"A mere demon earl is getting full of himself."
The huge figure spoke with clear hostility in its tone. After a while, Orias took a step back and stumbled after having a clear recognition on what it was.
It has a giant body with four limbs that has a very sharp and threatening claws than his own. It's body was filled with scales and a giant wing at the back. It's glare was that came from a majestic blue eyes of an unfathomable existence that was looking down on his like he was just an ant.
"Dragon...and it's a True Dragon? Impossible!"
He froze when he saw a true dragon inside the consciousness of a human. His face was full of doubts and confusion as throughout the long life he lived, he had never heard of anything like this.
'In the first place, how can a dragon be here?'
Orias immediately raised his guard to the maximum. Even the demons were known as a disaster in Tensura, the demons knew that they were not a match against a dragon. True Dragons were the pinnacle among the transcendents that was reigning on top.
The weakest of the true dragons even greatly surpassed the power of the demon kings. And now, what he was facing was definitely a top ranked true dragon which made him shiver even more.
It was said that not even the gods could treat a dragon lightly much more if it is a true dragon which was in the top of the hierarchy of the transcendent dragons.
Before he could recover, the dragon spoke in disdain.
"Trash. Know your place."
Along with those lines, Orias disappeared from Zephyr's consciousness as he suffered tremendously after being targeted by the draconic magic. Orias didn't know what the dragon had done but he was now on the verge of dying as he entered the immortality state of being a legend.
Suddenly, Zephyr opened his eyes as he immediately regained his sense of reason the moment Orias left his consciousness. He suddenly glanced at Orias as he remembered being put out of his consciousness.
Without wasting a single second, Zephyr then dashed towards Orias as he swing his sword. After hitting him, Zephyr then narrowed his eyes seeing there were no damage at all. He then glanced at Orias and noticed that his HP were already at rock bottom.
'Immortality passive?'
Zephyr murmured as the HP of Orias began to regenerate at fast rate. He stood still as he wondered what just happened for Orias to enter the immortality passive that lasted for 5 seconds.
Zephyr was confused as he had no idea at all. Orias then looked at Zephyr who slashed him immediately the moment he regained his consciousness. Rage immediately filled his mind as he still had no idea what just happened to him but as a demon, madness filled his head.
Magic power immediately shot towards Zephyr. Zephyr avoided and blocked it.
[The Legendary Demon Orias is enraged and has successfully entered a berserk state!]
[Offensive strength has increased markedly, but Defensive strength has fallen by 20%.]
[Its agility has also increased by twenty percent.]
Zephyr had no time to look at the notification as Orias was getting even more aggressive and the attacks were even more intensive. Zephyr immediately used [Lightning Body] as he confronted Orias head on.
As both were not suffering any damages, the fight stalemated as the immortality passive was now over. However, due to Orias' regeneration ability, his HP was almost at full already.
Zephyr wasn't bothered by it. He then glanced at the Demon God's followers who decided to no longer watch idly and tried to assist Orias. Seeing them becoming a nuisance, Zephyr summond Tetsuya. As soon as Tetsuya appeared...
[Proportionate to the number of enemies that are within a 150-metre radius, your Offensive Power will increase by a 10% per enemy.]
All Demon God's followers charged and attacked Zephyr at the same time. Orias was displeased at their action but didn't reacted. Seeing all of them neared him, Zephyr immediately made the surrounding rain of fire ang lightning as he both casted [Fire Storm] and [Lightning Storm] at the same time.
All of them screamed in pain. Tetsuya then opened his mouth as magic power immediately gathered. Orias immediately widened his eyes after recognizing Tetsuya.
"A Kyuubi?"
He immediately remembered a certain existence. It was a transcendent magical beast whose powers can rival a true dragon.
He felt an ominous threat as he charged to stop Tetsuya.
Zephyr intercepted him making Orias unable to stop the [Kyuubi's Breath] of Tetsuya. The gathered magic power was then fired at extreme speed and exploded which everyone was caught up except for Zephyr and Tetsuya.
Notifications appeared as the Demon God's followers were unable to endure the combination of both skills of Zephyr and Tetsuya. However, there were still two more standing left with a ragged appearance.
It was no other than Orias whose HP was drained to more than half and the leader in this hideout who had less than 7% HP left.
Seeing the aftermath of Tetsuya and Zephyr's combo, Orias released a tremendous demonic power as he was enraged of what just happened.
For him, it was an insult that the Demon God's followers died without any resistance in his presence even he didn't value them. His pride took a direct hit as he felt an intense humiliation that Zephyr wasn't thinking of him as a major threat.
As he was standing still without doing anything in his rage, Zephyr appeared at the back of the gasping Demon God's follower as he then said after placing his hand.
"Devour."
[The Soulstone of Gluttony's 'Predation' has been activated.]
[The Soulstone of Gluttony is attempting to devour the target.]
[Strength stats has increased by 25.]
[Agility stats has increased by 20.]
[Intelligence...]
[Vitality...]
Zephyr didn't absorbed anything like he had done earlier other than the stats but to him, it was more than enough. Zephyr then ordered Tetsuya to gather the other corpses.
Zephyr devoured all corpses as he made use at the time Orias gave him as the demon was still filled with intense rage.
[Strength stats has increased by 15.]
[Agility stats has increased by 20.]
