Collision of Hunters

The battle started, both sides collided, with large booms and weapons swining. Kroven had a sharp black spike stick out of his hand, and he stabbed Yuna through the face with it.

"Pathetic."

Kroven and Yuna went bashing through many walls, making the tomb shake fiercely. The walls collapsed on the way through, and Kroven said, "What do you plan to do if you are successful with your goal? Killing the Dark Order?l

Yuna smirked, and said menacingly, "HAHA! While I'm killing you bastards off, I'm gonna rebuild my big ass kingdom that I had! And then after…after…I don't know! Hahahaha!!"

"Pfft. That abandoned piece of shit castle?"

"It was MY abandoned piece of shit castle! I'll kill you!!"

Yuna grabbed Kroven by the throat, spun around, and smashed his head on the ground, blasting wind everywhere, and the impact made the walls around them explode in rubble.

Yuna's face was healing, and he smiled more, "Hehehe! I could do this allll day!"

Kroven said, "Khonzael…once consumed by darkness while in combat, his demeanor changes into Devil-like proportions…emotionless to his empathy, sympathy, and peace."

"Haaaaha!"

Kroven stabbed a spike through Yuna's stomach, and jumped in the air with him.

Kroven said, "You're an assassin. You know the ways of killing. You know how to dispose of your target at a glance. That's all the Order saw you as, a pawn for their success. Due to your assassinations, it helped members get into kingdoms and become kings! You paved the way for us to actually prove our worth to the cause itself."

"Hehhhh? You're still in the Order, doesn't that mean you're a pawn tooooo?!"

"But was I the one who was betrayed? No. They must've seen that you were useless, so they got rid of you."

"Must've??? HAHAHAHA! My name travels among the lands as the most deadliest assassin that ever lived! You saying 'must've' must mean you don't know why they betrayed meeee! How sad!"

Back in the main area of the tomb, Kunai and Nel were destroying the risen armored corpses of kings and queens. Kunai slid through them with his Jholnur extended at 30 feet long, and he was spinning it around as he ran forward, bashing the corpses against walls, squishing them.

Nel ducked, exclaiming, "Oi! Dipshit! Watch where you're swinging that stupid stick!"

Kunai replied, "Hey, that rhymed! Shit, stick!"

"Be serious for once! Idiot!"

"Okay! But don't disrespect Jholnur! He and he are doing great together! Killing and killing and killing these zombies!"

"That stupid stick is not alive!"

Kunai looked down at Jholnur, saying, "Gasp! Cover your ears, Jholnur!"

"Ugh! Fucking gross!"

"Heh?! You're gross!"

Nel rolled her eyes, and dodged at least 40 attacks from the armored corpses, thinking, 'Yuna and that Dark Order bastard ran off somewhere killing each other. This is all happening so fast, so sudden, and my suspicions were right…Yuna is a part of the Dark Order! I figure once he's done fighting, he'll be weakened, and that's when I can kill him myself. But…hearing him say they took what he earned away from him…was that the cost he had to pay for joining them in the first place? Or was it something else? Forget it, why am I so concerned? He's just another brat I need to kill!'

Nel swung her arms around in a circular fashion, and wind spiraled the entire room, blasting the risen dead, crushing them against each other.

Nel jumped in the air, and threw a wind orb down, flattening many more of them.

Nel landed on the floor feet first, and she picked up a golden ax, and ran ahead, dodging and slashing them apart.

Kunai spun Jholnur over his head, and smashed more soldiers away, blasting them back.

Kunai stabbed Jholnur into the ground, and squished many more corpses. More armored corpses were piling up in a tall mountain formation behind Kunai, and Nel noticed.

Nel exclaimed, "Oi, idiot! Lean that stick back just a little bit!"

"Don't call it a stick! His name is Jholnur!"

Kunai leaned 40 ft long Jholnur back a little bit as it was still stuck in the ground, and Nel smashed her hand through the ground, and dashed forward towards Kunai as many armored corpses chased her behind at fast speeds.

Nel said, "Kaboom."

