The Past
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After the meal, Alice saw Lianna about to fall asleep again, so she held Lianna in her arms and headed to her room. Once Lianna was put to sleep and while sitting on a chair next to bed she was thinking about her life.
I grew up in a orphanage, my parents had died due to monsters invading her home, I was 7 years old when that happened. While growing up in the orphanage I isolated myself from everyone, and was deemed a problem child. Although they deemed me as problem child they could see that I was a talented individual, one day I was strolling inside the kingdom and saw where the guards were practising their swordsmanship, after seeing them practice their swordsmanship I was able to replicate all the techniques they had incorporated perfectly. Once I was at the age of 15 I left the orphanage and went to join the army. Years went by and I rose in ranks throughout those years, and was considered a prodigy in swordsmanship as well as leadership, I got to be a commander of 300 soldiers in the shortest time ever. This moment could be considered by her as one of the happiest times of her life, however the saying goes all good things must come to an end. My soldier and I were told to exterminate a S class monster which was no easy task, It is said just to kill a S class monster you would need over a thousand experience soldiers just to kill it and that was still a 50/50 chance. I was enraged at the fact this was a suicide mission, but I had a duty to withhold as I was a soldier, and once a soldier is ordered to do something we complete the task no matter the cost. Once they reach the S rank monster which was a frost giant. The frost giant like its name was a giant with a height of 50 meters tall, and used a club made of ice as its weapon. The frost giant was a terrifying monster, once you get near this monster you realize how small you are compare to some of the things in this world.
The fight against the frost giant went badly, we had brought along catapults to hit the monster to deal a lot of damage to it, however the frost giant just looked annoyed, as it marched closer to my soldiers and I, we could feel the earth trembling from the frost giant steps. Once it got into range and from one swing of its ice club 50 soldiers were dead in a blink of an eye. At that moment I knew no matter what skills or weapons my soldiers and I possessed we would not win, so I signalled the retreat as we were retreating the frost giant was marching towards us and killing everyone who was near it. when we finally had gotten away from the frost giant the damage had been done, I lost over 200 men and I knew this would be the end of my military career, and just like what I thought it happened I lost my job, and was hated by the family of the soldier who died because of this suicide mission. I fell into a state of depression and was sitting on the streets looking up at the sky, thinking,"my life is over, I led my soldiers to die in a suicide mission, I lost everything I worked hard for", tears were falling down my face. A towel was placed on my face full of tears, and when I took off the towel I noticed a man smiling. He was one of my soldier that had manage to survive against the frost giant. He told me,
"I can see you that you are sad over the loss of your fellow soldiers, but commander you must remember we went with you willingly. We are soldiers, and as soldiers we have always knew that death would come for us eventually. There was nothing you could do commander many of your fellow soldiers understand this, and the dead as well. We will never blame you."
"I am not your commander, and I suppose you are right. I have to become stronger so I can get revenge towards the monsters, so I can make sure the soldier that had fallen, have not fallen in vain. I will get stronger, I will become the strongest that is the only solution."
,said Alice smiling a bit more. I knew I would have to train harder than before. I joined the adventurer guild, and years went by I had done it, I had become one of the few S rank adventurers and also one of the strongest people in the world, I had mastered many different sword styles and it was time to find my revenge.
I had come back to where I last fought the frost giant, the frost giant was still there standing it looked more like a statue instead of monster, but that mattered little to me as my head was full of anger as I remember how it had slaughtered my soldiers. I attacked by sending a wave of air that came from swing my sword at extreme speed at it. Once the wave of air had hit the frost giant I could see it did some damage as I saw purple like blood on its arms, although it looked like a little scratch it had done more damage than the catapults. The frost giant was however stronger than me, but it lacked speed, which was what i excelled in. I manage to avoid all of its attacks and attack it for every swing it took at me. The frost giant and I were in combat for 1 day. I had manage to slice its arms off, once the frost giant's arm fell it started to become enraged. In its enraged form it attacked me, but with a much faster speed I had dodged the attack, however when the ice club had hit the floor it chipped and a giant ice block was heading straight for me, but I was strong enough to split the ice block coming at me in to two piece which went straight past me. I decided to end it, I jumped on top of his arm and started a full on sprint towards his head, and once i got close to his head I used my strongest attack which, uses my body to move at an extreme speed, but after using this I would be drained of all stamina and wouldn't be able to move for a couple of hours, I used my extreme speed and took out my sword and went to the frost giants throat to cut it. I had just done it, my speed and the sharpness of my sword was enough for my sword to cleanly cut through the throat of the frost giant, I was victorious, I had gotten revenge, I had restore honor to my fallen soldiers, that was when I passed out.
When I had woke up it was already dark, and when I looked beside me I saw the corpse of the frost giant, and felt a sense of accomplishment. I was rather hungry from the fight so I went to look around the area to find the bag I had carried while coming here, as I was searching for my bag I spotted a small cave, thinking my bag might of fallen in the cave I decided to explore it. As I was going through the cave I saw that it was more than a cave, it seemed to be a tomb. Once I reached the deepest part of the tomb I saw a coffin and where the coffin was at there was an inscription,
"Whoever reads this has found my tomb. I had this tomb built to protect my most treasured secret, A mana crystal. I had discovered this mana crystal within a tomb. The tomb contained 4 of the strongest dark knights that the world had ever known. To take down one knight we had lost over 100,000 soldier, and there were 4 of them. They would never leave the tomb, and it took years to kill all of them, what laid inside the tomb was the most beautiful creature I have ever seen, she was encased in some sort of crystal, but there was something strange as well, on top of the being incased in crystal, was a green light and when I had touched the green light it formed into some sort of mana crystal, it was black and white, with red lines all over it. The thing I knew about the mana crystal was that it increased my mana as well as my magic power. A simple fireball had turned into a higher rank class of magic, a meteor. However the user would have to pay a terrible price. The mana crystal blinded the user with greed for power, and the urge for destruction grew each time you would use the crystal. It had been too late for me to realize this, I had killed my family for they were trying to stop me, they had saw I had changed. From the grief of killing my own family, I had decided to isolate myself, it took nearly all my will power in order for me to do this. This mana crystal is not a gift, it is a curse. Here i Lie Buried alone, to protect the world from this cursed crystal. This is my warning to the person reading this."
