章 1: The Death of a Demon and Loss of a Hero
"It's over Demon Lord!" Lily shouted as she charged at the demon lord on the brink of death.
'I must find a way to deal with these heroes! If they are allowed to live then all future demon lords would stand no chance at the rate they are growing. Especially that Lily hero. She doesn't even have any special powers, just strength enhancement magic yet she is this strong.' Thought the Demon lord as Lily charged at him.
As Lily's blade swung down to the Demon lords neck, the Demon lords life flashed before his eyes. '…use…ancestral…crush…safety…' The remnants of the last words of the Demon lord 2 lords ago, when the current lord was just a baby, rang through the current lords head. 'I know what to do now' thought the lord. He proceeded to crush the ring on his left index finger hoping for some way to stay alive or get rid of the heroes.
As the Demon lord crushed the ring, Lily sent his head flying. All of a sudden there was a loud cracking noise ringing throughout the throne room of the Demon lord's castle. "Lily! We should get out of here! I think the place is about to collapse after our fight!" Shouted Henry, one of Lily's teammates.
"On it!" Lily replied. As Lily turned around the ring began to act. All of a sudden the cracking noises started to speed up and intensify as the ring began to glow, and it's broken frame floated up into the air with it's jewel right above so black it was practically absorbing the light. Instead of being small like the ring was, the pieces were spread out to make a bigger circle. All of this going unnoticed to Lily she began to sprint out of there when all of a sudden in the middle of her running there was one final boom. Caused by a portal as black and infinite as the jewel appearing within the new circle outlined by the rings frame. A split second after the boom Lily ran into an invisible wall. "Ummm, guys? I'm trapped somehow! There seems to be some sort of barrier!" Lily shouted to her teammates as she tried to get past the barrier.
"Don't worry Lily we are coming!" Shouted Catherine, another of her allies. As Catherine and the others approached Lily she soon began to notice something behind Lily. "Lily! There is something ominous behind you!" Catherine tried to warn Lily.
As Lily turned around she noticed above the Demon kings corpse was a seemingly infinite and endless black portal with an equally intimidating jewel floating above it. Seeing the jewel something about it just seemed to Lily like it was the source of this all so she swung her sword with all her might up at the jewel. As the sword hit the jewel, the jewel started to seemingly absorb the sword, sucking it in and out of Lily's hands into it's endlessness. "What the heck! That was my sword!" In her frustration, Lily again decided to attack the jewel while enchanting her body with her magic.
As she did so another teammate, Orel, tried to advise her against it. "Don't Lily! We don't know what it can do! It might devour you like it did your sword!" But it was too late. Lily's fist hit the jewel and she felt all of her magic and her physical mana pool be devoured by the jewel. With her magic gone and a part of her ripped out, Lily collapsed to the ground in exhaustion right by the corpse of the Demon lord under the ring. "Thank the divines you are okay!" Orel expressed.
"Huff, huff, no, huff, I'm not, huff." Panted Lily as she stuck up a finger telling her teammates to wait a second for her to catch her breath.
After catching her breath Lily began to explain what happened as her teammates patiently listened. "The jewel, it swallowed up all of my magic. And not just that, my mana pool is gone too. Like it's been ripped out of me. But when it was consuming my magic and mana pool I felt it. It was like I was connected to it for a little through my magic being connected to it and me at the same time. I-I could feel the jewels power. You can't break it. You can't break the barrier. No one can. And no one could ever. I'm stuck behind this barrier, but I might be able to come back to you guys someday. I just have no clue when. The thing under the jewel is a portal, yet I have no clue as to where. Just that it leads to somewhere that felt very far away, possibly another world."
After finishing her talk, Henry replied "So you have to go through?" He sighed. "So I guess today will not just be the death of a Demon lord but the Death of a Demon lord and loss of a hero. We await your return Lily!"
After saying their goodbyes Lily finally was ready to step through the portal. 'Time to find out what kind of world awaits on the other side!'