An old tale pt.1

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.

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