Authors Note: Please Read!!!

This is a one shot and i am really not confident since.

For once this is the first story i have ever written. And Secondly because my english isn't very good. Its not my native language how you can surely guess.

But i still want you to give me your criticism. If you find anything wrong with my story tell me immediately. I want to better myself as a story writer after all.

And of course thanks for reading this humble story of mine. Thank you. Bye.

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I am the strongest. I have always been.

Ever since i was born it was clear that i was the strongest being in this world. There was nothing that could stop me from achieving what i wanted.

When i was only five years old my village was attacked by a Dragon. And it was no wyvern or baby drake it was a full fledged grown up red Dragon. The fire breathing kind, to be more specific.

To put it into perspective. In our world dragons were believed to be practically invincible.

Dragons especially adult ones rivaled even Demon Lords. And Demon Lords were a existence that were already far beyond humans. Even the weakest of Demons was stronger then a hundred grown man.

That's why people were quite surprised if i could call it that, that i just casually slew the Dragon.

It had interrupted my sleep so i tore it apart with magic that was long thought to be lost. I had no idea were it had come from and till this day have not figured it out.

Of course the attention i got afterwards was quite a lot for such a small child. But i endured the hardships that followed and became a handsome adult who's occupation had and still were the "Hero of Mankind".

That's why i am here. In this city. The city called "Lagur".

What was so special about this city you ask?

The answer was simple. In this city there was the thing called "Cage of God's".

But don't worry the name was actually way more threating then the actual thing. It was basically a Dungeon with super strong monsters.

But people still believed that at the end of the Dungeon laid a chamber were gods had been imprisoned.

But no one knew. Not a single person had ever reached the last room in this Dungeon.

That was until now.

Obviously i had been sent here to answer the question that everyone had been asking for centuries. If there really were Gods imprisoned in the last room. If they were then i had to help them.

But of course i hadn't come alone. Half of the Kingdoms army had followed my call here and of course my companions had also come with me.

Meril the aristocrat, who was the best incantation magic user i had ever seen.

Lato the second prince of the Kingdom, who's swordsmanship was second only to mine.

Gar the dwarf, who was a greatshield user and the vanguard of our team.

And of course my lovely wife Sistina who may have come out of poor conditions but, who's healing arts were the reason we had survived for this long.

There were also my many slaves who also served as my concubines but they were disposable so i didn't count them.

Anyway. We were sent with the orders of the King himself to exterminate every last monster in the Dungeon and solve the age old mystery behind it. But turned out it wasn't so easy.

Many had tried before us.

It was actually the main focus of the city "Lagur" that had been built around the Dungeon.

While that did sound dangerous there hadn't been a monster breaking out of it for a long time. And that was thanks to the admirable people called "Adventurers".

Simply put Adventurers were people that lived from selling the monsters materials they got in the Dungeon. I suspected that he was also there for that reason.

Remembering back our first meeting was in the streets of the Dungeon City shortly after i had arrived. I was taking a walk with some of my slaves as i saw him getting smacked around by some senior adventurers.

Only now i realize that he was obviously letting himself get beat up as to not bring the girl the adventurers had been harassing into danger.

But anyway. I stopped the fight between them which was quite easy since the senior adventurers knew exactly who i was.

They dispersed quietly and both the girl and him thanked me for my help. I payed it no head since people were always thanking me for doing feats impossible for normal humans.

I instantly forgot about them. Well not entirely. I spent some thoughts that circled around him. "Why he was such a coward? If he wanted to save the girl he should have just manned up." Thinks like that

Again i only realized much later that he had probably seen me coming and therefore decided that it was unnecessary to get violent since i would solved the problem without him even lifting a finger.

This makes me thing how long ahead that guy had planned. I am still wondering.

But anyway. The next time we meet was in the Dungeon. It was the second floor. Still a fairly tame area even for normal humans. The strongest monsters running around there were some big frogs with elastic tongues.

Again i barely looked at him. It was because i was simply not interested in other people back then. I mean after all i was the strongest being in the world. There was nothing that could even hurt me. To worry about mere commoners like them was simply stupid.

I do see now that back then i was consumed by vanity. I wanted everyone to look at me all the time. I seriously thought the world was spinning only for me.

That was until our third meeting.

I forgot to say that in our second meeting i did notice something weird. There was a girl with him.

A pretty young one. About 7 maybe 8 years old. it wasn't uncommon to see small kids in the Dungeon since adventurers usually hired them to carry their bagage. But she was to young even for that. But again i payed it no head since i was focused on the task ahead.

But back again. Our third meeting was on the 13'th floor of the Dungeon. Just 2 floors away from the record until then. They had fallen through a crack between the floors and landed there.

Or at least that's what he said. Thinking back i should have been suspicious already since there wasn't even a scratch on them. His equipment had also changed although we had barely needed 1 hour to burst through to this floor.

