I Am a Heroic Spirit

Although he had thought long ago that in this era, perhaps a president would become a hero and ask him for the position of US president, or an Indian hero would want to take back their land, he did not expect it to come so soon, and not to be an American or an Indian, but a Celtic queen who was not related at all.

"Can you be responsible for your words?" the president asked the snake man with a serious expression.

"Of course, Mr. President, I heard it clearly." The snake man said affirmatively.

The president was silent for a moment, then waved his hand, signaling the two bodyguards to take the snake man away.

"Mr. President, there's no need to do this. She's just a woman. Let me hammer her to death." Hellboy was a little impatient and spoke rudely.

"Heroic Spirits aren't as easy to deal with as you might think. Their powerful Noble Phantasms, unique skills, immunity to thermal weapons, and spiritual invisibility—these four qualities alone are enough to make any nation fear offending a Heroic Spirit." The President shook his head, rejecting Hellboy's proposal. According to current intelligence, beyond the Heroic Spirits' inherent strength, their networks pose an even greater threat. Every Heroic Spirit has many close friends and relatives, just like the young King Arthur a few days ago, who had the great wizard Merlin to protect him. "Perhaps it's a misunderstanding. After all, Queen Maeve has no connection to the United States, so she shouldn't suddenly want to conquer the country. Or perhaps she's been offended by the Mellon family, leading her to make such a harsh statement."

"That's hard to say, Mr. President. You probably don't know this queen. She's Queen Maeve of Connacht, as recorded in Celtic mythology and Ulster legends. She was engaged to and married to many kings and warriors, even fathers and sons. She was lustful and willful. She once led troops to invade Astell in order to seize the brown sacred bull Don Cooley. Later, she plotted to kill the great hero Cu Chulainn who tried to stop her. In Liz's words, she was a big bitch. When she saw the wealth of the United States, she suddenly wanted to make the United States her own property. It wasn't a strange thing for her." The erudite Hellboy showed an unexpected understanding of myths and legends of various countries. After all, he didn't look like a knowledgeable scholar at first glance.

"Oh? What about her strength? If she becomes a Heroic Spirit, what kind of Noble Phantasms and skills will she gain?" The President asked hurriedly upon hearing this.

"There should be only two kinds of Noble Phantasms. One is the chariot, which is pulled by the brown divine bull Don Kuli. Its abilities should be flight, rapid advancement, and ramming. The divine bull can change its size and shape at will. In the legend, it even turned into a warrior and a flying insect in the fight with Kulinger. The other is the blessed hazel branch. In the legend about Maeve, she can defeat all enemies with just a wooden stick, but there are no actual battle examples, so it should not be that powerful. As for skills, it is probably the ability to charm. Apart from that, Maeve is riding a warhorse and charging with a spear. "She's a type of person like me, so she should have decent melee ability, though she's unlikely to be stronger than me. Maeve is known as the Mother of Soldiers, as legend has it that all her soldiers were born to her. Those soldiers were her seven sons, but after becoming a Heroic Spirit, she likely gained the ability to summon soldiers due to this legend. That's also where the Snake Man mentioned Maeve's claim to be developing an army. However, Maeve had a significant weakness, which was the cause of her death: she was killed by a hurled cheese while bathing. The cheese would have been a fatal threat to Maeve."

Through his understanding of mythology, Hellboy explained in detail the abilities that Maeve might possess, and almost revealed all of Maeve's abilities and weaknesses, except that Maeve has more than just her own Noble Phantasm.

Maeve and Astolfo are very similar, both being Heroic Spirits specialized in Noble Phantasms. Through the power of their various Noble Phantasms, they can exert abilities that are a class above their actual combat power. Take Maeve, for example. Even among the top-tier Heroic Spirits, few could consistently defeat her. ...

After Hellboy finished speaking, the president lowered his head and remained silent, his expression constantly changing, as he struggled with a difficult decision.

The obvious weakness and the extremely deadly ability to summon soldiers for a country, these two things are enough for the president to take a risk, but this must be reviewed by Congress. Even if the other party only needs one night to summon a large number of soldiers from the mythical era, he cannot make a decision on his own, because this is politics. If he makes the decision to kill Maeve in the villa without authorization, no matter what the reason is or what the result is, it will eventually become a handle.

