Once the human race was powerless, they were weak. And when living in a world where power dictates everything, being weak meant that humanity was at the bottom of the higher archy. The stronger races such as the demons, vampires, beastmen, elves, dwarves ruled over the world trying to conquer as much land and influence as they could. It became a brutal war that the demons got the upper hand on. Their tyranny knew no bounds as they killed and destroyed everything in their path for world domination. Soon all the other races seeing these atrocities formed an alliance against the demon kind. The alliance fought hard but they were still overwhelmed by the demon army. All hope was lost. The enemy was too strong. Everyone was suffering in this pointless war. The worst of which were the humans.

With no enhancements or magic to defend themselves they were about to go extinct.

But then, in the face of death both humanity and the world witnessed a miracle. All this chaos of the war attracted the attention of an otherworldly force. The sky tore apart opening our world to theirs. Out came the winged armies bathed in light. They were like angles. The angels joined tge war against the demons and with their help and overwhelming strength the tides of war shifted to the side of the alliance. Finally after so many years the great war that lead to countless deaths was over. We won. To ensure that the demon kind can't do something like this again they were banished from our world. They were thrown into a prison realm created by the angels forever. After ensuring all the demons were put in the demon realm the angle army left but not before bestowing humanity with a gift. A gift that enables humans to use mana thus allowing them to use magic. Finally we can stand equally on the same level as the other races. After everything was over and the angels returned It was time to remake society to what it was. The leaders of all the races came together to rebuild the world. It was the beginning of a new era, a peaceful time.

"Come on dad. How many times are you gonna tell that story? We've heard it so many times already." Says a young little girl.

With a slight smile the middle aged man replied back to the girl, "I guess you're right. But we need to honor our history. Well anyway, go call your brother. I have something important to talk about."

After the little girl left the room to go and call her brother the man leaned back on his chair. He closed his eyes and thought about the past.

It was night time during the last part of the war before the angels appeared. We were stationed at the camp situated outside the northern gate of the capital. The war was devastating for us humans. 75 percent of our population was wiped out. The last of our kind took shelter in the capital. The last bastion of humanity.

Back then I was just a simple soldier. I was on patrol with the group I was with keeping watch on the west side of our camp. We were talking about what we would have been doing if the war didn't happen.

1st guy: Man all this really sucks. I'm not

cut out for this stuff. The damn demon. If they didn't pull all this crap I would've still be back at my hometown, probably inherent my dads blacksmith shop, gotten married and lead a happy life. Not fighting for my life while everyone I ever knew dead.

2nd guy: Tell me about it. My town was close to the border. When all this began it was one of the first to be burnt down. No one was expecting it so no one managed to escape. I couldn't get a job at my town so I left to try and find one somewhere else. Thanks to that....I lived.

3rd guy: Shut up you two. Enough of this. We have a job to to do, not get distracted by telling stories.

1st guy: Ok ok. We got it. Such a buzz kill.

2nd guy: what about you, Evan? What was your life like?

I got startled a bit because I didn't expect them to call out to me.

Evan: I didn't do much. Probably not interesting enough to talk about.

1st guy: Come on, don't be shy. We're all a bunch of mess ups with a shitty past.

3rd guy: Ok, I've had enough. Shut up and do your job. This isn't a game you can just slack off on. You..*stab*

We all looked if horror at the blade coming out through his chest and standing behind him was a demon kin. It pulled out the sword and he fell to the ground dying. The demon began walking towards us. We suddenly looked around us and noticed that we were surrounded. The demon kind were attacking which we weren't ready for.

One person yelled: What is this? We weren't informed of any movement of the demon forces in our direction.

Someone else immediately replied: Well they're here now, nothing else we can do about it but defend ourselves.

Another guy said while panicking: We have to inform the main camp that we're being ambushed.

A person then ran towards the camp while saying: I'll go tell the others. We need the captain and vice captain.

As the man ran towards the camp the rest of us took out our swords and wepons and prepared ourselves to engage in combat.

I had a sword with me which I pulled out. I looked around me to see all the demons around me. They all had only one horn on their heads which means they were all just normal low rank lesser demon soldiers. They weren't as strong as their higher rank officials with two horns. There were only 7 of us here and countless demons. I assumed the other parts of the camp was also getting ambushed so we probably won't be getting any backup. We were alone in this mess. Everyone one was tense and afraid.

The lesser demons jumped at us and the fight began. One of them ran at me and swung his sword but I jumped back to dodge and then immediately ran at it stabbing it but that's what I thought. He grabbed my sword before it reached his chest and pushed me back. I nearly fell down but managed to keep my balance which saved me there as 2 other demons swung at me that I dodged again. I tried to create distance between me and them but there were too many to keep an eye on, I couldn't make enough room to fight comfortably and since they were stronger than us every blow felt really heavy. They were faster than us so the blows were coming in faster than we could react. And even if we could overpower them and are fast enough to hurt them they had regeneration so they could heal all their wounds. The fight was hopelessly unbalanced. I looked around me as my fellow comrades were dying by their hands. I was losing hope and my will to fight, I prepared for the end, I was going to die. The demon I was fighting swung his sword from above which I somehow blocked but he immediately spins around and slashes me across my chest, I couldn't even react fast enough to move out of the way. I dropped to the ground in pain . I saw tge demons heading towards the base camp while my vision starts to get blurry and I pass out.

