Spin-Off Vol.1 'Dark Stranger ': The New Customer

[ Dungeon: Goblin's Nest Dungeon (Epic) ]

" What are you, Monster!? " said the Knight Captain as he saw the monstrous thing that just came out from the Gates.

He immediately attacks him using his Wind Magic alongside his men, as they all try to defeat it.

"( Keurkh... )"

"( What is this? )" DG-525 asks himself as he sees the people attacking him, throwing the elements at him as if they could control it.

"( Elements? They control it? Is this, Magic? )" he asks as he then rushes towards them one by one as the whole place is covered by the smoke of the Elemental Bursts.

" I can't see 'em, where is it? " said the knights suddenly they screamed as DG-525 killed them one by one.

" Captain, agh! " screamed the knights as they were assassinated one by one.

" Goddamned Monster! "

" How dare you do this to my men!? " said Knight Captain Duncan Donovan Grimshaw, using his [Air Slash], which DG-525 dodges.

" Don't dodge, monster! "

" Face me! " Captain Duncan draws many of his Magic as he attacks DG-525 around the smoke, he uses the Wind to also dissipate the smoke while striking true.

[ Air Fang Striker ]

[ Air Fang Bullet ]

[ Wind Striker ]

Captain Duncan uses all of the Magic and successfully dissipates the smoke with his wind, which results in the monster retreating around the place.

" So you ran away? " Captain Duncan asks but he then uses his [Mana Sense] as he tries to sense DG-525's Mana.

" All beings are connected to Mana, for that's the very force of nature. "

" No matter how much you could hide around me, using every Dark Corner of this Dungeon... "

" My 'Mana Sense' could still get you. " Captain Duncan says as he increases his 'Mana Sense', still trying to sense and track DG-525's location.

" What the... " Captain Duncan says after trying to sense for so long.

" I didn't sense it at all, it couldn't be!? "

" No, no, this shouldn't be, Any lifeforms both human and non-human should've been connected by Mana as it enters the body. "

" If that's so, then... " Captain Duncan quickly retracts his great usage of 'Mana Sense', immediately performing his magic as he could hear the sound of a fast step, that comes to attack him.

" [Air Fang Barrier] " Captain Duncan uses a Wind Barrier Magic to shield himself from DG-525's very attacks.

" You don't have Mana, didn't you? " Captain Duncan grunts as he shields himself from DG-525 whose body is covered by a dark smoke.

" What are you, are you perhaps a Monster Species that we've never seen before!? " Captain Duncan asks as DG-525 rapidly strikes at the Barrier using his sharp monstrous claws, striking true at it, and penetrating it, stabbing the Captain on the stomach as it happened.

" Grrah! " DG-525 roars as he stabs the captain, but suddenly, he stops.

" Huh!? " DG-525 wonders as he sees his own reflection, mirrored by the Captain's very armor which startled him.

He suddenly remembers his days in the 'facility', each time he had the time to see himself in the mirror in his humanoid form, a form he believed to be his perfect form as the sight of seeing it mesmerizes him.

" This is what I truly looked like... "

" Thank the mirror for showing me what I looked like in front of others... " said the little humanoid form DG-525 as he saw the mirror in his room back in the 'facility'.

" Grah! " the Current Monstrous form DG-525 screams as he sees his current face, he lets free the captain as he retracts the hand that stabs him.

" Grah, grah... " DG-525 touched his face, he cowered after seeing his own reflection, and tears came out from his eyes.

* Captain Duncan scoffs. *

" Why is it cowering like that...? " the Captain tries to stand with the help of his sword.

" No matter, I must kill it before, kuokh! " the Captain scoffs blood.

" Darn..., I have no... choice, then. "

" I..., the Royal Knights Captain, Duncan Donovan Grimshaw...! "

" With my very blade, I will draw the power of the Wind! " Captain Duncan as he breathes to prepare the chanting.

" The Wind that cuts every tree, the Air that rips the woods ... "

" Let your Wild breeze cut through and allow me to Slash my enemy with your sharpness... "

" The Air that brings doom, the Burst of Destruction ... "

" Allow me, Empower me .. Let me destroy the very obstacle before me ... " Captain Duncan says as the air swirls sharp onto his blade, imbuing it with great power as he charges it to strike at DG-525.

" Grah... " DG-525 says it as he witnessed the preparation of that very strike.

" Prepare yourself, Monster. "

" With this, I will make sure you will pay for my Knights' death! "

" HYAHH! " Captain Duncan prepares to swing it, as the very magic is prepared and charged, the Captain immediately swings it and says its very name.

" [Air Slashing Spirit Thrust, Mantis Scythe] "

Captain Duncan unleashes it as the very magic strike true onto DG-525's position which 525 then decides to block it with its hands while feeling the great pain in his monstrous form.

His hands touched the very striking thrust, the thrust that felt like a sawing drill that gradually sliced the skin which made DG-525 feel a lot of pain, which made him more enraged as it made his eyes red, and his muscles grow.

" What? " Captain Duncan sees DG-525 still able to hold the very attack, he increases the magic tension while DG-525 uses his powerful hands to break the very magic attack itself with his full might.

" RRARRRH! " DG-525's hands destroy it, he breaks apart the very magic and wastes no time on grabbing Captain Duncan's head using the very momentum.

" Mons- "

" RAWRHH! " DG-525 quickly splatters the Captain's head using his hand grip, blood splattered everywhere as he did it.

* DG-525 growls while his face and body are covered by blood. *

" Wow, you just defeated a Royal Knights Captain with your bare hands? " said a voice coming behind DG-525.

* DG-525 growls and prepares himself. *

" Easy... " said the coming person.

" I'm not an enemy, I'm just a 'Black Merchant'. "

" I'm here to offer you some goods, some goods that will give you a new life. " the Black Merchant says to DG-525 as he tells him that, making 525 remembers his goal of having a happy life.

" Is...it...possible? " DG-525 asks, he can finally talk again after a long time of rage.

" Oh, you can talk!? " Black Merchant asks as he hears it.

" How did you do it? Can you actually do it but was blinded by rage, earlier? " Black Merchant asks as DG-525 nods.

" Good, guess things could be easier then. "

" Time to start our business... " Black Merchant says to DG-525 as the two talk within the very Dungeon.