Interlude I

The Nightmare

The scorching flame cast upon the torch that lit us the path in the labyrinth long lost in the control of a hideous monster.

Our top priority was to find the remains of our fallen comrades and get back the treasure belonging to the Asura Royal Family that has a long and tremendous history. Yet we were with fear, after all this was the home or perhaps first home of the one that rampaged this area long ago and brought destruction onto our world.

No signs of it lurked around this parts, we were a group of five adventurers of different races accompanied by the hero himself who embarked in our expedition as extra help. He was a young one, not even at the age of fifteen which would already make him an adult in the time. Thirteen years old, and already determined to bring the world into salvation from the darkness that engulfs around the world with the blame pinned onto the demon race.

"Try to remain as silent as possible around here. This may be the second floor but after the appearance of that fiend our opponents from underneath came up and were more stronger than before. Back in our days, this was only an A-Rank Labyrinth and now it is way more above that."

I clarified the reasons of remaining silent as to avoid the attention of the monsters that roamed the second area of the entire labyrinth where these days not even a regular or new A-Rank Adventurer would put up a good fight before dying without any cause.

Using the skill we moved onwards seeing different small monsters filling the area and moving past them avoiding the unnecessary confrontation. Silent with each step we succeeded in avoiding the lowest of creatures that roamed these premises as another area on the floor introduced itself to our eyes. Monsters, way above regular standards scattered the area below us fighting each other for their own survival with us a prey they may target if their attentions were to shift.

This part was already dangerous enough to move ahead into. The best we could all do together would be to leave the entire labyrinth or find a different route from the completely changed structures we all once grew up to know in great detail. The entire terrain of what had changed by the doings of that monster were immense that nothing at all, not even a speck was recognizable to our eyes.

"We must find another route." I proposed, to finish our task.

"No, I will handle these beasts on my own. They will serve me enough experience to defeat the entire demon race."

His views are similar to the rest of humanity. My views were different to theirs, but in order to oblige to their beliefs I just avoided speaking of the whole thing. That was for the best if not an execution would be dealt on the spot for their stupid beliefs that demon-kind were our natural enemies. But in all facts, we are the ones pushing them into siding with the darkness that scatter the world and grow in power.

He stepped into the field of monsters piercing each of them without any issue, as we served as spectators to his growing strength that everyone in humanity and allied races knew about. The strongest to exist in our period of time, not only a hero but the first prince of the Asura Kingdom and the heir to the Throne of Asura, Cylier Vrien Asura.

His movements were incredible and perhaps he may grow to be in equal footing against the monster of this labyrinth. The being the wreaked havoc into one of the more safer labyrinth in the world, turning it into an SSS-Rank Labyrinth, the Damnation of the Sariel Labyrinth.