Link never thought of himself as a hero or savior.
In his opinion, there are no real distinctions between heroes and villains; it's just a matter of perspective.
Some people perceive a person as a hero, while others perceive the same person as a villain.
For example, all the races of the alliance considered King Allen the greatest hero of all time. Not only humans, but all the other races respect him too.
Even the dragon race teaches their children about his stories, as he was a symbol of absolute power.
King Allen not only united nearly all of the races of the world; he created a language to connect everyone and also took a lot of measures to eliminate racial discrimination.
His name spread all over the world, and he was admired even in the most remote corners of the world.
He was the reason why the demon race nearly went extinct from this solar system and got confined to a small continent.
He single-handedly brought a thousand years of peace after ending the demon extinction war. The demon dared not attack the alliance for a thousand years due to his fear.
For the alliance, King Allen was the brightest hero, but for the demons, he was the greatest villain.
The number of demons he slaughtered was so high that you could cover the whole surface of the planet with their corpses ten times over.
There are still S-rank demons's dead bodies floating in the Oort cloud that were left behind after the war.
The number of demons that died in that war was so high that it took a hundred years just to clean up the dead bodies of the demon race from the whole solar system.
King Allen's existence alone posed a significant threat to the demon race, prompting Azazel to assassinate all of his descendants in order to prevent the appearance of a second Allen von Reinhart.
And the demon race might have really succeeded in stopping a new King Allen from appearing, if not for the interference of a certain 'Anomaly'.
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"I see... I think...Miasma corrupted all laws of the world, due to which you never got the blessing of heavenly luck even while being the world's chosen..."
Hearing Idri's words, Link frowned a bit and asked in a doubtful tone,
"Uh, how are you so sure that I am that 'World's Chosen' or whatever that is... In the first place, what does it mean to be a 'World's Chosen'... I really can't wrap my head around these..."
The Dragon King nodded his head, his golden hair waved in the air, and he contemplated for a while before saying,
"Hmm, how about we take an example... When we are non-awakeners and don't have mana, we are nothing but 'ordinary' creatures..."
"Our ordinary body is prone to diseases; we catch colds and coughs easily... awakeners usually have high resistance, so they don't catch diseases as much... but for ordinary people, even the weakest disease can become deadly in extreme cases..."
"Then the immune system steps in and stops destroying these diseases, causing 'elements' and eventually restoring us to good health..."
"Yet! Sometimes we end up catching a disease that's so strong and dangerous that our immunse system fails against it, and all efforts end up being useless..."
"That can cause extreme situations, and without proper treatment, we end up dead..."
Idri glanced into Link's eyes and said,
"The world works in a similar manner, Link; consider the world a 'living entity' and things will start making sense..."
"Demons, miasma, and even mana-all of these are foreign substances to this world; they don't belong here; they are like 'cancer' to this world's existence; the denser they become, the more they harm the 'world'...."
"Eventually, there will come a day when the 'World' will not be able to withstand this so- called 'Cancer' and its end will become inevitable... In fact, I would say that we are already living in a world that has started to head towards ruin..."
Idri glanced at the horizon and said it in a solemn tone.
"You can consider the appearance of a 'Hero' or the so-called 'World's chosen' to be similar to the 'immune system'... A hero appears to be dealing with the 'cancer' that is plaguing this world..."
"You are not the first one, Link... King Allen was the real 'Immune System' of this world; he was the one who was blessed with the 'World' and the 'Heavenly Luck' both at the same time..."
"He had the 'Sword of Promised Destinies' in his hand; he had every blessing that the world can give, and he had the greatest amount of heavenly luck supporting his back..."
"You can say that the world put all its efforts on him; he was like the 'super powered' immune system of this world... He slaughtered demons endlessly and did his best to fulfill his duty..."
Idri sighed at that moment and said,
"Alas, even all that was not enough... I don't know what happened after that, and no one knows where he suddenly went after the thousand-year war or how he died..."
"But one thing is sure: even with all those blessings and powers, he lost to this so-called 'Cancer' of the world, if even he was not able to do anything and ended up dying... I highly doubt anyone else can do much..."
"His defeat represents that the world has been affected by such strong diseases that even the immune system has been defeated..."
"After this defeat, thousands of years passed, and the disease that had won against the immune system slowly started to corrupt the world further... Eventually, it must have
corrupted the heavenly luck too..."
"This 'Cancer' likely caused the heavenly luck to lose focus, and when the world tried to do one more last-ditch effort to save itself, the heavenly luck didn't cooperate due to
corruption..."
"Thus, when the world's chosen was born, it directly sent heavenly punishment to annihilate you at birth... Even the world would have been too weak to protect you at that time..."
"After all, giving birth to a new world's chosen is a very difficult process; creating a being that can rule the whole universe is no small matter..."
"You couldn't have been born so talented if not for the fact that the whole world was blessing your existence..."
Those words surprised Link, prompting him to inquire.
"You know about my talent?"
Link has always known that his talent is much higher than anyone else in the world.
No one else possesses the talent of rank SSS; only Link was born with such a talent.
Ashtel himself is the only other person who knows about this matter.
"Yes, I had a long chat with your father; I guess it was sixteen years ago... You had only just
turned one year old at the time..."
"He told me about your talent... Sincerely speaking, I myself am quite envious of you... I consider myself the strongest being in this universe, but even I know that I can't reach a new realm as I don't have the talent for it..."
"The moment I try to ascend, I will be annihilated by the heavenly punishment..."
"But you are different, Link; you are blessed by the world itself; fortunately, you were born as the son of Ashtel Rex; if it were someone else, they could have never been able to save you from the heavenly punishment..."
"You should thank your father for that... Without him, you wouldn't have been able to live
past one or two minutes in this world..."
Link nodded his head in response to Idri's words,
"Yes, I am in his debt... I don't know if I can ever pay him back enough for all he has done for
me..."
Not only did Ashtel block the heavenly punishment for Link, he also declared to the world that Link only had peak SS rank talent, so as not to attract too much attention to him.
Link was already born an awakener and was at rank E from birth. Ashtel had to seal his powers so that Link didn't end up harming himself as a kid.
(Keep in mind that ordinary people start at rank G after awakening, and Link was already at rank E
from birth.)
Link's powers were unsealed after he became fifteen years old and took the academy's
entrance exam.
Aside from protection, Ashtel trained Link in martial arts; he also hired a lot of professionals
to teach Link about various other life skills, like music, singing, etc.
And Ashtel fixed Link's engagement with someone who truly cared about him and gave him motivation to improve consistently.
Link grew up with the utmost support that anyone could get; if the heavenly luck wasn't corrupted, he would have been a perfect, overpowered being with no equals.
If Rio had heard all this talk between Link and Idri, he would have realized that in the original novel, Link was likely being targeted again and again by corrupted heavenly luck.
The main reason why Fade was even able to kill Link was his plot armor; if the heavenly luck was in Link's favor, then there would have been no way to deal with Link.
You can say that the corrupted heavely luck chose a 'trash' like Fade so that Link couldn't get the blessings of luck, and the luck gets wasted on a person who has no real ambitions.
The fight between Fade and Link is basically a chess match between the 'Heavenly Luck' and the Power of the 'World'.
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Author's Notes.
Yo! It's your beloved author here!
Finally!! Finally, we know why the heavenly luck chose to bless trash like Fade!! We finally
have the answer to this!!
This is the reason why the system said 'Suitable host found' when it bound itself with a trash
like Fade.
Question of the day:.
What would you do if you found out that your luck was stolen by a scumbag who used it to
pick up girls?
(Tell me your thoughts in the comments)
By the way, don't forget to use those power stones!!