Facing The Devil

a large army of men disguised as Devils stood at a distance from the entrance of Mortabolis tribe.
In front of the army stood a muscular short man with a different suit, his mask covering his whole face and two small horns above his head.
He had armor on his chest and abdomen that covered up to his shoulders.
He carried two weapons, the end of the stick of weapons was the head of a spear, and below the spear-like part of the weapon, one side had three blades and the other side had a sickle-like blade with a big arch.
The great devil was holding two weapons and staring at the entrance of Mortabolis.
The tribe was surrounded by the risen ground which looked like mountain, leaving only a one way to enter the tribe. the great devil had lined up his army in front of the entrance.
A devil was approaching from the left, bowing when he reached the great devil.
The great devil took his eyes off the gate of the tribe and turned his head towards the devil and said: where is the thorabolis unit? Didn't you see them on the way?
Devil: No Lord. Strange, they should have been here by now.
The Great Devil: After we destroy here, we go to Thorabolis. I can't wait any longer, every second we waste is a favor to the enemy.

Away from the army of the great devil and the entrance gate of Mortabolis, there is a hill overlooking this area, on which a man in black stands and looks at the army of the devils.
A middle-aged man in a dark blue robe and a long cane approaches the Black ghost and says: Ghost, are you ready?
The black ghost turned his head to Kormas and said, "it's strange, I dedicated my whole life to face him, to wipe out every last one of his followers. after everything I been through, I thought when I get my chance to face him I would be ready. But now ... Now that I see him, I realize I'm afraid of facing him like everyone else.
Kormas: you're afraid of him?!
Black Ghost: if I lose to him today ... my whole life will be a big failure. I always wondered what would happen if I lose, Melgip always said he is a monster."
Kormas: You better control your nerves.
Everyone depends on you to defeat him, if you can't, then who can? It might take time for wizards to enter the tribe, so it's important that you guys defeat them in the tribe, and if Beelzebub would be there, you should defeat him in there. Remember that you can't doubt and you should do it. if he's a monster, you are too. your masters created him and you should put an end to their mess.

The black ghost nod in approval.

Kormas: now, when you wanna close that gate?

Black Ghost: We wait for them to reach the gate. and when some of them went into the tribe, I close the entrance.
Their army is going to be divided into two parts, we fight those outside the tribe, and Larmas and his men fight those inside. If Beelzebub be here, I'll stay, if he's gonna be in the other part, I'll go there.
Kormas: We will quickly defeat them and then we come inside.
The black ghost nod in approval as he looked at the army of devils.
Seventy-seven wizards and witches were sitting behind the hill.

The army of the great devil set out and
entered the gate of Mortabolis.
The black ghost placed his right and left hands on the ground and closed his eyes.
Feeling power, feeling a flow of energy on his hands right when he put his bare hands on the ground, he can feels every step of the army of devils, every steps they take he can feel it too, he can see it like he's there, hear their chat and every step they take like he's with them. At the time a cool wind blows, making his hair blow. While feeling the cool breeze, he smiles under the mask in satisfaction, he doesn't feel the energy only in the ground, it's also in him like a hidden treasure which was always there with him, it makes him feel, now he and earth are one, combined as one being. So he's still with Kormas but he focus and moves with the flow of energy to the entrance of Mortabolis and he then he decides in his mind to: Rise!

The great devil and his army had entered the tribe, the great devil could see the great fortress of Mortabolis that had been on the big hill in the center of the tribe.
They were on a straight path that was wide and led directly to the castle of Mortabolis and the hill.
The great devil suddenly felt strong tremors under his feet, he immediately shouted: forward with full speed!!
He runs forward at full speed and hears screams from behind.
At the back, the ground suddenly rose and threw many devils into the air with it and crushed them.
The army of the great devil became chaotic and all were scattered.
The great devil went to the newly created wall behind him.
He slammed his fist against the wall and said, "Damn!"
One of the commanders turned to the great devil, the great devil looked at him angrily and said: How many people from the special forces unit were able to pass?
Commander: 30 people passed from 60.
The rest were either killed by rising of the ground or left behind a wall.
The Great Devil: that Damn Valtyer!
He did not predict the future correctly, this was not in what he said! this time I will not have mercy on him, I will kill him. Give the soldiers a military makeover, I'm sure we can still defeat them.

