During the 4th year of the reign of Gram Bretin the 3rd, King of the Mercantile Kingdom of Brehm, due to King Gram Bretin’s greed of the seafaring kingdoms the Conch Kingdom and the Aqua Kingdom, a war ensued.

The war that sought the Brehm Kingdom’s conquest of the Conch Kingdom and the Aqua Kingdom for access to the trade routes to the plentiful Western Isles as well as the Eastern Continent’s Coastal Kingdoms.

During this time many men were pulled away from their villages, towns, and cities. This presented an opportunity to not only the few roaming bands of bandits, made of deserters and criminals, but to monsters as well.

It was in this time of weakness that many tribes of goblins, trolls, and ogres raided the countryside, taking many women back with them into the wilderness.

Thus the first widespread cases of monster human hybrids arose.

By the time the war was over, with the Brehm kingdom having conquered the Conch Kingdom and the Aqua Kingdom, uniting those left under the banner of a new nation, known as the Tri-Kingdom, the damage was done.

It was due to this war that the opportunity for a new foe to arise, was born.

The offspring of human and monster blood, with their superior intellect and larger numbers, quickly replaced the leaders of their tribes many completely killing the last generation.

The Half-Monster Tribes conquered, grew and expanded the other tribes, some half-monster tribes uniting in strong political marriages.

With their superior intellect they didn’t just grow in the wilderness they dominated. Their superior intellect allowed many to begin mana cultivation and at bare minimum manipulation of the mana around them. They developed written languages into simple pictographs.
Much like hieroglyphs, these pictographs represented entire words with simple symbols, a picture of a tree meant tree, a picture of a bird meant a bird so forth and so on. It was when these pictographs combined that they began to form new words such as names, verbs, and adjectives.

With these pictographs, the world finally discovered the divine runes were not the only way to cast runic magic and with these pictographs, the half-monster tribes began developing more complex magics, including enchantment.

It was through such a means that the half-goblin chieftess Ziru conquered over twenty tribes of half-goblins, half-ogres, and half-trolls.

It was through these means that her chiefdom the Blue Leaf Chiefdom became equal with the Red Flower Tribe who’s Chief discovered how to use and cultivate essence.

His name……. Borus.

He discovered essence when playing with fire and incorporating it into his attacks, through this, he absorbed some of the essence of fire, eventually learning to cultivate fire essence. Through this, he was able to use up fire essence to create fire and control it with his will.

Through this power, his tribe gained the name Red Flower for with fire they conquered over thirty tribes.

It was on the night of Ziru and Borus’s marriage that they 2nd Monster King Imperius was conceived.

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Years later during puberty, Imperius killed both his parents in cold blood, taking their place as chief of the chiefdom.

He sent spies to human lands and had them observe.

With this, he learned of arrows and steel. He had his tribe begin to forge metal, arrows, and bows through trial and error.

It was with a steel scimitar forged in mana flames, its hilt embedded with a mana crystal and enchanted with pictographs, that he led the conquest of the remaining tribes in their region.

It was with his fire essence that he burned his enemies alive and it was with his tongue that he chanted and drew complex spells in the air reshaping the landscape itself.

In a few short years, Imperius became the 2nd Monster King and invaded Human lands to the north.

Armed with steel, arrows, armor, magics, essence, and strategy Imperius’ army razed the countryside of the Tri-kingdom as they moved further in towards towns and cities.

They built forts, conquered towns and cities, before the aging King Gram Bretin realized it half his kingdom was gone. By the time he organized his forces he had lost three forths of his kingdom.

By the time is forces marched the half-monsters with their king were on there doorstep, and with his final breath, as his forces fell in large swaths to Imperius, Gram wondered what led to this.

Then everything went black and once more into the cycle of reincarnation, his spirit was sucked up into the Styx.

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With the 2nd Monster King Imperius on the Trones Kingdom’s doorstep, the King Augustus Mendes the 14th met with his advisors.

King Augustus Mendes the 14th, “How did this happen I thought surely Gram could defeat some mere monsters?”

Advisor Joze, “From the reports, it seems these were monster half-breeds, your highness.”

King Augustus Mendes the 14th, “Half-breeds of what?”

Advisor Myguel, “Humans, your majesty….”

King Augustus Mendes the 14th, “Humans?!
No wonder they had trouble.”

