Hero's Mantle

Neil figured out pretty quickly that there's no such thing as a true Hero.

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Every century, monsters surge across the kingdom of Enkhyria, and only the Heroes can stem the rising tide of darkness.

Unfortunately for the monsters, the Pentarchy outsourced and industrialized the process of Hero-making millennia ago.

Across the land, hundreds of Heroes-summoned in bands of five-are trained, armed, and sent to fight in the kingdoms' war. The gods themselves have blessed them with power, though it is up to each Hero to discover what these blessings do.

Until a tiny mistake screws the whole thing up.

A band of SIX is summoned, and one of the Heroes turns out to be... useless. A rounding error of no particular consequence.

Neil. The mistake-not that he knows it yet. The sixth Hero in his band. He's doing his best, but will that be good enough to convince his keepers to not scrap him for parts?

Hah, no.

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This is my first book! Err- my first book-type-thing. Serial?

Being my first whatever-this-is, I fully recognize that the writing isn't going to be the best, but that's kind of the whole point in writing it, right?

So... this story sort of follows the Unchosen-One trope, where the main character is summoned with a group of Heroes, but... he ISN'T one. He doesn't figure it out right away, but when the other Heroes start being able to punch through walls and summon swords of holy light, and he's still regular-old-Neil, something must be up.

Luckily, he doesn't turn out TOTALLY helpless...

This story will have action, adventure & Other stuff, probably!

I want you to tear my writing apart! To get better!

One day-in the distant future, maybe-I'd like to even be good!