Order reigned again among the army of the great devil, the great devil went in front of the army and then they marched towards the fortress of Mortabolis.
The gates of the castle of Mortabolis are closed, and at the bottom of the hill, Larmas's has his men in rows in order.
In front of them stand Larmas and Osira, they see an army of devils approaching closer and closer.
Osira remembering a memory of years ago said: Everything looks just like last time. Do you remember that day? when they came in broad daylight? when they entered the tribe.

Larmas frowned and said, "Yes, I remember that day very well. when the great devil cunningly used his army to mislead Tomiro Rovener, he entered the castle in another way. But this time he can't do trickery, he must fight us like a man from the front.

Larmas turned his face to Osira and said: During the battle, stay close to me Osira.

Osira smiled, at that moment everyone was nervous, angry, frowning, scared, but Osira was the only one who was calm and had a smile on his face, as if nothing special was happening.
"I may not be as skilled as you and the others, but I can still fight," he said quietly.
"Anyway, practicing with you and black ghost were effective, and I participated in previous battles and I have experiences.
Larmas was worried and said in a nervous tone: Osira! This battle is different! Your health is important! You have to stay close to me so that you do not get into a dangerous situation!
Osira looked up at the sky and, still with a pleasant smile on his face, began to speak in a calm tone: if I couldn't save myself and die, it does not matter. One day we opened our eyes and entered this world and one day we have to leave here, death knocks on everyone's door. I'm not afraid of death, do you know why? Because when I see my father ... I can raise my head and say that I was on the right path and I lost my life in the same way. I do not care about dying, I do care about how I am going to die, As a coward who turned away from doing the right thing, or as someone who died doing the right thing. And I'm not afraid because in life I always tried to be a useful person, when we lived in the castle with my parents, my father was a guard and my mother worked in the castle, then I worked in Thorabulis and paid for my education and took care of my mother, until the day she left the world. after that, I continued to try to be a helpful person working for the betterment of society, as a teacher I taught everything I knew, and then I joined you. I do what is need to be done for Vardas, now what I have to do is to defeat the great devil. if I die, it does not matter to me because I lived well, I lived as I wanted to, and I did what I wanted, and I never deviated from my right path. So death does not matter because I got everything I wanted. There is only one thing I still want to understand and for that, I can figure it out with death.
Larmas: What?!
Osira: When the people of tribe, put your dead body in the holy river and holy river takes you to the large waters that surround Vardas. There, the endless waters release your soul from your body and you go on living with your soul, I want to know what really happens after that! This world was a place where you are always stuck between two paths and you have to choose a path, we are formed based on what we choose. I want to see if there really is a world after here? If so, how is it there?
Larmas: You can find the answer in books.
Osira: But you can't trust the books, you have to experience death to understand it. no one has returned from death, so everything that is written can be false. the same culture that leaves the dead in the water, who says it frees the soul? These things cannot be explicitly accepted because there is no evidence for it, because no one has returned from death to confirm them, so these are fabrications of the mind and cannot be completely true. to discover, one must experience them. and I like to understand the truth.

Then he turned his face to Larmas and said: "But this does not mean that I would kill myself to understand the truth because it is stupid, you should make the best use of all the time you have because when you go you can never come back."
Larmas noded and looked again at the army of devils, which was getting closer and closer.

What everyone feared had arrived.
The Great devil and his army were in front of Larmas, and the Great devil was surprised to see them.
"Valtyer had said they would be on the hill," he said to himself." That old rat seems to have lied a lot." The great devil said to himself.
The army of the great devil stood at a distance from the army of Larmas
"At this distance, the spearmen can not hit them, it is a long distance," Osira told Larmas with low voice.
Osira frowned and looked at the man who was walking in front of the army and was now standing and looking at him and Larmas.
Larmas frowned and put his hand on the handle of his sword and squeezed it, saying, "he finally arrived."

the great devil had two special weapons in his hand.
The end of the weapon was like a spear blade, the left side of weapon which was lower than the spear-like part had three blades, the middle one straight and the other two blades curved toward the middle blade.
to the right of the lower part of the spear was a long, sickle-shaped blade which was narrower than the other blades but sharper and longer and also had a big arch.