He had wielded a spear previously but it had changed to a magic staff in the meantime.

Meril tried to give me hints towards how weird that was but in the floor above we had lost a few men of the army and one of my concubines which hit me harder then i admitted back then. That's why i didn't listen to her at all and we just went on.

We occasionally took breaks to let the people rest but else we blew through the Dungeon like a fresh breeze. Floor 20 was reached in about 3 hours after entering.

But this was when things got complicated. Every step we lost men to some traps or some ridiculous monsters.

As we reached floor 30 we had lost every men of the army and only 2 of my concubines were left although all of them were ridiculously strong for beastkin.

But that was when i decided it was my turn.

With me as a vanguard we burst through the next 10 floors in half an hour flat. I was unstoppable.

Or so i thought. The dungeon throwing all of its traps and monsters at me never made me sweat. Until we had reached floor 49. I don't know but i still believe.. no. I have to believe that this was the floor before the last one.

I mean think about it. What was better suited for guarding gods then a god himself. A Demon God that was.

As soon as we entered the floor the demon god released a shockwave so strong that it instantly killed my two concubines and Sistina as well as gravely injuring Gar and Meril.

Lato had managed to protect himself but he was also out cold.

The walls around us crumbled from the strength of the attack. But the falling stones were blown into all directions as i screamed in rage. Blind anger overtook me and i charged at the demon god.

He casually deflected my strongest melee attack. But i tried again and again.

He flung me across the room with a motion of his hand. I stood back up since i had barely took any damage preparing my strongest magic.

I didn't care if it would destroy everything around us. I just wanted him dead for robbing me of the thing that rightfully belonged to me.

I charged the magic with everything i had and flung it at him while screaming. And he...

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He simply absorbed it. I couldn't believe my eyes. My strongest attack.

The glistening white light of the holy nova just swallowed. By a tiny black hole that had appeared in front of that monster like it was a natural thing.

My hands shook.

´This can't be.. This..... This isn't right.....´

Hero: "This.. this.. this isn't right. This can't be happening. I can't...... Not just like that. This... this... Ahhh. Now i get it. This.. this isn't really happening. This is a dream. This is all just a bad dream. Any second Sistina will wake me up and this will all be over."

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i fell to my knees. I felt a damp wetness between my legs and giggled at it.

My instincts screamed at me. "RUN AWAY!!!" But i couldn't move. My legs were wobbly and everything hurt.

Demon God: "What? Done already? How Boring."

The voice of the monster shook the room. It looked at me with pity in its eyes. But that didn't stop him from killing me. I knew. This was my end.

Demon God: "Fine. Then i shall end this quickly."

As if to add insult to injury he spoke those words with such confidence that i even i was convinced. Even if i could move which i couldn't he would kill me. This was the end.

He extended his red clawed hand and a identical black hole as the one from before formed in it. He threw it at me with insane speed. But i still saw it as if it was flying in slow motion. Everything seemed so clear now that i knew i was going to die. Or so i thought.

As the Black hole was about 3 ft away from my face a human hand suddenly caught it. I looked at the hand in awe as it turned upside down and slowly finger for finger opened revealing that the Black hole had vanished.

???: "Ohhhh. Where did it go?"

As if to show me that it was really gone the hand turned to me and away again. To, away, to, away. A second hand joined the movement and my attention was drawn to the person they belonged to.

He has slightly tanned skin. And although I couldn't quite see under his clothes i imagined him to be quite fit.

He wore some odd green trousers a white shirt leather boots a red cape halfway acting as a mantle and the only weapon i saw on him was a long sword dangling on his hip.

I didn't know if they were special clothes but they sure didn't feel the part.

`Snap!`

My attention was drawn away from his clothes to his face which was twisted as if he was surprised.

???: "What was that? Could it have been......." `Gasp` "Magic?!?"

He struck a pose as if to taunt the monster. And me? But i was to fixated on his face.

He had shoulder long black hair that stood away from his head in a unkempt mess.

A short nose high cheekbones and a slender chin. He had rosy lips which seemed to give every word something mysterious but the thing that captivated me the most were his icy blue eyes.

Their piercing gaze seemed to see right through me.

???: "Were did it go? Were did it go?"

I almost jumped up as i heard the surprised voice besides me. I turned my head around ready for anything. But not for this.

Standing beside me was a young girl with flowing blond hair. She stepped forward ignoring my confused look at her.

She went up to the black haired man and pulled down his hand to look at it closer. She also looked into his sleeves as if it would have suddenly gone up there without anyone noticing but of course she didn't find it.

And like only kids could do she let go of him and pouted turning her head. He laughed.

Black Haired man: "Now now. Don't be mad that it wasn't quite the same as before. This time i really made it vanish."

She turned back around and with a surprised voice shouted.

