Chapter 956: A Divine Feat


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    As ric watched Arad, waiting for the moment that Arad ran out of mana, Arad decided to give the demon lord a taste of something new. Amid the raging fire and lightning, he shifted back into his half-dragon form and slowly floated to the ground.


    Arad''s magic still burned strong, not a single sign of exhaustion showed on him. This wasn''t Hati''s training ground where he wanted to not repeat what happened to Betty''s training ground, this is a ce he doesn''t care about.


    Doma sat on Arad''s shoulder as hended a fair distance away from ric. Just like him, the queen of curses wasn''t showing any signs of exhaustion or difort, even though she was always with Arad through all that hellish me and lightning.


    ric giggled, "Did you finally run out of mana?" He said as his eyes inspected Arad and Doma. ric didn''t believe that to be true himself. Arad''s form or look didn''t matter, he could sense that Arad''s magic didn''t drop at all. "Or are you trying to trick me?"


    To ric, Arad''s actions were a clear taunt as if saying. ''Look at me, I''m small once again,e attack.'' But that thought of him was untrue, to a level that even he couldn''t imagine. Arad stood in ce, and lifted his right foot up, putting his knee to his chest and calves close to his face. Seeing that split, ric froze in ce, confused. This stance was simr to someone that ric hated with a passion, yet here he was seeing someone else doing it.


    Doma leaned on Arad''s head and giggled, licking his calves. "Demon lord, you''ve sought to kill Lunara and steal her affinity to the moon, the blessing she got from Selune." She looked at Arad with glowing eyes, caressing his head in her arms, "You''ll never reach my husband''s ankles with that mindset."


    When Lunara met Kali, Selune had blessed her and the dark abyss, conjuring a fake moon on eachyer, giving the abyss its ominous silvery glow and nightly look. Arad''s toes were pointing straight at that fake moon, and his body burst with gravity magic.


    Arad swung his foot down, stomping hard enough to shatter the ground beneath him. The fake moon in the ceiling of theyer, the massive glowing white orb of magic that was over several hundred kilometers in width, ripped off from the ceiling and started falling with a rumble, he had dislocated it with his gravity magic.


    [Moon Fall]


    As ric''s mouth almost ripped open seeing the moon falling at him, Doma was giggling on Arad''s shoulder. "My love needs no blessing from gods, nor curses from me. Unlike you, he doesn''t need to steal power to grow. He conquers it."


    The utter disrespect and humiliation Arad threw at ric was beyond any insult. The power he sought for centuries, the thing he saw as an unfair blessing, a divine power that Lunara got. Arad had pulled out of nothing, with nothing more than his foot, ripped quads, a draconic stomp, and his gravity magic. Standing beneath the falling silver moon, Arad looked like an incarnation of a god wearing a mortal''s skin.


    ric shifted into a mole-shaped beast, a weremole, and started digging as fast as he could. The ground of eachyer is the ceiling of theyer beneath it. That separationyer usually ranges between one hundred to a thousand-kilometer depth of hard stone, metals ore veins called the bones of the abyss, and a sponge-like structure of magical veins of pure energy called the marrow of the abyss, it was that which made some schrs think the abyss is alive. ric wasn''t fast enough to avoid the moon, so his best chance of survival is to go deep and hope to reach the bones of the abyss, they are the ones holding its weight and should be able to stop the moon.


    He had no chance of tanking a [Moon Fall] Even while digging, he couldn''t take his mind off thinking, ^How in the nine hells did that bastard pull it off?^ If ric was given the chance, he would never step into the same ne of existence as Arad. In his mind, such a monster is too dangerous to be in the same world with.


    By a miracle, ric managed to reach thatyer thanks to his impressive digging speed and his luck with the cave systems of theyer which allowed him to go deep enough before the weight of the moon came crashing down.


    It took ric five minutes to reach the bone of the abyss that was fifty kilometers {31 miles} deep underground, but with that, he didn''t stop going deeper. He could sense Arad''s magic chasing after him. But unlike ric, Arad was digging at his own pace, giving the demon lord time to run away.


    ric looked back as he was digging deeper and deeper as if he were swimming across the ground. "Arrogant monster!" He growled, he could swear that Arad earlier was swimming faster in the hard stone than how fast he was going now. He knew well that this time, Arad was letting him escape.


    On theyer beneath ric''syer, the demons were living their life as usual, not many things changed in the abyss. But at that moment, that stillness was shattered when a small being burst from the ceiling, his aura immediately engulfed the wholeyer and all the demons looked up, that was ric making his entrance.


    Everyone noticed the demon lord''s aura and picked their weapons, was this bastard invading them? They were wrong, he''s running from an even bigger threat.


    Theyer''s demon lord, Sawless the Cruel, a short demon standing at just around five feet tall with a skinless body and five eyes on his mouthless face flew up with his bat-like wings, dripping his vile blood everywhere. Hended beside ric.


    "Use the usual route, why did youe here through the ceiling? Are you betraying me?" Sawless growled, his voice echoing deep from his stomach. He was less angry and more disappointed at such a development. Luckily for him, this wasn''t a betrayal, but unluckily for him, it was worse.


    "Rally your army, we don''t have time." ric waved his arm and looked up, it was at that moment that the wholeyer shook and the ceiling cracked, dropping a massive boulder that killed a lot of demons. That was the force of the moon impacting theyer above finally traveling through the separationyer.


