A knight, from time to time always wore armor regardless in combat or in patrol.
This is a story where an armorless knight rose up to fulfil his prophecy
It all began from a test of trusts between brothers and friend telling a conflict in agony.
The conflict erupt from the born of legends that the aftermath still echoes for the years to come.
This is a tale of an armor-less knight.
In the mists of the night, fire is surrounding the forest with the ground is split between the cracks.
On the opposite side of each crack lies 3 legendary warriors 2 on the left and 1 on the right.
This the battle where it all began.
This is it, I thought, its time to face my own big brother.
I was heartbroken his idealism gone way too far until he forced himself to accept the dark power.
His face now covered in darkness wearing nothing but a black spiky armor.
The evil smile that smirks as he joyed for what he has done.
I will end this once and for all.
I confront my own big brother with my own mentor and fellow paladin Roland.
“Hello again little brother we meet again and this time the circumstances was not in your favour, the moment you step to me signalling that we are in the endgame, or the climax of a story.”
“It seems that you cleared out my army very well as expected of my precious little brother.”
“Please stop! We don’t have to do this, the dark powers are just consuming you if you summon Him the world is in total chaos not order as you envisioned.”
“You are too naïve little brother if you think for a second that mere words can brought myself to the knees.”
“This ritual is necessary for bringing world peace where no one has to suffer where everyone is equal. The great demon Berformet can wipe out anyone who is an eyesore to the society thus bringing the world together by force.”
“Save your breath Ed there is no talking back for this lunatic. He’s already consumed by the dark power.”
“The demon berformet can gave us the power to change the world, the power so that we can rule, the power that brought peace to the land, no ladder systems, no famine, no corruption, don’t you want that dear little brother you don’t have to resist.”
“Enough with this nonsense, i don’t care what are you talking about and let us finish this with a fight the old fashioned style by fists,i cast armament type 5 godspeed.”
Roland the golden armored knight charges toward claumonet the death knight with a fast golden dash aura as he prepares to strike him with his mighty golden sword.
“All you monkeys always decide things with brute force.”
Claumonet stopped the sword by his two fingers.
“NANII!.”
“Its futile that you thing that some monkey’s attack will damage me.”
Then Clau uses his dark power to his fists to punch the frowned Roland to the ground with his fist surrounded by dark energy.
“Feel my power, dark armament type 1 obsidian thorn.”
Roland slammed to the ground by Clau’s fist but quickly brought back by Ed using his teleportation technique unto his side before Clau can use another attack to Roland while he’s on the ground luckily Roland suffers no fatal damage from the last attack.
“Thats it? That is all you can offer? Quite pitifull i must say, let me teach you a lesson on the power of the 5 dark basic armaments.”
“I casts dark armament type 1 obsidian thorn, type 2 demonic presence, type 3 devil’s armor, type 4 dark boost, Type 5 enigma from this technique that I casts upon myself I created a new spell, Equip death armor.”
Claumonet’s black armor suddenly burst with dark purple and red aura as it grow to have more spikes and now has death’s skull printed on the armor chests.
His appearance also started to change, veins are now bulging on his skin, his eyes turned red as his hair grow longer and wilder.
“How do you like this little brother, this is the power that the great Berformet bestowed upon me mwhahaha
Claumonet sprinted with dark electric aura surrounding him and began attacking those two.
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Roland and Ed is getting pushed back while trying to block all Clau’s attacks.
“What’s wrong? Is my power to big great for you both to handle, die.”
Clau releases his dark magic to sent Roland flying and hit the nearby woods, at the same time Ed is trying to attack his brother from the other side.
“Predictable.”
Clau then strike Ed with his sword.
“Gyaaaahhh!’”
“You are powerless in the eyes of the great demon, your best chance of survival is to join my side brother while the offer is still up until the poison that I inflicted to your chest kills you.”
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“I casts holy armament type 4 god’s tear.”
“W-why is my chest is still bleeding?
“Oh silly little brother my magic nullifies holy magic and healing type abilities, it seems you still have a few more minutes before it decays you vital organs, I might cure you if you accept my offer of course.”
“N-N-NEVEERR!, hyah special attack dragon raitomun slash.”
Ed stand up and casts a spell on his sword to create a light slash imbued with high tier holy magic to attack clau.
Then clau uses his magical aura to shield himself.
“Its futile I told you I can nullify holy magic.”
It appears that the slash get pass Clau’s barrier and
“W-wait no way my evil aura, GYAAAHHHHH!
“I-impossible h-how could that slash get past my holy magic nullifying aura?”
“The answer i-is s-simple a slash is counted as a physical attack rather than a magical attack, it seems I was right not to join forces with you now I have a weapon to beat you with foolish big brother,”
Clau’s armor slowly decaying after exposed to a high frenquency holy magic.
