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Prologue
The dread pirate Captain Cervantes and his ship the Adrian struck fear throughout the entire Atlantic during his reign of terror.
It all began when Cervantes obtained the evil twin swords, Soul Edge. Under its demonic influence, Cervantes slew his entire crew and those unfortunate enough to be in a nearby Spanish port town.
With Soul Edge's twisted desires temporarily satiated with the feast of souls provided by the bloody massacre, Cervantes and Soul Edge took to the ruins of the Black Tail Inn to enter a long sleep in preparation for the birth of the Child of the Evil Sword.
Over the course of the next twenty years, tales of the evil swords spread throughout the world and the truth about them was distorted. It was considered by some as the Sword of Salvation or even the Ultimate Weapon by others. And then there were those destined to seek Soul Edge for their own personal ends.
The chosen few who reached Soul Edge, either by choice or by luck, cursed their misfortune as the evil sword devoured their souls.
However, there was one woman who defied this fate. She was the sacred warrior Sophitia sent by a divine oracle from Hephaestus, the god of fire and smithery. She succeeded in shattering one of the evil swords while engaged in a fierce battle to the death with the pirate Cervantes.
Yet her victory came at a price, for she was gravely wounded by fragments of the shattered sword. With the destruction of one half of Soul Edge, Cervantes became enraged as if a part of his body had been destroyed. He was about to take her life when Taki, the Shadow Huntress of Demons, appeared to stop him.
Although his equilibrium was broken due to the loss of one blade, Cervantes fought Taki with murderous rage, but lost to the demon hunter in the end.
Taki obtained a fragment of the shattered Soul Edge, and with her mission complete, departed with the badly injured Sophitia whose life hung by a thread.
Siegfried, the Innocent Darkside, came to the Spanish port town to seek the legendary Sword of Vengeance.
Yet all that he found there was what appeared to be the corpse of a pirate captain. The sword clutched in the dead pirate's hand caught his attention, and so Siegfried approached the corpse...
...But then, the corpse suddenly rose amid flames of hellfire. It seemed as if evil itself had possessed Cervantes' body to become corporeal.
Mortal combat ensued. Although the Zweihander was too large to be held by the hands of the boy, he swung the giant sword effortlessly. The eyes of the boy were filled with madness as the sword cut the air with a terrific roar.
When the battle was over, only the burned out remains of the pirate's corpse were left. In the bloodstained hands of the boy was his Zweihander, broken at its hilt. The image of Soul Edge enveloped in hellfire burned fiercely in the boy's eyes...
Soul Edge had lost its host and was on the verge of tearing itself apart. As if guided by Soul Edge, the youth with the dark soul reached out to it...
That night, a mysterious light was seen on the Spanish shoreline. A white column of light pierced the clouds and scattered throughout the sky. Witnesses of this event had no idea that the beatiful sight they beheld was the dissemination of the Evil Seed that would bring misfortune to the world.
And so history turned its page anew...
These tales you are about to witness occurred in the sixteenth century.
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