"Please make a decision quickly, Mr. President. That woman is just a caster or rider who is good at charm and summoning. She can't be my opponent in terms of hard power, but once she develops her army, it will be difficult to kill her." Hellboy urged impatiently. If the man in front of him was not the president, he would have pushed him away and killed Maeve himself.

"No, don't forget, the Mellon family and other guests are all inside, and they have been bewitched. If you act rashly, what if something happens to them? If they try their best to stop you, will you kill them or not?" The president thought for a moment and said to Hellboy seriously.

Hellboy opened his mouth but had nothing to say. If it was really as the president said, there was nothing he could do.

"Leave one team here to monitor, and the others go back."

The president picked up the pager, gave an order to the back, then asked his secretary to start the car and drive to Los Angeles City Hall.

The news that Queen Maeve had charmed everyone at the Mellon dinner and was preparing to conquer the United States soon reached the ears of congressmen and the Mellon family.

After a night, the response plan for Queen Maeve was finally released after being reviewed by Congress. It was nothing more than a decapitation operation to kill Queen Maeve as quickly as possible. But before that, the fishmen from the Unnatural Research and Defense Bureau were needed to use their psychic powers to wake up those who had been charmed.

The plan went very smoothly, so smoothly that it was unbelievable. The major families easily tricked their children back, and then the mermen broke the charm they were under.

Of course, this was also because the guests in the villa were only charmed by ordinary skills, not by Noble Phantasms. As for the smooth escape, it was because Maeve did not take ordinary people seriously at all.

The next morning, in Beverly Hills in Los Angeles, there was no irrelevant person except for a hundred agents armed with light energy weapons, Hellboy and Liz, and Queen Maeve who was enjoying herself in the villa. The army had expelled the residents of Beverly Hills as early as dawn, and the members of those big families had also learned the inside story and left here on their own.

"According to the surveillance personnel's intelligence, Queen Maeve has not yet made the summon, so there is no need to worry about being besieged." Liz said to Hellboy.

"Do you think I will rush in directly?" Hellboy heard the meaning of Liz's words and asked with a smile.

"Of course, haven't you always been like this? And it just so happens that there is only Queen Maeve in there." Liz shrugged and asked Hellboy back.

"You guessed wrong this time." Hellboy said, putting a suitcase he was carrying on the ground, then opened it and took out a huge mechanical prop from it.

"This is a new invention of the Research Department. It is said to be a compressed version of the electromagnetic pulse bomb. It is said that it will be mass-produced in two years, turning this thing into a conventional individual weapon." Hellboy weighed the bomb in his hand. It can be seen that the bomb is quite heavy. Only Hellboy can hold it so lightly.

"They let you conduct weapons experiments?" Liz asked.

"Well, those guys want to know if this thing works against Heroic Spirits. After all, it's not an ordinary thermal weapon, but rather a compressed version of an older energy weapon." Hellboy nodded. The waste of effort converting a weapon like the electromagnetic pulse bomb into a single-soldier weapon, a research that only began a few months ago, is clearly aimed at beings like Heroic Spirits.

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"I guess they only started researching it after the Heroic Spirits appeared," Liz said with a sneer.

"Of course, missiles and other firearms are useful to us, but they're useless against Heroic Spirits. Ordinary laser weapons aren't much more powerful than sniper rifles, and their effects on Heroic Spirits aren't as effective as ordinary magic items. Naturally, they'll have to develop targeted weapons."

As Hellboy spoke, he made a discus throwing gesture, prepared for two seconds, and then threw the bomb into the villa with force.

"boom!"

Following a loud bang, the dazzling light made Liz subconsciously close her eyes. When she opened her eyes, the villa in front of her had disappeared. Only a chariot pulled by two bulls and a beautiful woman sitting at the entrance of the chariot with her legs spread apart remained in the center of the plain.

"Unbelievable! No one was hurt at all!"

Liz said in shock that even if Hellboy had taken the bomb head-on, he would have suffered serious injuries.

"Demon? You're the one who attacked my mansion. You're so naughty! Now, accept my punishment."

Maeve smiled seductively, ignoring Liz's presence, staring at Hellboy's burly body, teasing him with her charming voice.

Hellboy felt his head sink and his body involuntarily took two steps forward.

"Damn it! You bitch! Go to hell!"

