Requiem Of A Failed Hero



'Sung Min is dead'

Those words of reality rang in his head like an ache, with trembling pupils and blood dripping from his lips which he was already biting too much, he hugged his dead body tightly and cried, still not letting out any sound so the others wouldn't come running.

Raith who was standing beside him closed his eyes.

'How strange, this is supposed to be a pitiful situation. Yet it seems I can sympathize with him.'

Raith only felt awkward. In fact, he would have probably walked away normally if it wasn't someone he knew and resumed his fight with the wyvern like nothing just happened. But this was very hard for him because now it was very awkward to walk forward to continue his fight when Mok Jae-Hwa was looking like someone that needed sympathy and consolation.

"I think our master is in a difficult situation," Crimson said as he watched Raith from afar, standing beside Jarvis.

Jarvis turned his head to him and the visor of his helmet crumpled upward as he looked upward and shook his head for Raith, it was almost as if the solid darkness was his facial expression even though it was in a helmet structure.

"Okay, that's it..." Raith spoke. He looked at Mok Jae-Hwa and touched him on his head.

"I will finish this wyvern once and for all... for your sake." He said and finally took heavy steps forward.

'I know you have been itching for entertainment since. Come out... Fenrir.'

Jarvis and Kortopi's faces lit up with excitement as they saw the darkness manifesting around Raith shoot high into the sky. While Crimson's face was filled with curiosity, since he was reborn as Raith's soldier, he had not been to the abyss so he didn't understand that their strongest ally was about to emerge.

'I sense a very strong presence.'

He did recognize the strength.

Fenrir materialized, his body filling the entire atmosphere, he had gone from a huge wolf to a colossal wolf. One of his feet alone was taller and began than the three high-level soldiers that were standing together.

He was towering over the wyvern with might and exuding darkness from his body and a red aura from his eyes.

Raith was shocked, his mouth dropped, 'When did he become so big.'

The colossal wolf gritted his teeth down at the wyvern that was suddenly for some reason sweating all over and avoiding eye contact with Fenrir.

'Shit shit shit, it's Fenrir, it's the Fenrir... I should find a way to run away. How is Fenrir here?! I thought he was banished to the world of darkness thousands of years ago.' He panicked and slowly shifted back.

"Is it me or is the wyvern scared of this monster?" Crimson asked, looking at the wyvern's tail that was tucked in between its butt as it took silent steps backward.

Kortopi and Jarvis stared for a while and immediately looked at each other nodded and dashed at the wyvern.

"These dummies, what are they up to now?!" Crimson muttered and went after them.

As they got to a distance, Kortopi leaped, and Jarvis leapedich after then grabbed Kortopi and flung him towards the monster with a powerful momentum twirl.

"Me too!!"

As Crimson approached, his leg landed on Crimson who had leaped into the air, using Crimson's head as a stepping stone, he projected himself further, overcoming the distance and catching up to Kortopi in a jiffy while Crimson was sent crashing to the ground with the force of his jump.

'Shit! They tricked me!!'

As though they had carefully planned it, they were going to land a combo attack on the wyvern but for it to be possible, it was necessary that Crimson fell get tricked and it was the easiest part since Crimson was so fixated on competing with Jarvis that he wasn't focused and doing what he did best.

He stood up, frowning and gritting his teeth. He looked at where Raith should be but couldn't see clearly because the Fenrir's massive hind limbs is blocking that area.

Kortopi and Crimson released a combo of barrage attacks, swirling together as they first smashed their swords on the wyvern's metallic skin, the effect was still the same– but they didn't stop there.

"Fools... nothing will penetrate such hard skin." He said narrowing his eyes at them as they spun in the air in sync and repeatedly slashed their swords on the wyvern's back but only sparks flew as the sword bounced back.

Crimson's eyes suddenly widened and he swung his face to the side where the wyvern's wings had fallen.

He walked towards it and slashed the part where the wyvern's claw was with his sword. He held the claw in his hands and grinned widely.

"I will be the one to put an end to this monster."

ROOOOAAAAAARRRRR

The wyvern suddenly let out a massive roar and expelled an ice cone breath at Fenrir but the monster easily dodged through with the frozen ground cracking and trembling with each step that he took.

Fenrir charged towards the wyvern with its powerful jaws snapping at its neck. The wyvern tried to evade the wolf's attack, but Fenrir was too fast. It sank its teeth into the wyvern's neck, causing it to let out a pained roar.

The wyvern released a blast of energy that originated from its chest blasting Fenrir away from it and causing the colossal wolf to tumble on the frozen ground, completely breaking every part it tumbled away on.

Massive craters were formed one after the other up till the point where Fenrir had stopped tumbling.

The wolf rose to its feet slowly, with darkness exuding from its body which was so deep and dark that one would think the wolf was an embodiment of the night itself.

The darkness of its body was a deep and endless void.

The wolf charged at the wyvern again with its massive claws tearing into the only wings it had left. The wyvern immediately summoned an ice storm that immediately engulfed the wolf and carried it, spinning it around with its colossal side.

But what the wyvern did not see coming was Raith who had jumped off the Fenrir at the last moment, engulfed his blade with the abyss flame, and was now descending on the wyvern's head with the tip of his blade pointing at the wyvern's forehead.