Nel got close enough, and she raised her hand out of the ground hard as wind blasted out, and the other end of Jholnur blasted from the ground, and that end of Jholnur smashed into the mountain of armored corpses, re-killing them against the wall.

Kunai laughed, and as soon as Nel was out of the way, he smashed Jholnur down, killing the other armored corpses that were chasing Nel.

Kunai said to Nel, "Haha! That was teamwork! Looks like you're learning from me and Jholnur!"

"Learning?! Teamwork?! Don't be stupid! I was merely using your stick as a pawn! I used you both!"

"Doesn't seem like itttt!"

"Tch! You handle things here, I'm gonna go look for Yuna and that other bastard! I can't have Yuna dying without me killing him first!"

"Sure! Me and Jholnur can hold down the fort from where!"

…

Yuna headbutted Kroven, stabbing him through the face with the horns on his head. Yuna did this over and over while laughing, splattering blood all over the place.

Kroven kicked off of Yuna, and landed on the floor. As Yuna was falling to the floor, Kroven chanted: "Arise, Pierced ground."

Large pitch black grizzly bears with glowing red eyes, and long red hair and long sharp teeth came from Kroven's mouth, and they went after Yuna.

Yuna laughed even more, and he made two black staffs covered in black flames form in both hands.

Yuna said, "Let's get the killing!"

Yuna started spinning really fast, dashing through the air as he was spinning faster than a helicopter blade. As he was spinning, he shredded the bears of darkness that were coming at him. He slashed them all over the place, with blood flinging in the air, and some of the blood was covering Yuna.

Kroven thinks, 'It's as expected. Him being the known Khonzael means he is superior to most Dark Order members…foolish I was to think this spell could easily stop him. I thought I had gotten stronger..but I have a ways to go. Either way, killing him would definitely raise my rank, and I'll definitely reach being an Apostle, and that means I can speak with the Celestial of Darkness!'

Yuna finished killing the bears, and he slung his two staffs at Kroven.

Kroven jumped out of the way, and the two staffs exploded, blowing up the floor, causing rubble to fly all over the place.

Yuna was running to the right, bashing through the rubble and dust, but he was running on all fours like an animal, and his teeth were sharper, and drool and blood fell from his mouth, and he had a black sword in his mouth that was covered in black flames.

"Hahahaha!" Yuna laughed.

Kroven started to fly in the air, looking down at Yuna.

Kroven pointed at Yuna, chanting: "Consume it: Golden Dark!"

A large glowing and spinning gold and black orb formed from Kroven's finger, and it blasted towards Yuna.

Yuna jumped towards the orb, and it hit him. The orb was smashing Yuna through multiple walls, going BOOM!

KATHOOM!

THOOM!

SHEEEING!

Yuna rolled on the floor, with more blood falling from his mouth, saying, "HEHE! I CAN DO THAT TOO!!!"

In the blink of an eye, Kroven came zipping in with another orb forming in his hand, but Yuna flipped past him faster than ever, and Kroven's right arm fell off. Yuna had cut Kroven's arm off with the sword in his mouth, completely destroying the Golden Dark orb.

Kroven thinks, 'He purposely targeted my arm to dissolve my spell?! I heard he can't think straight when overtaken by his own darkness…but he still has strategy?! Tch. It's no time to be impressed, I'll still finish hi-!'

Kroven turned around, but at that moment, Yuna punched him in the face with the black flame of Zabel on his face. Half of Kroven's face melted, and he went flying.

'This guy-!'

Yuna was already on the other side of Kroven, startling him. Yuna punched Kroven again, and sent him flying the other direction. As he was flying through the tomb, the walls were caving in due to the force.

Yuna was flying after him, and at the same time, his tails were floating above him, and they all swirled and intertwined with each other, and above them, a giant black sparkling orb with red rings around it came forming.

Kroven said, "W-What?!"

Kroven thinks, 'I can't give up! I can't let this bastard win! The higher ups got rid of him for a reason unknown, but I'm sure it was a good reason! They're not prepared for him to return, so I have to do them the honors of redoing the task! I have to stop that orb or his!'

