The Life Before (1)

A Hero they called me.

The one blessed by God to save them all.

At first I was happy to be called a hero but my happiness was quickly depleted by the title. Hero was a job not a position and I quickly learned so as I was ordered around like a dog by the royals. I let it happen though because deep down I still believed I was doing the right thing.

Who cares if I suffer as long as I can save people I'll gladly take the harassment of my peers.

How naïve I was

After the royals noticed that I could be bossed around I was relentlessly bullied by all of the royals no matter the rank. Even when I brought up the harassment with the royal family, I was ignored and told to do my job correctly. I did what was required of me and was barely able to keep my sanity. The only thing that held me back from going crazy was my adventure party.

My party's vice captain was my best friend and the only royal who didn't look down upon me, Damien. Me and him met when I first became a hero and he gave me hope that what I was doing really helped. We picked up other party members who were peasants as I didn't trust any other royal and in doing so I met the love of my life.

She was a peasant and that gave me some apprehension to fall in love in fear of losing her but the power of love consumed me and I couldn't stop it.

Over the years my party began to fall apart as the treatment of the royals grew worse. Until finally an event I would have never expected to happen in a million years. I was betrayed.

On that special day the royal family assigned us a top secret mission going into an S-rank abyss dungeon. I was excited as it had been a long time since the party worked together in life or death circumstances. Unexpectedly the other members were happy, even my lover, Julia, gave me a little more passion in bed that night. I was shocked and none the wiser as I saw it as a chance for my teammates, no family to come back together again.

The dungeon was like the many previous difficult dungeons we had faced before. With only a few close calls we finally reached the boss room but as I opened the door my family stopped walking behind me.

"What are you doing guys? Damien, if you wanted a break you could have just said so."

Turning around with a smile I expected some smiles from my teasing but instead I was blindsided by an energy blast that shot my body into the boss arena. My body was indented into the wall but I felt no pain. Instead I felt angry as I looked up at the people I considered family. They looked at me with the same devious smiles those bastard royals did.

Those smiles weren't what made me the angriest.

Looking behind four of my teammates I saw my best friend and lover kissing and touching each other in ways unfit for friends.

Rage

The pain that I had held in for so long began to flow out from my body. The ways began to tremble and my former party members legs began to grow weak.

"RAAAAA"

A loud roar caught my attention as a 1500 feet tall(Empire State Building Height) minotaur beast burst from the walls. My teammates ran away and I let them. Of course this wasn't out of the goodness of my heart of course I was going to make them suffer and I know how. The royals must have thought only I could never stand up to such a beast. Their pride will be their undoing as they would never expect the hero to have the power to control dungeons. In fact no one knew I possessed such a power as I swore to keep it a secret even from my most loved.

I dodged around the attacks of the beast as a new grin appeared on my face, one of pure excitement.

'They have finally exited the dungeon.'

"Dungeon Control- Top Respawn."

I shouted as my body disintegrated into blue light reappearing at the dungeon entrance.

As I exited the dungeon I saw an army in front of me. I guess their not as dumb as I expected. Still this won't save them.

"Dungeon Control- Beast Expulsion"

The ground trembled as blue lights turned into beasts and thousands of screams were heard. The once said to be indestructible army was getting decimated by thousands of monsters.

"RAAAAAAAAAA"

The giant minotaur appeared in the center of the army. The sky reddened and blood ran rampant as if hell had descended on Earth. The attention was no longer on me rather it was on retreating which played to my benefit as I could finally hunt my prey.

Zooming off into the distant forest I ran after the scent of my so-called family. The scent of fear leaked off their bodies which led me straight to them.

<Strings of Decapitation>

Two heads of my former teammates went flying. The other turned and began to cast but they were nothing compared to me.

<Reality Bend- Switch>

My body distorted as It was replaced by a headless body.

"Sword of Avalon"

Appearing in front of another friend, I cut her in two straight down the middle. Guts, blood, and flesh went everywhere as her body began to corrode and explode. Magic projectiles made their way towards me but I dodged them with ease.

"Absorb"

"Pull"

Three bodies began to be pushed towards me, all of them had attacks aiming at me.

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