Almost Got Screwed Over

"Yo, isn't that Orochimaru? Even your entrance is so alike!"

Watching the drenched demon crawl bit by bit out of the corpse that had supposedly already kicked the bucket, Er Dongsheng mocked him.

"Tsk tsk, don't think I won't recognize you just because you shed a layer of skin!" He sniffed his hand, where some disgusting stench seemed to still linger.

"You stink just as disgusting, all slimy and sticky, like some kind of snot slug!"

This newly emerged demon called Slav was covered in tiny snake-like scales. He had no hair, no tail, and stood there on two arms and two legs; once he drew them together, he really did look just like a snake!

At that moment, Slav fixed those cold, vertical snake eyes on Er Dongsheng.

"Little ant, compared to Lord Snake, your looks are far inferior! I just wonder what your abilities are like. Don't be as weak as you were just now!"

"I won't disappoint you," the Snake Lord replied in Abyssal Language, refusing to show weakness.

"Haha, let's hope so!"

Whoosh.

Er Dongsheng charged at the two of them.

"Hehehe, let me see whether that snakeskin of yours is hard or not!" He hooked both claws and tore down hard. To his surprise, Er Dongsheng's claws failed to catch on the fellow's snake scales!

They slipped off!

"Tsk tsk, pretty decent defense, but still not much to look at!" He spun around and followed up with a whipping kick.

"You'd better go play in the mud somewhere else first!"

Turning around, he immediately exchanged a blow with the attacking Abyssal Fairy. Compared to the Snake Lord, he felt this Abyssal Fairy wielding a curved blade was more dangerous!

But only a little more dangerous!

He extended his right claw and directly collided with the descending blade. Scrape, scrape—the blade and the scales on Er Dongsheng's claw ground violently against each other, spraying countless sparks in every direction!

Xierjie looked utterly dumbfounded. She could not understand how something like this could happen. Was that really a claw? Wasn't it some kind of mutated weapon?

"Little miss, I warned you twice already! Don't space out!"

His right claw smashed fiercely toward the dazed Abyssal Fairy. In an instant, the poor little fairy was blasted flying, and he did not forget to tease her a little along the way.

"Nice feel, hehe, big ti~ts!"

The two blasted-away demons staggered together, each seeing shock in the other's eyes.

This demon was far too powerful for either of them to deal with alone!

"Transform. I'll attack, and you provide long-range support and suppression!" Abyssal Fairy Xierjie made her decision in an instant!

The two intended to end this quickly. Otherwise, this demon would slowly toy them to death in the end!

Buzz.

Buzz.

The Abyss Stars above the two demons' heads all lit up, and faint ripples spread outward.

Whoosh.

Xierjie raised her long blade and rushed toward Er Dongsheng, her speed increasing by far more than one or two times.

Bang! His left arm blocked the incoming blade shadow, only for him to suddenly discover that it was merely an afterimage. Er Dongsheng flicked his gaze to the side, and another blade shadow appeared on his right. He clenched his right fist and smashed it forward!

Scrape! The blade shadow shattered. There was no physical blade, yet the scales on his hand suffered their first breakage. Specks of crimson blood seeped from the back of his hand, dripping down his fingers to the ground!

Blade aura? Or magic?

"It actually managed to hurt me. Looks like I need to get serious!"

Facing this magic similar to Daoist arts, Er Dongsheng had no choice but to take it seriously.

Swish swish swish!

Several more blade auras attacked from the front!

"Don't use something on me a second time after you've already used it once. It's useless!" He redirected the energy throughout his body. Every cell began running like a tiny motor, da da da, all of it surging into his hands!

In an instant, his defense skyrocketed!

Bang bang!

Like swatting balloons, he easily shattered the incoming blade auras before the stunned Abyssal Fairy!

"Yo, your speed has improved quite a bit, and those blade auras aren't bad either! But they're still not enough to impress me!"

His claws became like an eagle's talons as they seized toward the Abyssal Fairy's tender neck!

"Now, hurry!" Abyssal Fairy Xierjie instantly flashed away at a speed she had never displayed before, and then...

Boom! Dust billowed into the air.

A fireball several centimeters across shot from the mouth of that snake-like demon from before, blasting toward Er Dongsheng and instantly swelling larger along the way.

"Haha, such a tiny fireball? You trying to swat mosquitoes?"

The rapidly approaching little fireball suddenly became a massive fireball a meter in diameter and slammed brutally into Er Dongsheng's body before his shocked eyes!

"Fuck, I got careless and got played...!"

"Big brother, big brother! Give me back my big brother!"

"Wuwuwu..."

The little Succubus in the distance was stunned. Seeing her big brother suddenly buried in a sea of flames, she began crying her heart out.

"Huh, there's a little Succubus here?" Hearing the crying, Xierjie turned to look.

"What should we do?" the Abyssal Fairy asked her companion beside her.

"What do you mean, what should we do? Just kill her and be done with it," Slav replied irritably.

"Fuck, I took a huge loss! I wasted an outer body. It'll be a long time before I can use my innate ability again. During that time, this body of mine will be completely naked and defenseless!"

"Really kill her?"

Xierjie looked at the little Succubus crying endlessly beneath a distant tree and hesitated somewhat. It was not that she was kindhearted; Succubi were highly sought-after goods in the trading market! Especially a little Succubus—and she looked like a mutant one at that!

But after considering the mission she had to carry out, she simply had no time to bring this little Succubus back. Better forget it.

"Then kill her."

As they spoke, the two demons prepared to go over and finish off the little one.

However...

More often than not, heaven did not grant people their wishes—much less demons.

"You two, who are you planning to kill?"

An extraordinarily icy voice suddenly came from high above their heads, ringing throughout the campsite.

The little Succubus instantly stopped crying. She raised her head, her eyes red and her little face filled with confusion.

"Big brother?"