"Aaaa... aarrrggghhhh...!!!" The titanium-pilgrimage knight groaned, screaming a long shrill cry in pain, his face and whole body full of cuts and bruises. His armor was torn apart to reveal a very terrible wound from the skin to the depths of his flesh, blood oozing from the gaping wounds.
At the same time, also regardless of the screams of pain and the Knight suffering. The master of all darkness, Leburo, anointed him with evil spells.
The knight realized that this was the end of his life, a life that felt very short and he had no time to fill well with his loved ones. He remembered his dream of spending his old age in a house by the lake with his wife and son. Strolling along the shores of the lake, occasionally fishing for fish and burning and eating them with his wife while chatting.
It was just a dream that never can be true because now that he was at the end of his short life, his life would end up in the hands of the Lord of darkness his enemy, the eternal enemy of goodness and truth, the enemy of the light that had always been defended by the knight.
With hardly taking his breath, grinned and with the rest of his strength he shouted "You're not going to win Leburo...! I never will. As long as Sternhyst is still exist, you're going to lose, you hear me Leburo?!"
Leburo grinned coldly at the threat of the defeated and battered Knight, "No problem, I know you keep that Sternhyst in your heart, now leave it to me or you will accept your death here!!" The voice of Leburo thundered but calmly like an angel of death facing the soul he was about to uproot.
"I prefer to die...!" shouted the Knight.
"Well I grant your request, I will withdraw myself Sternhyst from your body!" The hoarse voice of Leburo the Lord of darkness sounded very cold, he smiled sarcastically as if enjoying the suffering of the knight, he looked at the knight with nanar and then pulled out the sword from the scabbard placed on his waist, the blade of the sword was black and shrouded in a light similar to the aura that glowed greenish.
The sword is the legendary sword named Raykogi, which is said to have its own mind and it is able to split anything in the universe except Sternhyst. Raykogi has always been believed to be the legendary sword belonging to the Aeros Protective Knight who disappeared several centuries ago. I don't know since when Raykogi was in Leburo's hands, especially why Raykogi was able to obey Leburo, this is a mystery.
Leburo thrust Raykogi into the knight's right chest, then as if he was opening a can, Raykogi's sword sliced across the left chest just hitting the heart of the knight who was already helpless and lying under his feet. Leburo stepped on the knight's chest with his right foot, then howling the knight was full of pain again. Having previously suffered with severe injuries from fighting with hundreds of The Lord's men. Then leburo's spells shackling him made him unscathed and now with Leburo's Raykogi sword on his chest, complete with the knight's suffering.
Among the consciousness that still remained, the knight gathered all his last energy, he knew he could no longer face this dark Lord. Then he cast a very ancient spell, a secret spell passed down from his ancestors for generations, he clasped his right hand to his left chest right in his heart which was almost hit by Raykogi's stab.
A purplish-blue beam of light glowed from his heart, Sternhyst who had been residing in his heart whizzed out leaving the knight's body towards the twilight sky, Sternhyst blinked once and then splashed...! disappeared as if being swallowed by the silence of the sky just like that.
"Damn it...! Why you...?! you Self-ignorant Knight...!!" Angry the Lord of darkness while kicking the Knight's body, Leburo was enraged to learn that Sternhyst had broken free from the knight's body, and now he had to re-search for it's whereabouts.
Sternhyst is the only thing that can perpetuate his efforts to master Aeros. Without Sternhyst Leburo would never have calmed down spreading the terror of his evil because he knew that Sternhyst was the greatest power stone that existed in this universe, however, if Sternhyst was reunited in the body of another Knight then darkness would again get its main enemy.
"Now...! You, you never be, can... hooking sternhyst for your pursuit... ! the knight said falteringly, a smile carved from his lips and he gave himself up to die quietly. Because he knew that Sternhyst with extraordinary power would no longer be possessed by the dark Lord, because only he could know where Sternhyst was going. As the Knight of choice, only he and his descendants knew how to find the Sternhyst.
For an instant he saw the shadows of the people he loved and cared so much about, his beautiful wife and his only child. For them and the two worlds he fought so far, if with his life they could live in peace, then he was willing to give up his life in the hands of this Leburo. But now that he knew that his knight's mission was not finished, the next generation had to resume his mission, for a moment he said softly ''I'm sorry my son. Forgive your dad!'' finally the knight closed his eyes.
The dark lord knew that Sternhyst could only be traced to his whereabouts by the star knight clan alone, he drew a sword from the knight's chest and then his mouth murmured casting another spell. A spell made out of all evil spells, a spell that only he knew about. A puff of pitch-black smoke suddenly enveloped the entire body of the dying knight, the dense smoke lifted the body of the knight who was no longer moving and then Leburo the Lord of darkness took the knight's body to his castle.
Thousands of Leburo's men, consisting of various kinds of evil creatures that still remained, also moved on to accompany his Master's departure, their loyalty had been tightly bound by Leburo's evil spell.
The orange of dusk faded even darker at night came closer, the vast grass field where the fight took place was no longer shaped, black smoke billowing in all directions, holes from gun impacts and energy balls ejected gaping around it. Thousand corpse of the dark Lord's followers who were defeated by the Knight lay unceremoniously, the other thousand are was the Aeros knight who had fought together with the Star Archer Knight but faced his fate of dying at the hands of Leburo.
While the other light knights managed to save themselves as the Star Archer Knight released a teleportation spell that carried all the remaining Knights back to Aeros palace. The Star Archer Knight did decide to face Leburo and his entire army alone because he knew that Leburo was actually only targeting himself. To be precise, Sternhyst in his body, besides that he was unable to watch the number of victims who fell. But the result is very fatalism, no matter how powerful the power possessed by the Star Knight, in the end, too many enemies eventually defeat him.
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