Liz noticed that something was wrong with Hellboy. She thought about it and immediately realized that Hellboy, like those people yesterday, had been bewitched by Queen Maeve. She was suddenly filled with anger, and an extremely high-temperature flame ignited in her outstretched hand, turning into a thick pillar of fire and blasting towards Maeve.

At the same time, Liz reached out to Hellboy, trying to stop him from moving forward. Unexpectedly, Hellboy had stopped by himself and his eyes had regained clarity, obviously he had escaped from Queen Maeve's charm.

"Sorry, Liz, but don't worry, I won't fall for the same trick for the 13th time." Hellboy said to Liz.

However, Liz still felt dissatisfied with Hellboy, but she was more angry at Queen Maeve. Most women were like this. When their men cheated or fell in love with other women, they rarely targeted their men, but instead vented all their anger on the women their men fell in love with. Although the situation here was somewhat different, the nature was the same.

"What a determined man! He was able to break free from my charm so quickly. Is it because of love?"

At this time, a disturbing voice came from Liz's flames. The flames gradually dissipated, and Maeve appeared in the sight of the two men intact.

"Enjoy this short-lived love to the fullest, because you will soon lose her and become mine."

Liz became even more angry at Maeve's words, and scorching flames erupted from her whole body. The flames, which became extremely hot due to anger, burned the concrete ground beneath her feet, making Hellboy feel hot all over.

The flames gushed towards Maeve, the scorching flames swaying in the wind, the crimson light so intense that it was impossible to see through.

"Moo!"

"All power is mine... the kingship to rule over others... the iron to crush others... the terror to terrify others! Chariot My Love!"

The sound of bulls howling rang out in the flames, and a charming female voice sang. The blazing flames split in the middle like the sea water parted by Moses, revealing a fireless passage. In the passage, a chariot pulled by two bulls was moving outward at an extremely fast speed, and its destination was Liz, who was constantly releasing flames.

"Still not injured? It seems that bitch is a rider with high-level anti-magic power." Liz judged with a grim expression.

Liz turned her head and looked at Hellboy, saying viciously, "I can only rely on you. My ability is useless. Go ahead and crush that bitch with your fists."

"Don't worry! You retreat first!"

Hellboy responded, reached out and grabbed Liz's shoulder, pushed her behind him, then took a big step forward, let out a deafening roar, clenched his fists and swung them hard, smashing the charging bull's head.

"Oh!"

The right hand with the power to destroy the world knocked over a bull with one blow, and the bull on the other side smashed Hellboy's left hand to pieces. The strong impact knocked Hellboy away, and the iron chariot lost its balance because of the fall of the bull. The treasure that was supposed to catch Hellboy also temporarily lost its effect. Maeve herself also fell out of the iron chariot and failed to adjust the treasure in the first time.

This can also be said to be the iron chariot's flaw, which is not a flaw. Only by knocking down the bull pulling the chariot head-on can one naturally avoid being caught in the chariot. However, the only person in the entire United States who can head-on resist the impact of a B+-level Noble Phantasm is Hellboy's right hand.

"You barbarian, you actually let me, a gorgeous person, show such an ungraceful side. I will absolutely! I will definitely make you taste the pain!"

Maeve climbed up from the gravel ground and said angrily. Her body looked a bit messy because she fell off the chariot, and there were some scratches on her left arm.

Hellboy had been helped up by Liz. When he heard Maeve's angry voice, he smiled ferociously.

"Then give it a try, bitch, let's see whether I smash you into a meat patty first or you make me taste the pain first."

As he spoke, Hellboy pulled up the big tree next to him and smashed it towards Maeve, preventing Maeve from getting on the chariot. Then he strode towards Maeve.

Maeve was blocked by a huge tree falling towards her, and was a step too late. Hellboy caught up with her and hit her on the head with his fist as big as a casserole. If she was hit, she would probably be smashed into a meat patty.

However, Maeve was one step ahead and retreated out of Hellboy's attack range. Hellboy's right fist smashed the ground, and the powerful force cracked the ground, and gravel splashed in all directions like bullets.

Faced with this powerful rubble, Hellboy did not dodge or evade. The rubble splashed on his body, just like a ping-pong ball hitting a ping-pong paddle and was bounced away. Maeve retreated all the way backward without adjusting the trajectory of her movements. Her straight steps were full of flaws. However, the rubble passed by her side without exception, and not a single rubble touched her body.

