(CHAPTER 33: DEMON KING)

I stood in front the gigantic room. If I complain the hallway is way too dark, this play is way too fucking blinding. The room was surrounded completely by molten lava. The room has a circular base, with a cone roof, lava dripping down from the cone tip. Feels like I am within a living volcano, if I didn't have my ability to ignore heat, I must've been toast.

But what fear the most isn't the room, it was the people within it.

There were four people within the room. Lined up in a circular pattern, looking at me from above. Feels like I am facing a judgement in hell. The four looks quite normal, but what shits me the most was that gigantic beast in the middle of the room. He was large, no, gigantic, colossal. His mere size take almost half the room's space. He was set ablaze, emerging completely within lava like a spa bath. He is identical to a hound, with reddish red skin, blood red pupils and pure black retina. What shocks me the most was that mark on his forehead. Identical, completely the same with the mark when I got into my beast form. He just took a mere look on me, and I almost collapse. The Demon King, he really got the aurora of one.

"So…" One of the men at the left side open his mouth and spoke first, breaking the overwhelming stress that was crushing me like a can. He was an middle aged man, with a goddamn sexy moustache. Wearing a thick western outfit set with golden tinted glasses, wonder how he can bear the heat. His jet black hair was polished to the finest, glittering. "You sure you got the one Fei?" "I had been watching him for months. Hook some hot chicks, but I am sure he is the one." Fei replied while opening other bottle of whiskey. "The mark, show him the mark." Fei urged while drinking down the bottle in his hand. The fuck is this attitude, pushing me into the depth and watch me drown!?

"He didn't do anything." The girl at the right stare at me for a few second and replied. She looks like someone at her twenties. Young, wearing an off the shoulder kimono. She had ninetails tails dangling behind with a gigantic sharp ear on her head. Her snow white hair was tied up in a bun, pinned by various accessories, traditional Japanese style. "Fei, you got any explanations?" "Ah, because he isn't in a fight right now. Any challengers?" I glare at Fei, he didn't fucking care much.

"I will take it." One of the man stood up, accepting the challenge that I didn't even accept. "Lets go Bryan! Kick his ass!" Fei backs up and take on of the seat amongst the others, he didn't even wanted to help me out, he just wanted to watch the show. "Sure as hell Fei." Bryan replied his cheer with a confidential smile. He took off his gigantic cloak, revealing his muscular insides. He leapt up from his seat before landing like a hundred pound bomb. He was a beast, gigantic up close. His build resembles one of a rhinoceros beetle, completely engulf in a thick layer of armour, with muscles popping beneath it. He had three gigantic hands the size of a hundred year oak tree bark, alongside three huge horns on his head. He was built as a tank, a juggernaut, his yellow eyes stare at me in amusement.

"I gave you, three minutes." Using his three hand, he drew a perfect circle beneath his feet. His finger piercing the concrete floor beneath like butter. "If you can somehow force me out of this circle, or even better knock me out. You win. Raymond, do the count please" He does a few stretch and shouted at the elegant man, Raymond. he didn't seem stressed out at all. "And the three minute, starts, now. Raymond took out a golden stopwatch from his pocket, pressed the timer on top of it and declared.

"Come on now, hit me." He spread his six arms open as he taunted, revealing his muscular body. The black armour gleamed, so do the confident expression on his face. "Time's running out kid! Hit me!!" He shouted once more after seeing that I didn't react. "Tsk." I prepared my stance, what is this challenge. Looking down on me?

"Magma beam!" I decided to start on something simple as a burst of beam shoot out from the palm of my hand. The beam hit straight on his broad chest, but does nothing. Not even a sizzle, a scratch or something. Feels more like a stream of water rather than some concentrated heat ray. "Anything else?" Bryan asked, inviting me. "Do the thing! Rey! Do the thing!" Upon seeing me preparing my stance to transform, Fei hooted.

Hell Beast.

Upon seeing me in my form, the rest seem quite surprised. Especially that mark on my chest. On the other had, Fei seem quite cocky. "Told you he is the one." I could hear him boosting to the ninetail girl beside him. "Two minutes." Raymond added. "Come on! Time's running out kid." Brutus reminded, urging me to hit him. The Demon King just stare down coldly, he didn't seem interested in what is going on.

"CRIMSON GATLING!!"

After some time I let out a barrage of punches. Each hit is as deadly as a single punch, each punch created a mini explosion on him. His body started to shift a bit, but he still remain sturdy like a mountain. After almost a minute, I am already breathless. But as the dust settles, he is still standing, within the circle, with not even a scratch on his thick amor. "Any more?" He asked, tauntingly. "I am expecting more." "One minute!" Raymond declared, time is ticking.

"You want it so much?" I glare at him. My entire world is filled with the sound of my heart beating like a drum, echoing within my mind. Bryan didn't reply, he just stare at me with those eyes. Feels like he was staring at what just a mere flea to him, one that he could squash any time. "Final…" I raised my hand together, outstretched, palm open towards Brutus. Blood was drizzling down, bone shard poking out from my flesh, that's what you got when you punch something equal as hard like a block of diamond.

"Thirty seconds!" An orb started to form within my grasp. Larger, shinier, hotter, like a mini sun the size of a palm. I felt like I could faint any second by now. This skill not only takes a long time to charge, but is also extremely draining, but as a fair trade, one hit from this bad boy is an instant skill. The orb is slow, but for a living target like Bryan, it is death itself marching towards him.

"SHINE!"

With those words the orb shot out from my hand. Dashing towards Bryan as the force lunges me back. He open his body wide let out a grunt, his legs dug deep into the floor beneath him, ready for the incoming collision. The orb clashes against his armour, emitting out sparks like rubbing the edge of a razor blade against another, this isn't supposed to happen.

"Shocked?" Bryan stare at me and laughed, he didn't even seem to care about a damn fire orb. "Your orb here, he is supposed to phase through me and kill me inside out right?" He reached out his six hands and grab the orb, forcefully pulling it away and held it within his hand, just how tough this man is!? "Too bad, my armour is denser than anything else. Not even mere atoms could penetrate it." With that he crushed the orb in his hand, shattering it into dust alongside an explosion. As the dust settles, he is still there, standing within the circle.

"Time's up!"