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Story:

Fast-forward hundreds of thousands of years... Our story takes us into the life of a mercenary named Lacertus, scanning the cosmos looking for smuggling jobs and expensive historical artifacts to sell on the black market.  His ship happens upon a deserted planet, and there he finds the sword... In the middle of a sea of skeletons and imbedded within the chest of a perfectly preserved human.  Unable to resist himself, Lacey takes the sword and in one instant feels every soul that has died upon the blade, and is transported to the realm in which they wait... Waiting for the day when the sword will finally be destroyed and they will be freed from purgatory

Oh how it shines...

Pried from the fingers of a dead man

Frozen in time of suicide

In death his hand still clutched the weapon

Body betraying the mind

Steel racing through flesh, onto the next victim

Feel the power, spill forth from hell ascended

Sing with no regret, reduce the threat to nothing

Slave to the sword

CHORUS:

Journey on! Unto the realm of tomorrow

Journey on! Only the brave dare to follow

Journey on! To meld the soul with the steel

Journey on! No other way to be free

Can't stop, even if he wanted to

Can't stop, not until he dies

He'll feel the peril and the pain, offered by wielding evil's bane

As all who perish by his hand, combine to make a darker man

Sinister visions cloud his mind, his heart turns quick to dark from light

CHORUS

Onward into the abyss

Now what's left?

On the Plains of Aramethea

Slaughtered them all

Consummate this wicked union

Now, conquered the world

Just one more life left to take...mine

Soon he'll learn the truth, he's been used for slaughter

Deathbringer is bleeding his soul dry