-witted guy.]

Soon, the heroic spirit, the Sword God Ares, sighed heavily.

“I was looking for you. There are many things I want to ask.”

“But before that, how is your body feeling?” Illyna cut in. Davey just looked at her for a moment before finally responding.

“I’m fine. There are many things I want to ask you too, but I also know heroes can’t stay here for long.”

Davey wanted to ask him questions before talking to Illyna who didn’t have a time limit.

[Don't worry. I’m not an incarnation, but a spirit possession. Unlike other heroes, I’m a slightly unique case, so I won’t disappear anytime soon.]

“Unusual case?”

[My descendant here is the one who inherited my blood the most.]

Any bloodline’s purity was bound to weaken after three thousand years. But Illyna was different. Even after three thousand years, Caldeiras had completely chosen her, and her swordsmanship was at the highest level among her ancestors. It seemed almost like fate.

Other heroes had manifested, but Ares was the only one who came down in the form of possession. This was why he was able to stay longer compared to other heroes.

Davey, dazed, slowly opened his mouth.

“I met Odin.”

[Alright.]

“I also saw traces of Dokgo Jun.”

At this, Ares didn't say anything.

“Please tell me… what happened in the hall? What happened to the heroes?”

Davey prayed his guess was wrong. That they shouldn’t be gone forever. He didn’t want them to sacrifice themselves, but those feelings were cruelly betrayed when they kept getting summoned and disappearing.

[Isn’t there something else we need to take care of first?]

At those words, Davey slowly stood up and took out two wooden swords from Pocket Plane.

“These were made by cutting the branches of the World Tree. They won’t break.”

[Very nice. Descendant. If you would be so kind.]

“Why did you choose to stick to her body?”

[Her body was the only one I could perform possession on.]

Ares spoke calmly, holding the thin wooden sword and flicking the blade.

“Is the small size sufficient?”

Eventually, he slowly finished possessing her body and smiled.

“You still have a long way to go, thinking that you can win with just one weapon.”

He was doing simple possession. Possession clearly couldn’t produce power that overcame the limits of a physical body, which meant that he couldn’t reach Davey while using her body. However, Ares was relaxed nonetheless.

“I don’t think she’s the same weak person you knew before, Davey. She's been learning from me for quite some time.”

He wondered since when the two had been bonded. Davey sighed and unleashed blade energy.

“What are you trying to do?”

“I won’t go easy on you. As always, use all means at your disposal.”

“What are you doing, wanting to spar in a situation where every human on Earth is still trapped in their hallucinations…?”

“That is why I am putting you to the test.”

There was a momentary silence. The two had spent a lot of time together—they knew how the other would react, their next moves.

Then Davey asked quietly, as if he remembered something.

“Well, I thought we agreed on not seeing each other again, but here we are. What if I don’t meet your standards?

“I wish I could say you should do as you always do, but you won’t have a second chance this time.”

Usually, Davey would get beaten and be allowed to master his skills, but this time, he knew he would just get beaten to death if he didn’t meet his standards.

“Sigh… I guess I’ll have to do my best, then.”

“It’s good that you’re tactful.”

Illyna, or rather the Sword God spirit possessing her, chuckled.

“It means there won’t be any instruction for you!”

Sling! Clank!!

The heavy swords collided with each other, creating a huge shock wave. At the same time, Illyna's sword made a subtle resonance.

“What the hell?! The Continuum-Severing Blade?

“You’re still discerning as ever!”

Boom!!

The sword surrounded with aura pushed Davey back in an instant. Ares felt Illyna's arms trembling as he watched Davey quickly widen the distance between them.

“It seems like you haven’t just been playing around all this time.”

“Don’t you think it’s quite unfair to fight with a Continuum Blade while borrowing someone else’s body?”

“Nothing to be surprised about, since my descendant learned this from me.”

“Huh. I knew she had good talent, but to such an extent…”

“Only she can learn this. It’s a sword that even you couldn’t comprehend.”

Davey sighed and gently rotated his sword. Then he smiled softly and said, “I’m going to attack again.”

***

Clank! Clank!!

Illyna and Davey's fight, more precisely, the fight between the sword spirit possessing Illyna’s body and Davey continued.

Their level of fighting was... fire, no, incredible. They clashed with each other as if they were predicting the other’s moves. Their precision had been refined to the point that it seemed almost effortless, minimizing any damage to their surroundings.

Davey used his heavy sword and the agility of the Heavenly Destroyer Divine Art, with an air of devilishness. Ares, on the other hand, focused on defense. Even so, the moment an opening appeared, he struck his sword powerfully enough to distort space and time. There were no unnecessary movements.

They sharply aimed for each other’s solar plexus with each swing, and when they saw an opportunity, they didn’t hesitate to attack with fists and feet instead of their swords.

“You cheater.”

“Is this all you’ve got? You’re disappointing me, Davey.”

The words Ares spoke sent chills down his spine.

“I think it’d be better to teach my descendant so that I can complete her training, instead of wasting my time teaching you right now.”

“You’re trying to make a child who can’t even walk yet to do a triathlon.”

