Demon King Downfall
Before we begin I want to tell you guys that I originally never plan to take this story seriously. I only created this story so I can improve my writing, I never intended to finish it, but as I started posting chapters, I found out I really enjoy this.
Lore
Again, and again, and again, the story never seems to end. The story of the Demon King and the hero locked in a battle that spans generations. Just when people thought this battle would never end, a new hero arises. Locked in an intense battle, the hero sacrifices himself and hopes the Demon King would never return. For a moment, the world was rewarded with peace and prosperity, but unbeknownst to everyone, once again, the story begins anew.
The Demon King survive the hero’s last attack and was reborn as a human girl name Anna. While the hero managed to rob her of most of her power, she still dreams of conquering the world one day.
Race
Entities: Are the first creatures to roam this world. These godlike beings are made entirely out of magic thus making them invulnerable to all physical attacks. Only another Entity, or a weapon they created can harm them, although the effort is completely pointless since even if their body is destroyed, they can simply create another one. All five Entities possess unique powers which they can share among mortals.
Some speculate that these beings were created to bring peace and prosperity to the world. But if that’s the case, then what about the fifth entity, The Demon King?
Humans: Majority of humans live in large cities surrounded by giant walls. Humans are the weakest of the humanoids, for very few of them can use magic due to the fact, that most have never been exposed to danger thus making the power for most of them useless.
Nobles: Nobles are a subspecies of humans. Long ago, humans thought that the only way they’ll be able to fight monsters on equal footing is by combining the traits of their best warriors and order to create an even more powerful being. After centuries of selective breeding, nobles were created. All nobles share the same two traits, blue eyes, and blonde hair. Anyone with these traits will be treated like royalty, even if they’re from a “tainted” bloodline, for those traits are a sign of perfection.
Elves: Children of the 1st Entity, Athena. Being offspring of such a powerful being, elves are blessed with beauty and longevity. Elves consider themselves superior to other races and have separated themselves from rest of the world. It is said that the Elves greatest city, Alfheim is located in the Fairy continent, a land unexplored by humans.
Orcs: Orcs is a warrior race that thrives on violence. Orcs are prideful warriors that are constantly fighting themselves to see who’s the strongest. There are very few females born into this race, so in order to keep their race thriving, they usually kidnap females from other races.
Demons: Demons is what people called creatures that have been mutated by corruption. Regardless of the person intelligence, anyone who’s corrupted will turn into a mindless beast only capable of destroying and spreading madness until they die or is devoured by corruption.
Monsters: A term use to describe any unintelligent creature.
Magic
Magic is the body self-defense system. This power allows creatures to perform feats that are normally impossible. Magic can be broken down into four categories.
Command: The ability to make a weapon perform a specific action. The more complicated the command, the energy/ mana is required. It should be noted that it’s impossible to make a weapon do something it wasn't designed for. Example, sword striking targets out of its range.
Command magic mostly used by humans, due to their reliance on weapons in combat.
Enhance: The ability to augment a physical ability. Enhance can also be used to manipulate the body in different ways, but many of its users use it to increase their strength.
Simple-minded beast heavily relied on this category to increase their already inhuman strength and speed.
Element: The ability to create and control the very elements. Most consider this category the strongest and hardest to use due to the amount of energy required to control the elements. It is impossible for a user to harm themselves with the element they control.
Due to elves, nearly limitless energy/mana reserve, they can easily control elements with almost zero consequences.
Summon: The ability to summon or create something out of nothing. The least use out of the four, for it requires an absurd amount of energy to create something useful.
A/N: I kind of base this power system off hunter x hunter. I really love how their battles are not determined by who has the most power or strongest attack, but how cleverly you use your power. Although I’ll admit it doesn’t feel like I use this system to my advantage. Next arc, I'm going to try to abuse my power system more.
Corruption: A power unique only to the 5th Entity, The Accursed Demon King. This power is responsible for most of the world’s tragedy.
The most horrifying aspect of corruption is that it is an incredibly flexible power and can easily blend with the four categories of magic. Although regardless what shape and form it takes there’s one thing that always remains the same. The physical and mental health of the individual that come into contact with it will quickly deteriorate until there’s nothing left of them.
Just like the other Entities, The Demon King can bestow his powers onto other. Although most consider it a curse rather than a blessing, for everyone that wielded power this was met with an unfortunate fate.
A/N: Corruption is pretty much a debuff power, that either weakens enemies or just out right kills them. I base this power off a manga I read once called “Feng shen ji” The main character, a human had a power to create a field, and anyone caught in it will be forced to fight with less than half their original strength. It’s an interesting story where humans fighting gods.
Bio
Aaron
Age: 14
Race: Human
Sex: Male
Likes: His sister (How surprising)
Dislikes: Anyone that threatens his family (Especially his sister)
Appearance: Aaron is a somewhat scrawny boy with disheveled brown hair. He carries a wooden bow that his mom gave him.