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As I finished reading the inscription something had shifted inside the tomb and a pedestal had appeared, and on top of the pedestal was a crystal, the crystal was black and white with red lines all around it, it also seemed to be very powerful because I could feel some sort of mana coming out of it, I then knew that this was the mana crystal the inscription had mentioned. I had taken the crystal and left the tomb, and I destroyed the entrance to the tomb as well to make sure tomb raiders wouldn't be able to find it as well. I found my bag soon after leaving the tomb and place the mana crystal there and headed off to the kingdom I was closest to which was Forplains Kingdom.
Once I had arrived there I met the soldier who had given me hope when I lost it. I had told him of the frost giant I killed, but left the story about the tomb out. It wasn't soon after that I had married him and had our first child, She was beautiful, she was a very cute baby, with black hair, and green eyes she got from me, this would be considered the happiest moment of my life next to my marriage. After one year had gone by then tragedy had stuck, my daughter found the mana crystal and when she touched it, she had somehow absorbed it. Their was no change except her green eyes had turned red which worried me, because I had heard of the legends that a red eyed demon would be reason for the downfall of all kingdoms. My fear had turned into reality, rumors about my daughter's eye being red spread out, and once it reached the king's ears, he ordered his army to kill the child. I was away from my family when this had happened and when I noticed it, it was too late, when I came home I saw my husband was dying and he looked at my eyes and said,
"Alice protect out daughter, Run away, don't avenge me just run, right now our daughter's safety is what matters!"
After he had said that his eyes closed and once again my happiness was taken from me. I ran away with my daughter in my hands as fast as I could and eventually I was on a boat going near the cursed mist, and now I am here. The thing that shocked me the most was this demon's eyes it was similar to my daughter. At that moment I wonder if he knew anything about the mana crystal, Did he absorb a different mana crystal perhaps? Does he know the effect of absorbing a mana crystal? I will ask him later.
While Alice was thinking about her past she had fallen asleep.
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The demon was also in deep thought as well, He knew that a red eye color represented the amount of mana the person has, if a person has red eye color it usually meant they had a mana pool that would rival the gods, and they age differently than other people. The demon however only knew of one other person besides him that had red eyes, it was his sister. His sister had god like beauty, with black hair and red eyes, she had always worn a white robe that would define her bodies features, but looks are also deceiving his sister was the reason why ancient kingdoms had legends of a red eye demon destroying kingdoms, his sister was the cause of the downfall of many kingdoms. One day his sister had told him,
"Brother, I cannot control myself any more, I am going insane, we have lived for centuries, I don't even remember when we lived a normal life before we got our power, I have an urge to destroy and cause havoc, you have to stop me before I truly regret it."
A few seconds had gone by.
"Brother I know you are hesitant on your answer of killing me, because I am your sister, I know every time I had tried destroying a kingdom you were always there trying to stop me."
Like what his sister had predicted, she was on the verge of insanity, and her urge for destruction grew stronger as time had passed. Once his sister had destroyed the biggest kingdom of that time, was when he decided he would have to kill his sister. The fight was started when his sister was about to destroy another kingdom, he had stopped her attack, and the sister already consumed by the urge to cause destruction, didn't even notice that the person trying to stop her was her own brother. She had sent a fireball that would of destroyed the kingdom at the person who had tried to stop her. Once the fireball made contact with the person, the fireball simply vanished. That is how the fight had started, both the sister and the brother realized that using magic power against each other was pointless so they relied on their swordsmanship. The brother was a master in using a giant two handed sword, while the sister used a thin one handed sword, both these swords were legendary themselves, as they were created by the current owner of the swords. The swords could slice or pierce through the hardest materials, they would never rust, and would never break. Their swordsmanship were unmatched by any other beings as well, one swing of their swords would be able to cut a mountain in half, and as they were attacking each other each other, the after affect was devastating, the mountains were cut in to weird shapes and eventually crumbled down, the ocean had caused tidal waves because the swing of the sword from these two beings would cause the oceans to split, and finally when they were both on the ground after being exhausted from days of battle they had energy for 1 last attack. Both positioned there feet on the ground and when they released all the power the feet to the ground, the ground had caused the biggest earthquake that the planet had even seen. The battle was over the victors sword had pierced the heart of the fallen. It was the brothers sword who had pierced his sisters heart. The demon remembered the scene very vividly, when his sword had pierced the heart of his sisters, the sister had simply smiled and said "Thank you, brother". The demon had to smile one last time to his sister, and said his final words to his sister,"I'm sorry."
The fight was finished, the world was in ruins, and now there was only 1 demon. The brother created a tomb for his sister, he made the tomb with pure white stones, and he placed the body at the very center. He encased his sister's body in some sort of crystal as to make the body last forever.. Inside the tomb to make sure no one would disturb it, he had summoned 4 dark knights with the ranks of SS in each corner of the room. With that he left, to live the rest of his life on the island of Dark Sol.