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Chapter 2 - King Of Madness

In the vast expanse of a dire wasteland a single towering Mountain stood among the rocks illuminated by the light of the blood red moon that hung sinisterly in the sky.

A loud boom sound echoed from far away and then an unidentified object smashed into the mountain at incredible speed. And the mountain which stood there for centuries

was smashed into rubble in the blink of an eye leaving behind a large Crater that went hundreds of meters deep into the ground and a large dust cloud.

At the center of the Crater there was an indistinguishable human figure that was on one knee as the dust cloud began to clear up the figure got up on both feet and looked up into the bloody sky and when the dust cloud dissipated the figure was revealed in all his splendor.

He was much taller than the average person without being too tall and even through the clothes he was wearing his chiseled muscles could still be seen, his face was devilishly handsome and his long red hair matched perfectly with his bright red eyes which shone with arrogance, disdain and if one looked close enough they would see a glint of concealed Madness hiding in their eerie depths.

A lazy smile was playing on his lips as he looked down at his left hand and said "What a surprise you managed to break one of my fingers isn't that great"

His left hands ring finger was bent backwards and looked like it had just suffered an attack but he simply grabbed the finger and with a crack he snapped it back in place without even flinching.

At the edge of the deep Crater four figures appeared each having unique appearances from each other.

The first one was a figure who had four large muscular arms that matched his towering figure he wore a barbaric armor set with each arm holding a sword, shield, spear and mace

The second had a pair of horns that came from her forehead and curved backwards in a gentle arc one of her eyes were a seductive purple while the other a fierce red, her long sharp nails were also a mixture of these colours as she exuded a dangerously beautiful aura.

The third had four long red horns each one had a sinister red flame burning on its sharp tip and he had thick red veins running along his face that connected to each horn

And the fourth and the last was a considerably shorter man but his eyes and spiky long hair crackled with traces of red lightning that caused the air around him to make low rumbling sounds that sounded like thunder during a lightning storm.

The four figures who had just stared at the handsome man who was still within the Crater but all the people present were not human instead they were all extremely powerful demons who had their names spread all across the demon realm.

As the four armed demon stared down into the Crater he could only gasp in shock as he said "My full strength attack only broke one of his fingers, what kind of monster is he?"

"We can't kill him if it's just one of us we need to work together if we want him dead" The demoness whispered almost inaudibly as she prepared to lunge into battle

"Wait a moment" The flame demon said as he stepped forward "Let me try to get through to him and maybe we won't need to do any of this"

The other demons looked at each other and silently nodded in agreement as they let him go forward but they were still ready to lunge into battle at the slightest sign of danger.

"Sakrius stop this madness now!" The flame demon shouted loudly. The demon in the Crater, Sakrius, said back in a calm voice "And why should I, I'm only defending myself, you are the ones who attacked me first, aren't you?"

The flame demon gritted his teeth and said "We only did that because of how much chaos you've caused have you ever stopped for a moment to think about how many innocent lives you've ended."

"Entire kingdoms mourn for the lives of those you've killed yet you ignore their cries and continue to go on bloody massacres without any reason doesn't this sound like good enough reason to attack you?!" He said back with barely contained anger in his voice.

"Well to surprise you, I did have a reason" He said with the same lazy smile on his handsome face "Because I wanted to" he said with a grin.

"Because you wanted to!" The lightning demon yelled in anger. "My grandson was one of the thousands of people you killed and yet you say you killed him because you wanted to"

"My daughter still mourns over his death and now I'd be more than happy to kill the person responsible for his death"

"Then why haven't you killed me already?" He asked back coldly "why are you wasting your time with meaningless words if you want to kill me so badly?"They all stayed silent when they heard his question.

"It's because you know you can't beat me and you're scared of losing your little lives" he said back with the same smile on his face.

"You've gone mad!" The lightning demon yelled back. "Maybe I have" Sakrius said while in deep thought "But in a world that has gone crazy"

He smiled with a hint of madness in his eyes "The madman is king"

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