Bio: Aaron is the youngest brother in a dysfunctional family. At a young age, his father left to go on a mission. Hearing rumors he might be dead, his mother broke down, leaving his sister to take care of him. It was during this time that a strong bond develops between the two.
Even after finding out his sister’s secret identity, he still deeply cares for his sister and will do whatever it takes to protect her.
Fighting style: Aaron fights from a distance with the bow his mother gave him. While he’s an amateur when it comes to fighting, his mastery over magic makes up for his weakness.
Scatter shot: Using command magic Aaron can fire multiple arrows accurately at once. The maximum he can shoot at once is four anything greater and his accuracy would suffer.
Iron head: Packing the arrowhead with magic, Aaron transform his arrow into a blunt instrument that’s capable of breaking bones. This arrow destructive potential is greatly depended on the amount of energy Aaron is willing to give.
Interesting Fact: Aaron is my spirit animal.
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Claire
Age: 99 (That’s right, she’s legal)
Race: Elf
Sex: Female
Likes: Interesting things
Dislikes: Boring thangs
Appearance: Claire is a red headed little girl with pointy ears. She carries a wooden staff with her to help her in combat.
Bio: Claire is the obligatory loli of the story. But worry not my fellow lolicon for even though she acts as a kid she’s thrice your age. Claire is the perfect example of if her age is on the clock, then she’s ready for my coc…
Claire is a carefree soul that does whatever she wants and goes wherever she wants. Claire one and only goal is to have fun. In fact, the sole reason she following Anna is because she finds her interesting.
Fighting Prowess: Claire is physically the weakest character in the story, her strength being only that of a child, however, she was born with an immense amount of mana which negates physical weakness and allows her to easily overpower most of her opponents.
Calm tempest: A powerful gust of wind that Claire uses push foes away from her, the attack doesn’t do any real damage it mostly used for crowd control.
Interesting fact: Claire is my second favorite character. It wasn’t my intention, but I feel like she became kind of a comic relief character I ain’t mad about it though, I actually enjoy it. Also, despite her childish attitude, she is the third oldest character in the story.
Maximillian
Age: 18
Race: Human (Noble)
Sex: Males
Likes: Stories and adventurers
Dislike: Studying
Appearance: Just like all nobles, Max was born with blonde hair and clear blue eyes. Inspired by stories told by “tough” adventurers, he keeps his hair short and messy. He carries a pure white shield and a short sword. Both were given to him by his mother.
Bio: Born in a strict household, Max life was planned before it could even begin. Max found comfort from his strict life in stories he heard from “brave” adventurers. After witnessing Anna’s and Aaron awe inspiring fight against the orc, he finally decided it was time to leave home and create a story for himself.
Fighting Prowess: Born in a shelter home, Max know next to little about fighting. He can use magic, although his parents only taught him how to use it defensively.
Interesting fact: Originally, Max was going to be Anna’s love interest, but decided against it though.
Athena
Age: Unknown
Sex: Female
Race: Entity
Likes: Her home world
Dislikes: Anyone who threatens her world
Appearance: A peerless beauty with long golden hair and golden eyes. Athena is a tall woman that wears a simple white gown. Being the first elf of course she has pointy ears.
Bio: Athena was one of the four entities that once protected this world. After a fallout between the four, they decided it was best to leave the world behind and let the mortals fend for themselves.
Even after leaving the world Athena maintains a watchful eye over it and hopes one day she can convince her “little brother,” The Demon King to join her.
Fighting Prowess: Athena is an immortal being with limitless amounts of energy. Despite her overwhelming strength, she rather solves problems peacefully then with violence. If the world is in danger, she usually lulls the threat to sleep and drag them to her world and hopes of convincing them to change their ways, if that doesn’t work, she’ll do whatever she can to assist the mortals without directly getting involve herself.
Interesting fact: Athena is the oldest character in the story, she’s also the oldest Entity. Also, as I am writing this, I just realize that the three oldest characters in my story are women. I guess I have a thing for older women, learn something else about me.
Joseph
Age: 18
Sex: Male
Race: Human (Noble)
Likes: Girls
Dislikes: Clingy fans
Appearance: Joseph is a handsome and a well-built man. Being born noble his hair was once blond, but after receiving Athena’s blessing it turns white. He usually wears a cloak to hide from his fans.
Bio: Joseph is the current hero that Athena chose. He works side by side with Alexander and hopes of making the world a better place… at least that’s what he tells himself.
Fighting Prowess: Joseph is the result of humanity collective effort to create the “perfect warrior.” He possesses what most consider the perfect body. Even without magic and Athena’s blessing, he can easily overpower most beasts. Adept at martial art, expert swordsman, master mana manipulator, and of course, wielder of Excalibur. Joseph is the strongest hero to date.
Electric Aura: Joseph covers himself with electricity to shock and stun any opponent that touches him.
