"So we meet again little girl"

A tall man covered in black leather armour and a mask that covered his face, stood in front of a girl that could be said to be the most beautiful girl in the world her red fiery hair waved around it was like fire danced on top, her face looked that of an angel that descended right from heaven itself.

The girl was wearing silver armor that gave off the feeling of nobility she looked like a true knight in a shining armor in her right hand she held a sword and in her left a shield that looked like a priceless treasure.

"Indeed we do assassin" the girl spoke to the masked man.

"Haha to think that my mercy would eventually cost me my life, how absurd" the man laughed and looked at the young girl.

"Move away, the demon lord Zalazas is behind that door isn't he, move and I shall spare your life as a fellow being of this world and besides all your troops are about to be killed you have lost!" the girl pointed her sword at the masked man.

The masked man took out two daggers for both hands and held them tightly as he raised them towards the girl.

"You must be jesting, you know full well that when I take the job I stick with it till the end it is strange being a bodyguard, it is ironic isn't it, I speak like this but I did spare your life, the first princess Elina of the great Elmir empire hahaha" the masked man burst into laughter.

"Yes, you spared my life when I was a girl I always wondered why care to enlighten me ?" Elina asked.

"Let's just say you reminded me of someone, now come let us end this princess!" the masked man started running towards Elina, his speed was otherworldly, only blur remained behind him whenever he passed.

He appeared behind Elina and attacked her unguarded back with both his daggers, but his attack never reached Elinas back as she predicted what the masked man would do and guarded herself with the shield she carried.

"Tch!" the masked man clicked his tongue as he jumped back to gain some distance from Elina, even if she was a girl she was still a warrior and held great power within her, the common people called her knight of the sacred fire she was also the master of the scarlet knights one of the best knight orders.

"Whats wrong assassin come !" Elina raised her shield and sword and taunted the masked man.

"Heh" the masked man chuckled, as he began do fade away into the shadow.

"What!? A shadow clan technique wasn't they destroyed in the great war!" Elina had a shocked look on her face as she watched the masked man disappear into the shadows.

"Where is he!" she started to look around in panic.

"Right here" two daggers emerged from under Elina, even with her sharp senses she was a bit too late, she managed to dodge one of the daggers, but the other one was stuck in her right leg.

"Damn it!" Elina threw away her shield as it was too heavy to carry with her injury, she reached the dagger stuck in her leg and pulled it out, fresh blood covered the stone floor.

"Whats wrong princess?" the masked man emerged from the shadows.

"You who are you! How do you know the shadow clan technique!" Elina screamed at the masked man.

"Too many questions, too much for you shall be dead soon!" he entered the shadows once again.

"Damn it I will have to use it against him!" Elina raised her sword up high and started chanting.

"Oh, Elmir great god of gods and god of light grant me your power and vanquish the darkness before me!" light appeared from the tip of the sword and all the shadows and the darkness disappeared.

"Huh!?" the masked man was forced out of the shadows by the bright light.

"Damn it!" the man stood and covered his eyes as the light was too bright for him to see.

In that little moment was used by Elina, she reached the man in an instant and stabbed her sword towards him.

"DAMN IT !" the masked man tried to block her sword with his remaining dagger, but the sword just brushed it off like it was nothing.

The sword stabbed the masked man in his chest, he spits out a mouthful of blood.

"Ha...haha.. I will take you with me at least !" the blood that was flowing from the wound started taking shape into little red balls.

"What!? Even a blood mage !?" Elina quickly noticed it and ran back with all her strength towards the shield she dropped before.

"Die" the masked man spoke slowly.

The red blood balls started bursting, where ever they touched that place would start to melt, be it a wall, or human.

Elina raised her shield high to protect herself, but even her most prized possession the shield of Elmir was badly damaged from the blood magic attack, if the attack was a little longer, the shield would not have held out.

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She lowered her shield and looked towards the masked man, but he was nowhere to be found.

"Princess!!!" a group of knight arrived and called out to Elina.

"You survived!" she looked at them with a happy expression.

"The demon lord?" one of the knights asked as he gave a small bow.

Elina shook her head "He must be long gone by now, he left a guard to stall me".

The knights looked at Elina and her damaged armor and an injured leg "must have been some strong guard".

"Indeed he was, well then let us go to the throne room this castle is ours now!" Elina raised her sword and yelled.

"Ouhhh!!" the knights cheered in unison.

Elina stopped for a second and looked back "Thank you" she spoke and continued towards the throne room.

Inside a small room, a masked man was leaning against the wall, blood was gushing out of his chest.

"Heh, to think I would ever use the damned scroll to teleport me away from a fight hehe" the masked man chuckled.

"But seems this is the end of me" he reached out his hand towards the mask that covered his face, he slowly took it off.

Behind the mask was a very disfigured face, that looked like it was burned over and over again.

He turned his head and looked at the small dirtied mirror that was close to him "If there was a second life, maybe I could have a normal face and a normal life"

He gazed at the ceiling, his life passed by before his eyes, he was born from the union of a dark clan and a blood mage, but because of his disfigured face, he was abandoned.

He lived his life as a street rat, fighting for little food or water he could find when he was old enough to carry a dagger he killed for the first time.

Time went by as he became older he realized the talents he had and what he inherited from the parents that had forsaken and threw him away.

He became an assassin and slowly with his deadly talents he had risen to the top, no one knew his name and neither did he, he was just known as the assassin.

Even him with his cold heart eventually found love, a woman he loved dearly, a woman that wasn't scared of his face or of who he was.

But in the end he lost that as well, the war broke out between the rival kingdoms, the town his beloved lived in was attacked he rushed to save his beloved.

But he was late by the time he arrived the enemy soldiers were already ransacking the town and taking young women to pleasure them for the night.

When he finally found his beloved she was already dead, she held a knife in her hand she had ended her own life, that was when his heart truly became cold.

He continued on with his life, he built his own assassins clan, he often took jobs from the demon lords to kill some rising and promising youth that would be a potential danger to the demon lords.

There was one particular job to kill the first princess of the Elmer Empire, he snuck into the princess room unnoticed one night.

He held the dagger over her head "Who are you?" the child woke up and looked up at him with a curious look on her face.

When he saw her face his body stopped, for it was the same face as his beloved, he had heard the rumors that the first princess was adopted but if those were true then that means this was the little sister of his beloved.

He returned his dagger and disappeared never to return again.

"Seems my time is almost up, Arian I will be coming to you soon..." with his last breath he spoke as a lonely tear slid down his cheek.

"Wake up how dare you faint! When I am talking to you!"

"Slap!!" he opened his eyes and jumped back as he saw few girls around the age of sixteen surrounding him.

They wore strange clothes that showed their legs, on their shoulders he noticed an insignia of the Elmir empire.

"What is going on here ?' he couldn't figure out what happened to him, just a few seconds ago he was dying and now he is surrounded by strange looking girls is this heaven he thought.

"How dare you ignore me again you trash, I don't know why they let a beggar girl like you into this sacred magic school, just look at your disgusting face ho ho ho" one of the girls started yelling at him and laughed.

"Whats wrong with this girl....wait did she just call me a beggar girl...no no I must have heard wrong there's no wa..." he moved his hand between his legs.

"Nothing"

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