After getting slashed and passing out I began to wake up again. I don't know how long it's been but I suspect that it wasn't very long. I was still bleeding from my wound. It was hurting alot but I managed to get up slowly. I began walking towards the base camp hoping that the captain managed to beat the attacking demons. I limped my way to the camp and I saw bodies scattered around everywhere, some were human and some were demons. I heard the sounds of clashing swords and immediately looked over to the source of the sound and saw our captain and vice captain was engaged in combat with multiple demons. The vice captain was taking on the regular one horned demons and the captain was taking on a two horned demon who was bigger than the rest. The vice captain named Rez was distracting the lesser demon group so captain Andersen could focus on the bigger one witch seemed to be their leader.

I clenched my sword and was going to go and help them when both of them called out to me and told me to stay out of this.

The captain said while still dueling with the leader,

"Don't come any closer, you're wounded and if you attract their attention now you can't defend yourself. "

V.c Rez also yelled out,

"Run away while you still can. Most of our men were killed and the rest were told to run away."

Still fighting the lesser demons and swinging his swords matching blows with all the demons at once added,

"If you're thinking about helping us then don't. You'll only get in our way."

I knew I was no match for them, all I could do was just stand there and watch helplessly as they fought alone. But if anyone could fight them alone with any chance of winning it was them. I hid myself at a distance and watched their fight.

The vice captain was also a great fighter. He used his outstanding speed and swift sword strikes to take down his enemies. His opponents couldn't even react in time as he duel wields two short swords which he swings at tremendous speeds. His reaction time was so fast that he could instantly dodge all the coming attacks as he was doing now weaving his way through all the demons attacks and countering fast enough to reach them before they could move out of the way. His hits weren't as strong as the captains but he made up for it with his barrage of high speed attacks. Its with this inhuman speed that he's cutting down demon after demon almost effortlessly.

Our captain was the strongest swordsman among us humans, he was a perfect warrior with a calm and collective mind. No matter the situation he would always find a way. He wielded a greatsword and wore silver armor. His strength was unmatched and could even match those of the other races. He was almost even with the leader he was fighting. The demon was useing a huge axe that he was swinging very easily despite it's large size. But captain Andersen met all the hits with his greatsword, at first it looked like he was matching the demon blow for blow equality but in reality he was slowly being pushed back. Every hit was very heavy for him to fully counter but even so he didn't back down.

As the demon was pushing captain back more and more suddenly v.c Rez appeared behind the demon and swung both his swords at the demons neck. It was a clean hit but the blades bounced off the demons neck like it was nothing. V.c Rez landed behind the demon and quickly got into position again.

The demon laughed and said,

"You pathetic ******, you really think an attack like that will hurt me. Don't get full of yourself just because managed to kill those disposable fodder."

He was about to something else when V.c Rez jumped at him again doing a spinning kick to his face but this didn't even faze the demon and as he raised his axe up he said,

"Don't make me laugh. Stop humiliating yourself and just die!!!"

He smashed his axe down on the ground at the vice captain but he jumped out of the way and captain Andersen immediately cane in attacking at the demon while the axe was stuck in the ground.

He said as he swing his sword at the demons head,

"Don't underestimate us humans!!!"

The demon letting go of the axe moved out of the way and immediately kicked the captain, sending him flying a few meters away. The captain got up coughing blood and got into stance again.

The demon looked at captain and said,

"Underestimate you? No. We didn't even think of you as a threat thus didn't consider you in any of our plans and still ended up whipping you out. Thats how insignificant you are"

The great demon then slowly starts to walk towards captain as he taunts,

"Did you people really think that you had any chance of surviving let alone winning."

V.c Rez rushed at him from his blindspot to attack but the demon quickly turned around and caught him, holding him by the head and casually throwing him at a tree. He spins around mid air to cushion the impact.

The demon continues to walk towards the captain saying,

"Do you even know who I am? I am Virel, one of the 12 great generals of Tiamon empire."

As he was talking Rez threw one of his swords at him like a projectile and said,

"Dosen't matter who you are, you'll be dead anyway."

Viral causally dodges the sword and replies,

"Well said, you really don't have to care if you're dead. "

At that momment captain Andersen jumped at him to do a downward strike which Viral intercepted by punching him mid air. He then said,

"Wait your turn. I'll get right to you after I crush that bug over there."

He then grabbed the handle of his axe and pulled it out of the ground. He changed at Rez swinging violently as he laughs at V.c Rez doing his best trying to dodge and parry his attacks. But eventually when he tried to block Virals attack with his sword it shattered on impact and the axe hit his body sending him flying. As he landed I saw that his arm was cut of and half his stomach was split open.

Just like that one of humanity's strongest has died. Viral turns at captain and said as he walks towards him,

"One down, one to go. And after you I'm going have fun tearing through that pathetic little excuse you people call a capital."

