Demon Lord: Erotic Adventure in Another World
Chapter 449: Dreadwyrm - I
Asmodeus tapped the ground with his foot while thrumming his wings, each beat sending ripples through the air. The rhythm intensified, vibrating with a thunderous pulse as he launched skyward, splitting the air as he shot into the heavens like a crimson comet.
'Now then, let's deal with this damned wasteland.'
His winds spread apart, creating a sonic boom as the air vibrated from his sudden stop.
He gazed at the ground, noticing it looked strange. Parts of it were undulating and churning, different from the view from below. 'Strange, what is that?'
The winds in the air were violent and powerful, blowing against Asmodeus as he used his wings to guide himself closer to the direction where the broken earth appeared to move.
"I cannot wait to see what's down there."
Asmodeus curled his lips into a smirk, pushing his palms towards the ground.
A magical aura started to flow into him from the atmosphere, and his stomach pulsated as the dense power flowed into him.
'I want to do a little test of this power. Let's try it.'
His smirk turned into a full grin. As his eyes locked onto the ground below, he could feel the power inside him growing. At first, the energy formed small golf ball-sized spheres. But with each moment he focused on drawing energy into his palms, the spheres and magic circles started to become more vivid.
With a grunt, the energy started to condense and increase rapidly, causing a dull ache to spread through his chest and organs. As the power continued to increase, almost surpassing the capacity of his body, the pain became unbearable.
'It's too much!'
Asmodeus gritted his teeth, while enforcing the mana into his spell, blood oozing from his nose before the magic sphere became the size of a basketball, with such an immense power, the air itself started to crackle and combust, his breath became hot, and the world around him began to distort.
'This is it!'
Unable to contain the force any longer, and unleashed his spell the two beams of light shooting towards the churning ground that could absorb mana. He watched as the powerful beam of energy hit the earth like a meteorite, sending shockwaves across the land and tearing apart everything in its path.
The shockwave tore through the landscape, ripping out chunks of earth and rock and scattering them in all directions. His gaze narrowed as the sand and broken dirt shot into the air and created a deep crater.
However, the moment his vision became blinded by the mass a sand, a dangerous feeling overcame him.
'DANGER!'
He instinctively twisted his body mid-air, narrowly avoiding the sharp blade of a weapon as it grazed his cheek. The force of the impact was so strong that it sent him flying backwards, causing a ringing sound in his ears as he flicked his wings to regain balance...
That's when Asmodeus realised that what wounded his cheek wasn't a weapon... but the sharp spines of a simple creature.
"Ugh!"
A rush of adrenaline surged through him as he felt pain course through his body from the attack.
'What the hell!?'
The moment he dodged the first attack, Asmodeus turned his attention to the spot where something just attacked him, a powerful and hideous monster which emerged from the dangerous—too long to estimate its length. But he knew what she was.
'A Dreadwyrm...'
Creatures created when something corrupted a normal sandworm using dark magic. They are known for their insatiable hunger, devouring anything they can find on land or in the sea. The only way to defeat a Dreadwyrm was to destroy their thick scales that protected their vulnerable eye, which could perform a deadly beam attack.
'Well this is a first...'
Asmodeus muttered under his breath while focused on the beast. The monster cried out from beneath him, opening the several compartments that hid his words.
He could see how the worm started to move through the sand, like a snake moving through water. Its body moved at an incredible speed, and its tail swayed back and forth with significant force. This action destroyed the upper layers of concrete and damaged the earth overall.
"Calm down!"
Asmodeus shouted at the enormous creature, his voice low and resolute reverberating the signal to several sites. He didn't want to let the others fight such a monster, taking out his greatsword and holding it in a tight grip.
His hands wrapped around the handle, feeling the weight of the blade as he prepared to confront the Dreadwyrm, which coiled like a snake, before striking vertically, trying to grab and crush Asmodeus.
Clang!
