The ground shook and the oceans roared. The air trembled as the pressure of 100 elite Holy Magic knights descended upon the demon plane. They are called the Purge because they “cleanse” all the “filth” of the land. They used light magic to eradicate everything in their path. From a distance, it might look as if a giant mass of light was devouring everything that comes near it.

In nature, light comes from the stars. A star can give birth to countless civilization, and when the light dims and dies out, so does the civilization it supported. In the same way, light magic held the power of life and death for life and death are two sides of the same coin. To avoid this some galactic races had to move away from their dying star and find a new one.

As the blinding mass of light went through the land, everything in its path was dissolved into the most basic of element. Of course the people of this world didn’t know these things. To them, their magic just reduced everything into nothing. Despite being attuned with nature and having the ability to control certain aspects of it, they were eons behind in terms of technology of earth. Maybe more.

Aron gritted his teeth as he saw the purge. He had no known defenses or counter measures against it. He had confidence in his sheer strength, but his affinities put him at a disadvantage. Aron realized this long ago, and spent many years working with

His primary affinity, which is darkness is weak against light and his secondary affinity, lighting, does little damage if any, against light element. Lightning, after all, produces light. This basic theory of elemental interaction was the standard in his world. It was bare bones, and from a scientific approach, it was greatly flawed. Aron suspected tis, but he didn’t know to what extent. He spent great deal of time working with Jarvis to find the greater truth.

Aron sat atop his castle watching the purge approach. He really wanted to get away, but he couldn’t just leave the egg. He knew too well of the purge. It consisted 100 A ranked magic knight’s lead by commander Alexander. They were a shock and crack troop all in one. On the other hand, Aron only had a hand full of people at his disposal who can match their strength. But Aron was a one man army; a force onto itself.

This will be my first time going all out Aron though as he prepared his attack as the surrounding air began to turn a greyish monochrome.

“Dark Prison”

A black disk appeared over the purged, hovered for a second, then crashed down with an enormous amount of force. Even though it landed on the purge nearly 5 miles away, the impact was so great that it shook the entire castle, causing one of its towers to collapse.

As Aron struggled to see through the dust kicked up, suddenly the purge grew even brighter and in the next instant 5 holes, 10-20 ft. in diameter riddled the walls. They were perfect circular holes. It was as if someone cut them out of the structure using some unknown tool.

“No effect?...” Aron was flabbergasted

The approaching purge continued as if they never faced his attack in the first place.

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Inside the “egg” Asura felt the tremors. These past few days, he has been trying to learn magic, but it was like grasping at air. It was so different to him that it was almost impossible. If toothless didn’t say otherwise, he would have given up long ago. It’s like trying to move a part of your body that you have never moved before.

This made Asura recall the time he tried to move his ears after seeing a friend doing it. No matter how much he tried, he never seemed to be able to do it.

Except this was much harder. Asura was not trying to move a part of his own body with muscles that he never knew he had, he was trying to utilize a force that he never knew existed. But the black mana circulating in him did seem somehow familiar.

“You must hurry and learn magic” toothless said with a tone of urgency. “There is no telling what will happen if they capture your vessel.

On earth learning has become obsolete. Just by simply plug in their brain into a computer, they can upload any information they want form vast stores of knowledge on the internet. So much information coming in at once can drastically change a person. So they would segment the process into 3 parts. The fist Information upload, or IU for short, is done at age of 6. The next one part was uploaded at the age of 12. The final upload was done when someone has reached their 16th birthday. Asura, being a special cadet already had his 3 uploads, despite being only 14 years old. He tried to rack his brain as he tried to find out how to utilize this new force.

There was another shaking, this time it was even more severe. “I have to hurry” Asura thought to himself as he tried various methods to help him harness mana.

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Using lighting body modification, Aron began to travel at break neck speeds. Though Aron was more powerful than the knights, the knights were able to keep up with him because light travels faster than lightning. Having 100 attackers, all who could move as fast as him or close to it, going after him really pushed him beyond his limits. He had no breathing room. Every fraction of a second was a life or death struggle and every minute felt like an eternity. The castle was heavily damaged. 3 out of 5 towers collapsed and half of the wall was obliterated along with 1/4ths of the castle. Now he was bloodied and exhausted.

Suddenly he felt some air being displaced “!!.....Shit!”

He desperately tried to erect a barrier, but as soon as he did, it shattered like glass. The force of the impact caused him to fly some 100 meters back, before hitting a wall, causing it to crumble. His mana exhaustion was clearly visible. Already, Aron has fought for nearly a whole day going at 100%. Most of his attacks got negated or deflected by the combined strength of the Purge Unit. Even though the Purge members were all A rank magic knights, they can only use 2 types of light magic, making them experts in them.

