chapter-17-lava snake

BOOM!

Dion was punching a big boulder, training his martial arts and honing his body.

The earth shock with every punch Dion gave the rock. It had small cracks form on it that slowly went around the boulder.

DRIP!

Sweat was running down Dion's body as it fell to the ground and vaporized from the heat. 

BOOM!

'It's not enough, I need more strength!' Screamed Dion in his mind as he continued to punch the boulder.

BOOM!

Dion punched the rock with no mercy.

"MOORE!" Dion yelled at the epitome of his existence.

CRACK!

BOOM!

The stone was punched into pieces.

Dust swirled in the air as it slowly settled to reveal a figure, standing before a rubble of gravel.

"It's not enough." muttered Dion as he clenched his fist.

Dion had now been training for a couple of weeks as his experiments with the demon had ended, and he only used him as a source of food now.

Dion had found the limits and weaknesses of his new bloodline trait. It could at his level only heal wounds in an instant and needed a lot of time to heal severed limbs, which could take up to a couple of days. It also made Dion very hungry fast when used, as it expands a lot of energy.

Training with the bloodline trait allowed Dion to get some control over it. He could control how fast it healed him to some extent, but he couldn't completely stop it. He could also change the energy source of the trait to mana.

Dions was now planning to wander the lower hell, as he now had the strength to do it. 

His magic had also improved by some amount, but he had hit a bottleneck, as he needed to break through to the orange core realm next.

He looked at the sky, finalizing his decision.

'I'm going to head out after some rest.' Thought Dion as he headed to the demon for a meal.

The demon by now was completely exhausted and barely hang onto life. It looked ragged and dead, its heart barely beating. 

Dion looked at it the final time and smashed its head. This time the demon completely died as its body went limp.

Dion ripped of some meat and roasted it. He ate some, and dried the rest with fire magic. He stuffed it into his pocket and went to rest.

He laid down and relaxed his body. The ground was hard and warm. Sand was touching Dion's skin as he rolled over to change position.

'sigh, it's been nearly a month already in here.' Dion lamented as he was getting home sick. 

He then closed his eyes falling asleep.

...

Dion made sure he had everything with him and chose a direction.

BOOM!

Dion exploded forward, and started running into some direction. He didn't really have a place where to be, so he just chose a direction that inserted him.

The air was hot as he continued running. His pace was faster than what the fastest human could achieve, but for him it was just normal jogging. 

As he kept running the air was getting hotter and hotter. 

SIZZLE!

Dion stopped abruptly, as there was a giant lava lake in front of him. The air was even hotter here.

Dion was sweating buckets from all the heat.

"Huhh, huhh..."

"I need to get over this lake, but how?" Dion looked confused at the lake.

He had been running for a couple of hours without stopping, ignoring all insignificant demons. He hadn't met any demon that piqued his interest yet.

"Mmhhhh." Dion looked at the lake, thinking about what to do when he caught sight of the lake shore. There were small rivers that came from the volcanos and converged to form the lake. Dion began running along the shore lines making sure not to accidentally slip into the lava.

BLUB! BLUB!

The lava bubbled gently, forming lava lakes or ponds where the surface appeared to churn and bubble.

SHAKE!

The ground shock when in the middle of the lava lake the bubbles started to get more violent.

Dion looked at it with interest, sensing a strong life force in the middle of it.

BOOM!

The lava lake exploded upward violently. It kept rising into the air as it got thinner revealing the body of some kind of lava snake.

Dions body shook as he instinctively realized, he couldn't fight against this demon.

SMIRK!

Dion smirked as he started running as fast as he could. 

The lava snake looked at Dion and shot a lava beam at him. Dion seing this exploded forward trying to dodge the beam.

BOOM!

The ground exploded into a giant creator as the lava beam hit the ground. It left a small lava lake that bubbled. 

Dion seeing this, he felt his spine go cold as sweat started to form on his forehead. He had to run, no time for thinking or counter attacking. It was meaningless to attack, as he didnt have any resistance against lava.

TAP! TAP! TAP! TAP!

Dion went with maximum caution and speed over the shore, trying to ignore the 10m tall lava snake shooting lava beams at him. It was hard, but he somehow has managed to dodge all the beams until now.

TRIP!

'shit!' Thought Dion as he tripped.

Seeing the lava snake already shoot a beam at him he couldn't escape. He had to defend!

WSIHU!

The lava beam shot forth like a meteor, hurtling through the air with unstoppable velocity. As Dion saw this he readied himself.

BOOM!

Dion punched the beam head on as it hit his fist with incredible force. Dion held his ground and put a large amount of his mana into the attack dispersin the lava. His hand was burned to crisps as the healing slowly took effect.

Dion wasted no time and put all his mana into his legs and body enhancing it to the limit. 

BAM!

He exploded forward leaving behind a small creator.

He looked around to search for an escape route. There it was a cave popping out of a small hill at the shore. Dion headed for it with full speed.

BOOM!

The surroundings of Dion kept exploding as the lava snake shot a lava beam one after the nother.