(FLASHBACK)

(5 years ago)

Kroven, a mere butler for the ruthless king of Rhinethorne, was walking to the king's room holding a tray of tea.

Kroven sighed, and he knocked on the door, saying, "Your majesty.."

Kroven opened the door, but as soon as he walked in, he saw the king naked, lying with a bunch of naked women in his bed.

Kroven panicked, "I-Im sorry!" And he dropped the tea at the same time.

The king hurried to cover himself, and the women did the same thing.

The king scoffed at Kroven, "You fool! Don't you know how to wait for an answer whenever you walk into someone's room after knocking?"

"I'm so sorry!"

"And you spilled the tea all over my new floors! The gold I spent on them cost more than your worthless life! Just get out! Every day you fuck something up! Get out and go to your room and don't come out for a day!"

"Y-Yes sir! Sorry again!"

Kroven walked out of the room, and closed the door behind him. As soon as he closed the door and turned around, the other butlers and maids were standing there, laughing at him, saying:

"Haha! He made the king mad again!"

"Awww! He has to go to his room again!"

"That's embarrassing!"

"You should just run away!"

"I've never seen a worthless butler!"

Kroven tossed the tray to the side, and walked through them, his eyes watering, thinking, 'Why…why do I have to live like this? I came to the kingdom of Rhinethorne for a better life, leaving my village of poverty and strife, and gained acceptance from the favor of the king after doing small non-combat quests…and my life is much worse!'

Kroven stormed into his room, and he slammed the door behind him, laying his back on the bed, thinking again, 'Why can't everything just change for the better? For me at least?'

Hours later, at night time, there was a distant scream outside of his room. Kroven immediately reacted to the horrific scream, running out of his room, but as soon as he stepped out, there were piles upon piles of bodies outside in the hallway.

Kroven gasped, and he vomited on the side. After he was done, he said, "What is happening?"

He ran past all of the dead bodies, he could barely get through by how many were piled up. He even walked past the bodies of the butlers and maids that made fun of him earlier that day. He made it to the king's room, and he opened the door and the king and all of his women were dead as well, dismembered and brutally ripped apart on the bed and floor.

Kroven panicked, and he walked backwards out of the room, "No way…no way…everyone dead….it can't be…this can't be happening."

Kroven heard something to his left, something like something small was hit against the window.

He turned to it, and his eyes got big.

The crescent moon was glowing brightly, but standing outside of the window, standing on what looked like wires, we're 4 unrecognized faces. But one of them was Yuna. But at that time, Yuna was Khonzael.

Yuna was standing on the wire, with a mask that covered only his nose and mouth, and he had on all black.

Kroven opened the window, and asked, "Did you…did you all kill them?"

One of the unrecognized faces replied, "Nooo. Not us anyway. Khonzael right here ripped them apart with his bare hands. Say hi, Khonzael."

Khonzael/Yuna, said, "…."

"Aw. He's shy. It takes him forever to warm up to strangers."

Kroven asked, "Why…why did you do this?"

The unrecognized man replied, "Question is, why aren't we not doing this? The Dark Order promises us whatever we want, but until we can truly get what we desire, we must prove ourselves worthy of a true blessing from god himself. And you wanna know how we do that?"

"How?"

"By taking over the world, by spreading the influence of the Dark Order. We do this by becoming kings, manipulating kingdoms, taking down and controlling dungeons, monsters, Celestials themselves, mythic races, and paving the way to high status. Established 30 years ago, I'd say we have about 60% of the world knowing the influence of us. Khonzael reported to me that you could be a possible member, seeing how they treated you unfairly here, seeing that you were indeed filled with potential."

"No way…I was being watched?"

"I will make this short. Join us. If you accept, you will be given power, power that regulars would dream of, and you could possibly become a king if you prove yourself to us, Apostles, the highest ranked Dark Order members. If you refuse, you will die. You are the only one in the castle that is alive, and they will suspect you are the killer of everyone. The kings knights that were patrolling the city are already on the way here. What's it going to be?"

