Demon Lord: Erotic Adventure in Another World

Chapter 496 496: The Last Tooth - Lagun



The snow boiled against the broken earth, torn apart by fire, blood, and rage.

The battlefield lay silent.

Only the hissing wind, the crackle of broken magic, and the slow, ragged breathing of the victors remained.

Vinea staggered to a halt beside Lumina, her molten blade dragging a thin line of fire through the slush. Levia leaned heavily on her tower shield, its surface cracked and blackened. Asmodea sat half-collapsed against a shattered pillar of ice, her crimson hair matted with blood.

They had won.

Barely.

But the silence was wrong... strange. It was a little too still, too sharp.

The weight came first, pressing down against the air, slow and suffocating. Then the sound — boots crunching across the frozen ruins, steady, deliberate, inevitable.

A figure emerged through the drifting mist.

Massive.

Solid.

Four arms crossed over a barrel chest, skin like burnished bronze veined with black fissures.

A brand — the number "1" — scorched across his left cheek.

His eyes were pure black with no pupils or light... only judgment.

The women tried to lift their weapons, instinct screaming.

Their bodies betrayed them — too slow, too broken.

The figure stopped a dozen paces away, the frozen wind swirling around him like a living crown.

He said nothing at first.

Just stood there.

Watching.

Waiting.

Then — a voice, low and cold enough to strip flesh from bone.

"You fought well."

He tilted his head slightly, the motion almost casual.

"Be proud. Your loyalty is unquestioned."

Another step forward — the ground shuddered.

"But this is no longer your battle."

The women tensed — even through blood and exhaustion, their instincts refusing to bow.

The giant's black eyes flicked across them, not cruelly but dismissively.

"Your King will die today."

A second figure moved, appearing from the heart of the ruined mist, a bloodstained silhouette stepped onto the field.

Asmodeus.

He walked with the slow, precise grace of a blade drawn fresh from the forge.

No rush.

No wasted movement.

Only certainty.

The sigil at his chest smouldered faintly.

Blood streaked down his side. That's when it became obvious it wasn't his blood... but the monsters. But his ocean blue eyes shone clear, undimmed.

He approached the giant without hesitation.

Stopped five paces away.

The two monsters faced each other in the wreckage.

Neither bowed.

Neither spoke immediately.

The air between them warped with suppressed force, the snow at their feet boiling into steam.

The women behind Asmodeus could only watch — too broken to intervene, too proud to retreat.

Finally, the giant spoke.

"Lagun," he said, introducing himself like a death sentence.

One massive hand dropped to his side, flexing slowly — eager to crush, eager to end.

"The First Fang of Her Majesty's Teeth."

He cracked his knuckles once, each pop sending tremors through the earth.

"And you…"

A sneer curled the edge of his mouth — the first crack in his calm.

"The King of Spoiled Whores."

The words hung in the frozen air like venom.

"You don't deserve what you hold. You don't deserve them."

He spat to the side, contempt burning under the ice of his voice.

"I'll rip your heart out and feed it to the snow."

Asmodeus didn't seem offended, angry or phased. His eyes flicked to the cold woman standing in the distance, holding her halberd with teeth sinking into her plump lips.

"Then, shall I make your Queen one of my whores too?" He taunted.

The mist twisted between them, the last gusts of the dying blizzard howling like a wounded beast.

Lagun moved first.

Not with strategy or calculation.

With rage.

He surged across the ruined ground in a single, ground-shattering stride, his four arms blurring outward — two upper fists aiming for Asmodeus's face, the lower pair swinging in a crushing hook toward his ribs.

The speed was monstrous, and each blow could have folded lesser demons like paper.

Asmodeus didn't even blink.

He twisted slightly and let the twin upper strikes hiss past his jaw, and caught the lower left punch casually with his palm. The force vibrated through his arm. Yet, he didn't budge an inch.

Lagun's black eyes widened — a flicker of disbelief breaking his perfect, soldier's mask.

"You think you're worthy of her?" Lagun hissed, yanking back his trapped fist and driving his knee up toward Asmodeus's ribs.

In a blur of movement, Asmodeus let go.

Pivoted. Then, countered with a simple elbow to Lagun's exposed side.

Crack.

The sound echoed across the broken field like a gunshot. Lagun staggered two steps, one of his ribs visibly dented beneath the bronze skin.

Asmodeus didn't press further.

He simply stood there, relaxed, and measuring his opponent.

"I think," Asmodeus said, his voice as calm as falling snow, "you're terrified she already made her choice."

