Irony... a funny yet dejecting term, it was ironic how far she had come with only one possible option. Ironic how far she had travelled in her last few months, gaining new friends and memories when she knew it would end this way. Pathetic that she thought even for a second it could have ended with anything but her death.

As she felt the cold numbing sting of the sword enter her, its iron moving through her midriff like a stone through water she felt her life begin to fade. The life she had known from a young age would need to be extinguished to in order to preserve the current state of the world, the delicate relationship between monsters and the humans was that their god would let the few monsters exist is their lord was sacrificed. He mother had know this better then anyone and had bought her kind a bit more time with her sacrifice, history always had a history of repeating itself in this funny world of theirs.

She slid off the end of the sword as it was withdrawn, her stomach releasing a torrent of crimson liquid as she collapsed to the stone floor. Her vision rapidly dwindling and her mind going blank she turned over onto her side. The sound of the sword clattering on the ground drew her attention to the back of her executioner and one time travelling partner as he made his final steps into the portal that would no doubt take him to eternal paradise. She smiled bitterly as the soft glowing sphere engulfed the purple haired youth and then vanished. It had been her request of the hero of Ilias continent to end her, she knew it couldn't have been too easy for him as they had grown into friends over the weeks they journeyed. She was proud of him and how far he had come, even if she wished she could have had a life with him instead of watching him leave her behind for dead. With a dejected smile she let her eyes close, the pain in her body fading until she could barely feel it at all. With a final breath the sixteenth monster lord breathed her last.

The news of the monster queens death spread throughout the island like a fire, all the way from her closest friends and guardians to the monsters hundreds of miles away. The only thing they could rally under had now been taken from them, and for the first time they were without protection themselves

The though behind the fallen monster lord's ideal of sacrifice to preserve coexistence was extinguished in the harshest of ways. The humans of of the southern most land had taken the news of the death of the monster lord Alipheese Fateburn XVI as an incentive to start war. Bolstered by legions of Angels and engineered monsters from their underground labs they swept the north. Hellgondo was completely destroyed as the few remaining monsters fled south by the coast of Sentora, the largest mass in question was in an all out state of civil war. Former monsters and humans living in peace going to war with each other, the former only able to hold a shaky defence against the nigh indestructible angelic forces.

In a strange twist of fate the only safe place for most monsters was on the eastern coast of the continent Ilias, the home of most monster hating tribes had been nearly vacated as the armies marched north. The massive and sprawling forests of the continent serving as the last veil of protection for the monsters as they're world burned. It was here that the last remnants of Hellgondo hid, it is here that our story started.