Only dead have seen the end of the war.” – George Santayana

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On a hot summery day, the sun is at the top of the sky flashing down his angry gaze on Earth. Still, it can be considered a normal day in the small village of Dakeo, on the border of the kingdom of Neriah. Everyone is busy there with their work. The herder is tending to a herd of cattle, a woman is filling water from the village well, kids are playing around, and there is a crowd of women around a man selling amazing things.

Suddenly! There is a mild earthquake with a high sound of feet and horse stoops, which can be listened from afar in the village. The woman crowded around the man suddenly started to panic, called for their child’s name, and started searching for them. The vendor started to pack and was ready to leave the place, the woman who is filling the vase left the Vase and run toward the end of the village, the cattle started to make a sound like death is approaching them, and the man who is tending to them sometime before goes hurriedly towards the house at the end, the village chief house. 

Everyone gathered at the end of the village, looking in the direction of the sound. Looking at everyone’s anxious face village chief says – “Don’t worry, our army may be returning from the war. There is no way our army will be defeated”. As soon as he says this a red coloured flag with a sword and light at its centre can be seen from the end of the village. The village people started to rejoice to see their army returning.

 An army troop of some five hundreds are coming towards the village. Some of the faces at the end of the village are saddened, as their hope of seeing their loved one has plummeted. Still, they put up a face of a proud citizens, when the army comes closer, in respect of Prince Lucius and the army which fought on their behalf against the Apollyon Kingdom army.

The prince’s horse stops at a distance of 20 yards from the end of the village. Low-voiced prince “Commander Arthur?” (With a loathing gaze).

Commander Arthur “Village chief please come here. Prince is tired from all the traveling from the battlefield so prepare a place to rest for his highness.”   

“Yes, Sire.”  village chief replied with a low fumbling voice/

The village chief goes to a young woman and tells her to prepare a place for the prince. The woman leaves hurriedly and then everyone entered the village.

There is something that is disturbing the village chief which is the grim look on the face of the attendant of the prince and the cold and sinister look on the face of the prince that he happens to notice when he had gone to take order from the commander.  On top of that, his son was also one of the soldiers that had gone to war but till now they had not returned. Now the village chief can’t stay without being anxious, finally, he decided to go to one of the attendants and ask about the other soldier.

“Hey! Man knows what happened to the other man of your arm.”

The soldier sighed: “Nothing they are following us with a war lot that’s why they are coming behind us late.”

The old man with no further doubt left the place.

[After 3 hrs]

The red moon is shining brightly in the night sky, showing its yellowish-red colour. A beautiful woman in white rob walk into the prince’s room; wrapped her hand around the prince and set on his lap with a crook smile. The night is silent, you can hear the sound of the insects if you remain silent. Then the woman in Rob says to the prince: “Dear, it’s time to move.”

They both come out of the room. Prince gave a signal to the commander, and suddenly the personnel of the Price army start to move, they gathered the whole people of the village at the center of the village. All the people dragged to the village’s center are screaming in fear without knowing Why they were dragged. The prince didn’t even bother to answer the village chief asking him what happened and why they were dragged. The prince remains unfazed even after hearing all the prayers of the people who are praying for their life to the prince. He then lifts his hand and orders the soldiers to finish off all the villagers. After some time with a scream from the villagers, the yellowish-red moon turned into a red moon. The night sky becomes red bright as if a fire festival is going on, the bright light started moving in the direction of the battlefield. And with that, there emerges a unison sound: “Long live the prince. Hail the prince”.

[in the battle field]

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The people of each country are fighting with each other. The armies are trying to defend their countries with their life. In a friction of second the battle field is silenced. Everywhere pile of dead body can be seen.  That’s how is the end of the grand war between humans and demons.

[ in the capital]

The prince is welcome with a warm heart. The people are standing side by the row to show respect to the army that won the war and saved the country. There is air of every where in the capital, everyone seems to celebrate like a happy occasion.

[in the suburb - the misty village: The evening of the celebration]

The mist surrounding the village in evening gives a weary feeling as normal vibe. Some people are chattering inside a inn in the village while drinking. Suddenly a man rushes int o the table and shout “Monster is near the field!” everyone become quiet. The Adventurer of the village are called upon the find the demon and exterminate him.