Lagun snarled — a harsh, raw sound that barely resembled a voice. He attacked again — not tactical, not precise — pure furious force. Spinning strikes. Hammering fists.

A sweeping kick meant to shatter bones.

Asmodeus dodged each motion with shocking precision, leaning inches to the side, letting blows hiss past his face, stepping into gaps in Lagun's rhythm like he was walking through rain.

Every miss drove Lagun further into a frenzy.

His veins bulged, thick black lumps under his flesh, yet Asmodeus just smirked at the enraged demon, before he mocked. "Bring it out, you little party trick."

"You think you can replace us?!" Lagun barked between strikes, voice cracking under pressure."You're nothing but a... stray! A mistake!"

Another heavy swing — another effortless dodge. Asmodeus's hand shot forward, grabbing Lagun's wrist mid-punch, twisting.

Crunch.

A wet snap of breaking cartilage echoed.

Lagun wrenched free with a roar, stumbling back.

"Show me your fracture, demon!"

Asmodeus didn't chase because he didn't need to. His blue eyes flicked once toward Riel in the distance, watching, breathless, silent.

"She never looked at you like that," he said, voice low.

Lagun froze for just a second... just long enough for the words to sink in. And in that heartbeat, the icy self-control he had worn like armour shattered.

A surge of dark aura exploded from Lagun's body, cracking the frozen earth beneath his feet.

His four arms spread wide, vibrating with suppressed power.

The number scorched into his cheek — 1 — began to glow, ice-blue like the winter sky.

The mist coiled tighter around him, drawn inward like breath before a scream.

He roared, voice tearing from his chest:

"Fracture!"

"Iron Rend!"

The ground buckled as his body expanded — His arms swelling with fresh layers of gleaming bronze muscle, fissures running wild across his chest and shoulders, glowing from within. The mountain had moved.

And now it was ready to crush.

Asmodeus exhaled once through his nose, almost amused.

Finally.

"See, you can do it, champ."

The battlefield cracked open beneath Lagun's feet.

Every step he took now shattered the ground — footprints sinking deep into the frozen earth, steam and frost spraying outward with each impact.

His arms, bulging and veined with molten light, moved faster than before — the air screaming around each punch.

He lunged.

This time, Asmodeus didn't simply sidestep.

He blocked.

Forearm against forearm, the collision cracked the air with a thunderclap, a shockwave flattening the shattered trees around them.

Asmodeus slid back a half-step, boots grinding against the broken stone.

His teeth bit together with a slight grimace on his face.

Lagun grinned — a sharp, brutal thing.

"Now you see it," he said, voice rumbling like an avalanche."The power she gave us."

He pressed the attack, arms a blur — hammering fists from every angle.

Asmodeus moved through them like threading needles, but the edges grazed him now. Shallow cuts opened along his forearms, his ribs — blood misting into the cold air.

It wasn't fear in Asmodeus's gaze.

It was... focus.

The casual disdain had sharpened into something narrower.

He tilted his head, avoiding a punch, eyes opening wide, acknowledging — without words — that Lagun was no longer a complete joke.

Lagun saw it.

And it enraged him further.

He roared, slamming all four fists downward like a battering ram.

The ground cratered beneath Asmodeus, sending shards of stone and frozen mud shooting into the air like arrows. Asmodeus darted sideways, rebounding off a shattered pillar, and returned with a sharp knee to Lagun's floating rib.

The impact dented flesh and bronze, sending cracks running up Lagun's side.

But Lagun twisted, catching Asmodeus's ankle with two hands, and hurled him across the battlefield like a meteor.

Asmodeus spun mid-air, landing in a crouch, ice splintering around him.

He stood, rolling his shoulders once, blood dripping steadily down his left arm. For the first time since the battle began, his breathing deepened.

Lagun stalked forward, relentless. "You're nothing without her approval," Lagun spat."Compared to her power, you'd be just another mongrel, dying forgotten in the snow."

He threw a hammer-fist strike that carved a ten-foot trench through the earth.

Asmodeus evaded — barely — the shockwave ripping past his face, slicing through his hair.

"Keep talking," Asmodeus said in a cold voice, shifting his stance lower and tighter. "Maybe if you believe it hard enough, it'll be true."

The distance between them closed again — brutal, fast, no wasted movement now.

Each exchange shook the battlefield harder.

Each impact left deeper scars.

But despite the growing pressure, despite the widening wounds — Asmodeus's gaze never wavered.

Deep inside, something darker stirred.

Something old.

Something regal.

His blood called for it.

The Demon King slumbered within — and it was beginning to wake.

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