Dungeons can be classified into four types: - Bronze, silver, gold, and diamond. With Diamond-ranked being the most dangerous. The dungeon they were going to raid was a bronze-ranked dungeon. Even though bronze-ranked dungeons are the weakest among all the dungeons, they are extremely dangerous even for trained knights. That's why instructors are going to accompany the first and second-year students.
Grey was in his academy dormitories, preparing for the dungeon raid. Since he couldn't form a soul weapon, he needed to carry a weapon. His choice of weapon was a long sword. During the first six months of training in the Starlight Academy students are given real weapons to train with them which act as a foundation to create and efficiently use their soul weapons. Grey has been using this sword for over one year. He looked at his sword, the sword didn't look any special, it had a basic design, however, the edges of the blade of the sword were chipped and it could be said that it looked quite worn out.
Just a look was enough to tell what it had gone through for the past year. Grey put the sword in its scabbard and took it near his chest as if hugging it. Grey suddenly " You are the only one who has never left me. My parents abandoned me when I was a baby, the person I loved left me, the person whom I thought was my best friend betrayed me, everyone I have ever known and trusted only left me, but you my sword never left me." Grey was almost on the verge of tears.
His heart felt like it would burst open any time. But he managed to hold his tears in. No matter how serious the situation was, no matter how sad he was, he never broke down, he always tried to keep his smile, even when he was in pain.
"No this can't go on, I must practice" Saying that he took his sword and went outside. He started swinging his sword. The sword movements were extremely fast, precise, and perfect to the point that there was no wastage of movement. Grey was a genius when it came to swords. But unfortunately, he didn't have any talent when it came to magical power.
While Grey was training for the dungeon raid, others were also preparing for the dungeon raid.
A beautiful red-haired girl was wielding a golden great sword with red flaming symbols on it. With Every swing of her sword scarlet flames were spewing. Then suddenly the red-haired girl shouted " Flame Burst". A pillar of scarlet flames burst forth from her golden sword.
"Great Bird" Soon another voice came out from the other side, it was a blue-haired boy wielding a pure white spear with blue and brown colored patterns on it.
The pillar of scarlet flames soon met an icy blue-colored bird and soon an explosion occurred with lots of steam coming out of it. The red-haired girl had to step back almost eight steps whereas the boy had to step back six steps, it was evident who was the winner of this battle.
The blue-haired boy smiled and said "You have grown stronger Iris"
Iris also smiled back and said, "Though not as strong as you, Ken" After a brief pause she continued " You can take the first position among the second-year students anytime you want but why don't you do it"
"Because I love you, and I understand how much first-place means to you. " Ken without a single change in his expression blurted such cheesy lines. However, Iris who was an extremely pure-hearted girl couldn't help but end but blushing. 'How cute' Ken couldn't help but think how cute and beautiful Iris was, but suddenly he couldn't help but get angry when he thought about Grey.
Ken couldn't accept the fact that Iris was in a relationship with a loser like Grey, it was unacceptable to him. That's why he used one of his female classmates to get a picture of her and Grey together which caused a misunderstanding between Grey and Iris. He did this to get together with Iris. According to him, she deserved someone great like him.
That day when Iris saw the photograph of his boyfriend Grey and a girl, she went to Ken talked to him about the photograph, and Ken lied to her saying how Grey was planning to use her to gain a position in the academy and how he was bragging about how stupid you were to everyone. He also brought his classmate who was with Grey in the photograph and made her talk to Iris.
Soon, Iris started crying. Ken took that chance and proposed to Iris. Ken was also the one who spread those rumors in the academy.
While Ken was thinking about the past. Iris came and hugged Ken and said "Tomorrow, we are going to have a raid. Grey will be there"
Ken replied "Don't worry, he is even weaker than an E-rank. What can he even do to you, my Iris is extremely strong"
Hearing Ken's praise, Iris couldn't help but smile. Looking at Iris's smile, Ken slowly went for her lips. Seeing that Iris became flustered but she didn't resist. As they were busy in their own world.
In Dungelheit Dungeon, the dungeon where the first and second years of Starlight Academy were supposed to attack, an extremely injured white-haired man was walking in an unknown direction. He was covered in blood and it was evident that he was barely hanging on. He had a pitch-black demonic mark in the center of his forehead, and his eyes were red in color with vertical pupils and the sclera of his eyes were black in color.
Even though he was this injured, none of the monsters dared approach him.
Suddenly, a purple-black wave of darkness came trying to hit him. The injured white-haired man looked back at the incoming attack and raised both of his hands and a wave of pitch-black darkness hit that darkness, however soon the purple-black darkness crumbled before the might of pitch-black darkness and soon the pitch-black darkness was hurling towards his attacker. However, soon more five purple-black waves of darkness came nullifying the attack of the white-haired man. Suddenly five more people joined the white-haired man's attacker.
One of the men looked at the white-haired man and said "It's futile Zeon Darkheart, just give up, look at your condition even if you survive us, it's obvious you are going to die sooner or later."
The white-haired man, no Zeon Darkheart gritted his teeth and looked at the man with eyes full of hatred "Look at you, demons are said to be a warlike race, where they only respect the strong, but all of you, your very existences stain the entire demon race."
"Hmph, don't act so high and mighty Zeon, your glory days are gone. You may have been one of the strongest of us, but now you are nothing more than a bug ready to squashed" said another one of the demons.
Soon another demon continued "And just like you said we demons respect the strong and despise the weak, but look at you currently, can you confidently say you are stronger than us."
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA..." With a burst of maniacal laughter, Zeon stood up straight, " You are correct, my current self is so weak that third rates like you have started to act up in front of me. You people left me with no choice but to do this"
Saying that he spread his hand wide as if he was inviting them for a hug, suddenly his lips curled up sinisterly.
The demons suddenly felt a chill run down their spine, when the demon at the front ordered the rest of the demons to run away, but they heard a cold voice from behind "It's too late".
Suddenly, a pitch-black darkness spread everywhere creating a dome of darkness with Zeon as its center. The dome of darkness spread everywhere devouring countless beasts and demons killing them instantly.