[near the village swamp]

**Adventurer1** Be careful the demon must be wating to ambush us.

**Adventurer2** What is there to worry there are a lot of us it might have chance to begin with.

Suddenly a scream was heard and every on rushes toward the place, to see a bloody body, in some parts bones can be seen. The surprising thing is not that a body was found but the body was still breathing even after that condition.

Two adventurers are called upon to take the injured man to healer to see if he can be saved even the chances for that of being are very small. And the rest are searching for the monster that is seen.

[2 years after……]

A man woke up from his sleep in a dusky- low-illuminated place, a sword in his left hand. He started looking for where the sound is coming from. He stood and get ready for his last battle with the boss of the first floor of labyrinth of a combination of darkness and light. The boss came, having a muscular upper body and bottom of chimera. The man prepared himself, hardening his courage to face the main boss. The boss growled and started to move towards the man, with a frantically high speed, it uses his axe that is in his left hand and attack the man, the dogged, to its rear position. It uses it knife that is attached on it tail attacked the man with a circular motion. The man jumps upward dogging it to attack again. The Boss started attacking with more speed and brute force.

The man dogged rolling to left bottom the boss and used his all might to swing his sword, dealing a great damage to the left leg of the boss. The boss growled in pain and flipped to the left side, the man took advantage of the opportunity and stabbed the neck of the boss. The boss fell backward on its back growling. The man was taking a breather he noticed the boss leg and neck is healing. The man went near and give it a multiple stab on its neck like it was his arch enemy who finished of his family. Finally, after an overkill the boss is dead.

Suddenly the man felt a sudden surge of power within it, and as his instinct guide, he folds his right-hand sleeve and took of the bandaged that cover the damaged part of the man. Much to is surprise there are no wounds any more, all are healing and felt much refresh after that. This was unheard incident the happened with him. It seems he gained the healing ability from the boss. Form the first big kill of his in this all time. Then he realized that this is not his first time, he may not have noticed till now but he can sense any disturbance like the disaster blood sucking bat and he seemed to gain super sense because he is able to evade pretty successfully.

His eyes cry out, realising that a bad dream worse than a hell had ended. As he remembers how he joined the army to fight demons, how abruptly with a red light everything near become silent. Everyone in the battel field become dead body but some how he was not dead but not alive. Unable to control his body, his move automatically, like he turned into a zombie. Finaly when he reaches near the Misty village the first thing, he noticed that he has blood lust for human and he was going to attack the man even though he wants to control but unable. The suddenly Everything is dark around him become dark and cool.

When he opens his eyes, he was in misty village. They treat him like there family for one year when he was able to move, he helped around the village for nearly four months. He then said good bye to Misty village and walks in the path lead to his village only to find it in rubbles. When he reached the nearest town, he gets to hear that monsters have attacked the village and killed all the villagers and also, he heard about how the prince killed the great demon mage with help of saintess who is now the queen who cast a wide area kill attack to almost kill the army of country, realizing it the demon king who is responsible for all of that happened to him.

Then he joined the adventurer guild as porter to obtain the one in a life chance to get all healing water the is rumoured to be flowing inside the great labyrinth. At first no one wants to take him as his right hand does not work due to an injury. Soon after a month of struggle, a well-versed team ask him to go inside the labyrinth of a combination of darkness and light, as they are going deep inside the labyrinth and they don’t have porter as their porter’s wife is on due and he has to be bear her and no one else is available.

As soon as they encountered the disaster blood sucking bat at the first floor of the this newly opened labyrinth which were three times the monster bat and have super sense but once hit can be killed. But these bats were evading most of the swing with help of super sense and they flock in large numbers. Soon when they realized that they are not capable enough so to save their own life they scarified him. Like before in Mist village lost his consciousness only to find himself alive somehow. He can’t understand what is happening to him. When he analysed, he had fallen deep inside the first floor. To save his life he now has to fight.

With his one hand he fought with the monsters on first floor, the he thought he should challenge the labyrinth because he has no one and nothing to lose except the life. The he started to advance toward the boos zone. Finaly now he was the first in this labyrinth who cleared the first floor.

Then He raised his healed right hand and shouted – “Demon king you wait on your throne, this man name Samule is coming to kill you. I will take everything that has any meaning to your life and give you a befitting end to you, you just wait!”. He started walking and saw the door of the 2nd floor and opened the door.