Advisor Joze, “Not only that but it seems the 2nd Monster King has arisen leading these half-breeds in his wake, not only that but it seems he has human blood as well, your Majesty.”

King Augustus Mendes the 14th, “What do you suppose we do?”

Advisor Joze, “We could send Duke Jay after him.
He did slay the last Monster King after all.”

King Augustus Mendes the 14th, “Ugh I don’t like that man…..
He’s lived over 200 years and hasn’t aged a day, and you know it’s not because of mana cultivation, because he can’t even use magic!”

Advisor Myguel, “They say he feeds on the life force of others, to sustain his youth.”

Advisor Martin, “Well there is another option, your Majesty.”

King Augustus Mendes the 14th, “And what is that?”

Advisor Martin, “The Summoning spell has been recently completed, my King.
We could use it to summon a hero.”

King Augustus Mendes the 14th, “Didn’t the last guy who used that turn into the Dark Lord and send Orcrox our way?”

Advisor Martin, “Indeed, but I assure your Majesty that we have solved that issue with the summoning circle.”

King Augustus Mendes the 14th shifted in his throne uncomfortably before agreeing, “Very well begin the summoning.”
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In the Royal Gardens, a summoning circle is drawn, heaps of mana crystals are poured into three circles within the summoning circle. Three mages sit in three circles within the summoning circle.

With the king and his advisors surrounded by the royal guard watching, the first mage activates the summoning circle focusing to keep it open.

“Summoning circle activated, establishing portal.
Portal established.”

The second mage looks through the portal to find a hero.

“Scrying for hero.
Hero found.
Target Locked….
I-I mean hero locked.”

The third mage sends a mana cable through to real in the hero.

“Hero secured.
Reeling in hero.”

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Staring at Origin I see a blue beam of magic shoot into the sky runes circle around it as it pierces the walls of reality and creates a wormhole above Origin.

I then see a second beam ripple through the first into the wormhole.

I realize that they are bringing something through and if it's alive, which it likely will be, that it won't survive the void of space.
Quickly to save the life of whoever comes through I ready my energies to turn them into one of my Advents.

The moment I see the wormhole ripples I converge my energies and as a Japanese boy comes through the portal I catch him with my energies while converting him into my second Advent.

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The King and his subjects watch as the clouds in the sky part, a ray of light shining down as a boy with navy glowing blue skin, and black hair slowly floats down from the sky.

The boy lands in the middle of the summoning circle as the second mage clicks his tongue in frustration.

The teenage boy’s eyes slowly open revealing eyes crackling with Arcanum.

A voice thunders through the sky as Arcanum runic tattoos write themselves onto the teenage boy’s arms.

Ethereal, “Due to the negligence of your summoning practice, I was forced to make this child my second advent to save his life!!!! You will do well to not force my hand again!!!!!”

They all kneel, except the boy still laying on his back.

Japanese Teenage boy, “Kami-sama?”

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The Second Mage from the summoning circle and I stand behind a pillar in the castle speaking to each other.

Second Mage, “How was I supposed to know Ethereal himself would intervene in the summoning.”

I backhand the second mage my rings cutting the mages lowly lips. I deserve more respect than that.

Advisor Martin, “Hold your tongue, do not forget to who you speak to.
Ughhhth the Order will not be pleased.
Praise Orcrox.”

The Second Mage, “Praise Orcrox.
What of the boy?”

Advisor Martin, “Shiro will be left alone, we do not have the power to face him in combat yet.
Whether the Order decides to use other means is not up to me, but Ethereal’s eyes will be closely watching that one.
Praise Orcrox.”

The Second mage, “Praise Orcrox.”

Shooing the mage away before someone catches us, I make my way back to the throne room.
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I stand in the throne room the king looking down at me, he speaks something akin to Spanish but with an otherworldly twist to it.

Yet somehow I can understand him.

I ignore him and look down at my hands.

They are blue now.

I, a proud Japanese now had blue skin.

I close my eyes as a breath in deeply, I can taste the mana in the air.

Ignoring that for now I focus on my body and feel the sheer power now coursing through me.
Thank you Kami-sama.

My thoughts are interrupted as the king shouts at me.

“By the Great Storm stop ignoring me!!!
Guards seize him!”

Advisor Myguel, “Your Majesty he is the Advent of Ethereal.”

