It happened on a night unlike any other night. The moon's rays Shone radiantly throughout the dark sky illuminating through the cloud of smoke, over the corpses of thousands of men.
What used to be a village of beauty attracting the interests of tourists from all over the world with their amazing talents and wonderful culture displayed on every home and stall became a victim in the battle between the great hero phonzo and the demon king.
The battle field was soaked in the blood of the great heroes commrades who fought bravely to get Him as far as he did at the cost of their lives.
Despite all their brave sacrifices the great hero was already on the verge of defeat as he was the only living soul against the millions of demons and monsters that opposed him on the other side with the giant demon king at their center riding on his quadraptile(4 winged dragon)
The demon king continued to viciously stare at the exhausted hero beneath him at a distance waiting for the moment his life force would die out allowing it to reshape him into his most powerful servant.
Phonzo remained strong willed sitting on the corpse of the demon kings most powerful knight as he clenched tightly to his bloody sword trying to preserve his life but alas he was only an exceptional swordsman barely having knowledge of magical spell's not to speak of high level healing magic.
Non of the Demon king's army nor himself had the guts to assault Him directly knowing he was the most powerful swordsman in the world who had never lost to any being.
Despite his overwhelming power the demon king was a cautious person who would never make the mistake of underestimating his enemy especially one who defeated his most powerful knight and his army of ten thousand demons on his own without the use of any magic spells so he instructed his army not to retaliate.
Unable to hold on to his human life any longer phonzo decided to infuriate the demon king enough to make him drop his guard leaving the chance for a finishing stroke but it had no effect as the demon king continued to wait patiently for him to die.
[Damn this can't be the end. If I give up now then the sacrifices of my entire party would have been a waste.]
"Alright then since you won't come to me then I'll attack!"
Exhausted and barely clinging to his life unable to replenish his lost mana phonzo strained body was forced to stand using his sword as a crutch. His sword was twice his size and triple his weight yet he wielded with ease.
He lost non of his determination as he pointed The blade towards the demon king
"Though I my body may be battered my spirit is still as refined as ever!"
"Yes I am aware of that fact so I shall use that spirit for myself"
Phonzo could no longer Bear the weight of his own body nor his sword but he refused to yield to his weakness ignoring the agonizing pain he felt from his battle with the dark night, his eyes began to fail him turning his sight to an endless blur.
Even though he refused to accept the inevitable. The fact was he was human and as such he can only go so far before needing to recouperate
"Finally! You will become my servant hero!"
During the burning tension between the two warriors a gentle yet stirn voice spoke in the distance. Despite the distance it came from it was a voice phonze could never forget, the voice of a woman he was familiar with.
"I'm sorry but I can't let you do that. if he dies he'll become a pain menace that he already is."the woman said mockingly.
She was a sorceress who was making an entrance from above standing on a magic circle as she drew all the attention to herself.Her hair was a lucious mixture of yellow and green wearing glasses that highlighted her eyes with a skimpy yet dazzling dress emitting a hypnotic crimson glow with her enormous amounts of mana oozing out.
Phonze sighed softly with relief giving him a bit of hope. 'The most powerful sorceress came to his aid at his most dire time of need' the thought gave him chills through out his body giving him the will to fight on putting on his heroic grin once again.
However the sorceress looked down on him in disgusting, viewing Him as a retched man who was too useless to stand on his own feet.
"I should have came later, maybe by that time you would have been dead"
Despite hearing that phonze was unfazed by her words starring at her in admiration
"I'm glad you came. I would have died if you didn't arrive"He replied with a tone of gratitude and satisfaction
"Shut the hell up! You still don't understand I hate looking at your face" she replied flusterely as her face began turn bright red emitting steam from her head trying to avoid eye contact with phonze.
Growing weary of the display of emotion by the two, the demon king charged a massive amount of mana to his sword forming a spherical numbus of emence magical power attempting to end them both in one shot. The dark aura grew denser and thicker as the glowing light that formed shone in every nook and cranny of the annihilated village filling the silence of the atmosphere left by the dead corpses with the disbursement of screaming souls.
Without hesitation he fired it in their direction at an incredible speed.
"boooooooom...." Making contact the impact of the blast caused the very groud to reshape igniting everything while dispersing the static rapidly eliminating any possibility of life. The surrounding areas echoed with the sound of the raging explosion which Shone it's horrific light of flames even to the furthest distance.
