"Wait... I thought you would let us go!?"
The red maple girl exclaimed with dread. She is having a lot of thoughts in her head.
'Is he bluffing earlier? Was it because we failed to obey him? What's the reason?'
All of a sudden, her back felt a warm heat. When she looked back, she saw the man called Asmodeus heating with his dark fire. The girl was scared; she didn't want to die today, not to the zombies or this guy.
"How dare you stand before us! You don't have a reason and our deal is done!"
Shouted by the man who was mocking Crocus Phereon earlier, however, his heart was beating fast.
'No sh*t, I don't want to die! I underestimated him earlier. I hope our lady was wrong.'
The man had never seen a terrified lady look like this. However, they didn't want to give up. Soon he morphed into a humanoid Tree, an Ent with the body of a human. His triangular head with bladed wooden arms was scary.
"Master, shall I take care of them?"
Envy or Asmodeus calmly prepared himself and flared a blazing dark flame into the surrounding, ready to strike anywhere. All the red maple lady's people were alerted and hurriedly transformed into the Zoan form, the humanoid Trees.
All of them had the same type of Zoan Spirit transformation, and that is a fly trap!
"No need. Just make sure that none of them could escape."
Crocus replied. They looked so scary and big, but to him, somehow he felt a sudden laziness fighting them. He looked at Envy lazily and questioned him.
"Envy, what is happening to me? Why do I feel so tired all of a sudden and powerful at the same time? Is this normal?"
Envy bowed at Crocus from a distance with the red maple lady and her people in between.
"Your highness, out of all your seven demon sins, the Sloth sin demon is the third strongest next to Pride and Wrath. Using that demon, you can now adapt to any kind of status changes, magic attacks, and atmospheres. Also, the more the body receives any damages or hurt, the more it would become tougher and its attacks would be five times greater if they were so close to dying."
Envy explained, not minding the terrified bystanders that were hearing them. Especially the red maple lady.
'Can adapt to any attack? Seven demons? He is the seven demon master!'
The man sweated a lot when the red maple lady spoke this using telepathy.
'No wonder his prize is high, the enemy of all humanity. That ability is enough to murder us all and the fact that he has another demon sin with him that changes unpredictable magic elements'
The red maple lady said with apprehension what is happening now.
'What should we do to get out? Kneel to him? No way!'
The red maple lady stubbornly hisses angrily. Determined that she won't let anyone be anyone's dog. Especially to this enemy of all humanity.
"I see, so in this state of using sloth demons would become like this."
Crocus suddenly nodded at Envy, explaining it all. However, he stopped and thought of something and put his hand on his chin.
"So... How do I remove this feeling?"
If it continues, Crocus knew he would become a crazy murdering demon because of its curse. He needed to neutralize this curse because he was not his seven demons. His seven can enjoy the curse anytime they like, but not him.
"Your highness, the only way to not enjoy the sin of sloth demon is diligence or courage. For example, if you are in your Sin demon Zoan form, you need to be motivated to do things like fighting."
Replied earnestly to his Envy demon. The opposite of the sloth is Diligence, which is defined as determination and careful effort. An example of diligence is a person who does a job efficiently and takes care of little details.
Envy was trying to manipulate Crocus so both of them wouldn't die. If Crocus dies, all his demons would turn into a bloody pile too, including him.
"Alright, all of you if you can make-"
All of a sudden, Crocus felt a flash of red leaves. He knew it was harmful, so in a blink of an eye, the hairs on his back stood up and his mind became alerted.
"Ha!"
His hair transformed into a root, his body became four times bigger and wider, and his eyes became green. He is like an Ent, like a red maple lady's people, but he is bigger. They are also feeling the pressure that they felt earlier.
Bang!
Crocus's head was splashed with red leaves and an unlimited amount of it.
"Haaaaaa!!"
The red maple lady screamed at the top of her lungs! Her arms transformed into natural green-like energy and without waiting for Crocus to even move from the attack earlier, she smashed the natural green energy into his head!
Bang!
Crocus was thrown into a distance, his condition unknown. Red maple lady suddenly materialized from the red leaves and looked in the direction where Crocus was thrown.
Pant! Pant!
She panted. Her magic is almost used, but by sacrificing her health, she could still maintain her attacks to be strong and consistent.
"Hurry! Get up and give with everything you got!"
Stunned, not sure what was happening, her people instantly went on guard. Soon, the rocks cracked from the dust, and a giant-legged creature appeared on their site.
"Heh!"
Crocus in an Ancient Ent finally showed his face. Everyone who was on guard felt like their spirit was being pulled from their body and only the Red maple lady in the Infinity state of her Primordial power resisted.
'Interesting, I felt the threat, and I felt like I would die if I did not evade or block her attacks! Amazing! The influence of Sloth Demon is wearing a little more and I can use his power freely, without a burden.'
Shaking off the dust from his Tree skin-like figure, he looked at them with amusement.
"Your lady is amazing, but I won't spare any of you if all of you disappoint me. Come on and try to kill me! Give this King everything you've got to stimulate his very being!"
Her people were shaking, and Crocus was expecting, but soon his expectation became a disappointment.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
One by one, all of them fell like ripe fruit. The red maple lady suddenly felt something was going off earlier and now she felt like it was coming. She needed to do something!
'What a turnoff... I feel like I'm becoming even lazier. They are weak. They can't even resist my aura.'
The Origin's formless transformation will turn Crocus into any ancient-looking race that he targeted. If the target were elves, they would turn into ancient elves. If an orc will turn into an ancient orc. If humans turn into ancient humans. It is also coupled with massive racial pressure and a fearful aura released from its body.
"We- Wait!"
The red maple lady pleaded.