The Villain's Story

"Shut up."

Accompanying those words was a kick that shattered the weak bones that were Alan's jaw. David had kicked with such ferocity and annoyance that the weakened Alan could pose no defense. His steel-like bones, his steel-like skin, was useless.

The mana that once embodied his cells was on the wisp of extinguishing, and the dragon heart, despite pumping out mana in an attempt to recover the body, was being suppressed as well.

David bent down, with a snicker on his face. He looked at the shriveled youth in front of him. Once he was a proud, muscular figure but now a husk.

"Who were you even talking to?"

He questioned, but knew he would get no answer. He had sensed some fluctuations in Alan a while back and had come here, he sighed and said.

"Well, Who cares? You are going to die soon anyway, Besides..."

There was a cold glint in his eyes as the city rumbled, he had a grimace on his face as he thought.

'They started the attack, huh...'

The forces of the humans outside had already started their attack, and he wasn't confident that the dumb giants would be able to hold them without him.

He took out a scepter carved from the bones of an ancient giant. At the top of this scepter was an embedded hole...the exact same size as Alan's dragon heart.

"I made this especially for you."

There was a sinister passion in his eyes, as he reached out with his hand and directly grabbed Alan's dragon heart.

"Ugh!"

His skin was burnt away due to the intense mana within it, but he endured and in a sudden fashion...pulled it out!

Alan's body trembled for a moment, and the dragon heart tried it's very best to return...but David would not let it do so, using his entire mana he embedded the heart into his scepter.

"Infinite mana...haha..."

He laughed as he crazily stared at the dragon heart, which was suppressed by the material of the scepter.

"Haha..."

His laugh continued as he gazed at Alan, his skin was fading away into dust, and soon his entire body would follow. David chuckled and left the room, convinced the dragon was going to die. He read the records...and knew it would be soon.

"Finally... I have the power to dominate planets..."

In one hand he held the scepter, and in the other he held a large jug filled with Alan's blood that he had slowly extracted over the course of the days. He told the giants that were guarding this place to remain, just in case.

He did trust the records within the city...but he just wanted to be safe. Furthermore, he cackled as he felt the intense mana flow through him from the scepter and left.

*****

He felt nothing when his dragon heart was yanked away, but he felt his body collapse after that.

The shriveled skin began to turn into dust, and his body started to fade away.

He had given up, the mark of the dragon on his back began to fade, and the one on his left arm had long since disappeared. All defiance that he may have held disappeared.

His head fell down, and he closed his eyes as the last bit of mana that was within him, disappeared...

******

[Outside.]

Sabrina was within a small tent set up by the forces of Twilight and Wellingtons, she was not allowed to go outside, and her grandfather had placed special guards outside that kept a strict eye on her.

She could hear the booms and feel the tremors. Twilight was truly going full out in this battle, her family was also trying...but clearly not to the extent that Twilight was.

They had mobilized everything they could. All the forces of Twilight in Askolt city were being deployed, and they all boarded vehicles which let them traverse the mountain, either by land or the sky...

Furthermore, they also used a large amount of monster repellant, and most hunters were covered in a smell so foul the monsters on the top of the mountain didn't dare to approach.

The smell was even reaching here...and she had gotten a report that the giants had also descended and started to fight, teams of hunters would surround one and kill them, and Richard was at the front!

They bombed the city's wall with bombs and even assaulted it with magic.

She was worried, but decided that leaving it to them would be for the best. Besides, she had learned that the Sage Oliver was also on his way. He was the trump card Richard had relied on.

He was an SSS rank hunter, and one of the strongest on Earth, so it calmed her heart down...yet there was an odd feeling inside her chest, one of foreboding.

She was getting a bad feeling...she decided to dismiss it, but then it happened.

BOOOOOOOOOMMMM!

An earth-shattering noise shook the lands and skies, the tremors it released were so shocking that she struggled to stay on her feet. In the end, she fell to the ground.

She could hear blood-curdling screams from outside the tent, and to be honest...she was scared. The battle outside had reached another level! Her tent was far away, but the sounds reached here.

"Come on...be safe..."

But then, a strange wave of mana erupted from inside her... And something broke.

"...huh?"

The contract that bound Alan and Sabrina together...shattered like glass. She coughed up a mouthful of blood as the backlash from it breaking erupted within. Her body was in a mess.

The guards from outside rushed inside and fed her a potion, and when she finally recovered...she was shocked. Listless even...

Her eyes widened and she muttered.

"No way..."

It wasn't only her, outside on the front of the battle, Richard was on the walls of the city as he trembled.

The backlash he received wasn't as significant as Sabrina's...but the contract that bound Alan to it broke.

The only way it would ever break is whether Alan violated the terms...or he died. And it didn't take a genius to figure out what had happened... His expression darkened.

"No!"

He cut the neck of a giant as he prepared to jump down into the city...until.

A blast of concentrated mana hit him, and sent him flying. He coughed up blood as the magical items around him lost their function...and his own mana went wild inside him. He was unable to use it at all!

"Impossible...!"

He looked up with a hateful gaze, and saw the man who unleashed that attack.

"Hello!"

David laughed as he unleashed a dozen more blasts of concentrated mana, six of them went towards the aerial vehicles that were ruthlessly attacking the city with their weapons...and six went for Richard.

"You!"

Richard stood up and glared back, he rushed to dodge the blasts but...

A golden shield appeared around him and blocked the mana blasts, but was vanquished in the process. Logan appeared in front of him and handed him a potion with a look of urgency on his face.

"Don't let those blasts hit you! And refrain from using mana as much as you can!"

He warned, as he jumped ahead to fight David.