He began laughing maniacally as began charging at captain. Captain Andersen was shocked by V.c Rez's death but he didn't even have time to mourn as Viral was already infront of him ready to attack. Captain got his sword ready to block the hit. He successfully parried Virals swing and immediately went into the counter. They were exchanging blow after blow, sparks were flying from the clashes of their weapons but captain was getting pushed back again. Captain went in to ****** his sword with all his remaining strength but Viral side stepped away and swiftly appeared behind Captain. Viral was about to swing his axe to finally finish off captain. Captain Andersen couldn't react in time, all he could do was watch as he was about to be killed. But that didn't happen. Right before the axe hit the captain suddenly a flash of light shone and knocked back Viral into some rubble. Captain fell to his knees and looked at the light to see a strange figure floating above the ground.

After knocking away Viral an unknown winger figure was floating above the ground. It had four pairs of wings coming out of it's back, shinning platinum colored armor covering its glowing body. It was like an angel.

I was looking at it shocked thinking that I've never seen anything like it. While I was watching the entity I noticed the sky was staring get brighter. I looked behind me and saw a giant ring of light above the capital and many shinning lights flying out from the ring.

I wasn't sure what was happening any more. Was this an attack from the demons or the other races to finish of humanity, was this backup sent by the alliance, was this something else altogether, I didn't know. As I was thinking about what was going on I quickly looked back at the battle hearing a loud clashing sound. I saw that the glowing winged being blocked Virals axe and was holding on to it.

Viral struggling to get his axe back said,

"Let go you damn glowing freak!!! What even are you?"

The glowing being spoke in a monotone tone,

"You who have broken the balance of this world, have been deemed guilty. You will receive retribution for your sins."

Finishing his sentence the being open his palm and Viral got sent flying again but this time with even more force. Then the winged being spoke again,

"Your sins are many and your fate has been decided. Now be silent and accept your end."

It then raised its arm and pointed towards Viral. Suddenly a blast of pressured air was sent towards Viral and created a massive impact. Dust covered the area but from within the dust Viral jumped out to attack it again but was pushed away by its unusual power. Viral was bleeding from his wounds that were slowly healing, most of his armor was broken and he was breathing heavily. The great demon general that we couldn't even touch let alone wound was being thrown around like he was nothing.

Viral looked at the creature with rage filled eyes and was about to say something but it vanished and instantly appeared behind him. With a single touch Viral got sent flying again. Viral landed several meters away and was just lying there screaming. It broke his spine, he couldn't get up anymore. It flew closer to him and then picked him up saying,

"Task completed. Farewell."

As it clenched his head Viral exploded and all his blood and guts got sent flying in the direction it was holding him.

I stood there in awe and horror. I thought to myself,

"It..it's so strong. It killed him like he was nothing."

It then turned to me as I flinched back a little and then I flew away. I ran towards the captain to check on him but it was too late, he was dead. He lost too much blood. When backup arrived I was the only one they found alive in our camp, everyone who ran didn't make it. They were taken out by the demons that attacked from the other directions. They reached the capital and many people were killed and even more would've died if the angel like beings didn't arrive from the glowing ring in the sky. This was the first arrival of our otherworldly saviors.

They were later called angels and their arrival shifted the tides of war in our favor. The demons couldn't match their power and surrendered. They then gathered all the demons and locked them in a pocket dimension that was later named the forbidden realm. Before they left after the war they left us with a gift, we received unique scecial powers from them known as Fuerza. It was unique to humanity which didn't need much mana to sustain that caused us to stand by all the other races on equal footing.

Different peoples Fuerza had different effects from each other. The power I recieved lets me generate and manipulate kinetic energy in my body and anything I come in contact with. I later found out this was the exact power the angel was using against Viral that on that day but my power output was much less.

Thanks to my fuerza I quickly climbed up the ranks and got a position as the guild leader, the highest ranking position second to only the king himself. Humanity grew more and more both in power and in influence all thanks to the powers we received.

I opened my eyes again after I hear my son calling my name. My elder son Toren said to me,

"You called, dad?"

He turned 18 last month and got registered as an adventurer at the guild. I told him,

"Yes, come in. I think you can guess why I called you, right?"

He replied,

"Is this about the report you got about the demon trafficking?"

I looked at him and said,

"Yes. I'm thinking of bringing you with me to investigate. You wouldn't mind, won't you?"

He said with a confident smile on his face,

"You bet I will. Wouldn't miss it."

I smirked back at him and nodded.

After the war everyone thought that all the demons were gone but the truth were a few demons got away. But dew to their small numbers and the growing strength of humanity they couldn't do anything but run and hide. The king ordered that all these demons were to be hunted down and killed but some nobles who were drunk on their new found power decided to capture the demons instead and use them as slaves or if the demon is a girl, they get used for other purposes.

They hire mercenaries to capture these loose demons and keep them at hidden bases to train or rather break their minds so they would be more compliant. We received some information about one of these camps and the king ordered me to raid it.

I thought about bringing my son along with me to get him more on field experience. We got our equipment ready and left for the slave camps location that we were given.