The Sorcerer, scared and amazed, asked him to annihilate the entire army. To which, the demon passed on a wide smile and announces his price. It was a life for a life. To every life he will take, he wants another life from the the sorcerer.

But it was too much of a price to pay because lives don't grow on trees. Yet the sorcerer agreed to it. The demon went to the battlefield, and finished every enemy soldier down to the commander.

Everyone else who witnessed that scene was terrified. The sight before them, gave them nightmares throughout there life. Well, never once in their lives they had witnessed a demon.

When he went to the palace, there was piles of corpses. The demon took every single of them but he was short on one life. There were no other people, no other corpse left, only the sorcerer himself.

So, the demon took the last life and vanished.

While this incident played in favor of that kingdom, It took the Shaffosite to chaos. The furious king, commanded to send a battalion of 1000 troops immediately.

But a problem arose, that even if they travelled all day, they would not be able to make it fast and it was necessary. If they didn't, then there defense would be tarnished and all the efforts they did till now would be severed.

Before the enemy soldiers would recapture the areas that they had lost.

So, the battalion commander suggested to travel through the forest of Ulnar. As it was the shortest route, no one seemed to took a second thought.

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But once they entered the forest, they never came back.

This made even more of an uproar, how a entire battalion was wiped out. This was outrageous! When the word spread of it across the kingdom, the king ordered to fence the whole forest.

Search operations were executed and even more troops went to that forest. But no one of them ever came back. Now, the word was clear across the kingdom- NEVER ENTER THE FOREST OF ULNAR!

They demanded the people to do not enter the forest.

And eventually everything calmed down.

It took a few more wars and a few more troops but at last, that kingdom surrendered themselves to us.

But one day, the soldiers came from forest.

Everyone of them were covered in mud, blood and sweat. There were haunted- eyes almost ripped out of them of their life. No one had any guess what happened and where they had gone.

But one thing was noticeable, that there numbers were less. They were only a few hundred of them.

They were presented in front of the king.

They were given to spoke.

The commander of that battalion came forward and told what happened.

When they entered the forest, the travelled through it through whole two days. It took them a while to realize they were just going round and round that there was no end to it.

They were shocked and dismayed, It caused an uproar between them.

But there was a even more important thing which was surviving.

There was not enough food nor water for all of them.

In a few weeks, they ate almost every single animal in that forest. The water supplies was also slowly depleting, even the insects which they started eating were going down in numbers.

And they started dying. Dying of hunger.

Starvation was making them insane.

They were going mad. Losing a sense of their humanity.

Then-

That came.

The demon of that forest- Drallman.

In their rage, they all started attacking him but no attack worked on it. He defected all of them and simply stood there elegantly.

He told them..

"Hmm? What happened how have you stopped."

"..."

She pondered and said, "I am extremely sorry, Francis. This is much as much I remember."

"What!?"