Danmachi: The Last One

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The sound of water dripping continues to be heard for a while. Meanwhile, Inside a cell, you can see a silhouette of a person hanging on the wall. The smell of blood and rotting corpses can be smelt from a mile away. The person who was chained to the ceiling slowly opened his lifeless eyes. The silver irises glowed within the dark cell. They slowly looked around at all the corpses surrounding them and saw a few bodies still breathing but most were not.

This is the torture/graveyard area where obviously people are tortured and killed and left for dead. It's also the prisoners living area if you could call it that. The person continued looking and saw a bunch of dead children with missing limbs and adults with bones sticking out.

A sight that they were use to since they were unfortunately still alive. Everyday They would be beaten and used as experiments for this group of people. If they remember correctly, They were called Evilus. A group of dark gods and adventurers, hellbent on causing chaos and destruction.

This area is only one of several dumping grounds for corpses and what not. The person looked at themselves and couldn't believe that he was alive. That's right our mystery survivor is a boy no older than 10. He has long silver hair and sharp pointy ears. He has a malnourished body from lack of eating and nutrients. He is 4.8 feet tall. His body littered with scars and bruises and barely covered with cloth.

Even though he is malnourished, you can tell that he is quite the looker and still has beautiful skin even though its not in pristine condition. This is mostly thanks to his race, the moon elves.

Now how did our boy end up in such a situation. Well it began about 6 years ago.

6 Years Ago: There once was a prosperous village filled with the now almost extinct moon elves. The moon elves were considered special because they were blessed by the moon goddess Luna. They were blessed with longevity and the ability to be stronger and grow faster during the night. They also have a passive ability to grow stronger in darker areas and since they can see in the dark quite easily. They were amongst the highest royalty among elves and were basically worshipped.

They were also feared by the non demi-human races. They were natural predators in their own right. They were able to master many crafts easily and were highly sought after by familias. They were able to level up faster than other races due to their passive abilities. Sadly this was also the reason they were hunted as well.

There was a rumor that spread like wildfire that if you ate a moon elf or drink their blood, they would grow stronger and sadly this was true. There was something in their blood that makes whoever consumes it twice as strong. Of course because of this they were turned against by the other races and were killed. Their home village where they worshipped the goddess Luna was razed to the ground and destroyed. Children were captured to be used as slaves and nourishment while the adults were slaughtered.

The moon Goddess upon learning of her favored children demise was enraged and cast a curse upon them that ended up killing everyone who has eaten or drink the blood of the moon elves. Eventually they stopped killing the children but instead found other ways to use them for their own benefit.

The high elves did everything they could to help the moon elves but at last not even they could stop the incoming destiny. This was how our MC was were he is now. He was one of the few who survived the slaughter and was being used another way. Through a certain ritual, if you used a moon elf's blood and mixed it with a few other concoctions, you can make a potion that basically makes you level up your stats faster. Basically a Exp Potion. They can no longer consume the blood and meat because the curse will kill them but that didn't stop them from experimenting.

Thus here we are, inside a cell just waiting for the day they would go to far and accidently kill him. He no longer cared about anything anymore. He just waits for the day he will die and can reunite with his relatives once more.

This is the story of The Last One and it's only The Beginning.

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