A thousand years ago, it is said that the god who created the world fell in love with a human. They made love and the woman bore the first demi-god of the world.

Their daughter had the strength of a god, but the mortality of a human. She got her white hair from her mother, and crimson eyes from her father.

Soon, she grew up and made her own family, and her children also gained her abilities. Their family continuously grew, and slowly, instead of a passive trait, the demi-god’s white hair, crimson red eyes, and immense strength became an active trait.

Those that can activate the demi-god’s trait were used by the humans to fight against the superior races, and they were soon called heroes.

With their strength, both the humans and monsters feared them, and after the war, they secluded themselves. They hid their power and lived like a normal human.

Soon, everyone forgot about them, and tales of their heroic deeds became nothing but fiction to the eyes of both humans and monsters that couldn’t believe their strength.

Now, in front of a thousand shades, was one of the three remaining descendants of the first demi-god, Rain Deus Leonhart.

“I don’t have anything against you, but I have a few reasons why I can’t let you take Josef. I could let you take Marco, but I don’t feel like it.”

“Who are you!? And where are we!?” Said the shade with reddish eyes.

“Who I am is irrelevant, but didn’t I tell you where we are? We are in my world, a world created from my ability, a world that exist between the world of imagination and reality.”

“What the hell are y-“

“In other words, I am the god of this world and inside, I could do anything I want.” Rain instantly appeared near the shade with reddish eyes. “Don’t worry, I’ll give you a chance.”

They all wanted to attack, but their bodies didn’t move.

“I’ll let you go if you promise never to attack the academy again.”

“You think I’ll abandon my duties!”

“Pick, retreat or die? The lives of your men depeneds on your answer.”

“We are the proud members of the shade clan, we will accomplish our duty even if it costs us our lives!”

“So that’s your answer, too bad, you chose death in the end. Though it’s stupid, your conviction is admirable so I’ll fight me without restricting your movements.” Said Rain as she teleported to the sky.

Soon, all the shades could move again.

“Everyone, gather!” Said the shade with reddish eyes.

One by one, the shades entered his body, slowly making it bigger and stronger.

Rain could have ended it instantly, but let them do their little power up, since she’s also interested in seeing what they’ll look like after they merge.

The shade became a bloated mass of shadows, but soon compressed itself and reverted to the size of one shade, but this time, it’s whole body was emitting red vapor.

“Are you finished?”

The red shade didn’t speak, he simply appeared in front of Rain and sent a punch. Rain blocked it with her two swords and kicked the shade to the ground.

She remained on the sky and waited for the shade to stand up.

The shade looked at the sky and said. “So our unity isn’t enough, it looks like we have no choice.”

“You still have a stronger form?”

“Brothers, looks like we have to become one entity.” He said as he clenched his fist.

His body and the vapor it emitted slowly turned from red to purple, and his eyes became yellow. After his transformation, he spoke and it sounded as if a thousand different voices spoke at the same time. “I will kil you.”

He appeared near Rain and sent a punch. Rain still blocked it, but was pushed back.

Shades can combine their strength to defeat a stronger foe, but what they used now was different. They used their life force to permanently join together and further increase their strength.

It is called legion form, and it makes them a lot stronger compared to a normal unity, though doing this will burn out their life force which will kill them all in a few days or so.

This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there.

“Even if we die!” The legion punched Rain again, sending her to the ground. “As long as we accomplish our mission!” The legion descended from the sky and kicked Rain. “We will do it!”

The legion’s attack created a large crater, further pushing Rain to the ground.

“This is all for the sake our race!”

The legion was suddenly pushed away and from the ground, Rain stood up without any scrath on her body. “You’re strong, you’re even stronger than my father.”

She dahed to the legion and waved her black sword, creating a fissure and cutting the legion in half. “And you’re faster than my mother.” She waved her white sword, cutting the legion in to four pieces. “But it’s not enough, cause I’m the monster that killed both of them.”

The legion’s body parts fell to the floor, but became mist and recreated itself. Though it’s heavy breathing shows it took a lot of damage.

“When I once lost control.” She kicked the legion. “They had to stop me.” She threw the black sword to the legion who was still in midair. “But even with their combined efforts.” She dashed to the legion. “They couldn’t defeat me.”

She pulled the black sword and cut the legion in half using the white sword. “In the end.” She cut the legion in to four pieces with the black sword. “When I snapped back, all I saw was their blood on my swords, and their sliced up body in the world that I created.”

The legion recreated it’s body again, but it’s strength and speed drastically decreased.

“After that, I probably lost a part of my sanity.” Said Rain as she combined the two swords, creating a gray sword as big and as wide as her body.

She raised the sword which started emitting gray vapor and waved it downwards, sending a large gray projectile that vaporized the legion’s body.

After her attack, the legion’s body no longer recreated itself, and she was alone again on the very ground where she killed her parents. “I forgot to tell him that I started liking books after that.”

She teleported out of her world and appeared near the door of her room. From her slightly excited expression, she reverted to her normal calm expression and opened the door.

There she saw Josef walking around in circles, and he looked a bit stressed out. Once he saw Rain, his mood brightened up, but became grumpy a second later and said. “Where were you!”

“Rest room”

“Lies! I went inside and didn’t see you there!”

“You went inside the ladies’ rest room?”

“W-what choice do I have? I was worried!” Said Josef with a slight blush.

“I didn’t know you were a pervert.”

“I’m not! I was just worried!” Said Josef as his face slowly turned red.

 “At first I thought you we’re annoying.”

“W-what? I-I told you I’m not a pervert!”

“But now I think you’re interesting.”

“W-what are you saying!” Said Josef with his face beet red.

“I said I’m starting to like you.” Said Rain with a smile.

“I-I-I like you too!” Said Josef as he jumped to his bed and covered his face with a pillow.

Rain closed the door and went back to her bed, and as she closed her eyes, she said. “Good night Josef”

“G-g-good night!”

It might be the influence of her fighting and remembering what she did to her parents, but it was a fact that was she said was her true feeling.

THE END!

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They said amateurs should start with short stories, and I'm pretty sure a hobbyist like me falls under the amateur category, so I hereby declare the end of the story.

I introduced a few more characters and I have a few arcs planned for them just in case I feel like continuing the story(it would feel a bit like noblesse though), but since my summer classes would start tomorrow, I might not.