Chapter 3_2

"Guys! Lets focus on the reality here. I am their target, no one else, not even the president. So the only thing to do is to guard my family well." Josh said, turning back on reality

"Hes right you know, or is it that you dont want him there?" Cesar

"No, its good. We welcome him here, as he is a filipino citizen." The PH generals all agreed reluctantly

"Hahh.. let me tell you one of my missions then." Josh said sighing

"You have a sub mission? What is it?" Tuba

"To multiply the number of soul warriors all over the world, so that it also wont be a burden for me." Josh

"Really?!" All of them said.

"Will there be more of you in the future?" Cesar said with uncertainty

"Just soul warriors, not more of me general." Josh

"Please define what is a soul warrior josh." Tuba

"A soul warrior is what i call, chosen ones who wield the souls of the ancients." Josh

"I see. So lets say i wield the soul of michael jackson, does that make me a soul warrior josh? And what powers will i have" A general said

"Yes, you will be a soul warrior with just that. Though i also have the soul of michael jackson, i think his power is passion." Josh

They all murmured on the possibilities.

"Whats that suppose to mean josh? Power of passion?" Cesar

"Passion is passion, and burning passion will also let you literally cloak in fire." Josh

"Can you give an example josh?" A general said

"Do you want the sprinklers to go off?" Josh said with a smile

"Fine. Anyways, can you explain more about the soul josh? How can we get a heros soul?" Cesar

"Its not how one will get a heros soul, the soul must choose you in order to leave a fragment of themselves inside your own soul. Well, basically everybody has a heros soul, it just depends on which." Josh said with a gesture

"So its random."

"Yes, and the only way to know what kind of soul one has is to activate and let the person see for themselves." Josh

"Thats very inconvenient." A general said as they all agree

"Well, thats just how it is. Im not the one that decides everything, its the universe that has made us like this." Josh

"Anyways, once activated, how does one know what kind of power they have?" A general said

"The soul usually tells them. But if not, then the soul deems them not ready, its just like that." Josh said with a gesture

"I see." That general said as everyone was deep in thought.

"So, how many souls can you fit in a soul reactor? Is that what you call it?" Tuba

"Yes, as many as possibly can, and as many as how many souls accepts you." Josh

"And, how many souls do you currently have with you?" Cesar

"I dont know, let me list them all for you. Though i wont tell all my powers just yet." Josh said with a smile

"Damn.. your already powerful enough as it is." Cesar said as he rubs his temple

"Well, thats just how the gods anticipated the future to be. The world is already dangerous as it is." Josh said with gesture

"Hes right, though i just cant imagine what the future might be like if they would anticipate such dangers that would require you in it." Tuba

"My powers also has its limits generals, so im not all that powerful as you think." Josh

"Like what?" A general said

"Like my herculean strength, it can make me reach up to 5 to 8 times my strength, but im no match for machines." Josh

"Alright, please do tell us more." An american general said

"Dont get too cocky, im not telling any of you anything else aside from that." Josh

"Wait, you still havent answered us that one question." Tuba

"What question?" Josh

"How many souls do you actually have?" Tuba

"Oh, that? Let me write all of them down for you." Josh said before he asked for a pen and paper.

And this is what josh wrote:

king gilgamesh

michael jackson

Ghandi

stan lee

Confucius

merlin

the white witch

Sinbad

Aladdin

black beard

pope john paul

conan the barbarian

white ninja

King ramses

Anastasia

Houdini

Hercules

Hitler

president FJK

president washington

president lincoln

kanako san

count dracula

leonardo da vinci

Nostradamus

a japanese samurai - tomoe gozen

abe no seimei

yagyuu jyubei

sun tzu

Zorro

general mc arthur

nicola tesla

Thomas edison

Sherlock holmes

Mulan

Cleopatra

Indiana jones

Pocahontas

Florence Nightingale

Ghengis khan

Albert Einstein

William shakespear

Bruce lee

King Arthur

Lancelot

Sir Michael of the knights of templar

Queen elizabeth I

Nobunaga

Jose rizal

Joan de arc

the first emperor - qin shi huang

Grim reaper

Lupin

Lapu-lapu

“wow, those are big names that you just wrote there josh, what did you do to deserve such souls?” cesar

“to tell you about it would be quite a long story, but would you like a short version of it?” josh said smiling

“well, we can always save that for another day--” a general said

“i want to hear it.” cesar

“i would agree.” tuba said as others also agreed

“alright then. The short version is, that I just helped the gods in their fight against evil. All this is when I did an astral projection when hermes called for me for help, due to the weakening of the gods. As for how the gods were weakened, you can probably guess by now right?” josh

“does that have something to do with why your also chosen to bring balance to the world?” tuba

“yes, thats a part of it.” josh

“you know, to me, that doesnt make sense. I mean, does the gods just give such a power to a random stranger like josh?” a general said

“yes, the best that they could have given him is an opportunity! This really doesnt make sense!” a general said

“unless if your still hiding something from us josh.” a general said

“if im really hiding something, why don’t you ask the US military? Who is hiding the fact--” josh

“hold it josh, thats classified information!” an american general said

“who cares! I know, so im sharing it! Got any problems?” josh

“tch! Do as you please!” that general said

“anywyas, the operation is called operation eagle eye, it basically uses all available cameras and information around the world, feed it to a large supercomputer with an AI which sorts all that information with possible terrorist or any bad acts which is against the law. And im one of its victims.” josh leaned forward to make an expression.

“just how did you figure out that we were using AI?” cesar

“and why are you a victim?” tuba

“im an IT, didn’t you read your notes generals? Also, im a victim since one of the clients made a request to dispose of me from his company, using any means necessary. So they thought that they must not make contact with me, thus they used operation eagle eye with some other project which uses low frequency sound waves for hypnotism.” josh

“and we are truly sorry about that josh, we truly are. Though there must be times when--” cesar

“i know, when you must be black to just satisfy clients. Hahh..” josh said while rubbing his temple

“anyways, what would you do now josh? You said you will just be here in the philippines.” tuba

“yes, about that, you can just dump some requests towards me for any help. I will just sort through them and take the request, along with some compensation money for the mission.” josh

“isnt that just against who whole being a hero thing?” a general said

“who said im a hero? Im basically your average modern guy who earned some bad ass souls, which his mission would be to bring balance to the world.” josh

“isnt that what a modern hero would be?” tuba

“good point.” josh said with a gesture

“anyways, for all that you have said, we can really do. But what about the protection of your family?” cesar

“the philippine military and police will take care of it. Anyways, they can always transfer to cebu if they want to, and thats all up to them.” josh

“but wont you also help us with the communist problem?” tuba

“yes and no. Yes, I will help, but only if the terrorists will attack with a large scale attack that will upset the balance in the philippines.” josh
”I see. How will you basically know? Specially if you will be on a mission?” a general said

“i will know, due to my ability “world order”” josh

“a-alright then, we will trust you with that. Though what about the drug problem here in the philippines?” tuba

“the police and military got that covered. After all, I just took out all the higher officials with connections with drug cartels.” josh said with confidence

“did he really?” cesar

“under the orders of the president.” a PH general said

“ok.. to sum it up, you will be somewhat like a government contracted mercenary for hire, Though you will be the one to decide whether you should accept the mission or not, am I right?” cesar

“yes, thats basically it. And whenever I see an opportunity in correcting the balance of a country, then I will correct it.” josh said with a gesture

“hahh.. what a problem this has become.” tuba

“yes, though we can work with his terms. It simple, but its a win win for all parties.” cesar

“so, whats my first mission?” josh said with confidence.