There was once a famous warrior stronger than any other at his time. No one knows his real identity but he goes by the name "Swordsmaster". There's no one at his time that hasn't heard of his name. Swordsmaster lives at the time of clans. Where you live,who you live with, and basically everything you do is based on your clan. One of the big goals of many clans is to be the most powerful, own most teritorry and be the richest clan. He is part of the clan Instinct. Instinct is one of the four big clans in the world. Swordsmaster is Instinct's best warrior and that's one of the reason the other clans are afraid of Instinct. Swordmaster knows that he's powerful and so he continues this journey of his to be even more powerful.
Instinct then was raided by a smaller clan. But it took Instinct by surprise and worse, Instinct mightiest warriors werent there. Swordamaster is off journeying not too far off his clan's base but he didn't get any alarms that the clan is under a raid. By the time swordsmaster arrived, half of his clan was destroyed, his army was slaughtered and he couldn't have done anything to help them. The onky one there to stop them was Ramirez. People saw him as an inspiration many believed he was more powerful than Swordsmaster. But more believed his skills are 2nd only to Swordsmaster. He was after all Swordsmaster's student. But after all these years they were more like brothers. Ramirez killed most of the enemy but is heavily injured and will not be able to live for long. In devastation of seeing what happenned to his clan, Swordsmaster pulled out his sword, and he sliced every single enemy left alive. He was so fast, the enemy had only seen him when they're already sliced.
Swordsmaster directly rushed through the door, only ended up seeing his dying apprentice. He ran to Ramirez, but by the time he arrived Ramirez only has 1 word to say left. He said "sorry". His eyes then closed and his breath stopped. Tears started to drip down from his eye. But he then witness something really weird. Ramirez has just vanished into thin air. He left behind a really weird stone. He doesn't know what it is but he has been hearing rumors about a weird stone capable of giving inhumane abilities to people who uses them. People calls it "Nightmare". Swordsmaster keeps the stone for further investigation.
Devastated upon the fall of his guild, the death of his apprentice and how helpless he is while all of that happened, driven by rage and vengeance, Swordsmaster insisted upon a counter attack to the clan who raided them. The higher-ups of the clan warned him that they already lost half of their army to this enemy they will attack, but Swordsmaster thought otherwise, thinking him and his remaining army could achieve victory. After threatening the higher-ups of killing Instinct, the higher-ups had no other choice knowing Swordsmaster is capable of doing that.
Swordsmaster prepared his army near the enemy's base. He himself brought the weird stone, hopeful of finding answers and thinking maybe it can help in battle. And so Instinct charged straight at the front gate, but the enemy was ready, their forces was ready on the other side. Swordsmaster fought fed with rage and vengeance but full of skill. He took out many of the enemy forces. He saw what was a clear victory and he felt unstoppable. Hut he noticed one of the enemy also looking really skillful with his blade. Swordsmaster doesn't mind him and just kept on fighting. Until finally, only Swordsmaster and the enemy soldier who looked very skillful is left. He greeted Swordsmaster and introduced himself as "Saber". Just from the way he holds his sword Swordsmaster knows he is not one to underestimate. Saber strikes Swordsmaster at speeds beyond imaginantion and Swordsmaster fall to the ground. He was weak but then he remembered, the weird stone, he still has nightmare. And so he hold the stone so hard it cracks and Swordsmaster started to change, his skin turned darker and his eyes glowed yellow. Without spending more time Swordsmaster dashes at Saber trying to ejd it all with a single slice, but Saber manages to dodge the attack. Swordsmaster was shocked of what happened. Saber then removes his helmet revealing a very familiar face to Swordsmaster, it was Ramirez, consumed by nightmare. Swordsmaster froze in disbelief but Ramirez ran straight at him, stabbing Swordsmaster. Swordsmater threw one of his own and the both of them fell to the ground, dying.