Hero King Chapter 2 (Patreon)

Here is Chapter 2 of Hero King!! To celebrate the start of this series, the first ten chapters will be available to all Patrons throughout all the Patreon pages owned by Re:Library.

We are still pondering which Patreon page to officially publish the early access of this series in the future. I'd love to post it on Nomad due to the fact it already has two other novels with "Hero" in their title. But then again, it might be time to start expanding the lists of novel available at Musubii. What do you think? Should I post future chapters at Nomad or at Musubii?

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Chapter 2 - Inglis, 0 Year Old

King Inglis really had reincarnated with the miracle of the Goddess, but——being in the body of a baby had its fair share of trouble.

Not only was it hard to operate, moving around a little bit would tire her to sleep.

For him—her who hadn’t even reached one year old, it was a concern that she perhaps had no other choice but to spend the days like ordinary babies.

The family Inglis reincarnated into was the Eux household, the household of Knights.

It seemed like her father, Ryuk Eux, was the head of the feudal lord’s chivalry order while her mother, Selena, was a knight under him when she was on duty, though she had now retired.

Since Inglis still couldn’t speak, she decided to just listen to her parents’ conversation——that was how she learned all of it.

There was the element of surprise that she was reborn as a female, but the inconvenience of having an infant body superseded it.

In the first place, Inglis didn’t really concern herself about genders.

Just how long had it been since then——since the time she was alive?

What happened to the Kingdom of Sylvair that he built and loved all his life ever since?

Even if Inglis was dying to know, it was impenetrably difficult to learn any of it when she could neither speak nor move on her own.

This day, too, Inglis was still in a cradle by her mother’s care, Selena. Apparently, it was about time for a nap.

She pretended to be asleep——and when her mother thought she had fallen asleep and went to do chores, Inglis would make a window of time for herself.

That window of time would be used for practices. That was Inglis’ routine recently. Although, it wouldn’t take long until she actually fell asleep from the drowsiness…

However, she fully devoted herself to train within that short interval until sleep took her over.

She couldn’t hope to hold a sword with her baby hands, but——there were other things she could do.

Even with her being a baby after reincarnation, the Goddess Alistair’s blessing was still in her.

An existence cladded with the spirit of the Gods, a half-man half-god, Divine Knight——

She knew that ability of hers was still there because she could clearly feel the presence of ether.

Ether is the root of everything.

Everything in this world is made of ether, as the difference between one matter to another is the amount of ether they’re consisted of.

Even mana, the so-called source of sorcery, is originated from ether lumping with each other.

Manipulating ether means manipulating the world as you will it, manipulating the law of cause and effect as you want it—— 

In other words, the power of Gods.

However, manipulating ether is nothing like manipulating mana in order to cause supernatural phenomenon through sorcery, it’s overwhelmingly more difficult.

However, in return, the miracle it brings forth is staggering, far exceeding the miracle caused by sorcery.

Inglis, in her previous iteration as a King, was blessed by the goddess and awakened as the Divine Knight only after she reached adulthood.

Ultimately, all she managed to learn after that till the day she died was just the fundamentals of ether control.

Despite that, she showcased superhuman strength and was referred to as a hero, as that much mastery was enough to become the King of Sylvair, but——

That realm was only considered superhumans in the eyes of the commoners, there was a possibility that such a meager level of skill was akin to a baby flailing around in the eyes of the actual superhumans.

Inglis was just collecting years under her belt without the time to actually improve herself.

In her current life as Inglis Eux, she wanted to start her ether manipulation training from a young age and she wished she would reach a new height her previous life couldn’t achieve.

She wanted to master her power as the Divine Knight and climb to an absolute territory, surpassing even gods themselves.

What kind of sight that place might show? Although she herself didn’t know the answer, she only needed to reach there to find out.

Now that she had been reborn to master her own art of war, there was no time to waste.

Even if she couldn’t move her body, she still could knead ether around.

Wasting no time, Inglis sharpened her mind and began controlling ether around her.

As weak as it was, the ether she controlled lifted her infant body softly into the air. It was an excellent performance, considering she was just a newborn. All she needed was to keep this pace of practice.

——Or, that was how it was supposed to go down, but things never went that smooth in life.

「Magic Stone Beast! Everyone, take shelter! Evacuate to the castle!」

The voice of someone at the edge of their life was heard outside the mansion.

*Just what is a magic stone beast——?*

She heard it quite often from her parents’ talk, but she never witnessed it in person.

There was nothing like that in her previous life. Is it something like a variation of a dreadful demon beast——?

「Lil Glis! We have to——WHAAAaa!?!? My child’s f-, floating…!?」 

In her panic, her mother Selena rushed into the nursery.

*…Did she see me!?* Inglis immediately went back to her cradle and cried, trying to pull a deceit.

「Waah! Waah!」 

「N-, no! We still have to evacuate! I can’t face that person if something ever happened to this child! It’s okay, Inglis. Let’s take shelter with mom!」

Selene picked Inglis up and left the room with haste.

*Now then, I wonder if this would present me with an opportunity to see this magic stone beast fella.*

Even if she had acquired power exceeding her previous life’s self, if there was nobody to test it out, it wouldn’t be as worth it. 

*Hopefully, it’s an atrocious monster worth defeating!*

Baby Inglis swayed in her mother’s embrace, hoping so in her heart.