This is because of Maeve's Noble Phantasm, the future vision of her beloved. Two minutes ago, when Hellboy was confronting my beloved Iron Chariot head-on, Maeve realized the danger of Hellboy. Maeve did not dare to continue to be negligent, so she released the Noble Phantasm directly to avoid being easily hit and then returning in disgrace.

"You are indeed an outstanding hero. Then, I will make an exception and show you my most powerful Noble Phantasm!"

Because there was no chance to create Celtic soldiers, and she was also worried that the C-grade mead might not be effective, Maeve took out the silver-white spiral sword.

Hellboy was stunned for a moment, because he didn't expect that the treasure that Maeve took out was not the blessed hazel branch as he guessed, but a sword. However, Hellboy's face soon changed because he recognized the true identity of the sword.

"Could this spiral sword be the one held by the great Celtic hero Fergus, forged by the elves of the Kingdom of God, and possessing the thunder of God, the Karadboga that can cut down three hills!" Hellboy said in shock.

"Yes, I will show you the true rainbow... the rainbow sword (Caladbolg) of my beloved!"

With the crisp sound of "ei" and the lovely swinging movement, Maeve inserted the spiral sword into the ground with force. As the spiral rotated, golden light spread out for several meters with the place where the spiral sword was inserted as the center.

Hellboy wanted to stop Maeve's actions, but suddenly his heart trembled, and a bad premonition arose in his heart. Hellboy turned around quickly, lifted Liz with both hands, and threw her away with all his strength. Liz's body in Hellboy's hands was like a fired cannonball.

"...!"

Just as Liz was shocked and wanted to shout something while flying in the air, an astonishing scene happened. Right under Hellboy's feet, the ground was shaking, and a white light circle with a radius of more than 20 meters appeared there. Before Hellboy could move, the white light circle burst out with a rainbow-like beam of light, shooting from the cracked ground to the sky. The ground completely collapsed, and the concrete floor of the entire street rose up together with the rainbow beam of light. Hellboy was also an exception, and was lifted into the sky by the rainbow beam of light with powerful destructive power.

"Oh!"

Liz fell heavily to the ground and bounced twice. A crisp sound of broken bones rang out from her body. A mouthful of blood spurted out of her mouth and evaporated in the rainbow beam that was close at hand. The heavy fall caused Liz to suffer serious injuries and even lost the ability to move.

However, Liz was lucky because the rainbow beam had a very wide coverage area and many agents had been killed by the power of the rainbow. Apart from Liz, only some of the agents on the outermost periphery were still alive.

"Such a terrifying force, is this what Hellboy meant by not being a concern and being easily dealt with?"

Tens of thousands of miles away in the White House in New York, a group of senior American government officials saw everything that happened in Beverly Hills through surveillance, and the person who sighed was the Senate President.

"If it was just the legendary power that Maeve possessed, then there would be no need to worry. But that rainbow is not a power that Maeve possesses." The president defended Hellboy.

"You mean, Hellboy's judgment was wrong, and the woman there was not Queen Maeve?" the Senate President asked back.

"You can ask those who attended Mellon's dinner party whether the woman there is Queen Maeve. Hellboy can only analyze the power that Queen Maeve will possess." President 487 retorted unyieldingly.

"Ahem, guys, now is not the time for you to bicker. The most important thing is to find a way to deal with the unknown heroic spirit who wants to rule the United States and is suspected to be Queen Maeve." The Speaker of the House of Representatives coughed twice, interrupting the dispute between the two presidents and vice presidents.

"Oh, that's easy to say. How can we deal with it? Who can withstand the power comparable to a volcanic eruption? Who has weapons that can severely damage the heroic spirits?" The Minister of Defense sneered, pointing at the rainbow beam that had not yet subsided on the screen, and spoke.

"..."

There was silence in the room as no one could answer the Defense Minister's question.

"I think it's time to let those guys come back. At the very least, we need to confirm the true identity and ability of that heroic spirit. Miss Liz, who faced that heroic spirit together with Hellboy, can answer this question for us." After a long time, the president spoke.

"This is the only way." The Speaker of the House of Representatives looked helpless, and the others nodded.

