Prologue of my first fan fiction. Forgive my grammatical mistakes. English is not my first language.

Please tell me if there are any errors. I'm willing to learn.

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There is a Hero. His name is Zero. Just like any hero in movies, manga, anime, or stories, the Hero’s job is to vanquish the Demon King and protect the peace of the world.

Zero is a proficient dual-wielder of swords. His movements when swinging the blades are beautiful and his visage is seen as a dancer with swords. With Zero’s bad naming sense, he named his technique .

Zero is left-handed since birth. As for how Zero came to dual-wield, the reason lies in a Knights Duel when he was merely ten years old. Coincidentally, the knight representative of the village Zero lived in is also left-handed. The knight lost badly. It can’t even be called a good fight. Seeing that, Zero was no longer disillusioned. He knows left-handed is a great disadvantage but he will not give up.

Zero started training both his arms, dual-wielding so that he can counter any attacks from any direction and any angle. In 5 years, the art known as was born. With the perfection of , Zero started his journey to eliminate the vile and cruel Demon King from this world.

For as long as human history is recorded, humans have been at war with the Demon Forces. The Demons seek to lay waste to the whole world and rule the new world with other races beneath them, as slaves. Standing at the top of the Demon is the Demon King, the embodiment of evil.

Returning to Zero’s quest to slay the Demon King, he ventured deep into the land of Demons, the Demon Continent. The destination is Demon King’s Castle. In 2 years since he started his journey, Zero reached further than anyone in the Demon Continent and killed more Demons than any human ever did. As Zero finished the last of the remaining Duchess of Greater Demon, it is finally time for the final battle with the Demon King.

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“Hah… Hah … She was too damn strong and she is not even the Demon King. Damn!” – Zero

Zero cursed as he kicked the severed head of the Duchess he just killed away from him. Despite everything, she was still a beauty and he is a normal man at his prime. Though he felt a bit of regret, there is no helping it as she was the enemy.

As he continues with his meaningless thought, the figure sitting on the throne finally rises and slowly walked down the aisle in the throne room.

“I am honoured, to be getting this kind of attention from the King.” – Zero

Without replying to Zero’s sarcasm, the Demon King silently unsheathed his jet black broadsword and continue walking towards him.

“Die!” – Zero

With that single word Zero rushed towards the Demon King, swinging his left sword in a downward diagonal slash while his right sword is swung upward diagonally in a reversed grip. This creates an effect where the paths of both swords meet in a single line. It is a skill that can even pierce the hardest of Mountain Tortoise shell.

Demon King blocked the skill with ease and launched a counterattack with the broadsword. Zero skillfully parried the attack away and barraged the Demon King with everything of . Just like that, the final battle with Demon King became a battle of attrition.

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“This is not even funny. My stamina will definitely run out if this continues. I must somehow break through this stalemate and end him.” – Zero

Approximately after 30 minutes since the start of the battle, Zero started having doubts. Before this fight, he had fought through the waves of Demon soldiers and the Greater Demons, who were the bodyguard of the Demon King. After 12 hours of fighting non-stop, of course Zero will be exhausted and fatigued, no matter how inhuman his strength and stamina is.

The injuries he accumulated so far also started to affect him. In a moment of carelessness, he earned himself another slash on his shoulder. Reacting quickly from the pain, Zero immediately widen the distance between them. The Demon King approaches Zero with a slow pace, without any rush to end him.

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“Tch. This is bad…” – Zero

For a moment, bad thoughts flash through his mind, but he immediately brushes it away and refocus on current battle. The situation is very bad, turning worse by the seconds. He is tired, fatigued, hungry, injured and yet his opponent is still in perfect condition. None of Zero’s worked.

“Aaaa…aaaa…If only I am anything but human…” – Zero

At this critical moment, his mind continues to wander off and start lamenting his heritage as a normal human. Even though he is currently the strongest human the world has ever seen. He is envious and jealous of the other races and their racial characteristics as compared to human. Elves and their magical affinities, Dwarves and their inventions capabilities, Neanderthals and their extraordinary strength, Therian and their beast ability, Angels and their holy properties, Dragons and their battle prowess, and even Demons and their unholy power.

If Zero is anything but human then his racial ability will definitely put him out of his current predicament. Unfortunately, he IS human. It is mentioned in Holy Scriptures that human is made in the image of God. Zero cursed God for making human as the weakest race. There is no point looking like God if even a single punch from some race can kills him.

Zero breaks out of his reverie and lamentation as he jumped back from a horizontal slash, dodging by mere inches to being cut in half. The Demon King cares not for Zero’s lamentations and issues.

“Oops! I shall focus on killing you first before cursing God. Do I really have no choice but to use that?” – Zero

As Zero continues fending off each heavy blow while counterattacking to no avail, he weighs his options in his mind. As he made up his mind, he retreated a distance for the n-th times and readies his stance.

“Heh. I’ll die either way if I can’t kill you now. !!” – Zero

It is a double-edged sword or rather skill that trades off the caster’s lifespans with temporary boosts of abilities. It is really not a worthy skill to use as no sane people will sacrifice 10 years of their life for 30 seconds boosts of abilities.

With the surge of power, Zero dashed forward and barraged the Demon King with five times greater speed and power in each of his blows. The Demon King is being pushed back and switched to defending. On his 68th strike, the jet black broadsword belonging to the Demon King shattered and seizing that chance, Zero slashes vertically with his

left sword.

As the sword approaches the Demon King’s head, Zero feels his power diminishing and his movement is getting slower and slower. Unfortunately for him, his 30 seconds is over as he is dealing his ending blow. Refusing to give up, he forces his left hand further down and slices the Demon King from head.

Before the two-halves of the Demon King separates, Zero feels a sudden rise in unholy power from the corpse and tries to back away. What follows after is an explosion that blows the corpse to pieces and injures Zero as he failed to move away. As his consciousness starts to fade, he saw that the Demon King is no more and fainted with a smile plastered on his face.

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True to himself, he cursed God the moment he woke up for making human so incompetent. After having his fill of cursing the Creator, he finally makes his way out of the Demon King’s castle.

“Since there is no longer a need for Hero, guess I’ll go adventuring from now on.” – Zero

That was the last time he would appear in the history of humanity, or so he thought at that time. Zero will later be known as the .

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