It took no time for explosion to stop as in the midst of all the settling smoke was the unharmed pair being sheilded by one of melas most powerful protection spells. Everything about mela was always dazzling and her spells were no exception.
Confused that one of his most powerful spells was blocked by a human and a girl no less the demon kings mana increased explosively due to his rage causing everything around him to tremble without any exclusion to his soldiers as he yelled in a large commanding voice sending shivers down his soldiers spines.
"Attack!!and bring me the heroes head"
Despite that phonzo gripped his sword tightly ready to start swinging ferociously but the sorceress pinned him down using magic then performed various healing and enhancement buffs on phonzo.
Immediately one of the demon kings soldiers swung it's blade towards phonzos neck it was decapitated along with at least a dozen of it's commrades starring in awe at his remarkable speed and strength as their heads detached and began to roll.
Indeed he felt it. All of melas healing and enhancement buffs were exponentially effective noticing the agonizing pain and overwhelming fatigue he felt had vanished not to mention his body was lighter and his perception was heightened.
With scales tipped in his favor, he easily slashed through the millions of monsters like butter with the aid of mela as support casting dazzling magic spells with pride and elegance. Unable to immobilize phonzo the army lost significant amount of soldiers.
Maddened by rage phonzo carved a path to the demon king using his soldiers corpses as stepping stones, avenging every fallen comrade with a corpse of each monster as their shredded bodies filled the ground which they once layed.
Finally he made it to the demon king swinging with bulging force capable of cutting through diamonds with eaze but was countered. Even though phonzo continued to swing his blade using every sword skill in his arsenal applying even more intense mana .
The battle quickly grew tensely gruesome with phonze desperately trying to put down the demon king but kept getting struck down but luckily he had mela support magic reimburse him clashing with the demon continuously as the blazing sparks of colliding blades grew brighter.
The atmosphere slowly got stripped of air and diluted with toxic amounts of large mana residue. In a state of annoyance the demon king fired an attack spell at Mela using a curse chant.
She was Unable to defend in time as her focus was using her support magic to recouperate phonzo the instant he suffers fatal blows. she gets struck by a health drain debuff which made her feel unbalanced and unable to activate mana. But having as much XP as her cancelling out feeble curses takes seconds.
"This won't take long, till then don't die"
[That's easier said than done. I seriously underestimated the demon kings power]
Confronted by his eminent power phonzo is dealt a fatal blow to the chest. His body was in pain but he held it in and continued to charge confusing the demon king with his level 3 sword skills.
The chest wound he procured was severe but he held on, despite how pale his face became he continued to rage though his body was freezing like he was the only one undergoing Winter and his eyes slowly began to signal his life was fading as the deafening ringing sound nagging him grew louder he continued to yell.
But it was all in vain, the demon king had sliced half is torso with his blade smiling at phonzo as he viewed how he losing blood incessantly.
"You were a fool human!To think you would go against a being such as me and win. But don't worry you don't need to have brains to be a slave"
Once again phonzo began to loose his grip on life unable to grip his sword as it slipped out of his hand. He could barely see anything but specs of white light that kept flashing at him glaring at the demon king unable to hear a word he spoke.
The demon king pulled his sword from him and faced the direction of mela intending on letting phonzo bleed to death as he moved slowly towards her direction dragging his huge blade on the solid rocks.
"You'll find that spell a bit hard to break be c.... " The demon kings words were interrupted by an odd feeling he had followed by the sound of liquid gushing.
Almost immediately after he noticed drops of green blood dripping right beneath his feet. To his surprise it continued dripped from his body. Around the demon kings body few cut marks began becoming visible and started to expand like his body was being ripped slowly.
"This can't...! Hero you bast....."The last sound that filled the battlefield was the sound of ripping flesh that marked the exit for the demons death decapitating him.
"No way, was that..."
[My last resort delayed cuts. It was Skill I learent from an assassin but it went against my principles so I never used it till now but I was desperate]
The skill is a level 6 dagger skill that makes the users slashes to slowly take effect building up damage over Time. Only high ranking assassin's can use it and use it efficiently.
The blinding white light grew brighter but his body felt at peace. However the last sound he heared as he lost all control over his body was the sound of a familiar voice that he had always know.
"Phonzo! phonzo! Don't close your...."
And after that followed the unwavering silence, A silence he had never know before feeling comfort wherever he was.
"......."
"It's a boy!"