The Fall

The screams never ceased. They became usual since the first day of the catastrophe. Now, ten years later, as he watched his blood oozing out from what's left of his body, the last human Heaven had fallen.

It took barely five minutes to the first ever S-grade spawn to destroy the huge walls that protected the ultimate human settlement.

How to describe the huge monster that killed thousands of people with each strike of its claws?

It was a humanoid monstrosity, almost 10 meters tall (around 32ft) with a colossal lion head and claws instead of hands. Even though he was terrifying, his long black mane exuded a certain degree of beauty only seen in royalty.

His bare chest showed his defined muscles not covered by his mane. There, a large cut could be seen healing in the naked eye.

[My strongest attack did him a scratch. Bastard!] The defeated man could only regret it as he watched the beast use his amputated left arm as a toothpick.

Unfortunately for him, the attack only drove the beast mad and with two slaps he fell: the Lion Beast cut his left arm and split him in half!

The Dragon King, that's how people used to call him, one of the top 10 strongest humans alive.

But were those humans really strong?

To hell with that! He could see what were left of the other nine, all dead after a single hit!

They say people can see flashbacks of their life at the death's door, and so, he couldn't help but to to remember:

The apocalypse came and the spawn of zombies killed more than half of the world population in the first month, pure destruction befell on Earth. He lost his family at that time and the hope to live on.

Everything changed, even the humans - and mostly himself.

They fought for their lives when the heavens fell, many became corrupted and some showed that they could be worse than mindless beasts.

But now, the last human struggled to stay alive…

[In the end, what have I fought for all my life? Lost my family and hope long ago, yet I estrived forward. Wasn't it all in vain? It ended up the same way it started: in more screams and deaths. Could the outcome have been different?

The only person I trusted after my parents' death was my master. He saved me a thousand times but still died in the end…

Damn it!

Should I be blamed for distrusting people when the apocalypse happened? It's not my fault, everyone turned crazy, robbing and killing became common in broad daylight.

I feared more the men than the zombies, that's why I hunted alone.

Could my selfishness have contributed to the extermination of humans on the Earth?]

The man shook his head to clear his mind and sighed hurtfully.

[It makes no sense to think about it now, if we could only see the betrayals…]

Minutes later, it was all over.

The world was silent.

For the first time in years he didn't hear the screams.

The half-dead man looked at his katana besides him solemnly and spoke with a hoarse voice:

"Too bad I won't be able to see you again, my friend."

After that, he slowly closed his eyes.

[At least I can die in peace, I'm not going to listen that robotic voice of "god" again]

*DING*

A light and acute sound resonated all over the Earth.

[Urrg… shouldn't have said it so earlier.] The Dragon King regretted.

*ANALYZING APOCALYPSE TEST*

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Humans killed: Eight and a half billion;

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Greatest wave spawned: S rank;

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Time survived: ten years and three months;

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Strongest Human: Nikolas Drachen (the Dragon King)

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Result: Utterly failure;

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Resetting parameters

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Preparing Gift

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*DING*

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RESTARTING THE SYSTEM

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[What the F****?] That was the last thought he had before closing his eyes.