"Hey, big guy! Stop that. Let them go," the thin middle-aged man ordered as he crushed the attack from the rhino with his black spiritual claw.
Although he spoke in a low voice, people could sense the command from his tone. It seemed he was even more strong-willed than the Devil King Rhino.
He was obviously more powerful. If he wasn't, he wouldn't have easily blocked the Devil Flashlight.
Triggered by what he heard, the Devil King Rhino roared ferociously. He spat, "Don't forget where we are, fool! Humans and those lowly beasts are forbidden to enter the Devil Beast Valley!"
"You're wasting my time, big guy!" the man taunted, seemingly undisturbed with the angry roars. "I'm not negotiating. I'm ordering you," he continued.
"You're so arrogant!" This made the Devil King Rhino even angrier. He summoned his evil spirit again and rushed towards the man.
"You're so stubborn!" The middle-aged man shrugged. He was undaunted by the Devil King Rhino's attacks.
The Devil King Rhino roared in full force as he was surrounded by the evil spirit. However, Ricky heard another roar, quite similar to that of a dragon, but he could tell its differences from a real dragon.
As the roar bellowed, a black python of more than thirty meters long rushed out from the evil spirit and reached out its sharp claws toward the rhino.
After several strikes, the Devil King Rhino was beaten down. Innumerable wounds were all over his huge body.
The python, on the other hand, remained uninjured. It was obvious between the two devil king beasts who had the upper hand.
...
"The middle-aged man transformed to a python! Is that what he really is? I see!" From his observation, Ricky finally understood what Soar meant.
He also inferred that the python's competence might have reached the level of a second class lower spiritual king. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to defeat the Devil King Rhino who possessed the emperor beasts' bloodline so easily.
From the very beginning, Soar knew that the thin middle-aged man was a devil king beast, a python. All pythons and snakes regarded the Great Dragon as their king.
This was because they were loyal to the bloodline. In some instances, there were pythons and snakes that desired to kill the Great Dragons so they could get their blood power. With this, they would become Great Dragons themselves.
The devil king python cultivated the evil spirit. His bloodline, however, was a spiritual beast that originated from the Great Dragon. Therefore, Soar's bet was about the devil king beast's loyalty to the Great Dragon.
Looking on how things were turning out to be, Soar was likely to win the bet.
...
"Little loach, what are you doing? I wanted to kill these two outsiders. Stay out of this!" The Devil King Rhino crawled out from a deep hole and huffed at the python in the sky. Both of them now
had morphed into humans again.
"It doesn't concern you whether it has anything to do with me or not. Don't come here again within a month. Otherwise, I won't let you go so easily," the python warned.
"Roar!" the Devil King Rhino roared furiously.
He opted not to say anything further nor to attack his opponent. He was wise enough to recognize that the python was stronger than he was. Roaring, the Devil King Rhino left the cliff area.
"You can leave now. Remember, don't approach this area for a month," the devil king beast announced to the other devil beasts.
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