"You are going to die, kael Vernand!"
I heard the harsh voice of the demon Lord before me standing racing his sword against my heart.
I was standing on my knees, with my thrusted solid on the ground. The blood was dripping out from wounds all over the body.
I couldn't move at all due to the pain circulating in my body. I look at the man who places his word above my neck. With one step I could die here but he was waiting for something.
After all of the hard work I went through decades worth of combat and magical experience, I wasn't able to kill the demon Lord.
Our army had died in this great war against him. It was the last hurd that I needed to go through becoming one of the strongest mages in the world.
Yet he is a formidable opponent who can't be Slain with all the experience I had. He was too overpowered for me to kill him alone.
Even my friends' lovers' family was now burned to ash. Just because this mother fucker want to rule the entire world and want to stay under his palm.
"... I can't give up.."
I tried to stand with bleeding and fractured legs. Tears were forming under my eyes and I looked at him coldly.
" how amusing it is to see the strongest Mage I have seen to be defeated under my hands. Sadly your family friends and relatives are all gone for good and what will you do when you escape from my hands alone? everything you dream of has become Ashes."
The demon lord smiles wickedly, kicking my stomach to send me flying against the pile of corpses.
I coughed a mouthful of blood to the ground. It hurt a lot from just a small kick yet it had the power to send me a few kilometres away.
My ribs are broken, damaging my heart, I rolled over and finally rested on the floor beside my dead army.
" I can't give up…"
I muttered with an ounce of strength I could muster. I tried to stand up but I failed.
He came before me, pulling up the strength of hairs. He looked at me and spitted his saliva at my face.
"Fool, you can't fight Under this condition. Admit it that I am the strongest in the world and now you will be the bearer of my rule. Hahahaha!"
I gritted my teeth, I want to punch him in his face now but my body is immovable like a corpse.
" I know you are sad but that's how this world works, the survival of the fittest. But I am impressed by your background. from an illegitimate child of a noble family who relied on his own hard work and diligence to become the strongest in the world while surpassing your family member."
He licked his tongue, I could see his aura strengthening from his body.
"...How do you know?"
It was the first time I met him in person, I had never met him before.
His magic was at the apex of this world.
" I am well versed about your power and weaknesses. Your lover, friends, Army are all things you love the most even more than your life. So we have to kill them first and let you suffer last while draining your Mana. But unfortunately your opponent was us."
I didn't know who he was referring to. I heard the swing of a sword which was in the centre of my chest.
"Aah-!"
I screamed at top of my lungs you to the train inflicting me from the centre of the chest.
"Step brother Kael~"
Then I look at him with doubtful eyes. He couldn't believe that it was him — his stepbrother.
Originally heir to their family. The man was much older than him by several years. He came from behind the demon Lord.
"big brother, you!"
I called out to him in Agony. But the man responded with his expression on his face. He twisted his sword to make me feel more pain.
"Stop calling me that you stupid piece of shit! Call Me Lord Vernand! The right man of the demon Lord."
He laughed in a maniacal tone. All I could see was a demon who was possessed.
" But why? What did our friends, family, lovers do to you? Why did you betray our family?"
I asked with burning hatred within my heart. Veins were popping out of my head. tears were streaming down from my eyes.
" It's all because of you. Your very presence threatened my position in my family. Since you were the illegitimate child of our father, you were given great talent in magic that I lacked. I was only able to become a swordsman. But you got selected for the prestigious Academy but I barely got admitted into a small Academy. Then my family started favouring you even to the smallest degree. And sometimes even your father mentioned you will be the next heir of our family. From that time onwards I started plotting against you."
He placed his foot on top of my head and thrust it to the ground.
"I saw you as my own brother, even when our mothers were different. I didn't want to take your position as the heir of our family. I want to live with my own family with my lover…"
I said it in disgust with my own loyalty.
But he never changed the face he had shown earlier.
"Even so, you had become the strongest Mage in the world and I was a second rate swordsman of our family. Each and everyone but talking about you only while disregarding me. You stole everything from me, my status , my position and my power. Luckily, I was able to meet the demon lord before the war and Made a deal with him. He'll offer me the position of the general in his army and we'll rule this world together by killing you!"
He withdrew the sword from my chest and was about to kill me for once and for all. Demon lord smiled, My bastard step brother laughed and I saw the dead army.
There is only one thing left in me - revenge for everything I lost but I don't have strength to fight back…
"IF I HAVE A CHANCE, I'LL KILL YOU BOTH!"
He thrusted his sword into my heart and I died.