[Intelligence...]
[Vitality...]
After absorbing them all, Zephyr could feel his his body became even more lighter than before. Orias then snapped out of his daze as he then fixed his gaze to Zephyr.
Orias paused for a while, noticing the corpses had disappeared along with the remaining survivor. He then returned his gaze at Zephyr who he sensed that became even more stronger than earlier.
"You!! What did you just do?"
As Orias wasn't paying attention earlier, he hasn't noticed that Zephyr had used the Soulstone of Gluttony. If he had, greed would burst out of him and would do everything to take it away from Zephyr as possessing even a single soulstone was balance breaking in Tensura.
Unfortunately he didn't as he let his rage get the better out of him giving Zephyr the time and opportunity to devour all Demon God's followers. As he was about to spoke another word, Zephyr spoke after a his silence.
"Now then, shall we continue?"
Veins appeared in Orias' forehead after hearing that monotone voice of Zephyr. He immediately charged and Zephyr did the same. Black spear formed from demonic power while five swords levitated and clashed at the same time.
Even Zephyr was still overwhelmed in strength, it was not like earlier. His strength was almost on par with Orias however, Zephyr's strength wasn't the only thing that Orias became wary of.
"This human has become even more faster."
For him, even Zephyr was a legend, he should not be like this as he was still a Tier 1. However, Zephyr had shown was almost on par of what a Tier 3 Arch Demon of the demon world could do. Confusion of Orias rose to the maximum as he was thinking while clashing with Zephyr.
'First, there was a dragon, now his rising in strength and power. What the hell are you really?'
As he was still organizing his thoughts while fighting against Zephyr aggressively, something has changed about Zephyr. Not only his power has risen once more, all his attacks were becoming more threatening.
"Sage Arts."
[Sage Arts has been activated. Entering Sage Mode.]
[Within a limited time, all stats increase.]
[Within a limited time, all physical defenses increase.]
[Within a limited time, all magic defenses increase.]
[Within a limited time, all skills and abilities increase.]
"Sage Arts? Isn't this related to the Monkey King?"
Orias was surprised again as Zephyr just used a trademark of the Monkey King. Orias also knew Sun Wukong as the Monkey King was widely known throughout the Entire Tensura.
It was said that the Monkey King have the power to rival the Demon Kings or maybe surpasses them. Many even feared and avoided the Monkey King as he was known a battle junkie who would fight anyone he heard that was strong.
Zephyr then used [Illusory Sword] as he slashes Orias making the demon roared in pain.
[You have dealt 58,980 damage to the target.]
[You have dealt 58,958 damage to the target.]
[Critical!]
[You have dealt 66,892 damage to the target.]
[You have...]
Orias spit an amountful of blood. Zephyr then swapped and held the Twilight Blade as he used [Twilight Strike], slashing Orias' abdomen.
[Critical!]
[You have dealt 62,828 damage to the target.]
Zephyr then kicked Orias making the demon being thrown away. After being smashed into a wall, Zephyr immediately appeared as he unleashed a simultaneous slash using [Crescent Stream].
Numerous crescent slashes bombarded Orias making him unable to defend it. Unable to hold the rage he was filling, he then brandished his claw to Zephyr. Sensing it with super sensitivity, Zephyr then quickly grabbed Zilron's sword with his other hand.
He then uses both swords in his hands as he defended while the others swords slashed and thrusts through Orias. At this moment, Orias decided to no longer hold back as he unleashed everything he had in his weakened state.
Zephyr was thrown by explosive pressure of demonic power. As his super sensitivity was screaming for intense danger, Zephyr knew that even with [Sage Arts], he would still be overwhelmed as it was still level 1 and still far from the level of the Monkey King could do.
However, he wasn't worried about it as he had another card prepared and he thought this was the prefect chance to use it. But before Zephyr could use it, Orias instantly appeared in front of Zephyr.
Zephyr retaliated out of his reflex. Zephyr and Orias clashed a couple of minutes but Zephyr was on the defensive as he was overwhelmed by the full powered Orias.
However, none of the overwhelming attacks managed to hit Zephyr as he detected and intercepted the attacks of Orias while both of his eyes were fixed on Orias.
"Why?"
Orias roared as he didn't understand why none of his attacks were working. He thought if he would unleash his full power, he would be able to finish this puny human but it turned out that he was gravely mistaken because he wasn't just the one who was hiding his card.
Orias roared while giving his all, making Zephyr to give double effort to defend all incoming attacks. Feeling he would be totally overwhelmed, Zephyr muttered.
"Hollow."
[While Hollow is activated, maximum health is reduced by 30%.]
[Within a limited time, all stats increase.]
[Within a limited time, all physical defenses increase.]
[Within a limited time, all magic defenses increase.]
[Within a limited time, all skills and abilities increase.]
Orias took a step back seeing a mask out of a familiar magic power forms in the face of Zephyr. He was also surprised about the mysterious pressure that was surrounding Zephyr as he could sense it was very familiar.
'Demonic power?'
He was once again filled with extreme confusion why this human was in possession of the demonic power which was originated from a demon when he could see that Zephyr had no contract or connection to a demon at all.
However, Zephyr didn't gave him the chance to regain his composure as he decided to attack while his [Emperor Eye] beneath the mask glows at the same time.