13 Insanity

"I expected better from you!" the dragon's deep voice once again sounded, although it contained traces of disappointment this time around.

"I have been stuck in my race's holy land for a million year and you are the challenge I get!" the dragon was angered to the extreme. It had been 'stuck' in the forest for more than a million. It was just for two purposes: to not let anyone take the holy treasure of demons away and kill any devils at sight. He had to kill at least two amateur devil kings, a being lower than a Demon Lord or five elder rank devils to 'escape' from the forest.

It was all due to the job given to him by the demonic emperor.

When the demonic emperor gave the job to him, he was incredibly excited. The flood dragons were born for battles and battles were one of the direct ways that would enable flood dragons to evolve into a true dragon. So, obviously, he had a good reason to be excited.

However, even after a million years, he had only fought against one strong devil king and two elder rank devils.

Although he killed the devils at the end, his demonic energy origin foundation got shaken so badly that it caused a permanent damage. If it was not treated by heavenly treasures, it could get worse.

The devil king was incredibly talented and was close to the level of devil lord, so the foundation of the demonic sovereign was the price for the devil's kings head.

That was over a million years ago. His foundation was something he could control at that time, so he was waiting for more devils to come.

However, contrary to the serpent king's expectation, no battle occurred and no devil came after that. And because of that, it was stuck in this place for a million years. If he dared to go out without completing the job, he knew he would be exterminated by the demon emperor, so he stayed put.

As it didn't have heavenly material, its foundation started to basically shatter and the flood dragon's demonic energy couldn't be recovered, so it weakened quite quickly. He currently only had a bit of demonic energy left within him- one out of thousands of the original amount.

He knew there was no hope for him anymore, so he wanted to do nothing more than kill devils, immortals and even mortals.

"I have suffered enough! I will take your soul and play with it, " the guy literally lost his sanity and seemed to be in a bizarre state. It started to cry and laugh as it saw its life playing in front of it.

"•=•" Dan was confused and literary clueless. He didn't know what to do. If he dared to fight head-on, he would certainly be defeated under ten minutes and that was only after analysing Demon's physical power.

If he were to be in his perfect condition, he would have had a chance of escaping, but now he had to wreck his brain and form a plan, otherwise, death would be the only path he was certain he could take.

"Demonic charge!"

The dragon's horn shined brightly as it charged at Dan like a piercing blade. The attack was so swift that Dan didn't even have a chance to dodge it. Even if he wanted to dodge, there would be no use as the dragon was quite flexible and swift; it could attack him repeatedly. It could even control its body size, so there was no use of running either.

"Dark Phoenix!"

"Sixth-order!"

The devil origin energy around Dan turned into dark flames as he executed the Phoenix technique with some difficulties. The flame danced and eventually formed a shield.

"Boom!"

The dragon's huge body crashed against the shield and caused a loud explosion, blowing Dan several miles away.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

Dan finally steadied himself after crossing over two mountains. His body wiggled as he lay on the ground. His body seemed to have suffered a lot of damage from the attack. His arm was full of ruptured holes and his mouth continuously leaked blood.

"How could this be?" Dan looked around to see whether he was dreaming or not. Never before was he dominated in a fight in such way, moreover, in such bizarre fashion.

As a genius born once every hundred years, he found it bit hard accepting his defeat. He predicted to last minutes but from the situation unfolding before his eyes, he could tell he would be finished in a breaths time if nothing was done.

"Since it has come to this...I can only use that!" Dan thought to himself as he faced the rage of the dragon.

"Die!"

The dragon once again unleashed its power and flew towards Dan with mighty aura. The colour of the flood dragon's eyes turned scarlet red and its scales started to radiate with a deep black aura as it charged with rage. Its aura was so great that it changed the colour of the sky, which was dark blue to scarlet red.

"Swish"

However, just as it was about to execute its technique, one of the skull around it started to ooze out with beserk and devilish aura. It soon moved around until it was quite far from the dragon.

"Crack"

As the dragon was about to prepare for an immediate action, a cracking noise, similar to bone breaking could be heard from one of the skulls.

"Howl"

Along with the crack, a loud voice filled with power to change the world sounded out. The skull released a series of soul attack as it radiated with an evil aura

"FUCK OFF"

The mighty beast looked at the skull with anger and anxiety. Its eyes dimmed, and its aura started to fade as it kept on looking. However, not long after, mockery started to form on its face. It once again regained its cool attitude.

"Asura, you couldn't kill me while you were alive, how are you gonna kill me now? Wait! You are going all out. I am so scared. Hahaha! " the dragon said in a voice which full of sarcasm, directly targeting it towards the scarlet skull that was oozing out with devilish aura.

"I waited for this for million years. I was patient for a long time. I knew you would come out someday. I will take your soul and maybe the demonic emperor will pardon me." The dragon said with a delighted tone.

The skull seemed to have enough of being ridiculed around. It simply released a huge light beam as a counterattack. As soon as the light beam touched upon the dragon, who still had a face full of mockery, it formed a seal and trapped it within.

"You still have this much power!" The flood dragon shocked voice sounded out as it got trapped in matter seconds.

"Is that..." Dan, who was gazing at the scene was astonished by the sudden change. His eyes nearly fell off the socket when they landed upon the scarlet skull. Previously, he didn't pay much attention to it due to the threat produced by the demonic creature. But, now that he had a closer look, he realised it had similar bone structure to a devil skull.

"Devil King," Dan shouted as he looked at the skull with a flabbergasted expression. Today was a bizarre day. He encountered surprise after surprise- first it was an overpowered dragon and now a devil king.

"Buzz"

The skull didn't give a damn about what Dan thought and simply tried to escape. It seemed to have its own thought process as it knew when to hide and when to run.

"○.○" Dan was left speechless. Although he hadn't encountered upon any devil king until now, he had heard about their legend. Some stated that they had pride which was as stable as a mountain. It was completely opposite to what he was seeing today.

"YOU CAN'T RUN AWAY!"

The dragon looked impatient upon seeing the skull running away. It continuously released it's technique and attacked the seal with monstrous strength.

Dan seeing this, tried to escape too, but even with all his effort he couldn't break nor produce a scratch onto the barrier.

"Boy, help me and I will help you in return."

Just as he was about to lose his patience, a calm voice sounded in his mind, disorienting his thought process even more.