An Unwelcome Hero - shadow slave

The 4 awakened and the ascended stared down Chiron, as looked scared sh"tless on the outside, but within he felt nothing but how it felt to be scared sh"tless. *whbahsgajsha WHYYYYYY?! Can't I just go home?! I'll respawn as a nightmare creature! Just let meh ghooo!*

But no amount of loathing his current situation would be enough to stop his mind from analyzing the situation and finding a way out! This couple of minutes the awakened spent talking allowed him to finish condensing and digesting enough coffee to to forcefully alleviate his condition.

With enough food in his body to accommodate it, Chiron impatiently forced his heart to pump blood faster by manually simulating a heartbeat using his ability. With his heightened blood pressure and beats delivering all the resources he digested to rapidly recover some stamina and let his body rest slightly.

With the nearly animalistic instincts he developed from the numerous near-death scenarios he has face, If not for his sleeplessness and crippled right ear and left eye, he would most likely be at the peak of his physical fitness and current potential.

Chiron even made enough time to scan through the rest the memories he recently acquired and found an extra useful one.

Memory: [Hilt strong].

Memory Rank: dormant.

Memory Type: weapon

Weapon attributes: [copper], [Barbed hilt]

Memory Description: [A copper greatsword. No one knows for what reason, but it has a spiked hilt, injuring the wielder, but giving a neigh unbreakable grip!]

He equiped said sword discretely and got ready to fight. The awakened noticed the new sword Chiron held and shrugged,, they finally decided to approach him and finish off the thorn in their sides. The swordsman, Elbaf and the rogue were the one coming towards him and they seemed to be on a leisurely stroll. They didn't make the slightest of effort to approach him.

*A stupid powerplay! I am already freaking out and I am still 100* down to fight! They can't keep underestimating me with this sh"t! Tha-* But before he could even finish his thought process, his consciousness began to fade away. He felt a burning sensation from the back of his head, ans heard the loud sound of a bomb exploding.

Chiron's vision blurred and his senses nearly went blank, as his brain went flying back and forth inside his skull. With barely any sense of balance left, he had to use his sword as a cane to not fall over. This was the first and last mistake Chiron was allowed to make.

Before he could even regain his bearings, a hammer hit him directly on the left side of his face, caving in his cheek and eye socket... But they didn't stop there! He felt several piercing stabs in his sensitive region, a massive wound suddenly open on the back of his neck, nearly severing his spinal brain and the final blow was an arrow shot at said wound, barely not leaving him crippled due to Elbaf knocking his face back too much.

Within a second, he had sustained enough injuries to kill a man several times over and his body was nothing if not a normal human's. He fell onto the ground without even a chance. He rapidly did damage control by condensing his body, but he knew his ability wouldn't be fast enough to fix all the damage from the 3 prong Strack. *FHUCK!*

The thing holding Chiron back now was no longer his mastery over his ability, but his limited mind. He used his impatient attribute's effect to speed up his body condensing, but he suddenly felt something weird.

And that was when he felt it snap inside of him! In his torso, he felt it deep within, his stomach had torn open and all the food in his body was about to rush out into his body. Vomit rushed up his throat and almost out of his mouth, as it flooded his lungs and he now had 5 targets he needed to delicately condense. *BUNKER DOWN!*

Luckily he manged to force that area of his torso to condense and keep the food inside his stomach, then forcefully condense said stomach. *The fuck? Why haven't I been attacked yet?* For some reason, Chiron felt like several seconds had passed, but no attack had reached him. He felt his eye pulsating in agony, as vision began to return, but before that he needed to fix everything.

Not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, Chiron quickly fixed his open wounds and grabbed his sword even tighter, as he rolled backwards, barely in time to dodge a gigantic hammer about to cave in his heart.

Chiron stood up, as the left half of his face was being forcefully healed and stood staring at death itself, with his sword pointed at it!

Elbaf looked surprised, as he gazed at Chiron. *How did he move that fast? Isn't his body extremely rigid? His dexterity should be cut by 50%, at least!* Almost everyone on the battlefield had a similar thought as him and no one knew the answer.

Chiron had barely moved at all during the previous weeks. After he was confident he had stalled for long enough, he just bunkered down and fought, barely ever changing location, as the battlefield he stood on right now was still littered with some corpses and was completely dyed red.

His ability made him stiff and made controlling his body twice as hard, that was an undeniable fact and a necessity. This was as obvious as daylight, but here it was, the turtle had moved as fast as a hare and none understood how that happened.

While they wore surprise on their faces, Chiron kept observing them all. Slowly becoming more and more prepared to fight! The awakened got out of their stupor soon enough and decided to end this once and for all. They became serious, as some activated their abilities. They regarded Chiron as a threat, one of the most serious threats they have faced so far.

*Why are they moving slower?*