He was holding two weapons and staring at Larmas and Osira.
Larmas drew his sword and said to the great devil: So finally the great devil has come out of his lair!
The great devil squeezed his weapons more and said, "You used your people as shields, you should have surrender yourself to stop the bloodshed"
Osira drew his sword , frowning he said to the great devil, "people choose to fight you because you're a monster... Meroso." Beelzebub turned his face towards Osira, Osira has stolen his attention by saying his name. Beelzebub knew it's all because of Valtyer, they only could understand that with help of Valtyer, which makes Beelzebub think, how much Valtyer told them about future and about battle? does valtyer lie to him when he said Beelzebub will win? he regularize his mind,
no matter what happen he must defeat them and reunite with his family, he promised that
soon he will go to them and start a new and fresh life.
He stared at them again and said, "Special unit! lunch attack!"
Thirty people came forward and went in front of the great devil and put their right knee on the ground.
"We have to start the attack, waiting here is useless," Larmas told Osira.
Larmas ordered the attack and everyone moved towards the devils.
All thirty devils who knelt on the ground had long, curved sticks.
Tall curved stems with narrow limbs and dark brown color with curvature on both sides at the opposite end.
At the top of each head, a groove is made to tie a string around the wood.
Each member of the special unit fired an arrow into the bow and aimed the arrows at
Larmas and his soldiers as they approached.
Osira was amazed to see the devils unknown weapons and had just learned why they were standing so far away.
The special guards of Larmas and Osira felt threatened, and all of them came in front of them and stood in front of them like a strong wall, holding their shields in front of them.
The archers dropped their arrows, and thirty arrows were fired at Larmas soldiers.
Larmas quickly notices the screams of pain and looks at the soldiers around him, whoever stands at the front of each line has fallen to the ground with an arrow splitting a part of their body.
He quickly noticed the frightened and startled faces of the other soldiers, and even he himself was amazed at the power of the devils' weapons.
At that moment, the atmosphere became more poisonous due to the power of the devils' weapons, and fear spread among all.
At that moment, Larmas said loudly: Move!!!
Do not forget what you are fighting for!!
Nothing should shake us!
Osira: Fill the front of the line!!! Move forward at full speed!

the front of the line was filled with other people. Larmas' army began to move again, attacking the devils at full speed.
The devils fired again, this time dropping more, but this time no one stopped and continued at full speed.
four of Larmas Special Guard were injured, and now only sixteen of the guards are on their feet, moving around
Larmas and Osira.
Larmas looks angrily at the great devil from behind 5 special guards.
The great devil slowly raised his weapons above his head. Suddenly the devils started moving. The rise of the two weapons was a sign of attack for the devils.
After raising two weapons, the devils started moving. The great devil was still holding two weapons, and the devils were rapidly passing him and attacking the army of Larmas.
Larmas could no longer see the great devil, he had disappeared among a crowd of devils, had lowered both weapons, and was out of Larmas' sight.

Larmas said under his breath: Coward!
Eventually the two groups met and the battle began.
Larmas' army was larger, but most of the soldiers were ordinary people who had spent the past six days training, and this was their first experience in a real battle, and in contrast those savage bastards who works for great devil are fully experienced and fully prepared to fight and would use any way to defeat their opponent.
Of course, Larmas had also prepared a large number of soldiers for future battles over the past year, and according to Osira's plan, experienced soldiers were distributed among the others in rows.

The sound of the blades hitting each other began, the ground was gradually stained with blood, the soldiers of Larmas and the devils were in conflict with each other.
The dust had risen and everyone was
fighting for life and death.

