I am a Minotaur, a monstrous beast of pure power. My sole existence in life is to fight, to engage in intense battle one after the other and nothing more. That is all I know. I have no other memory but the feeling of emotions that are produce in bloody carnage, nothing but rage, thrill, sadness.

  I walk endlessly to my next fight with no aim in sight, never resting and never stopping, for that is all I know. I have no desire for anything else because I know nothing else. And yet….

  Yet….

  I can’t help but notice the sense of emptiness within me. It is as if I do not feel whole, but I don’t know why that is the case. I don’t know how I can stop this feeling. So, I did what I have always been doing. Walking aimlessly, fighting endlessly, over and over again.

  On and on it continues, the feeling of emptiness only growing as my body continues with no rest in sight. It felt like it would always be like this until the day I could no longer move.

  At least… that’s what I thought… until the day I met him.

  It was just another endless march, slaughtering one enemy after the other. Gaining one scar after another, until I confronted a particularly weak looking kobold. It seemed so easy to crush him and move on to the next battle. It looked like its body was ready to run away and hide. Such is the case for weaklings when faced with the strong. This should be over quickly, that was what I was thinking at the time.

  But then something interesting happened, this weakling started to face me despite the fear in his body. It was like he thought he could win despite it all. So, we began our battle, injured though my body was, it still proved more than enough to handle the little creature with only one hit being enough to send the kobold flying.

  I had thought that would be it, but the little thing would just not give up. Despite even his own body trying to tell him to give up he pressed on. Determination was fueling him, it was…. something to behold.

  The more our fight continued the more I felt that sense of emptiness starting to shrink, with a new feeling screaming all over my body, excitement. I never had a battle like this before, to face an opponent with such fierceness, such tenacity that I ever had was thrilling to my very core! I just wanted this fight to last forever! ~

  I was so indulged in our duel that I barely gave my defeat a second thought. Even when I wanted to continue our fight, my body was giving out on me as I dropped to the ground, signifying the end. I had known that this day would come soon enough, I was prepared. But now, after experiencing this new thrill I didn’t want it to end! And so, when I heard the wea- no… my worthy opponent uttered those words I knew what I needed to do.

  “Now. You. Are. Mine!!!” The kobold spoke, his air of confidence never diminished.

  And so, I accepted. He had given me the thrill of my life and I had wished to return the favor in full. It was from that day forward I was given a new purpose in life in service to him, my new boss~

  The lingering emptiness I had felt for so long had disappeared that day. And with the new name given to me by my new boss I will now be known as Mordred, the creature that would become his weapon to be used in service to his ambition, to be his pillar in support of his desires. And soon I will make sure all would know the strength and glory of my boss, Vladimir! ~

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  And so, the days continued on, it was never a dull moment with the boss. With boss Vladimir gaining new followers by the day, his influence continues to grow from his fellow kobolds to the wolves, to even the orcs. Eventually more learned about his glorious strength! It didn’t surprise me that he had eventually made the caverns his. But his ambition was too grand for such a feeble location. No, he will continue to grow his influence across the lands beyond! ~

  And I was glad when he finally recruited a new henchman to his service, a young goblin in the goblin village named V. I felt a sense of camaraderie in the little green creature as just like me they fully understood the glory of the boss and I found them to be enjoyable to hang around with.

  Though I will have to admit, I struggle in trying to maintain myself and prove my worth to the boss. Whenever there was someone who would dare mock the boss and question his might, it took all I could to hold back my anger and unleash my full wrath upon them!

  It has… I am reluctant to admit, caused him some issues for him… and I have found that that these days I struggle to prove my worth to him. These new feelings of worry have me thinking that if I didn’t step up soon, I would lose my precious status as his first henchman.

  I needed to figure out how to prove myself to him, he was building a community in service to him and all I could do was help protect it. There had to be more I could do to show my worth to him.

  And then finally, finally my chance had arrived! The boss was planning on infiltrating the human town and was entrusting us in keeping his territory running in his absence. Before he left, he had started a training session with the weakling kobolds and goblins. He had wished for them to also grow in strength like he has, though unfortunately they have proven to be… slow in their progress which was upsetting the boss.

  Surely, if I managed to improve their strength and potential for battle while he was away, he could finally see my worth for him! So, I took the initiative in continuing their training, never mind the fact he postponed it. I gathered them all and used what I knew to help in their training, with extreme fights with me and the other orcs as their opponents!

  If they were to face an intense fight like the boss had done before, surely their strength would grow as well. We continued the training until the boss returned and I was happy to show them the progress they had already managed to make during his time away.

  I had thought he would be proud of me in helping his training, but I was sadly mistaken. When I met with his gaze, his eyes were filled with anger. More anger that I’ve only seen since the day we had fought…. He was completely pissed!

  Having had us buried on the ground, I couldn’t imagine what kind of punishment was waiting for me and the orcs…

  …

  I…. rather not talked about what happened…. Let’s just say that the message was clear… and I had messed up badly.

  I couldn’t dare look the boss in the eye after that. Ashamed in failing to prove myself to him. I thought I wouldn’t be able to recover from this blunder, that was until an enemy entered his territory.

  This invader…was strong, without a second thought I attacked my opponent. I would take care of him before he could interfere with the boss!

  So, I faced him in battle, it was easy to tell that our strengths were matched. Even if I had more raw power than him, he managed to keep up with me! Countering me blow by blow. But in the end, I lost. my mind losing consciousness as the last thought I had of needing to protect the boss!

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  I finally managed to wake up, with the first thought was making sure the boss was safe! But what I saw was too surprising to be believable. To see the boss reduced to a hug toy for that damn Beastman was…. Bizarre…. I was ready to unleash my anger on him for putting the boss in such an embarrassing position, but I remembered the punishment back then and realized I couldn’t risk disappointing the boss further.

  So, all I could do was watch them, making sure the bear didn’t try anything. Though it was hard to watch him continuously hug the boss like that. But it was later what the boss suggested that took me by surprise.

  “What do you say in becoming my henchman?”

  He wanted to recruit this bear as an additional henchman!! I couldn’t help but worry that he was going to take my place as the boss’s weapon and pillar! And to top it all off he’ll be allowed to hug the boss whenever he wants. How dare he!!

  I had to do something quickly, or else I might get…