They had 1 offensive spell called Purge which devoured everything. The other was simple body enhancement magic called the Divine Blessing. Their ability to utilize offensive magic for defensive purposes and vice versa made their expertise clearly evident

“You guys stand clear” Alexander ordered his men the moment after Aron was blown back into the wall by his attack. His helmet hid a devious grin of his face as he approached Aron, who was still alive but greatly injured and unable to move “I shall enjoy this greatly” Alexander said in a sinister tone. “You 10” he pointed at the group of his elite knights. “Let’s enjoy this together”

Alexander Slowly approached Aron, who was now coughing up blood. Many years of experience have taught Alexander to virtue of caution.

“Oh, Great Lord of Terror, You’re looking quite down….” Alexander said in a mocking tone. He was now directly in front of Aron “Here let me help you..” He wave his hand, lifting Aron up by some unseen force.

“Now, just be a good boy and stay there” Alexander said with a smirk as he dispelled his Purge magic and Divine Blessing before taking off his helmet. Aron who was floating few inches off the ground, could do nothing as at least 9 knights had his movements sealed.

As Alexander nonchalantly walked to one of his men, He took off his helmet before handing it to him. He turned around to face Aron.

“Can’t let you die too quickly” he said as cocked back his arm in an exaggerated manner. He punched Aron in his rib cage with every ounce of his physical strength, causing them to break.

A loud cracking sound pierced the still air. This caused Aron to grimace and cough out some blood. His vision blurred under the pain and damage caused by the blow.

“Otherwise what’s the point?” Alexander continued as he cocked back his other arm in the same exaggerated manner as before sinking his fist into his other rib cage. More sounds of breaking ribs resounded through the Air.

“Isn’t that right little Aron? If you are not taking your time…..you’re just not having fun..” Alexander spoke to Aron as if he was some little kid being taught a lesson befor striking him again. More sound of bones breaking could be heard

“Ahhh….music to my ears” Alexander said with a pleasant smile

“Hey boys” he turned toward the 10 men standing behind him

“Would you like to join in on the fun? I think I jammed my finger..” He said looking at his fake injury.

The 10 men behind him looked eager. Alexander casually walled into Aron’s castle through the gaping hole. Moments later he came out with a chair. He sat down in front of Aron and said to his men who circled the bloody Lord “Begin”

After 2 hours of listening to what sounded like a buffalo being hit with baseball bats, Aron was nearly dead. He was barely conscious. Virtually every bone in his body was shattered or broken.

“That’s enough” Alexander said after he yawned “This is no fun at all. A was hoping to at least hear you scream or beg.”

He walked up to Aron, who barely managed to look up at him.

“How low you have fallen” chuckled Alexander. “Well my men looked like they had fun”

He suddenly flashed a devious smile.

“You know who you remind me of right now?” Alexander paused for a brief moment. Its’s been such a long time ago…I think her name started with an L or something L,L, Lessa? No that wasn’t it. Lisa? No, that still not it. Maybe it was an S? Hmm…Ah, Sera.” Aron’s eye widened with rage and disbelief. Sera was once his lover before she mysteriously disappeared during her travels.

“Yes, that was her name. Sera” A grin spread across Alexander’s face.

“Yes, I remember now, she had the same look as you….She was quite defiant at first but after being ran through few times she couldn’t get enough…” Alexander paused looking at Aron to see his expression. After being satisfied, he continued. “It’s all coming back to me now. She couldn’t stop talking about how her boyfriend would save her or something. What a looser right? I mean this boyfriend of hers.”

Arons face distorted in rage as he began to thrash about, trying to break himself free from the binding magic. “You should have seen the look at her face. For a whore, she was quite the looker. She kept us company for few months before she tied to escape.”

“Hehe”

A laughter from one of the knights could be heard.

“What a stupid bitch” He continued. “After she tried to run, we chopped off her head and used it as a sex toy before it started to smell. Stank worse than my shit”

“Hahaha” They erupted into laughter

Aron was now crying in rage while thrashing around.

Alexander being extremely pleased with his reaction finally said “I just love breaking people. I mean I could have just used a slave collar

Arons thrashing soon subsided, but he continued to cry

“Oh great Lord of Terror, where is your indomitable will now. With all your wisdom and power, you’re now crying lik-

Booom!!

A sudden the force of a powerful impacted where Alexander stood just moments before threw a massive amount dirt and debris in to the surrounding area causing a thick cloud of dust and dirt convening the area. Soon chunks of earth began to rain down.

The sudden turn of. events put surrounding knights in a silent stupor. The shock was too great and now they couldn’t utter a word; their brain couldn’t process what just happened

As the dust began to settle, the knight barely made out a figure who was slowly standing up.

“Commander!” they exclaimed in relief.

“*****”

They could barely make it out. It was a faint whisper that was carried with the wind. Slowly, but surly creeping up to them, chilling them to the bone.

“Heavens Wrath”

Soon their relief turned into despair