Wake... Up!

Seeing the armor Gu Yu was wearing, the Bat Fangire's eyes widened at once.

He had previously learned from Bishop that Gu Yu possessed the Kiva Armor.

However, King had not taken the matter to heart at the time. After all, the Kiva Armor posed no threat whatsoever to King, who had already mastered the Gem of Serenity.

Even after the Kiva Armor later evolved into Golden Kiva, Gu Yu was still no match for him.

But now, King realized he had been wrong—wildly, absurdly wrong.

Not only did Gu Yu possess other armor capable of threatening him, but he himself had also obtained the strongest armor of the demon race.

"DarkKiva... How is this possible?!"

DarkKiva was the strongest demon-race armor King had commissioned two master craftsmen to forge before his first death in 1986.

Back then, King had used the DarkKiva armor to wipe out the Legendary Beast Tribe, who had been fighting the Fangire race.

But that was not the important part. What truly shocked King was that the DarkKiva on Gu Yu had one crucial difference from the DarkKiva he had once possessed.

At Gu Yu's waist, the magenta belt radiated an ominous, sinister aura.

Yet with a normal DarkKiva, a small bat named Kivat Bat II should have been fastened to the belt at his waist.

King himself had lost the power of DarkKiva because that bat had suddenly betrayed him.

"No, that's not right. You clearly don't have Kivat Bat II's support, so why... Why does your DarkKiva possess such overwhelming pressure?!"

Rapidly using the Authority of Creation to heal his wounds, King stared incredulously at Gu Yu clad in DarkKiva and hurled a furious punch.

This time, he held nothing back. He activated every trump card he had kept hidden.

An eerie Emperor