“M-my armor my power bestowed from the great demon is f-fading!?”
“Enough!!! Hyaa.”
Clau dashed quickly to the crippled Ed and kick him in the chest until fell far to the ground.
“GAHHHH!
After that he go to the sky began to complete the ritual.
As the end grew near Ed approaches to the awakened Roland.
“Ed what is going on? Did we win?”
“Ed what happens to your chest? You need medication quickly.”
“There is not much time left listen to me Roland.”
“Roland there is something that I wanted to ask.”
“I wanted you to tell my wife that I have decided on our child’s name its Renitia and tell everybody that you are the one who stopped the ritual, take all the credit my name cannot be immortalized as it can bring chaos in the future after this I wanted you to wipe out everyone’s memory of me with your perception magic.”
“Roland can you promise me to deliver the message?”
“Yes but Ed you don’t have to do this, there is going to be a another way.
“There is no other way Roland, I need to atone my sin for what I did 3 years ago.”
“Ohh yeah and Roland take my sword and handed it to my son and lastly thank you for being such good friend and mentor Roland senpai.”
“Wait no no ed please don’…….”
Ed force teleport Roland out from the battlefield.
Then after that Ed goes for his final confrontation against his big brother.
“BIG BROTHERRR! I have come here to stop you and prevent Berformet from touching this world.”
“So you still have enough power to talk huh?”
“You are a little bit too late, the ritual is almost complete and I will make this day the end of the beginning.”
“Now open ritual cage name: Berformet.”
“MWAHAHAHA o great lord bestowed upon thee in a brief moment Berformet will be unleashed from its seal that binds him and there is nothing that you can do to stop it you’ve already lost the battle.”
“I may lose the battle but i may still won the war, there is one trick left up my sleeve I casts forbidden technique soul bind, by the cost of my afterlife I can bind anyone’s soul including demonic deities now I casts soul bind to Berformet.”
“No,no,NOOOOO!”
Then a strange looking blue rune suddenly appeared from the ground.
Then blue chains starting to bind berformet’s body from the red rune into Ed’s body.
At lasts Berformet is gone.
The dark clouds disappeared and the forest is back to normal.
Claumonet’s body and armor begin to disintegrate.
“What-what have you done to me?.”
“Since you sold your own soul to berformet for obtaining the dark power your soul is automatically bound to his soul and since i bind berformet’s soul your soul is in purgatory neither mine or berformet’s and your existence is disintegrating.”
“Remember little brother the prophecy will be fulfilled and berformet will be resurrected in the future, its pointless when there is still my will to the perfect paradise lying among these people out there in the world.”
Claumonet’s body turned into ash as Ed struggles to maintain his sanity after he consumed all berformet’s soul fragments.
“Huh-huh-huh, I-I must, I must end it here once and for all.”
Ed took out his sword and stab himself, thus making Berformet die in the process.
Ed’s body slammed to the ground as dark aura with a dark skeleton face rose up to the sky as it slowy moved away from Ed’s body and berformet’s soul divided into 12 pieces and scattered throughout the world because a deity’s soul cannot be completely gone.
Then Ed’s body disintegrated as his soul will never reach the afterlife as the cost for using soul bind.
Deep in the forest entrance not quite far from the battlefield there Roland has been teleported back into safety with Ed’s sword in his hands.
He wakes up, took his and Ed’s sword and realising the battle is over, he and Ed won the war but not without the great sacrifice performed by his only friend.
He cried as he walked down the road while realising that his friend has sacrificed his entire life and afterlife to save millions of people.
He stumbles out from the dark forest were there lies remnants of Claumonet’s skeleton army lying on the ground further boosts the nostalgia feeling when he was with his dear friend.
He then reached the capital and pronounced hero by the people his friend had saved. As the crowd cheering for him upon his return his face is still written with grief of how his true friend gave up his live to millions save others including his powerless self.
He was knighted as the head of the 12 paladin order by the king himself and rewarded him with lots of wealth.
He took on a bitter feeling upon accepting the rewards how he was not the true hero and begging himself to tell everyone the truth, then he remembers his solemn promise to a true friend.
Onto the end of the parade he saw Ed’s wife and rushed quickly to her while carrying Ed’s sword.
He gave the sword to her as he trembling for what incident that he just had.
He told everything to her as tears began to flowing out from their sad faces as Roland speaks.
After that Roland came to the highest tower in town to use his magic to wiped out all memories regarding to his friend Edbraucus.
After the purge, Roland made a resolve to use all of his rewards, wealth and dedication to build an academy so that young knights, alchemists, and casters can learn to value their lives that has been sacrificed to save others and also to nurture the skill that each individual possess for the next potential upcoming threat.