Hero is a Wanted Man

Raiden when opened his eyes, he found himself sitting on a rock. In his one hand was a golden locket, with a black color Rose engraved. On the other hand, he had a leather pouch, filled with mead.

He could smell the trees and grass all around him, combined with some air, he understood that he was around a forest of some kind. 

"Are you alright?" he looked up to see a woman standing before him. The woman was a Demi-Human, she had long grey hair, cat ears, and the top, and her body was riddled with muscle. She looked like a veteran warrior.

What the hell is happening here?

Before he could ask, his mouth opened a voice came out, "I am alright. Just.. Happy that everything is coming to an end,"

"This is the last stretch, Jacob. The last." The woman said, then she kneeled to match his height and stared into his eyes. "It is alright if you are having a bad time coming to terms with it. Are you feeling scared?"

"No. I am just fine,"

That is a lie. Raiden could not tell what was happening, but the body that he was inhabiting currently, he could feel the man's fear. More than that, he could feel the hatred towards the woman before him.

It is then Raiden heard some a roar, followed by a few more. And before he knew it, the whole valley that they were sitting in started reverberating with the roars of the beast.

"Show time," the man said pushing himself up. It was then that he noticed, that the body that he was inhabiting had brown color skin, and seemed to wearing make-shift clothes made of beasts' hides. 

He felt the man pumping his mana through his body. 

The power that he felt at that moment, he had never expirenced it before. His whole body was brimming with power. As the man stretched his body, he felt the well-defined muscles of the man, felt the calluses on the man's hand, the aches from the scars of previous battles, and most importantly he felt the mana of the man.

What rank does this man possess? He thought, Is it Rank-40 or above? Maybe Rank-50… I have never felt this power in my life.

Raiden himself was a Rank-7 Warrior, but the mana that possessed was no way near what the man possessed. In comparison, if the man had mana like that of a sea, in real life he possessed mana equivalent to a cup of water.

"Let's go," the man said and then he started running, faster than anything Raiden had ever seen. As Raiden could feel everything that the man was feeling, he could tell that the man was aware of everything in the surroundings even at this speed. From the rustle of the leaves to the tiny insect flying near the flower that they just left behind, the man was aware of everything.

Is this.. what itfeelsl like to be a high Ranker?

The man traveled several kilometers in the span of a few minutes and soon came to a stop at the top of the hill.

From the edge, Raiden saw something that sent a chill down his spine. Before him was an army of what seemed like thousands of Demonic Creatures. They were humanoid creatures, all different from one another. Some had extra limbs, some had extra heads, and all of them seemed dangerous from the amount of mana they were emitting.

These creatures were the almost same amount of mana as the man.. And what the fuck are those?

"Cleave everything in the way of light, That is my duty. I Harbinger of Light have come to serve all of you justice," As much cringe those words were, they sent goosebumps through Raiden.

Harbinger of Light? As in the Hero? This man is a Hero? Or at least he thinks that he is a Hero. 

Several questions were popping into Raiden's head, but there didnt seem to be anything that he could do. The man waved his hand and a pitch-black blade appeared in the man's hands. As he felt the mana of the man flow into the blade, the edge of the blade started glowing purple, and suddenly the blade started emitting pressure as if the weight of a mountain had befallen in the valley.

The demonic creature then became aware of the man's existence, they all looked at him snarling and growling.

"This is for you my love," the man said and he jumped to confront the creatures.

After Raiden didnt experience the whole fight, he just expirenced some glimpses of the fight. He felt all the time when the man was injured when he was thrown, and when he desperately clung on to his life…

Raiden once again found himself in the body of the man, before him was the mountain of the demonic beast that he had killed. He could feel that his body was riddled with holes and wounds, and based on how weak was feeling, he knew that he was about to die.

The man seemed to be aware of it as well, so he was sitting on a rock overseeing the sunrise. In his hand he held the rose locket and was caressing it, trying to remove the blood from the thing. 

"You did well," the demi-human appeared before him once again.

The man looked up, and said, "Fuck you,"

The woman didnt take offense to his words, and just sat down on the ground beside him, "The end is the hardest part." She said, "I was more miserable than you.. I remember it perfectly as it was yesterday. I was so out of…."

"Could you shut up now? I am dying here. And I want to die thinking of my loved ones. I would rather not die if your voice is the last thing that I hear,"

The woman chuckled, "Sure thing," and just like the woman vanished as if she was not there in the first place.

Raiden could feel the strength leaving the man, and before he knew the man lay down on his back and closed his eyes forever…

When Raiden opened his eyes again, he found himself lying on a very familiar lower deck of a ship. Immediately he pushed himself up, checked and sure enough he was himself once again.

What the fuck was that?

They were my memories, came an answer from his right. He turned right to face a man sitting in the darker part of the man. The man grabbed the pole of the ship and stood up, standing before Raiden was a man in his late twenties. He had brown skin, and was almost 8 feet tall, towering over him as if he were an ant.

The most curious thing was, that the man's voice seemed similar to the man whose body he just inhabited.

Name is Jacob. What is yours? Then, Raiden did what any sane person could. He took the flintlock pistol on his waist, aimed at the man, and pulled the trigger….