198 Development: Part 1

The remaining half of Khadula's body was unceremoniously tossed on the ground.

"Is this how you treat the person who once saved you?" While Khadula struggled to pull himself to sit up, the Steel Lord held his double ax and came to his side. The double ax suddenly broke up, dispersed like flying wings before transforming into the shape of a fan. Following immediately, a vibration that sounded as if the roar of the engine was heard in the air as four columns of dark-red fire rose and surrounded Khadula.

"What are you doing?" A gut feeling told Khadula that something was wrong. But before he could figure it out, the Steel Lord had swung down his ax and slit his lower body with blood quickly oozing out of the wound.

"You…" Khadula was as furious just as he was shocked. Just before he could react further, the giant ax in the Steel Lord's hand melted and rose up in the form of dark-red flames, from which a semi-transparent skull of a dragon emerged.