Chapter 976 A Freak? No, I Am The Dragon King!
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Iron's enormous body clashed against mine, as his spinning blade body began to pierce through my scales, easily reaching my flesh! He was going to slice me in half?! This bastard really doesn't hold back, huh? This entire Colosseum according to Jotun works through special means. Our bodies are emulated to almost perfection, and when we receive damage, it really feels like it. Whenever we "die" we go back outside the arena and find ourselves just fine, because these are just astral projections.
However, this colosseum emulates pain and everything so well that if I get sliced, wouldn't it be the same pain as in real life? So he does this to the newbies that dare to come fight him, huh? What a ruthless bastard. That would surely break the spirit of any dragon that gets cocky enough to get ahead of themselves.
"GYAHAHAHAHA! DIE!"
Iron laughed like a maniac, slowly slicing through me.
However, I quickly put energy into my own muscles, breaking them in the process and expulsing all needles stuck into my flesh, regaining my movement.
"HMPH…!"
I quickly shapeshifted, acquiring another pair of arms, having six arms in total, and used all six of them to stop Iron's charge against me, slowly pulling him away. He had an enormous strength, and it was costing me all the energy I had! However, gritting my teeth, I managed!
CRAAASH!
"W-What the…? What do you think you're doing?!"
Iron panicked as I quickly smiled malicious, my jaws quickly grew tens of times their original size. The entire crowd suddenly gasped at my monstrosity, Iron's face grow panicked as I used my enormous jaws to bite through his flesh, stopping him from moving once and for all.
CRUNCH!
"NNGGHH?! Y-You bastard! What sort of freak of nature are you?!"
Iron, who was the freakiest around here, called me a freak.
Suddenly, I grew a second, and a third head.
"A freak? No… I am the Dragon King."
"AAAAHHHH?!"
Iron was so shocked to see several of my heads pop up that he gasped himself. All of my heads grew five times their size, biting several parts of his body at once, easily piercing his slim scales and destroying his bones!
"GRUUUUAARRRRR…!"
Iron's roar of agony wasn't all that dragon-like, but he was surely agonizing.
"You know why I called you to get closer? So I could bite you to pieces myself!"
"S-Stop! Stop! I give up! Okay?! I forfeit! I…!"
Iron desperately begged for his life, struggling as much as he could to get all my jaws off his body, but it was impossible.
"You've sliced in half countless dragons before, right?" I asked.
"Eh?!" Iron gasped.
"Then let's call it a payback for all the pain you've caused to all of them!" I roared.
"NOOO! STOOOOP!"
"ROOOOAARRRR…!"
I roared with all my lungs, tearing apart Iron's limbs one after the other, blood splattered everywhere, his agonizing roars resonated around the entire colosseum, even Jotun dropped her lower jaw all the way down due to the brutality of my attack.
"AAAGHHH!"
"And…"
"No… Stop!"
"Your head's next!"
"STOOOOP!"
I opened my main jaws, biting through Iron's head, using my jaws to easily tear apart his entire cranium, his brains and everything inside of it quickly filled my mouth, it was a disgusting flavor, yet it was also the taste of blood and victory.
CRUNCH!
"GRYYAAAAAEEEEEEGH…!"
His last roar of agony was heard all around the colosseum, the people suddenly fell completely silent, as I dropped Iron's shredded body pieces into the floor, spitting whatever I had inside my mouth as well.
I slowly descended into the arena, looking at everybody. Even Boulder and Amethyst stopped fighting with my father and Benladann respectively as they were left in complete astonishment.
"Monster… this bastard's a monster…" Boulder said.
"Hohh… Now that's something I never expected from him!" Amethyst smiled with fascination.
Jotun quickly brought herself back together, as she proclaimed Iron's defeat.
"I-Iron… he's dead." She said.
"W-What?"
"Just what happened?"
"What did that guy do?"
"He… he has more heads?"
"A multi-headed one? They're incredibly rare…!"
"Not only that, but he can also bring them back and out at any time he wants?!"
"Did you see the size of those jaws?! That's no normal polymorphing magic!"
Iron's figure quickly appeared within a special section where the losers would show up in the colosseum. His face was filled with disappointment, frustration, anger, and shock. He looked at me directly into the eyes, and I looked back at him. He quickly flinched, trembling.
"Hyyyy…! H-He's a monster… a goddamn monster!" He cried in fear.
"Yeah, that's more like it." I said with a smile, raising my arms as the entire crowd roared back at me. Half of them were furious at my monstrous ways of fighting, the other half was excited about this new newbie doing things differently.
"I like him!"
"He's a total nutjob!"
"No way he'll be the dragon king, someone like the dragon king should be honorable, he's a monster!"
"Bastard, look at him smile!"
"BOOO! Get off the stage!"
"Nobody likes you!"
"Get off monster!"
"Monster!"
"Hahahahaa! He's insane!"
"He's incredibly brutal… And we have yet to see his magic on its totality as well!"
"Some say he got amazing amount of elements, what could he wield more than that?"
"Amethyst and Boulder are still up, they'll beat his ass!"
The crowd spoke as I heard their comments, but at the end, I couldn't care less.
"Jotun, is this enough to prove myself?" I asked her.
"…" Jotun remained silent for a bit. "Heh! You and your party gotta beat those two others if you want me to recognize you, son of Nifl!"
"Ugh, Jotun! Don't be so stubborn!" My mother complained against Jotun.
"Jotun, do you really think my grandson is going not worthy yet? He's going to leave your entire family in shame if this continues, stop already!" My mother said smugly.
"Hmph! We'll see about it!" Jotun said.
The colosseum continued, Iron was down, two more left.
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