I was born of darkness, I am a shadow that was supposed to devour this world and the beings that live on it, make it an eternal darkness.

That was my purpose, the darkness itself made me and given me that one command to engulf the world to devour it.

The beings of this world gave me the name shadow king, I don't know if it is because I look like a shadow wearing an armor or maybe it was because of my power to rip the shadows of the beings of this world and make them my soldiers.

But I don't care about that too much, I only did what was commanded by the darkness.

Still, whenever I ripped the shadow of a being and made a new soldier it felt nice, it was like I was freeing the poor shadow from its master and I could feel they were happy as well.

The war against this world and my conquest to engulf this world into an eternal darkness, it was going well.

For the first few months, my shadow legion and I cut down the mightiest armies that all the races sent against us we were unstapable.

But in all the stories where the great evil dwells come the light of salvation.

The mighty heroes were summoned that wielded powers never seen before and the weapons that could cut down my soldiers like they were made of paper.

The heroes united the races of this world and formed the last and the mightiest army the world saw before.

Still, it didn't matter to me, I continued to fight because that was my order and the reason I was made.

It didn't take long for the heroes and their united army to push us back into the lands of the east from where we came.

The land that was engulfed by darkness was freed and the light shone upon it once more.

After the appearance of the heroes my shadow legion has never tasted victory again, every battle we fought whether it be a defense or offense we would lose.

And now here I stand in the last stronghold of the shadow legion, the shadow keep.

"BREAK DOWN THE GATE!!!" loud yells resound from the courtyard.

I sit down on my throne and look at the four shadows kneeling down in front of me in their dark armors like mine, their eyes shine bright red while mine is blue like the sky.

"Anseis,Nephele,Heral,Amaud" I speak the shadows names.

"Master" the reply in unision.

"My generals and my friends you served me well, but it seems even we shadows are not eternal death is coming for us"

"I can tell you to leave this last stronghold and blend in with the other races and survive but knowing you, you will just refuse all of that"

"Indeed we would master!" Nephele spoke loudly, from the tone of voice she must be a female shadow though to us gender doesn't matter we are shadows.

At the words, Nephele spoke the other shadows just nodded and spoke nothing more.

"THE GATE IS BROKEN CHARGE!!!" seems like everything will be over soon.

"I want to request something of you, will you give me your souls, if there is another life for us I wish to be together again, but this time free from the shackles of darkness that made us"

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"Master you need not even ask" four of them stood up and pierced their hearts and took out four balls of darkness that swirled around in their hands.

"I thank you" they let go of their souls and they slowly float towards me and enter my body.

"Until we meet again master" the four of them bowed down and disappeared slowly.

"Until we meet again" I spoke softly as I watched my only friends disappear from this world, and now I am alone.

"BANG!!!!" they are here.

"THERE HE IS THE LAST BOSS!!!" the heroes entered my throne room and ready their weapons.

"CHARGE!!" all of them attack me at once even their soldiers.

Normal weapons can't hurt shadows but the weapons that heroes carry are strange, rune weapons they call them I believe.

I try to put up a last stand just for show, but I get taken out easily by a hero that carries a bow, she pierces my heart area and my core that contains my soul and binds me to this world.

I slowly start to crumble and by body disperses.

"WE DID THE WAR IS OVER!!!" the loud cheers are kinda annoying but they have the right to be happy they won after all.

My soul slowly fades away from this world.

"Tch"

"So we lose again"

"Summoning heroes from another world is cheating!!"

"Should we try that as well?"

"Yes, lets do that next time!"

I hear a fammiliar voice while my soul fades, it's the darkness that created me.

"What should we do about this useless thing?"

"Destroy it it's useless anyway"

"Agreed"

"Agreed"

I see, so I am going to be destroyed now that I am useless.

I accepted my fate a long time ago, but a thought about the four souls inside me hits me.

Yes, I can not just let the darkness destroy me if I die they die with me and I won't allow that!

I manage to escape the path that was leading me straight towards the darkness with my sheer will.

"What!?"

"It wants to escape!!"

"Catch it!"

"Catch it!"

I float towards the only light I see in front of me, but the hands of darkness close in fast.

I manage to reach the light and my soul contest with it, I can hear curses behind me but I don't look back.

I open my eyes slowly and look at the human female that's holding me tightly with a smile on her face and a few tears in her eyes.

She has a red fiery red hair, her eyes are blue like the sky, almost like mine, I wonder if this is what humans would call a beauty.

I wonder how is she able to hold me a shadow, is she a god?

"Look dear this is our daughter!" she speaks happily.

"She looks just like you honey!" a human male comes into my view he has a big build like the trained knights, his hair is brown and he has a rough beard.

She said daughter, so am I a female now?

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