The night was dark, black moon, dark blue sky. The winds were cold—not because of the autumn but there was a different, an abnormal coldness in the wind.
There were screams all around; echoing in ears. Ramages all around; echoing in the ears. Battles all around; echoing in the ears.
Lucien was calm, but happy at the same time. Nobody was around him, who were, they either ran away or died by the hands of the monster.
He was all alone, most of the commoner's area was already destroyed. But, he had a company, a company which nobody wants but he do.
Right infront of him was that horrifying monster with the nickname, Butcher Of The Souls.
Lucien's eyes were heavy, as if he never slept.
Lucien was looking above—towards the face of the monster.
He said, "It's time that we all start moving. ".
Even though Lucien was alone, he used the word all.
Butcher of the Souls, it was considered immortal. There was no one who have slain a Butcher Of The Souls but then came someone with a victory over this creature.
When this creature destroyed it's first kingdom a decade ago, right after that came someone.
2 years had passed after that incident and someone was searching for that Butcher Of Souls. But who was it?
In the kingdom where Lucien is currently staying, there is no supreme commander. But was it like this from the beginning?
No. There was one but he died. How did died? That is because he went in the search of the Butcher Of Souls. But why?
He had a younger brother and his brother died in the rampage of the Butcher Of Souls. To avenge him, he went in the search of the Butcher Of Souls.
After the journey of 6 months, he found it.
The name of the supreme commander was Ashkaris.
He had no surname as he had no family but only a younger brother. Ashkaris never feared anything more than his brother's death.
Ashkaris was a very powerful and prideful commander. His strength was not of a human. He had a talent, very rare and destructive talent. His talent was that no one could match his weapon mastery. No matter what weapon his chose, whether a bow or a battle axe, no one could match his mastery.
The moment he touched a weapon, he would learn everything about it.
When he went to challenge the Butcher Of Souls, he was carrying the Guandao, a traditional Chinese polearm. It has a curved, single-edged blade mounted on a long handle, often associated with the legendary general Guan Yu from the Three Kingdoms period. The design and golden engravings on this particular Guandao give it a decorative, ceremonial look rather than a purely practical combat version.
His Guandao had it's own unique talent, liquid.
His Guandao could infuse itself with any kind of liquid it's wielder wish for. Whether it's a harmful chemical or lava itself.
Ashkaris had long white hair. He was in his mid 50s when he faced the Butcher Of Souls. His height was around 6'4, quite muscular with wrinkles on his face. His long white moustache and short beard made his look even more fearful.
He always wore a golden armor which had a talent of it's own, universal protection. No matter what kind of attack connect Ashkaris, the damage will be reduced by 40%.
Ashkaris' voice was deep, very deep.
His white eyes and willpower gave him the title, Ultimate Human.
It was during the time of dusk he found a Butcher of Souls in a dense forest.
He saw marks on it's body, it was the same Butcher Of Souls who killed his brother.
Ashkaris' rage took control over him. He screamed and charged at it without any thinking and because of his carelessness, his horse had to die.
The Butcher Of Souls swinged it's hands towards Ashkaris and he couldn't dodge it because of getting consumed by his rage.
His armor protected him from the damage but in the process, his horse was smashed into trunk of a big tree and died at the moment of impact.
Blood started flowing out of the horse's body like there was a river of blood around.
In few seconds, the scent of the blood started attracting other monsters too and the moon started turning crimson. It was Ashkaris' luck that, that night was not the black moon night.
Ashkaris controled his anger and got ready to fight it.
The monster swinged it's right hand again on Ashkaris and he easily blocked it using his Guandao.
After deflecting the strike, he jumped with all his might towards it's face and their battle continued for hours and after that, Ashkaris easily slay it down.
When Ashkaris came back to his kingdom, he had no horse. He covered all his distance on his legs.
The soldiers were startled to see him because he had wounds all over his body. There was not a single part of his body where there was no wound.
It took him more than a year to come back and it was a miracle that he lived through.
His condition was very bed. He was took to the royal palace where he was treated under the guidance of the best medics of the kingdom but despite that, he died after a month. It was due to the after affect of that deadly battle.
Now, another kind of that monster was in the kingdom. There was no Ashkaris to defend the kingdom against it and even if he was here, there was no way he could defeat it because it was a black moon night.
The monster started walking towards Lucien and passed by him. For some reason, the monster didn't even touch him.
On it's way, the monster crushed many innocent people which include men, women and children.
It also destroyed many house and old people who were unable to walk, died the worst death.
There was no one to protect to the commoners as all the soldiers were protecting the royals.
There were 3 commanders in the kingdom, the commander of the Archers, Ervis. The commander of the swordsmen, Dante Ravencrow. and the commander of knights, Rodrigo Perez de Willalobos.
But all three of these commanders were protecting the royals.
The Butcher Of the Souls was going near to the royal area as if it had no interest in the area of the commoners.
All the houses were smashed like they were a child's toys.
The commoners area was silent, there was no one to scream anymore. Either they died or jumped into the water separating the royal and the commoners area or some sneaked inside the royal area.
Lucien said to himself, "The time—it has finally come. Let the world revolve around me now. ".
The creature was near to the royal area now. Many royal families people started screaming and cursing the soldiers for only standing there and doing nothing. But what could they do?
They were powerless against that creature. They had no strength to counter it.
The creature striked at the royal area using it's right fist but it was barely blocked by the struggle and strength of the knight's commander, Rodrigo and swordsman's commander, Dante.
Ervis ready his bow and launched couple of arrows made up of lighting on the monster. The lighting was of light purple color and it was hot, very hot.
The arrows touched the monster but nothing happened and then suddenly, purple lighting fall on the monster from the sky. As if the gods were refusing it's existence but it was just another ability of Ervis' bow.
Author's note: I am not feeling well so I can't really write much, thank you!