The Dreadwyrm's body deflected the sudden strike from Asmodeus and flicked its armoured body out, smashing into him and sending the demon crashing towards the ground.
"Urgh..."
'What... happened?'
Asmodeus focused on the sky, only able to see the mouth of the starving as the Dreadwyrm descended towards him, with its loud voice almost rupturing his eardrums.
His eyes widened in surprise, never expecting the wyrm to attack him with the sole purpose of devouring him whole.
"Don't get cocky!"
Asmodeus desperately reacted while plummeting, his palm pushed out towards the massive wyrm. He held his breath, feeling the tingling sensation caused by the wyrm's mana drain, and watched with a calm face.
About to swallow him whole, the monster quickly approached.
The wyrm's mouth spread apart into four slits, revealing rows upon rows of razor-sharp teeth.
These beasts clamped down on their victims with their separated jaws, cutting their food apart before dragging them into the sand. In the sand, the victim would rapidly suffer from suffocation and the sensation of being crushed by the many monsters that would appear there.
"Come and get me!"
His blade sliced across the Dreadwyrm's nose, running away from their pursuit, as a sudden blue light shot through the sky like a beam of light and pierced through the wyrm's abdomen...
"Who?"
Asmodeus placed his foot on the huge wyrm and pushed his body away, flapping his wings to gain some space from the monster.
Meanwhile, Asmodea's hand sizzled with a bluish glow on the ground. Her eyes were fixed on the wyrm as she waited for the perfect opportunity to strike.
Princess Asmodeus's lips curled into a smile the moment she noticed how little her magic did to the monster, rather it proved their hypothesis that the monster could heal.
"It seems our beloved was right." Asmodea turned back to Velvet, Erika and Lumina.
"Hurry and support him, Archers use regular armour piercing arrows! Don't use your aura or mana. It can use magic to heal it's body and turn it against us!"
She spoke quickly and decisively, her words urgent. As soon as she finished, the archers sprang into action.
'I am not Ciela... but I think I can lead these archers to victory. I need another opening!' Asmodea thought to herself as she took a deep breath and snapped her fingertips.
A few moments later, a rose garden appeared, one that made Asmodeus mana refill faster and boosted her overall power.
"Asmodeus be careful!"
After taking the blow from Asmodea, the monster became wary and stopped attacking recklessly. It flooded and coiling its body, prepared to fight. Asmodeus continued the rapid descent, close to smashing into the ground.
His wings spread to their maximum, and he braced for impact, gently fluttering to slow his fall.
The moment before he hit the ground, he flapped his wings with all his strength.
His display created an ascending shockwave through the air, causing a cloud of dust and debris to rise into the air. With a determined expression, he immediately leapt back into the sky, leaving a trail of wind in his wake as he soared upward, ready to take on the Dreadwyrm once more.
"I know!"
With a deep breath, Asmodeus spread his wings wide and launched himself at the Dreadwyrm, unleashing a flurry of slashes with his sword. His blade sliced the air with a sharp whistle, its edge glinting as he slashed the Dreadwyrm's stomach mercilessly.
The beast writhed and roared in pain, its body twisting and contorting as it tried to evade the relentless assault. Asmodeus became executed, his blade cutting deeper, the form chanting to and so he could gouge the flesh and scales of the monster.
Asmodeus' strikes were fierce and precise, each blow aimed to weaken the creature's defences and open its vulnerable eye.
However, the worm's massive body just flicked against him, sending him flying to the ground.
"Argh!"
BANG!
His body smashed into the earth below and almost instantly a dull ache spreading through his body as his muscles started to tense from the current floor sucking away his life force.
Asmodeus groaned in pain as he bounced in the air, catching a glimpse of the Dreadwyrm's tail for a moment as it whipped towards his face.
"Ngh... I can't keep losing!"
In mid-air, Asmodeus crossed his arms as the Dreadwyrm's enormous black tail, covered in sharp spines, smashed into his body.
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