A first

The simple answer, so detached and true, appalled the general and made him doubt the health of their minds.

"I can't believe what I just heard."

But that did not matter to Miron. What did matter to him was the origin of this new chaos.

So he stood up, dusted himself off and turned to face this newcomer with a fierce expression.

The monster was everything a grimoire would describe. The worst of the black magic books.

A monster with a massive, muscular body, rough, tawny skin, streaked with dark lines forming abstract, moving images.

He was, Miron had to admit, the monster he had ever met who looked the most like a person, in body and mind, omitting his giant body, the color of his skin and maybe his arabesques so moving, he could have had the possibility to pass for an individual, a mage of great power. However, he was not one. And he never would be.

"You will be the last."

"I have come to play you majesty. And then kill you. That is my mission."