In Beverly Hills, the surviving agent received an order from the White House and immediately rushed to Liz, picked her up and ran out.

"What are you doing? Put me down!" Liz, startled by the agent's sudden action, shouted loudly and struggled to get off the agent's back. If the agent was not a woman, Liz would have used the power of fire to force her to stop.

"Ms. Liz, this is the president's order. We have to take you away safely." The female agent hugged Liz tightly and said in a deep voice.

"But Anu is still in there, I can't leave him behind!" said Liz.

"Please face the reality. No matter how strong that gentleman is, he cannot survive such a power that is almost like a nuclear explosion. You need to survive to help him get revenge." Although the female agent did not know Hellboy's real name, she understood it after hearing what Liz said, and then spoke to Liz in a comforting tone.

"Impossible, he won't die. He is different from ordinary people. He once used his chest to withstand bullets fired from an MG-42 machine gun, and he was not injured until he destroyed the machine gun. That attack was just a surface attack, it definitely can't kill him. Stop, we have to rescue him..." Liz kept resisting and refuting, but the female agent counterattacked with a knife and knocked him unconscious.

By the time Liz woke up, the power of the Rainbow Sword had dissipated, and Liz herself was taken away from Beverly Hills and taken to the Los Angeles branch of the Bureau of Unnatural Research and Defense, where she also met Fishman and Professor Bloom.

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"Professor, we have to rescue Anu. With his physique and right hand, Maeve can defeat him, but she can't kill him."

After waking up, the first thing Liz said was that she wanted to rescue Hellboy. Even after she woke up, she couldn't believe what she said, so she looked a little crazy. It took the fishman some effort to calm Liz down.

"Calm down for a moment, Anu is fine," Professor Bloom gently reassured Liz. "We discovered through satellite surveillance that Anu was only seriously injured. He was then taken by that female Heroic Spirit to a villa that wasn't affected."

Knowing that Hellboy was not in immediate danger of death, Liz relaxed completely, as if a heavy burden had been lifted from her shoulders, and lay back down on the bed.

"Female heroic spirit? Are you talking about Maeve?" After a pause, Liz noticed the noun in Professor Bloom's words.

"I need to ask you this. Your Excellency the President believes that the power that just erupted in Beverly Hills should not be something that Queen Maeve can possess. So let us ask you, is the heroic spirit believed to be Queen Maeve really Queen Maeve?" The fishman asked Liz.

"Yes, it was that bitch Maeve. The rainbow before was released by her using the Karadboga, the sword used by the great Celtic hero Fergus to cut down three hills. I heard it clearly. When that bitch released her Noble Phantasm, the chant she sang was 'The Rainbow Sword of My Beloved'. It's obvious that that bitch Maeve can use her man's Noble Phantasm." Liz said viciously. Her anger towards Maeve could be seen from her gnashing of teeth.

"It seems the situation is a little bad. If Maeve can use her man's Noble Phantasm, then no one can be her opponent in a head-on confrontation. You know, Queen Maeve has a lot of men, and most of them are qualified to become Heroic Spirits." Professor Bloom's face darkened, and he immediately called the White House and conveyed the known information.

At the White House, everyone's expressions changed after receiving the information conveyed by Professor Bloom.

Because Maeve is really difficult to deal with. It's okay that she can summon an army, after all, her own strength is not strong. Who would have thought that she can use the Noble Phantasms of other Heroic Spirits to make up for her own weaknesses? This makes it difficult to deal with.

"What should we do now?" someone asked anxiously. If this continued, the United States would really become someone else's. When had they ever felt so aggrieved?

"Let the Oriental man from District 13 take action. That Oriental man is proficient in witchcraft and possesses the power of the evil dragon from that year." One person suggested.

"Although that man has many tricks up his sleeve, his actual combat power is not much stronger than Hellboy. Even Hellboy has been defeated. What's the point of her going there?" someone retorted.

"Who said we have to fight her head-on? Although Queen Maeve is powerful, her weakness is obvious. We just need to make that woman invisible and then smash Maeve to death with cheese." said one person.

"Good idea!" The president clapped his hands and affirmed the suggestion.

The magic laboratory in Dad's antique shop.

"What's that spell?... This... That's not right... Monsters, please leave now... That's not right either. This seems to be a spell to drive away demons... That's right! It's like this..."