On the battlefield, Osira stands against a demon.
He has a light sword in his right hand and a small circular shield attached to his left hand.
The Special Guards, which was tasked with protecting Osira and Larmas, were in conflict with their opponents, while Larmas was fighting with two devils.
Osira looked at Larmas, he knew Larmas is a strong warrior, but Larmas getting hurt would make things worse because he was leading the others, and if the leader get injured, it would affect the others, and a small injury could result in more injuries and eventually Larmas's death, and this was the worst thing that could have happen in the battle.
Osira was determined to defeat his opponent quickly and go to Larmas aid. Osira took a step back and swung the sword from the bottom to up and neutralized the opponent's blow. The devil attacked again and this time he wanted to insert the sword in the Osira's abdomen. Osira deflect the attack by hitting the devil's sword with a vertical blow from up to down, then he hit the face of the devil with his sword handle while he grabbed it with both hands and then he attacked with inserting the sword in devil's chest.
Osira glanced at Larmas, who had four devils lying on the ground around him, and was now fighting another two.
Osira went to Larmas and struck a vertical blow on the back of the devil who was fighting Larmas, and then got into a fight with another devil who suddenly attacked him, Osira brought his sword against the blow and prevented it from hitting. The devil pushed him back, but before he could make another attack, Larmas hit him in the back of the neck from behind and turned in the other direction, blocking another devil with a blow from the left, then hitting the shield in his face and then he struck him on the head with a sword. Larmas turned to the right, placed the shield in front of another devil, and plunged his sword into the opponent's abdomen.
An devil from the left and another from the right attacked Larmas. Osira attacked the devil on the right and clashed with him. Larmas used a sword to block the devil blow to his left, then struck the shield with force to the left of the devil's face; The devil stumbled backwards, while Larmas rushed forward and spun, putting the speed and power gained in the movement behind the sword and striking the devil in the neck and cutting his head off.
Larmas then looked at Osira and was surprised to see him lying on the ground with his opponent attacking him and Osira trying to get away.
Larmas quickly attacked the devil.
The devil had attacked with speed and was ready to strike, and it was very unlikely that the Osira would be able to escape from that blow on the ground.
Before Larmas getting there, one of the soldiers struck the devil in the back with an axe, but at that moment the devil turned around to fight the soldier, which caused the axe to strike the devil in the chest. But at the last moment the devil plunged his sword into the soldier's abdomen and plunged it to the end. Blood gushed out of the soldier's mouth who was a old man. Osira got up angrily and struck the devil on the head with a vertical blow.
The devil and the soldier both fell to the ground. Larmas reached Osira and saw that his right arm was injured. He then looked at the soldier whose white beard was flushed with blood.
The soldier looked at Larmas with tears in his eyes and uttered his last words, "Commander ... take back our freedom. Save ... Us"
Larmas was full of rage when suddenly Osira Shouted: The Great devil is behind you!!!
Larmas turned his back in horror and saw the great devil, who had taken the three blades of his weapon towards him and jumped towards him. Larmas did not hesitate for a moment, holding his shield in front of his face; The weapons of the great devil hit the shield hard. The force of the blow was so great that it caused the shield to hit Larmas's face back.
Larmas stumbled back from the intensity of the blow and the shield in front of him went away.
The great devil took the opportunity and rushed forward. Meanwhile, in his right hand, he turned the weapon to strike with the curved blade. He bent down and quickly turned the right side of his body to the left and straightened his body again, putting all this speed and power behind a slanted blow and targeting Larmas's face.
Larmas did not have a chance to react with his sword or shield, so he just took a step back and held his head back as far as he could. He saw how great devil's weapon came at him like lightning; And then he felt a burning sensation on his left cheek.
Larmas's move was on time and saved him from death, but the great devil left a large wound on Larmas left cheek.
Larmas kept his distance from the great devil as much as possible.
Larmas said while breathing fast and staring at the great devil. "So you finally showed yourself!"
The great devil turned his weapon in his left hand and stared at Larmas.
He suddenly attached with the spear side of left hand pointing towards Larmas and then threw it at Larmas like a spear.
Larmas placed his shield in front of him before the weapon struck him, preventing it from hitting his face.
When he removed the shield, he saw again the great devil, who had reached a few steps and was ready to strike with the three blades of the weapon, he took the weapon with both hands and struck from the right. But Larmas quickly defended it with a shield. It was a strong blow and put a lot of pressure on Larmas's arm. Larmas did not allow the Great devil to move again at the moment when the weapon struck Larmas' shield; Larmas targeted the left side of the Great Devil and delivered a horizontal blow. The great devil went to the right of Larmas to escape his blow, and if he could get past the shield by going right and going to Larmas's back he could attack his arm and his back; But Larmas did not allow it and turned with him and struck his blow hard with the sword to the left side of the great devil. The great devil could not dodge it and the sword injured him badly.
The great devil distanced himself from Larmas; He was badly wounded.
But Larmas did not give him a chance to move away, and as the great devil retreated, he struck a sharp blow with the sword to injure the left shoulder of his unarmed hand.
The great devil struck Larmas with a three-blade side. The sword of Larmas stuck between two of the three blade. The great devil pulled his right hand back with force and pulled the sword out of Larmas's hands. Larmas realized in an instant that the situation was very dangerous, so before the great devil could do anything else, he slammed the shield hard on his face and
retreated.

Larmas: Damn it!

The helmet and mask on the face of the great devil are made of metal, and that is why Larmas hit the face with a shield, causing a lot of pain, and the great devil stumbled back.

