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The Squire's Death

As the wooden gates of the kingdom start to crack and splinter, the last of the remaining warriors are mustered up, ready to die for their kingdom as the gates are nearly broken. A few of the squires run, leaving just a couple of knights, squires, archers, and the commander of the army waiting for the gates to be busted down, ready to kill just one last demon before they die. The gates finally get broken down and demons start pouring in, the lowest ranked demons to the highest. The knights take a couple of demons down, to which then they hear a life taking scream from one of the demons, which makes them, the demons, back off to form lines, with one gap in the middle. In this gap, are 5 demon lords slowly walking towards the remaining knights. A knight charges at the one in the middle, to which the demon lord laughs and with just a finger, flicks the knight in the head, killing him instantly. All of the remaining warriors are surprised by this and some even start thinking about running. The weakest looking demon lord asks which of them is the strongest, to which, the commander says he is the strongest. The commander stares down this demon lord as the demon lord just stands there smiling. This demon lord offers them a deal, if the commander can kill him, then everyone will have a quick and painless death. The commander doesn't seem to enjoy taking this offer but has no choice as he wants his men to die painlessly. The commander gets into his battle formation and the demon lord does as well. "Prepare to die to the fifth demon lord, Argemaul, human." says the demon lord. The demon lord, who seems very reckless, charges the commander taking him by surprise. The commander blocks the demon lord's attack but his sword has a very visible crack down the center of it. The commander can tell he has no chance versus this demon, but he still wants to at least draw blood to the demon. The commander throws his blade at Argemaul, misses and the demon laughs, but surprisingly the commander draws a knife and stabs Argemaul in his shoulder. Argemaul who is now pissed, kicks the commander back, and then with the swipe of his hand, smacks the commander's head clean off. Argemaul laughs. Argemaul, after done laughing, looks towards the demon lord in the middle. "I think we should let the lower ranked demons kill these disgusting weaklings." The lower ranked demons cheer for most of them haven't ever killed a human before. The knights ready their blades and the archers draw arrows into their bows. The rest of these humans have decided that they aren't going down without a fight, and their seems to only be 2 squires left. One of these squires decides its a good idea to charge Argemaul while he has his back turned. When the squire is inches away from Argemaul, an imp challenges the squire, and the rest of the lower ranked demons charge in after that imp. The knights hold up their shields ready to take the impact. The demons break threw the knights shields and the knights start swinging their blades as the archers fire their arrows, all while the last squire remaining is fighting 4 demons off away from the small battle going on. The demons circle the squire and the squire remembers his training, preparing for a demon to jump at him. The weakest of the 4 demons charges the squire and the squire turns to the demon and cuts its arm off. The demon roars in pain and the other three demons charge the squire as well. There is only 8 remaining knights, 0 archers, and the one squire. The squire is swinging his blade crazily at this point hoping to make contact with one of the demons. The squire unknowingly cuts one demon clean in half, another one's arm off, and the other arm off of the demon he firstly got attacked by. The squire gets clawed in the back by the last remaining demon. This last demon is definitely the strongest of those 4 that decided to attack him. The squire swings his blade downwards at the demon, and the demon blocks it with both of its arms, it then kicks the squire back and then jumps up towards the squire, to which the squire responds with stabbing his sword straight through the demon's chest as it's in the air. The squire looks at what used to be the battle between the knights and demons. As the demons charge the squire, the squire inhales deeply, and then exhales before telling this to the demons, "Remember the name, Leviethein."

Leviethein wakes up in a white room, he looks at his hands and they are completely clean. He looks up to see three figures standing before him, one in a white and gold hood, another in a black and purple hood, and one in the middle, with a blue and red hood.