With the surreal scene of a large man standing around the bodies of lifeless people, the man himself was not terrified nor weirded out by the deathly silence but instead seemed excited.


    "Haha-! What a weird shit to do, well at leastsomethingentertaining happened."


    With a sneer, he began to hastily sprint towards the area where the demons were,with a speed that had reached an incredible velocity, something which anormal person could never do.The manwasquicklyinterrupted though, when a powerful wind blade struck the shoulder plate on his metal armor. He quickly stopped and deployed an extra layer of protection bywrapping mana all around his vitals.


    "Hey, come out! I''m not into playing hide n'' seek!"


    The man took on a cautious attitude after receiving an attack. Briefly taking a look around he finally felt something and sent a mana strike with his long sword. The strike caused a long streak of red energy to form, and at thelocation where the strike was heading towards, two dark shadows suddenly sprang out.


    Even when the attack missed, the man was not disappointed. Heactedas though he had found something interesting instead.


    "Ohh, what do we have here....a lizard and a snake huh. Haha, thought it was something like those devilmen of the abyssal realm. Didn''t expect your kind to be able to do all this." The man said jokingly.


    The two individuals in question were two demons, who both had a scaly appearance. They didn''t havethe time to retort however, because the man suddenly leapt at them. Within a moment he hadbegun attacking them with a fast stab, followed up with a double-spin slash mixed in, while simultaneously spreading a bright red aura around his weapon. The lizardman quickly reacted and put his arms in a guard position.


    『?????? ???????-Vajra』


    The lizard used a personal spell and his skin suddenlybecame gray with a tint of blue covering him. The man who had seen all this happen snorted and slashed at the lizard''s arm.


    *Clang*"Kuu! Oi, the fucks with this strength?!"


    Even after preparing for the strike, he still managed to receive quite a bit damage, judging by the appearance of a long slash mark across his arm.He even used a physical enhancement skill and still couldn''t fully protect his body.Fortunatelydue to the fact that his body''s natureresembled anactual reptilian monster, his body was regenerating itself very fast,witheven the imprint left on hisarmstarting to disappear.


    The otherdemon quickly fled to a certain distance away and started casting another wind type spell.


    『??????? ???? ?? ???? ???? ?????? ???? ??? ?? ??? ????? -Wind○Blade』


    However, instead of just one, there were severaldozen blades and they each varied in size.


    The flurry of wind blades tore through the air, breaking the flow of battle between the man and lizard demon. With the blades coming towards him, the man made a quick decision and decided side-stepped towards the left. He dodged the first fewbefore leapingonto the roof of a two-story building to escape the rest of the barrage.


    The man decided that it was time to end this and decided to attack the mage first by making use ofsome skills that he hadn''t usedyet.When the man started set the mage as his highest priority, the magebegan to feelhis murderous intent and began chanting a different type of spell.


    "You think I''ll let you!【Thunder○Strike】!"


    The man jumped off from the side of the building and began to use a high-rank sword skill thatincludedaspeedbuff. With the use of the movement buff,the distance between both of them had closed within a second.


    Something unexpected happened though:right when he was about to cut the mage in half, the lizard suddenly got in the way of the strike and was the one who took damage instead. The damage caused the flesh on his arm to burn, and the bones also startedto crack.


    The man was surprised by the sudden appearance of the lizard, but he quickly regained his composure and followed up with athree-consecutive strike, withthe first one cutting off theremains of the opponent''s damaged arm.


    The lizard was unfazed bythe loss of his arm andcalled out to his partner.


    "Oi Vyper, get "that" spell ready!"''Seems like we have to use it now.''


    ". . ." The mage began contemplating on the potential consequences when using the spell.


    "Oi, VYPER! It doesn''t matter anymore, just do it now while we''re still alive."


    "...Understood.『?? ????? ????? ??? ??????? ??? ????? ????? ?? ??????. ?? ?? ?????? - 』"Unlawfully taken from Royal Road, this story should be reported if seen on Amazon.


    The man didn''t understand what was about to happen, mainly because he was experiencing intense combat between himself and the lizard. Even now he was still acting cautioustowards the mage,aswhen he tried to close the distance on him, the lizard would prevent any further movement.


