Is this the end?

A few minutes before, around the forest, east of the main battlefield of elves and vampires.

"We haven't seen each other in a couple of hundred years, have we?"

"Um, yes, it's been a long time, and now it seems we're on the same side for a short time..."

Three men and a woman stood above the forest.

Two men were vampires, and the man and woman duo were elves.

The elf men and the taller vampire were talking in relatively calm tones, they seemed to have known each other for a long time.

Beside them, the young-looking elf woman and the short and old-looking vampire were arguing.

"You haven't grown this time either, and you look even older."

"Oh you whore, I don't know which of us is older, you're just wearing that fake young skin!"

"Fucking shorty!"

"Old hag!"

"What is it, you want to go at it!?"

"Oh, I don't know, will your young husbands be okay with me smashing that fake face of yours!?"

As the energies appeared around the two of them, they were already grinding their teeth.

"Stop it, both of you!"

The elf called out. Both shut up since actually the woman and the short vampire were much younger than both of the calm ones, they just stopped aging much younger the them.

Hearing the man's voice, she quickly released her energy, but the vampire only after seeing the tall vampire's gaze.

"Where do we start?"

"They said everything must be destroyed until we find a boy here, then shall will..."

As the elf men said, he turned towards the forest below and a large ball of fire appeared in front of his outstretched hand.

"...?"

"Is there no problem with your moral code of protection of nature?"

As the short vampire asked, the fireball went off, and then the woman answered.

"It was an order from above..."

"As hypocritical as ever..."

"..."

The woman didn't say anything to the remark, there was an order to things, and commands came first, there was nothing else.

...

In a matter of minutes, most of the forest was destroyed and many arrays were activated.

"How the hell do we find that boy, the area is too big!"

"Just shut up and search Shorty, or can't your old bones handle the movement that much?"

"Fuck you, Old hag, you're a hundred years older than me!"

"...!"

"...!"

Feeling the gaze of the tall vampire, they both fall silent.

"Zaituc, go back to where we first noticed the arrays and search, although the arrays are getting stronger here, I sense something strange."

Hearing the man's voice, the short vampire turned and walked back without question.

After a few more minutes of searching.

"Shit! There's nothing here, just some weak monsters and arrays..."

"Huh?"

As he became increasingly irritated by the wasted time, he felt a strange disturbance of energy.

"What is this?"

Saying this, the man pushed himself off the ground and jumped a few hundred meters into a clearing.

With most of the forest burned and overturned, there were no trees or grass here either, and the place looked the same as the others.

He leaned forward a bit while narrowing his eyes.

He tried to look at something that was not visible.

Extending his hand, he slowly brought it forward, but nothing happened, nothing stopped his hand.

"Um…?"

When he questioned if he felt it wrong, more energy was released and a slight disturbance appeared around his hand.

It happened as he realized something, a presence appeared in his sensory domain.

Reflexively, he started to turn, but he was slower than the shadow.

As a black katana appeared before his eyes, he raised his hand to block it.

As the sword cut through his forearm, extreme pain shot through him as red marks appeared on it.

"ARGH..." As he winced in pain, the sword was already back and slashed at him.

He then surrounded himself with the yellow energy of Ki and instead of blocking this time, he deflected the attack.

Hundreds of slashes come one after the other in a matter of seconds.

As a martial artist, he used his hands and arms to deflect attacks, but he couldn't do it for all of them.

It happened when he felt the pain in all his limbs, the shadow jumped back.

"Cursed Blade, you fucking bitch!" Taking a moment to catch his breath, he cursed his attacker.

It was Antanasia holding her black katana, her beast-like form unleashed, full red eyes, veins bulging on her body, and fang-like teeth protruding from her mouth.

"grrr..." Feeling the pain of exerting so much power and curse, Antanasia couldn't even open her mouth to speak.

"Fucking beast...!"

"Stance, Asura!"

With the words, two pairs of arms appeared at his shoulders.

'I have to avoid being cut...' The men run at Antanasia with these thoughts.

As they exchanged a few hundred more attacks, the man used his four energy arms to block her attacks as much as possible, but the problem was that Antanasia was faster and stronger in this form than him.

And then when the 11th cut appeared on his body.

"Arrgh!" The pain became so intense that his heart beat as if he would die instantly.

