The Demon Lord Awakens

Ye Chuan's figure turned into a blur. His blade sliced through the night as his longsword thrust straight toward Satania's throat.

"Hmph, insolent!"

Seeing Ye Chuan charging at her, Satania immediately realized what was happening and shouted a sharp reprimand. With a wave of her hand, three deep purple magical barriers materialized in overlapping layers in front of her!

"Clang—!!!"

The longsword fiercely struck the first barrier, erupting in a deafening crash.

Spiderweb-like cracks instantly covered the first barrier before it shattered with a loud bang.

With its momentum undiminished, the blade pierced through the second and third barriers, slashing directly toward Satania!

"Hah!" Satania's hand transformed into a massive beastly claw, clashing against the sword.

A shockwave expanded outwards with the two of them at its center. Surrounding trees, as thick as bowls, were snapped in half, their severed trunks sent flying dozens of meters away with a howling wind.

The impact forced Satania to stumble back three steps. She stared at Ye Chuan, her eyes filled with undisguised wariness:

"You monster, it's you again! Why do you always ruin my plans? What does this have to do with you?!"

"I don't care about your plans, give Angelina back to me!" Ye Chuan gripped his longsword tightly.

"She is my family!"

"Family?" Satania sneered, a look of contempt appearing on her face.

"What do you know?! Does a lowly human deserve to call Lord Demon King family?!"

Demon King...

Ye Chuan didn't understand what a Demon King was, but upon hearing the term, he felt a sharp pain in his brain, as if something was beginning to surface.

"Since you insist on seeking death, I will kill you first, and then take Lord Demon King back to the Demon Realm!"

Before her voice faded, Satania's body suddenly erupted with a blinding purple light, so intense that it eclipsed even the moon in the sky.

Her figure rapidly expanded, replaced by a mane burning with dark golden flames. The originally petite girl transformed into a golden lion over fifteen meters long. As her paws stepped on the ground, even the hardest rocks were easily crushed.

"Heaven-Burning Flame Lion!"

The lion opened its gaping maw, and a purple sphere of light, condensing endless dark energy, rapidly took shape inside.

The space around the sphere began to distort, spawning pitch-black spatial rifts that swallowed even the light.

"Die, human!"

The destructive breath surged toward Ye Chuan like a purple torrent piercing through heaven and earth.

Wherever the breath passed, the air ignited, forming a burning wall of fire that warped and deformed space itself!

The breath bypassed Ye Chuan and slammed fiercely into the rolling mountain range behind him.

An earth-shattering roar echoed through the heavens and the earth, causing the ground to tremble violently as if a massive earthquake had struck.

Under this single strike, the mountain range behind Ye Chuan was forcefully cleaved down the middle before collapsing with a thunderous crash!

Rubble and magma shot into the sky, forming a giant mushroom cloud thousands of meters high that blotted out the sun and dyed the entire sky dark red.

Satania reverted to her human form, dusting off her hands with a smug, triumphant smile on her face:

"Hmph, no matter how tough your body is, you can't withstand my full-power strike. This is what you get for daring to oppose the Demon Race..."

Her words were abruptly cut short. The smile on her face instantly froze, as if she had seen a ghost.

The thick smoke slowly dispersed, revealing that black figure still standing tall and straight in the same spot.

The clothes on Ye Chuan's body had been burned to ashes, exposing his lean yet well-defined upper body.

He wasn't injured at all; there wasn't even a single scratch on him. The fine steel longsword in Ye Chuan's hand, however, had long since melted into molten iron from the intense heat.

"...Impossible! This is absolutely impossible!"

Satania couldn't believe that her full-strength strike had failed to cause Ye Chuan any harm.

Ye Chuan did not answer.

He walked toward Satania step by step.

"I said, give Angelina back to me."

"Y-y-you, stay back!" Satania retreated a few steps, starting to panic.

The threat of death began to loom over her heart, making her feel fear from a human for the very first time.

"Hum—"

Right at that moment, Angelina, who was suspended in mid-air, suddenly began to tremble violently.

The purple light on her body surged, shooting into the sky and dying the entire night sky deep purple!

Dark clouds gathered in the sky, and black lightning rolled within them, unleashing deafening claps of thunder.

"Ah... Ah—!"

"Angelina!" Ye Chuan immediately rushed forward, wanting to pull her out.

"Stop right there!" Satania slammed directly into Ye Chuan's body!

At this time, Angelina let out an agonizing roar. Under the influence of the purple light, her body began to change rapidly.

Her originally petite frame grew taller at a visible rate, becoming tall, graceful, and curvaceous.

Her white hair grew wildly, cascading down to her ankles and dancing freely in the wind.

"Boom!"

A pair of massive, shadow-like black wings unfurled from her back, blotting out the sun!

She slowly opened her eyes. Those previously clear blue eyes had now turned a deep, dark purple, devoid of any emotion, holding only endless coldness and indifference.

"..."

A pitch-black longsword appeared out of thin air in her hand.

The Demon King Sword!

"This is..."

"Lord Demon King?" Satania hadn't expected Angelina to awaken so quickly. Wild joy surfaced on her small face.

"Lord Demon King!!!!!"

Satania instantly fell to her knees, trembling with excitement. Pressing her forehead firmly against the ground, her voice choked with emotion:

"Welcome back, Lord Demon King!!"

Ye Chuan's footsteps abruptly halted.

He looked at the person before him, both familiar and strange. He opened his mouth, his voice so hoarse it was barely audible: "Angelina..."

Hearing this name, the Demon King's gaze shifted slightly. Her long eyelashes trembled, and a fleeting, almost imperceptible trace of struggle flashed across her face.

In those cold, dark purple eyes, that trace of struggle vanished in an instant, quickly replaced by an even deeper coldness and indifference.

She raised her hand, slowly lifting the Demon King Sword.

"Human, die."

As her voice fell, she lightly swung her sword.

Space was like a fragile piece of rice paper, easily torn to shreds by this strike. The sword light passed through Ye Chuan, along with Yisu Town behind him.

The next second.

The entire Yisu Town, together with the surrounding forests, streams, and fields, instantly vanished from existence.

There was no explosion, no crying, no sound at all.

It was as if someone had gently erased it from the map with an eraser, leaving behind only a flat stretch of scorched earth shimmering with spatial rifts.

"Pfft—"

Ye Chuan's body jolted violently.

A deep, bone-revealing gash extended from his left shoulder all the way to his right waist. Blood sprayed out, spilling onto the scorched black ground.

He staggered back a few steps and fell to one knee, coughing violently as black blood continuously spilled from his mouth, staining the front of his shirt red.

"Yisu Town... everyone..." Ye Chuan looked back in disbelief. The small town where he had lived for months was annihilated right before his eyes.

"Ohohohohoho!!"

Satania laughed maniacally, rocking back and forth until tears streamed from her eyes.

"Do you see?! This is the power of the Demon Lord! You lowly human, how dare you stand in the Demon Lord's way! You are dead!! You and that damned town can all go to hell!!"

Angelina looked expressionlessly at Ye Chuan, who was kneeling on the ground, and raised the Demon Lord's Sword once again.

The black flames on the blade burned even more fiercely, and the surrounding space began to distort once more.