Larmas: I could have finish him off!

Osira had seen Larmas who had lost his sword.
Osira looked at the dagger strapped to his waist. He knew he had no skill in throwing a dagger to harm the great devil
So he did something else.
Osira pulled out a dagger and threw it. The dagger passed over the head of the great devil and fell forward between the great devil and Larmas.
Osira quickly attacked the great devil and shouted: Beelzebub!!
The Great devil turned to face Osira; Larmas quickly ran towards the dagger.
The great devil noticed the movement of Larmas. He drew his dagger and threw it at Osira and spun around and ran towards the dagger and Larmas.
Thanks to the distraction created by Osira, Larmas was able to reach the dagger faster and pull it out of the ground, but it did not take long for the great devil to reach him.
The big devil had taken the sickle-arched blade part towards Larmas and hit a horizontal blow, but Larmas put the shield in front of it. But he did not wait, and as soon as shield and sickle-blade collided, he turned quickly and raised the hand with which he had held the dagger, and then quickly lowered it, inflicting a wound on the back of the elbow of the right hand of the great devil.
Immediately after Larmas injured his hand, the Great Devil hit him in the abdomen with a strong knee, punched him in the trunk, and pushed him back. But before he could attack, he noticed someone approaching.
The great devil turned quickly and saw Osira holding his sword in both hands and very close to him.
Osira looked at the weapon of the great devil, which was like a sickle blade; a mean crooked smile appeared on Osira's face.
The great devil began to turn the weapon in his hand to use the three-blade part and went back.
Osira was very close and it was useless to retreat, Osira was holding the sword with both hands and was ready to insert the sword in the chest of the great devil, the great devil turned the weapon in his hand and the three blades were towards Osira, Osira was facing the great devil He had reached and put all his strength behind the blow and plunged the sword with all his might into the chest of the great devil!
There was a loud grunt from the great devil, and he punched Osira hard in the face, and he was pushed back.
Suddenly, the Great devil was stabbed in the back of the neck with a dagger, and the Great devil was kicked in the back, and he fell to the ground.
Osira came forward and drew his sword from the body of the great devil, who was drowning in his own blood.
Larmas was terrified. He noticed that a dagger had been inserted into Osira's left hand. Osira slowly raised his hand and pointed to the dagger and said: He threw it at my face; If I had not put my hand in front of it, I would have been dead.
It was clear from his face that he was in a lot of pain.
Larmas came forward and took the dagger.
He immediately pulled the dagger out of Osira's hand, which caused Osira to shout.
Larmas: your attack was reckless and very dangerous!
Osira: his weapon was very good and has good capabilities, but it has very dangerous weaknesses; That part of weapon which has that long arch blade was always used when you were away from him, because it is not used in close combat, he used that part to hit a long shot and a quick shot. this part made it hard for you to get close to him, but if you do get close, he has to use the three blades for close combat, which takes time to turn the weapon in his hand to use the other part, and this is another weakness. He used three blades for close and powerful blows. So I waited for him to use a arched blade, and then I got close quickly so he wouldn't notice me, and when I got too close, he had to turn the weapon, which gave me more time, and I was able to reach him quickly and hit the final blow.
Larmas laughed and wiped the blood from his face, saying, "He didn't give me a chance to think at all, but well, you did stop him with a plan."
But a little later, Larmas took a serious look at himself and said: "But ... I have a strange feeling, he has been fighting with these weapons for years, he must have known about these weaknesses himself; Why didn't he fix it or use another weapon!? I'm sure someone whose skill is considered legendary is not so stupid! No, he shouldn't make a mistake in using this weapon.
Larmas then looked anxiously at Osira, who was pensive.
Larmas: "Do you think what I think?"
Osira looked at Larmas in panic and said, "The great devil hasn't yet shown himself to us, But where is he!?"
Suddenly Osira's eyes widened, he turned around and looked up at the hill, and in front of the castle.
A group of devils had gathered in front of the castle.
Larmas: Damn! They must have gathered a group and get passed us through narrow alleys without anyone noticing and gone to the top of the hill.
Osira: They are a small group, if they can enter the castle in any way, they can take the women and children hostage. This can surrender all our soldiers.
Larmas: Black ghost, he must quickly come here and go inside the castle before they find a way inside!

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Top of the hill

The Great Devil had reached the top of the hill.
The Great Devil:I shouldn't waste any more time. Get Ready.