Time had passed as Kai continued to kill anything he came across. Paying no mind to the blood-stricken ground and ashes around him, he continued to descend deeper into the forest.
As he descended deeper into the forest, he came across what looked like a lake or river.
Kai's beastly instinct became vigilant. As he scanned his surroundings, a large log-like object shot out from the surface of the 'water'.
The thing that arrived in front of his nose in the blink of an eye was not a log, but a huge snake with the thickness rivalling one, actually.
Immediately he reacted and used burst step, completely evading the approaching snake. The snake was surprised that it's prey managed to dodge but it didn't try to follow up right away, instead chose to simply glare at him while coiling itself up a distance away.
It hissed as it looked at Kai while radiating an air of superiority. Meanwhile, Kai's blood boiled.
What stood before him was a huge snake over 100 feet long and had pitch black scales covering its entire body gleamed in an oily manner. As if it had draped itself with thick armour, those scales had no gaps to speak of.
It was definitely a AA rank magic beast.
During this few hours, he he hadn't found more than two or three beasts that could help him evolve, and in his rage, he slaughtered the rest. However he could see that this huge snake will help him immensely.
Sparing no time for thought, Kai charged, leaving only flames behind. When he appeared at the beast, he shot his fist forward but he was immediately repelled. Confused, Kai tried once more, only to face the same problem.
The huge snake loved his seeing his confusion. Its scales had a natural property of absorbing and reflecting physical damage, and this is what had allowed him to reign over this forest.
One of the snake's favorite things was watching its prey try to breach its defense, only to achieve nothing. So, the snake just stayed still without attacking, confident that it would get to see another amusing sight today. Unfortunately, its opponent was Kai.
Seeing that normal physical attacks were useless, Kai engulfed his fists with dark red flames before shooting it forward, burning parts of the snake's scales. It was the attack of a Fire dragon.
Fire Dragon's Destruction Fire
The snake was enraged. Even if the attack didn't hurt it, it was insulted that the enemy had injured its skin. Without delay, it lunged at Kai once more.
The snake charged at Kai with blinding speed as Kai used burst step and dodged the snake lunge.
Appearing on the back of the snake, Kai slammed his flame engulfed fist on the snake's back, paralyzing it for a moment.
The snake hissed in pain. It had never felt this much pain, as the impact was usually negated when it hit its skin, and it lost the ability to think rationally.
Although the snake scales had the ability to negate physical damage, it could negate damage under a certain level. The snake had never come someone who could overcome it's defenses, therefore, it became arrogant.
Kai used burst step once again and appeared on the side of the snake's head. Kai felt his body filled with vigor. Opening his mouth, he concentrated a beam of energy to fire. It was the breath attack of the dragon race. It was the roar of a king, it was the roar of the fire dragon,
And roar he did. With this roar, came a destructive, beam of flames sundered even the space around it as it charged unimpeded towards the snake.
The snake never stood a chance. As the breath attack reached it, it tried to dodge but it was futile, the attack was too fast.
As the breath attack burnt the snake's head to ashes, it didn't stop there. The breath attack travelled a great distance across the forest, incinerating anything in its path before coming to a stop.
With greed in his eyes, Kai began to devour the remaining body of the snake. Kai's body went through an intensive evolution.
Up until this point, devouring magic beasts had only served to strengthen his body and increase his magic power, not change his body structure, but it seemed that unique traits that would help him improve would always result in these kinds of evolution.
As he finished the eating the beast meat, he immediately passed out because of exhaustion. That breath attack must have completely drained his magic power.
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After several hours have passed, Kai had finally regained consciousness and felt a rush of memories superimpose on his endless fight against the magic beast tide. These were naturally the records of his deeds in his berserk state.
Kai was now fully aware of his rampage and was shocked about everything that had happened when he lost consciousness.
"Seriously what did Igneal do to me, it appears that I'm now part dragon." Kai mumbled with a look of disbelief.
"Although I'm back in control of my body, I still feel a stronger desire to kill than I did before." What shocked him the most was how much his physical body and magic power have improved.
Most of his improvements came from evolution, as he consumed every beast that would make his body stronger and would increase his magic power, but for those beasts that wouldn't help him, he just killed them in blind rage.
Like this, he had an extremely strong body and it seemed he could now fight evenly against most beasts within the AA rank if he used all of his power.
He also noticed the new properties of his body. His abs were completely formed now and his muscles became more refined. He has grown a bit taller, now having a height of 5"9" ft. This can only be described as the perfect body.
The indiscernible amount of time he'd spent in his berserk state had left a slight trauma in his mind. He now held a slight disgust towards the sight of blood that wasn't useful to his evolution.
Looking at his surroundings, he saw that part of the beautiful forest of Hulda had turned into a wasteland. This was the result of Kai's roar.
When he gazed at the destruction he caused, He smiled at this scene, seemingly proud of his work.
Standing up, Kai stretched his body. 'Ahh, it didn't set in earlier since I was preoccupied with the changes in my body, but it's good to be back.'.
Kai loved battle. He had already accepted that fact, but spending so much time in an endless battle to the point where he couldn't even measure it anymore was too much even for him.
Therefore, he decided to take a break. He started moving towards the direction of his cave to rest before he continued his journey again.