Hey guys! It's been a while since you've received a message from me, so I just wanted to say hi. I'm writing to tell you that I'm creating my own original fan fiction story called 'Essence Made Demon King'. I've always wanted to see more custom-made Demon King fanfiction, but sadly there isn't much, so I decided to write my own! Check it out and let me know what you think!
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The highway had transformed into an inferno.
Flames surged from ground to sky, spiraling upward and condensing above Heatblast's head into a rapidly expanding sphere of fire. The mass grew larger with each passing second until it resembled a crimson sun hanging in the air, a miniature star pulsing with destructive heat that blocked out the actual sunlight above.
This wasn't just a fireball anymore. This was a solar apocalypse.
Even from miles away, people could see a red sun blazing against the sky, its scorching presence making the air shimmer and twist.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
More than a dozen crimson laser beams shot toward Heatblast simultaneously from Vilgax's mechanical army, their combined firepower converging into a single concentrated wave of destruction that seemed unstoppable!
"Take this!!"
Heatblast thrust both palms forward and hurled the massive sphere, his technique directly at the incoming barrage!
BOOM!!
The moment the sun-sized fireball collided with the red lasers, an explosion of flame consumed everything within a hundred-meter radius. Fire raged everywhere, creating a literal hell on earth that melted asphalt and twisted metal into slag!
BOOM! CRASH! CRACK!
Under this overwhelming offensive, dozens of small combat robots detonated in the inferno. Their scattered parts instantly melted into molten droplets, leaving not a single fragment intact. The mechanical army that had seemed so threatening moments ago was now nothing but superheated vapor and ash.
For a long time afterward, the entire sky remained tinted crimson, bathed in a bloody sunset glow that refused to dissipate. The residual heat was so intense that any ordinary person who approached would suffer severe burns instantly.
"Are they all gone?"
Heatblast slowly descended from the sky back to the scorched highway, his rocky body feeling the weight of exhaustion. His eyes swept across the smoke-filled battlefield, searching through the thinning flames for any sign of the mechanical forces.
He couldn't see any remaining robots in the dispersing firelight. It seemed they'd all been obliterated in that devastating explosion.
That last move had been truly shocking, a single technique that completely wiped out Vilgax's mechanical army!
But something was wrong.
'Where are Kevin and Rojo?'
The two villains who'd been fighting alongside the robots had completely vanished. Heatblast's expression grew puzzled and wary as he continued scanning his surroundings with heightened caution.
'Did they get caught in the flames too?'
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Suddenly!!
Several figures burst from the wasteland flanking both sides of the highway, charging toward Heatblast like predators pouncing on prey!
It was Rojo and her group of tech-enhanced robbers, they'd been lying in ambush the entire time, waiting for exactly this moment when Heatblast was exhausted!
"Enjomo!!"
Heatblast slammed both palms against the ground, and his body erupted with torrents of fire that formed a towering wall of flames around him like an absolute defensive barrier.
"Don't get near his flames!"
"It's so hot, I feel like my armor's melting!"
"Too hot! Can't breathe!"
Rojo and her mechanical robbers skidded to a halt around the fire wall, their expressions filled with fear. None of them dared approach that terrifying inferno, even with their cybernetic enhancements and armored suits protecting them.
"That last technique took a lot out of me," Heatblast said between heavy breaths, his flames flickering slightly as he recovered his strength. His tone turned cold and threatening. "But once I catch my breath, I'll burn every last one of you to ash!"
'Why did Rojo and her group show themselves now? Where's Kevin?'
The answer came faster than expected.
While Heatblast's fire wall protected him from ground-level attacks, it left him vulnerable from above!
Kevin descended from the sky like a thunderbolt, crackling with electrical energy. He'd clearly been prepared for this exact scenario, positioning himself in Heatblast's defensive blind spot and diving straight toward the Pyronite within the flame barrier!
"Perfect!" Heatblast looked up and spotted Kevin's aerial assault. Rather than show fear, he gave a low, approving laugh. "If you want to fight me head-on, you're just speeding up your own death!!"
Even an exhausted tiger could still kill a wolf!
One swipe would teach Kevin a lesson he'd never forget!
"Fire Fist!!"
Heatblast threw his right fist skyward, launching a massive column of lava-like flames wreathed in gunpowder smoke straight at Kevin!
"My goal was never to fight you directly!!"
But Kevin twisted mid-air, his body flashing with bursts of electricity. With a crack, he dodged the Fire Fist like a bolt of lightning slipping through the cracks of reality!
Heatblast raised his left fist to continue the attack, but Kevin had already landed right in front of him, both hands grabbing firmly onto Heatblast's rocky shoulders!
"You're asking for it!!"
Heatblast's expression turned murderous. The flames covering his body suddenly intensified to white-hot temperatures, and the ground beneath his feet began melting through from the sheer heat!!
"AHHHHH!!!"
Kevin's face contorted in agony as he let out a blood-curdling scream that sounded almost inhuman.
"Boss Kevin?! What's wrong?!"
"He's not dead, is he?!"
"Don't get close to that fire wall, you'll burn alive!"
The tech-enhanced robbers outside watched nervously, their concern obvious. Hearing Kevin's screams of pain made them genuinely terrified!
'Did Kevin really just throw his life away trying to solo Heatblast?'
But Kevin had never seemed like the type to make suicidal moves...
"Kevin, you're finished." Heatblast maintained the intense heat radiating from his body, his tone completely indifferent as he pronounced Kevin's death sentence.
"Asher..." Kevin's voice changed from agonized screaming to manic excitement. "I want your ability! I want to become as powerful as you!"
Without his armor restraining his abilities, Kevin's palms began generating massive electrical currents that spread across Heatblast's body in crackling waves!
Although the robot army had been destroyed, the kinetic energy Kevin had absorbed from their systems had dramatically amplified his natural powers!
"What the, ?! Get off me!"
Electric current spread throughout his body. Even with his flames providing some defense, Heatblast felt his rocky limbs go numb. He immediately raised his right fist and slammed it into Kevin's face with all his remaining strength!
WHAM!
Kevin was sent flying several meters from the impact, landing just outside the fire wall.
"I almost forgot you have abilities!!"
Staring at Kevin's fallen form, Heatblast raised one finger. The tip ignited with wisps of flame that quickly condensed into a bullet-shaped projectile of concentrated fire, his technique Higan!
One shot, one kill!
FWOOSH!
The fiery bullet rocketed toward Kevin's head with more destructive power than a Barrett sniper rifle!
"It's useless!!"
But in the next moment, something impossible happened.
Kevin shot to his feet, his body now wreathed in flickering red flames accompanied by crackling electrical currents. The combination formed a protective shield-like aura around him!
CRACK!!
The Higan struck his defensive field and only caused it to tremble slightly, forcing Kevin to take a few steps back. But he withstood the attack completely!
"This is... fire power?!"
Heatblast's single eye widened in shock. He immediately recognized the flames covering Kevin's body, they were identical to his own Pyronite abilities!
"Yeah! This is YOUR ability!" Kevin slowly let the flames and electricity fade away, revealing his transformed state.
His appearance was grotesque, a horrifying fusion of human and alien. Kevin's head had become like Heatblast's, composed of volcanic rock and internal magma, while his body remained partially human but covered in molten, lava-colored skin that cracked and glowed with internal heat. He looked like a monstrous hybrid caught between two forms.
The expression on his twisted face radiated pure arrogance, the triumphant glee of a villain who believed he'd already won.
"You absorbed my fire powers and think that makes you as strong as me?" Heatblast's voice cut through Kevin's delusions like a blade. "Stop dreaming!!"