    It was still a tough fight even when the other opponent had one arm, mainly because hehadexhausteda lot of his mana with the use of the high-rank skill. Even during the fight he had not let histhoughts wander, nor didheeven think about the reason for the city''s destruction.He knew that the way demons did things were odd and with the language being very different,the only way for him to discern what was being said was the "way" it was said.Since mages usually mumbled, it becamevery difficulttounderstand what they were chanting, so he could only worry about how to deal with the lizard first.


    During the fight between the guildmaster and Vyner, Vyner had started using his own attacking skills. He also used physical enhancement skills. He then used a skill called【Lord’s Fortress】that bosted in both defense and power.


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    [Four Minutes Later]


    "...ha...ha...hah-"


    The final conclusion, both parties had received major injuries. The lizard had lost both arms,with only a stub of what remained, and received many scars due to his body not being able fast enough, with a large slash mark remained on the upper-part of his chest. The guild master was in better condition with having lost just his right arm, while having gained a damaged eye. His set of armor had become damaged beyond repair though, with therebeing alarge hole in the middle.


    Even to now, the mage had, without falter, still continued to chant his seemingly neverending spell. Since this spell used it''s caster as a medium, it would prevent the caster to collapse in the middle of chanting. It would destroy the physical body of the caster in trade for "ultimate" destruction.


    Yes, this spell was actually a forbidden spell, and theirfinal resort.Though they didn''t want to use it, but that''s unimportant however as the spell would be finished soon.


    "...Oi, the fuck is that guy chanting?"


    The man suddenly asked an unexpected question after realizing both of them couldn''t move due to straining both of their bodies and at the same timedepletingtheir mana tank. The lizard was surprised but decided that it was okay with the current situation, so hebegan talking in the human language.


    "We were originally coming here to test our strength after hearing that there was a extremely strongperson here, evenamong their officialranks. We decided to test whether or not it was true by killing all theworthlessones first and ended up using a genocide class spell, if someone survived then that''s our guy."


    "Eh, I thought you guys were here under the orders of some high-rank official within the demon realm. Didn''t think I was just some small fish. You still haven''t answered my question though, what is he chanting?" The man pointed at the mage who was still chanting.


    『?? ?????? ?????? ?? -』


    "As a demon,we''ve been told since childhood that humans must be killed at all costs and asfightersthis was even more so. So he''s. . ." Vynerthen thoughtfor a moment and decided that it wasn''t a good idea to tell him.


    "What, is it some forbidden spell meant to kill us all?" - The Guild Master snorted at his pointlessbehavior.


    ". . .hah, it is." ''Since we''re going to die anyways, there''s really no point tokeeping it hidden.''


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    There wasan oppressing atmospherearound them, but after waitingmore then 2 minutes they began to get restless. Even when their bodies regained some mobility they did not move, because they both knew that it wouldn''t matter.


    『????? ?????? ??-』


    ". . .hey, let''s continue this when we''re in hell." The man gave one final line with a smirk on his face after knowing the end of his life is near.


    The lizard was surprised but replied a moment later.


    "HAHA, you too!"


    『??? -』


    "Looks like it''s time~"


    『. . .?? ???? ???? -Annihilation』


    With the spell''s activation the mage collapsed. Everything went silent as a large energy wave suddenly sprang out of the mage''s location. Destruction was brought to them.


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    "Ahh-. . .umm, what was that?"


    He remembered feeling an intense pain, and began to see someodd things. Even after patiently waiting for along time, they never stopped and instead kept going on as though it was endless.


    He already realized thatthethingshe was looking at were memories, and everything began to go blackafter he saw the adventurers and the guards running towards the residential district.


    The situation between the victims and the attackers began to display itself, but differently compared to before,it was in third-person.


    He was very shocked when he began to see the situation, because whilehe knew that there were things such as demons when he began looking through the child''s life, he didn''t knowwhat magic or power was considered as in thisworld.


    Hewas starting tofeelagitated when the fight between the demon''s and the Guild Master was starting to reach it''s final conclusion. As though to prove his despair, when the Genocide-class spell activated, it had actually caused his point of view to changeback towardsthe host.


    He saw a spirit-less boy being crushed inside a pile of lifeless bodies. After that there was silence, complete stillness.


    At this point everythinghad started to swirl, with the "memory" becoming distorted. Everything started to get farther and farther until-


    "HA!"


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    {Narrator}


    With that, the seed thatwouldlater become the cause of mass-destruction has been planted,there howevermust stillbesomeonenurture it.