King Augustus Mendes the 14th, “I don’t care nobody ignores me and gets away with it.”

Staring daggers at the king I easily form a mana blade in my hand and throw it into his chest, shattering his heart. The mana is absorbed into his body and crystalizes, random crystals jutting out of him until his remains are encased in a human-sized mana crystal.

The Knights in the Royal Guard move swiftly drawing their blades shining with English javascript.

I quickly deploy a rune circle with my mind etching runes of mana into the air before releasing a pulse that poisons the knights. The Knights fall to their knees patches of their skin and equipment turning to stone as they quickly spread.

Reaching out their hands they stare at them in horror as they are forever frozen as stone statues.

Using my telekinesis to lift up the king's corpse and I throw him across the room. I walk up to the throne and sit down.

Shiro, “Bring me the Royal family.”

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Over the next few days, I watch as everyone of royal blood except the princesses were slaughtered.

Shiro cast a spell upon the princesses to seduce them and secure his throne, quickly bedding them.

Clearly, I shouldn’t have saved his life, the king may have been stupid but he ensured stability with the kingdom and now that the Monster King Imperius was on their front lawn, the last thing they needed was a civil war.

Alas, none of the nobles rebelled due to the title of Advent which Shiro held, it seemed they were much smarter than their former king.

I would need to remove Shiro when the time was right, maybe see if a can open a wormhole to earth to throw his soul back through.

Until then I would study how to do just that and watch.

Maybe I could get Jay to kill him he did owe me for the new body.

That or I could just wait for him to do it himself, after all, I already made a deal with him.

Hmmm, that sounds better I’ll just let things take their course and clean up the mess when it's over, less work for me.

Shiro eventually gathers the army and started modifying them with the powers of an Advent through the use of mana, he further enhanced their human bodies and minds. When he was done he called them High Humans, whats next High Elves? Crap I shouldn’t jinx it.

Finally, after modifying a few more villages of humans into high humans along with modifying a few local wolf packs into viper hounds that could turn invisible, he marches into the lands of the Monster King.

After a Long grueling fight he finally reaches the Monster King’s Castle.

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I walk calmly into the throne room of the Monster King and see where there was once a throne is now a bed of flaming hot coals surrounded by a ring of burning oil.
In the middle sits the Monster King sitting in seiza.
Fire swirled around him orange energy flowing from the flames into him, as he inhales and exhales flames with each breath.

Suddenly his eyes open and he stares at me, a cold look in his eyes despite the ever-present fire.

He stands his height reaching seven feet tall a crown of four small well space horns on his head and small animalistic ears low like a cat’s.

He reaches out his hand and speaks a word I do not recognize an enchanted sword flying from where it hung on the wall into his right hand.

I wait as he descends the stairs then I rush him.

He swings his sword spewing forth a wave of mana flames as the mana crystal in its handle glows.

I wave my arm dispersing the mana flames into the aether.

Still charging at him he swings down his blade, attempting to cleave into my shoulder, instead, I simply grab it.

The Monster King Furious looked at me with fury in and bewilderment in his eyes, then the strange runes on the sword glowed and the blade was engulfed in mana flames.

The blade shines a brilliant electric blue so bright I almost cover my eyes and I feel it cut into my hand drawing blood.

Instead of letting go I simply squeezed harder shattering the sword as a felt something hot flowing aginst my skin I turn my eyes and see the Monster King spewing flames from his hand, my armor glowing orange from the heat.

Seeing me unaffected he kicks me in the stomach creating distance between us.

He then writes simple pictographs in the air with mana then swiping his finger to the side completing the spell.

A sun, fire, and a line?

The pictograph runes merge into a simple spell circle and spews out an almost white beam of brilliant blue mana flames I shield myself with my arms crossed.

Then whistled.

Two of my viper hounds became visible behind the Monster King and ran towards his back, as his ears twitch but it was too late the viper hounds had sunk their fangs into his shoulders their venom coursing through his veins.

I stalk forth as the beam stops watching my prey as he crushes the skulls of my viper hounds beneath his feet before falling to his knees.

He looks up at me a defiant look in his eyes, he opens his mouth saying a string of unintelligible words in anger before breathing fire onto my face.

As the flames flowed over my face without burning me, I grab his head and twist.

“SNAP!”

The Monster King is dead.