Calamity Upon This World

Like all good things even the dinner came to a end.

"Thanks for the dinner ma'am" William said.

"The pleasure is mine dear, I'm glad you guys enjoyed the food"

"Now how about you guys go and hang out in Mark's room for a bit while I go clean the dishes" she said.

"Let me help you ma'am" William tried to help but his offer wad quickly rejected.

So he along with the rest of his former party went to hang out in Mark's room.

**

Mark's room didn't have much in it and it wasn't because of him being a minimalist or something but rather because it wasn't that lived in.

Maybe it was because Mark preffered to spend most of his time outside.

It just had one queen sized bed, one poster of the sword saint and a small study table.

The room wasn't that big, due to which despite not having much it didn't look that weird.

William and Mark took a seat on the bed ,while Jasmine sat on the study table chair and Raya took a stray chair that was in the room.

For a few seconds there was a awkward silence with no one talking, but it was broken by William.

"I didn't know you were a fan of the sword saint" he said while looking at the lone poster in the room which depicted Rex posing heroically with his sword held in the sky.

William had always known that Rex was a big shot in the world even before he left home, but it seems he had gravely underestimated his influence.

Every 1 out of 3 aspiring adventurer had Rex as their role model.

The strongest adventurer in history, sword saint, dragon slayer,second strongest man alive, sword that can cut the sky, count Verhein and many more.

These were just some of the nicknames Rex had earned over the years.

While now he was mostly retired and had settled to live a simple life with his family while governing his territory.

The mark he had left on the world was still felt.

And as the son of such a man he was naturally the center of many discussions and debates.

With most people debating about his speech and if whether he was too cocky, while others believed his words and praised his talent.

He had known this even before but the notion was only made clearer over the last few months that the whole world had its eyes on him and were patiently watching each and every move of his.

For anyone else this realization would have probably felt daunting and stressful to know that all their moves were being watched and observed but for William it just felt exciting.

As the son of the sword saint as well as the second ever divine aspect holder, this much attention should be minimum and it did nothing but motivate him to try even harder to live up to everyone's expectations.

Especially his parents but it seems he had ended up zoning out again and even Mark seemed to have noticed.

"I'm sorry I was just thinking about something" William exclaimed.

"Oh no problem man, so like I was saying"

"Rex Verhein has always been my childhood idol and I've always dreamed about following his footsteps"

"He was the inspiration for both me and my brother to pursue a career as adventurers"

"I know it might be a bit childish but I still want to keep trying my best" Mark explained.

"I see that's great,I'm sure you'll succeed in your goal as long as you keep trying" William replied enthusiastically.

Honestly William didn't really think it was possible for Mark to ever become as strong as Rex.

Rex was really an annomaly in how he managed to become so strong, it was really weird how despite all his powers he wasn't even the strongest human.

But that wasn't important right now, what was important was that Mark was probably never gonna reach a level even close to Rex, but he didn't have the heart to crush his childhood dream.

Besides, with his talent and personality Mark will probably end up becoming relatively famous atleast in the guild and William wished him nothing but good luck as a friend.

" I didn't know you had a brother" Jasmine spoke.

This was something even William was interested in and considered asking about later in the conversation.

But he wasn't complaining about Jasmine bringing it up earlier.

Hearing her question Mark went quite for a second which made Jasmine wonder if she had asked something she shouldn't have.

Thankfully the wait didn't last long long as after sighing he finally spoke.

"Yeah I used to have a brother before.

We were really close in the past and we both had the same dream of surpassing Rex Verhein.

He was much more talented and skilled than me and after a few years of being a adventurer had managed to reach the rank of SS, given a few more months or a year even SSS rank wouldn't have been out of reach for him.

Sadly life doesn't work according to what one expects and he took a mission which was too tough for him and has now now been missing for the past 2 years.

"Most people think that he died already "

Rex took a break as if fighting the tears which threatened to spill out, thankfully he managed to control himself and continued speaking.

"But I disagree I'm sure he isn't dead yet, he can't die without achieving our dream, he will one day come back for sure"

"He has to" Mark said with determination in his voice. Find more chapters on m_v l|e'm-p| y r

Everyone looked concern for him as this was the first time they had seen this side of the usually composed and collected Mark.

They wanted to comfort him but weren't sure what to say.

"I see I didn't know that but, I pray that you're right and he ends up coming back after all" William finally decided to break the ice as he tried his best to comfort his friend.

He really hated doing this and sucked at it, but as one says experience is the best teacher and William had a lot or experience doing this thanks to his past life.

"Thanks I appreciate it"

"But well that's enough about me how about you guys share a bit about yourselves now" Mark suggested.

The night was still young and there were still a lot of things which needed to be discussed and talked about.