Festan Barlow.
In the kingdom, his status was comparable to that of the legendary Aubrey Thor.
Many people know that Aubrey is the most powerful warrior in the world.
But few people know that Fiesta Barlow was also once crowned with—the title of "World's Best"
He was the world's first necromancer.
In the game, Fiesta Barlow's background is described as follows.
"I have experienced death three times in my life."
The first time marked the birth of Festan Barlow.
He was born into a family of warriors; his father was a powerful warrior.
Unfortunately, before he was even a year old, his father died a heroic death on the battlefield, killed by a general from the enemy country.
As an infant, Barlow witnessed his father's body being brought back from the battlefield.
Cold, yet warm.
Coldness was the temperature of his body, while warmth was the pulse of his soul.
The resentful soul speaks of a warrior's unwavering belief in fighting to the death until victory.
In fact, Festan Barlow was unable to observe the souls of others.
However, Death did not notice the baby when it was leading his father's spirit to his death.
Festan Barlow lay prostrate on his father's body.
The baby saw Death, the god in tattered robes, wielding a scythe.
Death saw the infant innocently reaching out its hand, demanding the soul of its father.
Perhaps it was the gods' anger that led them to believe that even an infant dared to demand his soul.
Or perhaps they simply found it enjoyable.
Death brought the infant Festan Barlow to the gates of Hell.
Thus, Festan Barlow experienced death for the first time.
From that moment on, Festan Barlow gained the power to see and even speak with the dead.
Even so, he could not stop the souls of the dead from leaving his side.
Whenever someone dies, Death will inevitably appear and reap their soul.
Festan Barlow was able to see Death every time, so he also learned how Death reaped souls.
But he never tried; to him, the dead remained distant.
Festan Barlow's mother died of illness the year he turned eighteen.
That was the second time he had experienced death.
To protect the souls of his family, he declared war on death.
But at that time, he was just an ordinary human being who could see souls.
Death severed his head and left it beneath his soul as a humiliation to Festan Barlow.
But Festan Barlow's time had not yet come, so Death gave him a taste of death and then returned his head to his body.
Festan Barlow, relying on his indomitable spirit, sewed his own head back on.
Unable to stop death from taking away his loved ones' souls, he decided to join the army and become a soldier.
On the battlefield, he learned to use the methods of the Grim Reaper to reap the souls of every enemy he killed.
Ultimately, these souls were driven by him and became his initial power of the dead.
That was the necromancer's first beginning.
As he continued to participate in battles and kill enemies, Festan Barlow's rank and status steadily rose.
From a regular soldier to an officer, he began to command battles.
Every war comes at a huge cost of death and injury, with both enemies and allies suffering heavy losses.
No one knew that it was Fiesta Barlow, gathering his strength.
All the souls lost on the battlefield were brought under his control after the war.
But in every war, the kingdom was victorious.
The kingdom, relying on Festan Barlow's power, continued to expand its territory.
Eventually, the kingdom acquired the territory it has today, which even surpasses that of the empire.
Until Fiesta Barlow returned to the kingdom and became its duke,
His third "death" came suddenly.
His excessive harvesting of souls on the battlefield may have caused Death to lose its effectiveness.
Or perhaps the power to guide the souls of the dead should not exist in a mortal.
Death, by controlling Festan Barlow's wife, forces him to hand over all the dead souls before taking his own life.
Festan Barlow ultimately agreed to Death's request and chose to sacrifice himself.
The moment Festan slashed the blade across his neck, blood gushed out.
And the astonishing number of dead souls he had possessed since the beginning of the war poured out from his body.
They swirled and circled above Festan Barlow's body, transforming into a frenzied and grotesque sea of dead souls.
Countless souls circled and howled in the air, telling of the cruelty of war and their unwilling desires before death.
This awe-inspiring sea of death made Death realize something.
He was powerless to control the massive number of souls and could not guide them to the underworld.
Finally, in his deathbed state, Festan Barlow declared:
"I killed Death."
That's right, it was Fiesta Barlow, who was once an ordinary person, who defeated Death in his current undead form.
At this moment, he seemed to have been freed from the shackles of his flesh and blood, proud and free.
This is the ghost of Festan Barlow.
Festan Barlow’s voice was calm, but behind it lay the cold sound of bones clashing.
A single sentence cannot reveal the intensity of the battle he experienced at the time.
However, this understated approach contains a power that can shake the soul.
A mortal, using the power of a god, kills a god.
Fiesta Barlow has seen Death three times.
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