Blond Girl: "Really! But didn't you say you can't make things disappear?"

He looked at her in shock.

Black Haired Man: `Gasp` "You are right. Now... Now were could it have gone to."

The Girl giggled at him scratching his head. But suddenly he pulled the black hole out from behind his head still in the motion of scratching it.

Black Haired Man: "Were did it go? Seriously?"

The girl laughed and pointed at it.

Blond Girl: "There! Its there!"

As if to tease her he turned not only his head but his whole body making him unable to see it. She laughed again before saying.

Blond Girl: "Not behind you. Its in your hand. In your hand!"

He swiftly turned around again but the black hole vanished in the split second he had needed to turn. He opened and looked at both of his hands and answered.

Black Haired Man: "What were? I don't see it."

The Girl held her stomach while laughing loudly.

Blond Girl: "No. You dummy. Hahahahaha. It's not.... Hahaha."

He squatted down and started poking the laughing girl.

Black Haired Man: "What? Were is it? Come on tell me. Come on."

She only laughed louder at his teases and started flailing her hands.

Black Haired Man: "Were is it? Come on. I need that for my next trick. If you know were it is, then tell me?" `Gasp`

The girl wiped away tears from her eyes and answered while breathing heavily.

Blond Girl: "No.. Its...."

Black Haired Man: "I knew it! You stole it. You have to give it back."

He started to tickle the girl and she laughed even more while trying to fight of his hands.

Blond Girl: "Hahahaha ... I don't....... Ah... Hahaha... Kyah! I don't have it. Please. Please stop it. Hahaha"

The Girl kept on laughing without a care in the world and so did the black haired man.

And maybe because they were so absorbed in there little show they didn't notice the demonic monster charging up. I however did. But i was unable to tell them as i looked on in awe.

The Demonic thing used a amount of magic power i had previously believed to be impossible to exist. The power it was charging into this one magic spell was simply unfathomable.

Which was when i realized that the thing was playing with me. At best.

But it seemed that those 2 had pissed him of a lot. He was serious now. To serious. I had no doubt that if that spell went of it would destroy not just the Dungeon and the city around it but at least half the country.

That was until it was flung at the black haired man with almost light speed. But it seemed slow in comparison to him. Not that he was moving fast. It seemed as if time itself had slown down.

Black Haired Man: "See. I knew you had it."

He pulled the black hole out from behind the blond girls ear who immediately tried to defend herself.

Blond Girl: "What? That's not true at all. Its you. You. You had it."

Those 2 were still playing around while the red spell the demon had woven was coming closer.

Black Haired Man: `Gasp` "How dare you. I would never lie.

Bad girl. Next time i will really tickle it out of you."

Those 2. They looked like they were standing on some street corner fooling around, instead of looking as if getting obliterated any second. And now i understood why that was. Because they had nothing to fear.

The man stood up slowly turning around. It looked like this was the first time he had really taken notice of the demonic beast. He took the red energy blast that was coming towards us into focus and for a second seemed to really think on what he should do with it.

He however had quickly found a solution as he extended his right hand which was holding the coin sized black hole.

I don't know what exactly told me but i knew that the black hole wasn't capable of stopping this attack. Not in its current state. But so did the black haired man. Which was the reason why he pumped magic into it releasing the true power of the black hole.

From one moment to the next it had suddenly become big enough to swallow the red magic attack before it quickly and quietly vanished. As if nothing ever happened.

The Demonic being screamed in anger which caused immense pressure that threatened to crush my body and my spirit. I could only imagine how bad the girl had to feel.

But the pressure quickly vanished and was replaced with a new sensation. It was respect. And that sensation clearly came from the black haired man. He had done something to avert the pressure away from us without me even noticing.

Black Haired Man: `Grrrrr` "Want me to eat you?"

Suddenly my knees shook again and i was sure that if i wasn't already on the ground i would have been now. Fear filled my heart on the thought of what that man could do if he got angry.

The girl on the other hand was innocent enough to gloss over the fear with worry.

Blond Girl: "Don't! You'll hurt your stomach."

The sentence seemed so out of place that i couldn't help but giggle. Slightly.

The black haired man turned around with a gentle smile on his face answering her worries.

Black Haired Man: "True. But i still gotta take care of him. He is the baddy after all. Can you just wait her a second. This will be over in a moment."

He turned towards the Monster how was already powering up his next attack cracking his hands. With absolute confidence he stepped forward and slowly took a fighting stance, violet lightning dancing over his fists.

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I still. To this day can't explain what happened next. All i know for sure is that i fainted halfway through the fight which had a magnitude no one could even imagine and as i came back to my senses i was already back on the surface resting in the bed of a rented room in a inn in the downtown.

The City and the Dungeon still intact. And what was even more surprising my friends resting besides me. All alive.

This was the day that i decided that i had to start again. From square one.