Seizing the opportunity, Antanasia took a step she wanted to decapitate the man.

But at that moment, a burst of energy exploded between them, and then a tall man fell with a blow and attacked Antanasia with it.

'Nemes?'

Antanasia raised her katana to block the blow, as she recognized the tall man with short black hair.

As the blow sent her back a step, she loosened the defense and jumped back.

Feeling the resistance lessen Nemes pushed his fist forward with more force.

As Antanasia disappeared, Nemes' fist swung forward, but then an invisible wall stopped him from going any further, the ground cracking and breaking in a few meters around his feet.

"Um…?"

Nemes immediately recognized what this wall was and began to think about something as he pulled his arm back and touched his chin.

"Argh…!"

As the short man vomited blood and rolled on the ground in pain, the elf woman and man arrived.

The man looked at the short vampire emotionless, but the woman had a sweaty face, she knew they were about the same level, so it could have been she who looked like this now.

"Help him dispel some of the curses."

Hearing Nemes's voice and seeing him look at her, she looked at the elf man for an answer, seeing him nod, she went to the short vampire.

"How do we break this?" Hearing the voices of the elf, Nemes turned back to the invisible barrier.

"None of us can use space magic, so we're left with brute force."

With the words, he got into a martial arts stance and began to throw punches with such force that the ground beneath him cracked more and more.

Seeing this, the elf-man flew up and began firing various elemental spells at the barrier from above.

In a few minutes, layer upon layer the barrier was breached, and as they began to feel tired, they realized they had reached the last layer.

As they both gathered the strength to strike, Antanasia rushed out from another part towards the woman and the short man.

As the blow and magic hit the barrier, the world around them changed, the desolate land turned into a field of lush green grass, and a giant tree appeared in sight.

Due to the sudden energy change, the four could not react as quickly as the prepared Antanasia.

Antanasia was still in her beast form when she cut the man and woman pair.

As she began the fight with the two, the men bleed from mouth to nose because of the curse.

When Nemes saw this, he pushed himself off the ground and rushed over to attack Antanasia in the back.

Disregarding the fight, the elf searched the place and quickly spotted a child standing in a small array with a barrier around it.

As Temorsth stood in the array, he trembled not with fear, but with anger.

He did not take his eyes off Antanasia and the three people attacking her.

His hands were clenched into fists as they shook with anger, that anger was not directed at others, but at himself and his own powerlessness.

As the fire came from above, he did not turn, not because he did not care, but because he wanted to burn into his mind all the damage and injuries that Antanasia had suffered.

After a few seconds, Antanasia was bleeding everywhere she trembled in pain, but neither the woman nor the short man looked good.

Just as she was about to lose the strength to stand, she felt a familiar presence appear near, and with it, a smile appeared on her face.

The elf noticed the presence too and shouted.

"Help me destroy the barrier we need to get out of here quickly!"

Nemes reacted and turned to attack the barrier surrounding Temorsth, but was held back when Antanasia grabbed his shoulder and pulled him back.

As the elf woman and the short vampire reacted, she slashed toward them making an energy blade appear.

"Tsk...!" Once Antanasia took the three out of view, the elf man used more power to break the barrier, and with two more hits he did it, even as he began to pant and gasp, and he was just about to move, but it was too late.

As Elah was now visible, the man made up his mind and changed his plan, with is he disappeared from the sky.

"Nooo...!"

"Mo...m...?" Hearing his mother scream he looked up but with the words Temorsth felt something warm rise up.

*Cough... Ugh...* A cough came with it blood spilled, as blood flowed from his mouth, his head fell forward reflexively.

And as such, he saw the hand, the hand which held three things, one was red and was slowly beating, and the other two looked like white marble beads.

"...?" His eyes shook questioningly.

And right before his eyes, the hand slowly closed and crushed everything inside, a smile spread across his face with a thought.

'This is... The end?'

...

"He died at that moment... that's the end..."

Hearing the voice of the Great Monster, the child felt something boil inside him, as red liquid dripped from his mouth he called out.

"No..."

"...?"

"This is not true..."

As a smile appeared on the Great Monster's face, his white teeth could be seen in the world of complete darkness.

Seeing this, the child was shaken but did not turn away.

"It... It didn't end there...!"

"Yes, you're right, it didn't!"