"….I….I'm not an evil person, I'm not. But…if I can become a king, and have power, and if I can become king and make a kingdom where there is no bullying and looking down on others…I accept!"

(FLASHBACK END)

(PRESENT DAY)

Kroven stuck his hand out, and yelled, "After everything I've done, where you and those other Apostles brought me from, I won't lose here, Khonzael!!!!!!"

A large orb formed in front of Kroven, and it collided with Yuna's orb. They both pushed against their orbs with one hand, with Kroven grunting loudly, yelling, "I won't lose!!"

Right beside Kroven, Yuna was in his ear, saying, "You will."

Yuna kicked Kroven in the face, and he bashed through antoher wall, and Yuna's orb smashed against Kroven, and it sent him flying once more, and he slid across a floor, with half of his body gone.

Kroven was sitting up slowly on his knees, breathing heavily, dying, "You…you won't win. You won't beat all of us….even though you were an apostle…you won't make it far."

Yuna was walking in there, saying, "Kukukkku….look at you, looking the same as when I found you in Rhinethorne….worthless…weak…and pathetic."

"Damn you! Damn you!"

Kroven had black crests formed on his eyes, and two giant black spikes covered in red flames came out of his eyes, and they shot at Yuna, stabbing Yuna through the eyes. Yuna stood there as blood dripped to the floor. Yuna put his hands on the spikes, and crushed them easily with one hand.

Yuna walked forward to Kroven, and Yuna had two holes in his face, with blood pouring from them.

Kroven said, "You could've dodged that…why didn't you?"

"Haha! To show you a difference in our power! And to show you that the other members might put up more of a fight than you ever did! Haha!"

"You brat! You parents must be disappointed! Rolling in their graves-!"

Kroven's head was ripped off by Yuna's hand, and his body fell.

Yuna said maliciously, "Don't mention them…"

Yuna was changing back to normal, going back to his normal look.

[Dark Order member "Kroven" slain. XP gained : 10000 points. New kingdom perk unlocked - "Mythic barracks". Mythic barracks - Once you get a settlement for your kingdom, you can create a Mythic Barracks that if monsters or mythic animals are brought to this barracks, they will instantly be tamed, and will fight for you.]

Yuna thought, 'Now…I really want to make my settlement platform now. Having mythic animals and monsters on my side would be super cool!'

Yuna asked nervously while rubbing the back of his neck, "Can't I create my settlement here? Can't I use this place as one and build my kingdom here? Please…system person thingy? I hope I'm not asking too much. I can use some of the foundation here to make a platform…"

[Building a platform here is not advised. Dark magic lingers and the material here along with the rubble is cursed with dark magic. If anyone inhabits these walls, they could be cursed as well. If you want to cleanse this area and the material from the tomb, you must have someone with special magic to purify everything]

Yuna says, "Craaaaap. That's too much work. I'll just keep traveling until I find a perfect place."

Yuna looked down at Kroven's body, and he said, "That's one down, many more to go. I am not sorry for decapitating you, Kroven. The road from now may be super duper challenging, but I'll win; thank you for reminding me. This is only the beginning of my revenge and my rebuilding of my kingdom."

Jogging in, was Nel, covered in blood and she said, "There you are! Looks like you've won."

Yuna replied, "I'm sorry."

"Hm?"

"You and Kunai know of my background, knowing I was in the Dark Order. I didn't want to expose myself, but I got carried away."

"Huh…? You…"

"I have to get rid of you. I plan on keeping my real identity a secret so I can easily gain access to the Dark Order better without them anticipating my every move."

"Tch! Yu-."

Yuna dashed across the room and pinned Nel to the floor, putting a dagger made of darkness to her throat, holding it there.

Nel said, "….Do it. You'd be doing me a favor. Fucking do it. Do it!" A tear dropped from her eye, and she continued, "Why're you hesitating?! Just do it! Do me this one favor!"

Yuna gasped silently when she said that.