    One secondter, Arad''s long draconic neck emerged from the ceiling, roaring down at all the demons. His jaw opened wide, and he puked a sea of fire and molten stones at them. The wholeyer was engulfed in a crimson glow as all the demons started fleeing to the edges.


    Sawless waved his arms and formed a massive barrier of strange ck magic, protecting himself and ric who was less talented with spells. "The hell is that?" Sawless cried in fear, ring at ric with a terrified face.


    That monster in the ceiling isn''t something that Sawless would even touch with a fifteen-yer-long stick, let alone start a fight with.


    "I killed Lunara and that thing is chasing me, it already trashed myyer." ric replied as he lunged through the fire. Thanks to his speed and durability he managed to run on the column of burningva that Arad was spewing out and reached his head, punching him in the face to stop the hellish breath.


    The two of them had already figured out that this wasn''t a matter of winning or losing, it was a matter of how many of them would die.


    Now that Sawless was alone beneath the fire, he didn''t need to stay in one spot so he flew out while protecting himself with a barrier. As he looked up, he saw that Arad''s breath had stopped, theva was only taking a while to finish falling.


    He pointed his arm, "Dodge it!" He yelled at ric who was near Arad''s head as he fired a massive barrage of ck arrows, each one ten yards in length.


    ric kicked Arad''s nose and fell downward, letting all the arrows hit Arad''s square in the forehead. Those arrows immediately exploded into a burning ball of demonic rot magic. Sawless formed a barrier tform and rded on it. "That should do it. I didn''t sense any rot resistance from him." Sawless smiled, "Let''s get the fuck out of here." Even if he expected his attacks to damage Arad, he didn''t expect them to be lethal. He figured out that the best way was to run away and hide, masking their magic so Arad would stop chasing them. "I hope you''re right." ric looked up with a scared face, and the dust suddenly cleared. Arad''s upper body was emerging from the ceiling, his two front arms, wings, and chest were apparent. He roared and waved his arms. Massive boulders were ripped from the already cracked ceiling and they were flung down at the two demon lords.


    ric and Sawless flew down to the ground where theva still burned hot. Sawless flew close to the ground to mask his presence in the smoke while ric used the durable barrier shield that Sawless created for him as a skateboard, riding the waves of fire and magma. "The fuck is that?!" Sawless yelled at ric with raging eyes. Arad wasn''t harmed at all with his rot arrows. Sawless didn''t know why, but ric could already guess it was Doma''s doing. Those arrows were derived from curse magic and Doma is a master of it.


    "Don''t use any curse-rted things, the bitch riding him is the queen of curses, Doma."


    ric growled.


    "She''s who you picked a fight with? Since when that bitch has a dragon!" Sawless cried, Doma


    wasn''t just famous in the mortal world, but also in the abyss and hell. She was known for summoning demons and devils to be herb rats and torturing them for years while testingN?v(el)B\\jnn


    her curses on them.


    "It''s the dragon I picked a fight with, he''s her husband." ric, even he didn''t believe that the words he was saying were true.


    "Demon! What the hell made you think that someone who can bed that Curse Witch Doma is safe to fight?" Sawless would''ve noped out the moment Doma was mentioned had he been in ric''s shoes. Doma is known as a crazy witch, and her husband is bound to be an even bigger


    madman.


    To the two demons, ric picking a fight with Arad who is Doma''s husband was the same as if a human picked a fight with satan''s wife. What made him think that''s a reasonable thing to do, Sawless didn''t know.


    "He''s just a pain in the ass. Shut up and run." ric growled as the two of them dodged the rain of boulders Arad was throwing at them. What was done is already done, it can''t be


    reversed now.


    "Arad...look over there!" Doma pointed with a happy face as she was sitting on Arad''s head. "That castle section." She pointed at a part of Sawless''s castle, theboratory which was built right in the middle of an herbal garden and ab rats'' prison. Since this was the abyss, the garden was filled with horrid demonic nts, and the prison was filled with tormented humanoids and lesser demons that the demon lord Sawless kept for his experiments.


    "I want one like that to work from. Can you build me one in our castle?" She looked at Arad''s


    eyes and he nodded, "Let''s check it out."


    Arad suddenly disappeared from the ceiling and the two demon lords froze in ce. He can teleport, they didn''t know that. ric was even more terrified knowing that Arad didn''t even need to chase him, he could''ve teleported right to him and finished the deed.


    Arad in his half-dragon formnded in the middle of Sawless''s castle with Doma sitting on


    his shoulder. He walked straight toward the door of theb section, and the demon woman who stood there as a guard saw him.


    She was tall, standing at almost eight feet tall with four arms, three breasts, and an extra mouth on her exposed belly. The moment her ruby-red eyesnded on Arad, she knew he was the dragon that just appeared in the sky, the one that was currently rampaging outside. She started shaking in her ce, terrified to move an inch.


    Doma stared at her, "Not even greeting us, are all demons this rude?" That deadly pink re


    sent chills down the demon woman''s spine. Yet the fear didn''t allow her to even breathe, she stood, frozen as a statue with sweat rushing down her back as Arad closed, inspecting her like a dog sniffing his food.