Lost in despair

The blood moon is the most terrifying cataclysm in the mystic realm that threatened human existence, it caused mayhem and created havoc on every of it's

Occurrence, on this note, it was also called the great tribulation,

whenever it happens, the moon turns crimson and all they dead

buried in the kingdom come back to life and attack their loved ones,

After so many continuous occurrences, the great seven kingdoms where completely wiped out leaving only four, the kingdom of

Aden, Pattrice, Colland, and that of Drewn, they were the only kingdoms that triumphed through the numerous tribulations and at that bear a huge responsibility as the last of human existence, in the land of mystics,

After so long, a time finally came, and they could no longer withstand it, they then resulted to forming a alliance between the

Themselves, of which the three kingdoms united under a central

Kingdom, and that was Aden, through this, they were able to

Persevere through the continuous tribulations, at a point, they felt as though they had solved a great problem which lingered for many years and troubled many kingdoms, but then, on its last occurrence, the kingdoms, suffered a great number of causalities and they People could no longer bear it, they then resulted in cremation of the dead, to stop corpses from being buried in or around the kingdoms,

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The real reason I embarked on this journey was because I believed it would be a piece of cake,

But that wasn't the case, not in the very least; instead, it turned out to be a total nightmare,

I have travelled for nine days and during this period of time, I have exhausted most my food and water, and now only have enough to last a day more.

There was nothing more I could do, no matter how fast I ran, no matter what direction I took, I always ended up back where I started, deep within the heart of the forest.

It was no use, I had completely depleted all my magic, and only hoped for the monsters not to show up, In that tiring moment, I sat underneath an oak tree, the wind blew through the branches setting the leaves in motion, the forest was extremely quiet, you could clearly hear the birds singing from a mile away, right there and then, I began reflecting on myself, how did I end up here in the first place...... yea, that's right, let's start from very beginning.

..........A few hundred years back......

It was the year 1800 on Aden's calendar, the seventh day of the fourth month, and exactly five days to the blood moon, that very day the sun was undeniably steaming hot, the sky was desolate due to the uncommon absence of the clouds, the wind was a bit hazy, and for some reason, everyone seemed a little under the weather, the atmosphere around the kingdom was oddly quiet and peaceful, so peaceful, that it was rather strange.

King Rolland was in the palace having a meeting with the duke and other titled knights, he was arrayed in a royal mantle graced with precious stones on every corner, he wore a golden ring which had a ruby right in the center of it. he also held a scepter, a golden scepter which reflected his royal status just from a glance, his advisor was about proposing a plan concerning the forthcoming blood moon, when a knight gasping for breath suddenly barged in.

The king was greatly displeased with his actions and threatened to execute him if the matter wasn't of greater importance than the issue being discussed, on this note, the he conveyed the message to the king,

In a town not too far from the kingdom, there was an attack; some creatures stormed the land, killed everyone in it, and left without taking anything, headed west.

This was a great shock to everyone in the palace, including the king, for the news brought unimaginable dismay, and this was because, the only place west of the town, Angus, was the kingdom Aden, there was only so much the kingdom could do, it already had its hands full preparing for the blood moon, which was just five days away.

The king was completely fazed by the whole situation, there was no telling if the counter measures taken to cease the continuous attack of the blood moon, would be effective, but he still couldn't wave off the possibility of this creatures being a greater threat to the humans than the blood moon ever had,

After putting a lot into consideration, the king resulted in calling for a meeting with the other kings, of which the discussed ways to savage the situation.

After some inputs, they finally came up with the decision to intercept the creatures before they could reach the kingdom boundaries,

The next morning, king Rolland took two-third of his knights and made his way for angus,

On the way, he joined up with the other kings who also brought a number of knights, the journey took them about two days to reach their destination,

On arrival, they camped behind a cliff and laid in wait for the creatures to surface.

The camped for more than a day and half but there was still no sigh of the creatures surfacing, to a point, they felt as though the news of some creatures attacking angus was just a façade to throw them off their preparations for the blood moon,

But then, when they had just given up on waiting, they creatures surfaced, they appeared in a large number in thousands and hundreds of thousands, with just a few words from the king the battle commenced.

It was a long drawn out battle, the humans were completely overwhelmed by their surprisingly large number of the creatures, they were clearly outnumbered,

After fighting for a whole day, the kings were extremely exhausted due to complete depletion of their magical energy, but they couldn't give up. it was at that point the humans saw a ray of hope, if only they could hold on a little longer, they would gain the upper hand in the battle.

But then, another entity suddenly approached the battlefield, from afar, everyone could already sense an immense power coming from it, it was on a whole new level.

Suddenly, he out of nowhere, he had four horns as sharps as its claws, he also possessed two red eyes burning with great fury, it fangs were clearly seen as they were extremely long and sharp, it also had a nasty look on its face.

Seeing this, the human lost all hope of winning, the battle was already over, there was no point in further struggle, the only thing they could do in that moment, was to run.

They retreated as fast as they could, but it was no use, the creature dived straight into action and in a single slice from his claw, he destroyed a large number of knights, at the same time, the other creatures also continued attacking the humans, at that point, it was all over.

As the humans ran as fast as they could, wallowing in hopelessness, the kings on the other hand made their way for their last resort which was planned ahead of time, it was a largely drawn out array hidden in the bushes,

On arrival, the stood in accordance to the layout.

King Rolland stood in the center, while the other kings stood at the sides, they then began making hand signs and chanting numerous spells, in a blink of an eye, they all turned into a puddle of blood and were absorbed into the array.

In that instant, a tremendous amount of magic flowed into rolland, the magic was so great that he couldn't bear it, he then let out a loud scream of pain and mistakenly, some of the magic leaked out.

Immediately, the creature noticed this sudden spike of magical energy, and then ran to stop whatever was happening, but it was already too late, the ritual was already completed and Rolland now possessed unimaginable power, but it came with a great cost.

In a single flick of his hands, a huge wind sent the creature flying half way through the battlefield, but even at that, the beast was still resilient, he stood up once again and ran straight for Rolland,

Before he could get to him for a second time, Rolland had already infused a tremendous amount of magical energy into the scepter,

He then struck the scepter straight into the ground, suddenly, a great wave of light shined out; a barrier then came out of the ground and divided the battlefield, the barrier was made of lightening which continuously created terrifying noises.

Suddenly the demons which were on the human side of the barrier were drawn to the other side.

In that instant it was all over, the humans who had survived the battle were overwhelmed with joy, for the battle was finally over,

But all this wasn't what Rolland felt, he felt great pain for all the fallen knights and the kings who sacrificed their lives, he knew his life was at its end due to the forbidden ritual he had performed, he then set out for a final mission of which he infused all the magic into his scepter, and hid it far away from anyone's reach.

The event of that day was recorded by an unknown personality and the creatures were known as demons from then on.

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