Citadel

I am a knight who swore loyalty to the
Kingdom. These are the final memories
of this town and my best friend.

This town was built around a citadel.
The guards here had nothing to stave
off but the cold. It was peaceful but dull.

However, this led to a lack of vigilance,
causing us to overlook the beginnings
of a tiny anomaly.

The creatures living near the city suddenly
became violent. At first only a few,
but every day there were more.

And then one night, monsters began attacking,
sieging the walls and destroying the town and
the citadel. We were all caught off-guard...

The townsfolk panicked in the dark and ran to
escape. It was pure pandemonium. My fellow
knights were slaughtered one by one.

One of the monsters was unlike anything
I had seen before, but its appearance reminded
me of the dragon of old legends—Malzeno.

I was paralyzed with fear. It was then that
I noticed a young boy squirming for his life
underneath the dragon's claws...

My brave friend slashed at the beast to
protect the boy, but he hardly made a
scratch. He urged me to flee with the child.

I took the boy's hand and escaped the ruins
of the city as my friend fought Malzeno.
In the distance, the sun started to rise.