Rapture: Stabbing the ground with Excalibur, Joseph creates a giant circle, everyone who’s caught in it is judged by Excalibur if deemed guilty, they’ll be annihilated by a brilliant white light.
Interesting Fact: Joseph was inspired by Joseph from “Terra formars.” Both are overpowered characters and both were born from selective breeding.
Alexander
Age: 36
Sex: Male
Race: Human (Noble)
Likes: Himself
Dislikes: Joseph
Appearance: Alexander is kind of a pretty boy. His long blond hair enhances his feminine feature. He kind of looks like Griffith from “Berserk”
Bio: Alexander is an ambitious man that’ll do whatever it takes to prove to the world that he’s the real hero of the story
Interesting fact: Nothing interesting to say about him, sorry Alex.
Alice
Age: Unknown
Sex: Female
Race: Elf
Bio: Alice was the partner of the hero that stole the Demon King’s power. Anna believes that she’ll regain her lost power by finding her.
Interesting fact: I kind of base Alice off one piece from… “one piece.”
Lilith
Age: ??
Sex: Female
Race: Human
Appearance: Lilith is a sickly pale girl with dirty brown hair. She’s also quite thin from malnutrition. Other than that, nothing else stands out about her.
Bio: Lilith is the first and only person the Demon King gave his blessing to. What was their relationship? And what happened to her? Who knows you’ll have to keep reading to find out. (Cliffhangers in a nutshell)
Interesting fact: Lilith was mention three times in the story, two of which were early in the story, not really interesting, but I thought I tell you just so you don’t think she appears out of nowhere.
Anna, The Accursed Demon King
Age: 16+
Race: Human?
Sex: Male/Female
Likes: …
Dislikes: Joseph (And every hero that came before)
Appearance: As a kid, Anna’s feature were identical to her brother, but as she ages, she begins to inherit the Demon King’s feature. Her light brown hair blackens and her emerald eyes turned scarlet. Most people believe Anna is a foreign princess due to her unique look.
Bio: Anna is a kind and gentle girl that’ll do whatever it takes to protect the people she cares about.
In her past life, he was known as the Demon King, but now she’s simply called “Anna,” The eldest daughter of a dysfunctional family.
In the past, the Demon King was a ruthless individual that would kill anyone that got in his way, as a human she somewhat mellowed out. He is very protective of her brother, in fact, most of the danger she got involve in resulted from risking her life to save him, whether this the result of becoming human or this is his true personality is currently unknown.
Fighting Prowess: Anna is physically one of the weaker characters in the story, just barely beating Claire. While she didn’t inherit the Demon King’s super human strength, she did inherit his fighting talent and experience, which allows her to easily keep up with beings far faster and stronger than her.
Repel: A simplistic technique Anna created to make up for her physical weakness. Any physical attack that comes into contact with her sword will bounce away from her.
This technique can only be used with weapons that were made for parrying. It should be noted that while this technique was created to counter beings with overwhelming strength, it is possible to overpower this ability, although it requires an unfathomable amount of strength to do so.
Rend: A technique in which Anna increases her arm strength and speed for a split second. This attack is mostly used to catch opponents off guard.
Wither: This is the basic function of corruption. The strength of the person who comes into contact with corruption will decay until they eventually succumb to death.
Blight: Using corruption, Anna can take control over plants in the vicinity. Due to corruption corrosive nature, Anna can only control these plants for a limit time before they start to break down.
Tentacles: Anna can create tentacles to do her bidding. They act the same as plants she takes control of, she just uses these when there aren’t any strong plants in her vicinity.
Black out: A lighting made of corruption. This lighting targets and destroys all light in the area. If anyone is unfortunate to get struck by this lighting, they’ll lose the ability to use magic, and the unhealable wound the lighting inflicted upon them will continue to get worse, until the victim eventually dies.
Ruin: Fire made entirely out of Corruption. Once this fire comes into contact with a person, it’ll eat at their life and flesh until they die. The worse their injury, the stronger the fire gets.
A/N: There’s a lot I want to say about Anna, but I’ll try to limit what I want to say.
-Anna is most definitely my favorite character and is the one I have the most fun writing. I created Anna to be the opposite of most female characters I seen in light novels. You know, the pure and innocent girl that is saving herself for marriage. I remember when I first started this story, I had someone tell me they didn’t find Anna’s vulgar language cute. And I was like “yea, that’s the point.” I didn’t create Anna to be cute. I actually created corruption to move Anna as far away from “purity” as possible. It’s honestly disturbing how fast I created such a dark power. I will admit I do censor Anna from time to time, because some stuff she says is too much even for me.
-Due to corruption in her body, medicine don’t work on her, at the same time she has strong resistance to drugs and poison.
- Anna is technically, the second oldest character in the story, although he’s the youngest of the entities.
-Anna is the only character that regularly uses profanity.