“You were worse than this in the past. And my descendant is different from the one you knew before.”

“Let’s be honest here. You're just being grumpy now. Aren’t I right?”

Clang!!

Davey's wooden sword collided with Illyna's sword that was buffed by the Sword God. Then Davey began provoking him again.

“But, you know, Per is now my wife.”

“I’ve never accepted a son-in-law like you.”

“Thank you very much, father-in-law!”

“You dare you talk back to me about every little thing!?”

Crack!

For a moment, as if consumed by sudden rage, the Sword God struck with such force that his sword distorted time and space. Davey's wooden sword shattered instantly, and the remaining fragments flew up into the air.

Bang!!

Despite Ares' attack shattering his sword, Davey didn’t hesitate—instead of defending or evading, he chose to counterattack. He narrowly dodged the incoming blade with such precision that even the slightest error would’ve dealt him fatal damage.

Thud!!

Of course, despite using Illyna’s body at the moment, there was a reason why Ares was called the Sword God. He wasn't stupid enough to fall for such a basic attack. Instead, he deflected the attack and even created an opening to hit his vital point.

“Cough. Damn it! Are you really trying to kill me?!”

“You cannot learn the sword that cuts through time and space. You know that, right?”

“I know that very well, yes.”

Davey knew everything couldn’t be perfect. Even though he had mastered the skills of heroes, he lacked the quality to become an absolute master in one field like them.

Bang!!

The two collided with each other again.

“So what I’m going to teach you is not simple swordsmanship—it’s something more complex.”

But the issue wasn't the learning. Time was the biggest problem, as getting stronger in a short period of time wasn’t realistic.

“Do we have enough time?”

Davey knew that the humans on Earth would soon be free from the hallucinations. They’d wake within a few hours at most. And he knew better than anyone else that learning something took more than just a couple of hours.

After hearing his question, the Sword God seemed to have decided that further sparring was meaningless. He took a step back and put away his sword, taking a short breath and closing his eyes. Once done, Illyna's body shook violently and fell into Davey's arms.

"Ah…Kyaaa!?”

She struggled while screaming in surprise, but Davey caught her and looked up at Ares who was now floating in the air. The Sword God, who had taken on a blurry appearance, leisurely questioned him.

[How many times have we already taught you the impossible?]

He was right. Throwing an ordinary human into magma was ultimately a successful training method.

[For now, don't ask or argue, just get used to it. Since my descendant has learned the space and time sword, if you don’t get used to its energy, you won’t be able to learn from future training in any way.]

“Get used to it?” Davey asked as he twitched his eyes.

“The only thing I learned about the phrase ‘getting used to it’ in the hall was how to be bored to death.”

In order to understand Odin's magic, he had been hit with dozens, hundreds, and thousands of Hellfires. To learn and lift curses, he received thousands of curses from Daphne and Rho Aias, as if he was being experimented on.

That wasn’t all.

Hercules, saying that he had to have first-hand experience in order to survive, had picked up Davey and thrown him into a desert where there was nothing but a sandworm's nest. Thinking about how he received that kind of training at the time when he had no strength made him shiver.

[It's okay, you’ll get used to it as you endure it. For your information, my descendant is going to do her best too. For you Davey, no weapons and no mana. Also, no divine power and other bizarre powers like the power of Hercules.]

He had to withstand her attacks using only his physical strength, without even using mana.

“And what if I get hurt in the process?”

[That’s your destiny. This is old news, isn’t it?]

“Are you going to just hang out and watch like always?”

[I like how you’re so tactful all the time.]

If he failed, it would be the end for him—the merciless teaching method stakes remained the same as when he was in the hall.

Ares grinned and lashed out at Davey, who kept silent.

[Don't worry. You don’t think you’ll really die, do you?]

Davey couldn’t believe that damn ghost was saying stuff like this when he had told him that she was going to attack him with all her might.

“One day, I’m going to stick a bamboo spear in your stomach too.”

He figured he should’ve expected this kind of training to happen, as this was the way all the damn heroes thought. Davey sighed heavily.

[If you want to keep your promise to cherish Perserque as your wife and protect her, what you’re doing right now isn’t enough. You need to become stronger. I can guarantee you that if you do a good job following this training regime, you can at least become strong enough to be called a hero like all of us are.]

Davey had been confident that he was already strong enough to qualify. However, after clashing with Ares he figured he still had a long way to go.

“What on earth does it take to become that strong?”

Aeres answered his question indifferently.

[Talent.]

‘I guess he hasn’t learned his lesson on what happens when he lies,’ Davey thought.

Eventually, Illyna took a short breath and her whole body exploded with energy. Davey reflexively tried to activate his mana, only to forcibly suppress it once he remembered the imposed restraints. Despite his effort, however, his elemental mana sensed that he was in danger and still went out of its way to protect him.

Thud!!

Illyna struck him with her wooden sword, but he wasn’t damaged at all. It was clear that he had used his mana.

[It’s not easy, is it?]

Davey wondered if that old ghost knew this was going to happen all along, hearing his obnoxious snicker.