CHAPTER 285: CHAPTER 285: EXECUTION GROUND...

A few minutes later...

"Huff. Huff..." Muku who has been dodging attacks for the last few minutes breathed heavily while hiding behind a big tree.

It wasn’t that he didn’t try to fight back. He had tried the same spike from before which threw the beast into the sky. Unfortunately for him, this time it was prepared.

The beast’s DA literally burned his metal into a liquid state. It didn’t even move a bit. The spike liquefied before reaching its body every time.

The sight of which horrified Muku. The result was even worse than last time! This made him wonder what would have happened if it had been aware from the start back then...

He might not have even gotten the chance to escape. The Earth Dragon was way too monstrous!

The worst part was that it had moved from the start. It was practically making him dance for him within a certain range.

He had tried running behind it. But it increased the firepower to the point that he could only dejectedly turn back lest he get burned to a crisp...

At that point, it was clear to him that the beast wanted to make him suffer first before ending him. Which was something he had gotten used to after it happened so many times in the past.

It gave him the chance to turn things around. Which he has always been able to do given enough time... Though Mrs C had to get involved in the CSK’s case. That thing was just too much, after all.

Hopefully, she won’t have to get involved this time otherwise he would practically turn into a mother’s boy who can’t do anything without his mother. That would be way too embarrassing.

Anyway, just because being played around with gives him the chance to turn things around, it doesn’t mean he likes it. He was one of those people who liked bullying their opponents, after all.

Unfortunately, it seemed fate was playing a cruel joke on him since recently he was always the one getting bullied in all significant encounters...

How he wished to turn things around. Unfortunately, the current battle didn’t seem to be the one. After all, even if he ends up winning, he had already been bullied, right?

"Rooooar!..." The Earth Dragon roared again as Muku was hiding behind one of the few remaining trees in the area...

But the roar seemed a bit different. On top of that, the accompanying fire breath was missing. Muku didn’t feel happy but felt extremely uneasy instead. After all, there was no way the ED had run out of mana from those few attacks.

That meant one thing... It was switching up its attacks. Muku immediately went into defensive mode. He was ready to receive an attack from any direction...

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!...

Suddenly, a pillar of fire rose from the ground into the sky. But for whatever reason, it wasn’t located anywhere close to Muku’s position. Though, he could still feel its burning heat from a distance.

Before he could make sense of the situation, another pillar sprouted in the distance. Then another and another until ten pillars surrounded him in every direction...

Then thin horizontal lines of fire spouted into existence and joined the pillars together. The space left in between wasn’t big enough for a person to go through... Though Muku wouldn’t dare attempt such a thing anyway. Not unless he was okay with literally getting cooked.

The structure almost looked like a ring designed to keep him from running away. And it burned like hell despite being some distance away from all sides.

However, he wasn’t too worried yet. After all, the top was still open. He could get out at any mome... Or maybe not. Just when Muku wanted to fly out. Something appeared in the sky.

Something which made him dare not fly even an inch into the sky. That something was a huge fire spear which was pointing down. And the very tip was locked on him who stood at the centre...

"Oh... Fu..." Muku cursed. But the latter part of his curse was covered out by a domineering voice...

"EXECUTION GROUND" A deep voice sounded from the Earth Dragon’s mouth.

The words sent a chill down Muku’s spine despite all the heat.

He immediately understood that the beast was done playing around...

But it was too soon! He hadn’t thought of anything yet! Sure, there was something on his mind. But that required too much time to do. He wanted something faster. But it seemed he was out of time.

He could either do what he could or die before he could...

The huge spear began descending after the ED’s words fell. And the descent wasn’t slow like Layla’s Shadow Charged spears. It was rather quick. Within two seconds it had reached the ground from over seventy metres in the sky. The pillars were also of the same height, so Muku couldn’t get out. And then...

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

An explosion worthy of Advanced Mana went off when the attack reached the ground. The explosion resulted from both the attack’s power and momentum from the height. So the explosion was extra strong. It was an attack worthy of the name...

Even more devastating was how the pillars contained the attack. This concentrated it in that spot making it more potent and deadly to the target...

Quite frankly, if Muku doesn’t pull out something special then he’s dead for sure. Wouldn’t it be interesting if he really died?...

Anyway, it took a few minutes for everything to clear up before the ED could see again.

It didn’t use its power to clear up the dust since it was certain Muku was dead. So, there was no need to waste power to see a corpse...or nothing at all. It would see everything eventually anyway.

It chose to take that time to enjoy the show of destruction it caused. Its mood would get better and better the more dust which cleared as it looked at the hole which kept getting deeper and deeper as it was revealed.

The hole was around fifty metres wide. A little too much for the tiny Muku but that’s the smallest the ED could make the attack...

As for the depth, around seventy metres had been revealed and it kept on getting deeper and deeper... This went on until three freaking kilometres were revealed! That’s right. The attack which wasn’t even a beam attack caused such devastation. And Muku was nowhere to be seen. Nor was his aura.

The Earth Dragon low-roared to itself in satisfaction. The ant which had brought it so much misfortune was dead. Preparing that attack while pretending to focus solely on breath attacks was worth it.

It made Muku think that it was playing around with him when it was setting up a sure kill attack instead. If the execution ground could be prepared instantly. Tye ED would have used it at the very start. It had no interest in playing around with Muku despite the hatred it had for him.

To it, all enemies should be promptly killed off no matter what. There was no need to delay... If Muku found out about its thoughts he would have vomited blood. To think he thought it was a fool when he was the real fool. He had been playing in its palm from start to finish...

Was that the difference between Advanced Beasts(R4s and beyond) and Common Beasts (R3s and lower)?

Now it could think about how to get out of the weird space it found itself in. The only reason it didn’t bother with it before was that it couldn’t move at first and its enemy appeared in front of it after.

Now it had the time to look into it. It couldn’t wait to get back to the Beast Forest despite all the danger there was there. After all, the place it was in was way too eerie.

Not to mention that it was small and had no other living creatures... Well, there were two living creatures but it had just ended the life of the other one. So, yeah, it was the only living creature in there.

While it could go a long time without food. It could go beyond a year actually. But still, it would have to eat after that year...

Now where should it start looking...

BOOOOOOM!

An explosion suddenly rang out from behind the ED. It immediately turned around with its guard up. In its head, it felt confused. After all, there shouldn’t be any living creatures left in the pocket dimension apart from itself. So what the hell was happening?!

As it thought that its eyes widened in surprise as it laid its gaze on the cause of the explosion.

{Impossible!} It thought as it looked at the grey-armoured human floating some distance away from it. How was he completely fine?! Sure, he smelled like burnt hair and there was some smoke coming from him. But that was nothing considering the attack it used. There shouldn’t be anything of him left!

"What? Still not going to speak to me? The last guy spoke after I shocked him around as much as I shocked you now" Muku who had somehow survived the devastating attack taunted the Earth Dragon.

His body was fully encased in a glowing grey armour. It looked somewhat different from the one he had before. Yet the Earth Dragon could only sense a faint aura from it...

What the hell was going on?

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Find out how he survived in the next episode of Dragon Ball Apocalypse! Hehe. Again. I couldn’t help it.