Epic Of Caterpillar

”Count on me, David-sama. I will protect your family no matter what” said Leonia.

”Everyone…” David moved towards Blaire and embraced her in a tight hug.

”Thanks, Blaire… Kaze, Leonia” he said, while he hugged both of his retainers as well.

Unlike many humans who possessed servants, David was someone highly sentimental and held his retainers as if they were his siblings and family. He did not saw them as disposable pawns, but as companions, friends, and close family.

Kaze and Leonia could not resist the hug of their beloved master, smiling even more. Leonia in specific used her herculean strength to grab on David and hug him even tighter.

”Sigh… David-sama is really a very sentimental man, it shouldnʼt really be a thing, coming from someone who will one day become Hero” chuckled Kaze.

”Well, heʼs still developing. Isnʼt he? Only in his early twenties… Though, how many years do human life?” asked Leonia.

”Around eighty years…” muttered David.

”A-Anyways, I think we are going too off-topic here… David-sama lets go defeat the Boss and end this once and for all! If the Dragonoid Sage is in here, then weʼll drag him out forcefully!” said Blaire.

”Youʼre right, Blaire. Everyone lets go!” said David, heroically, his figure radiating greatness.

Opening the large, crimson door. An unexpected view was revealed at the party.

A large red and brown-colored dragon was lying in the ground, motionless, its stomach was wide open, and its innards were being devoured by another dragon. This dragon was large and dark, its scales resembled an armor, and its flesh seemed to be rooting. Several of its bones such as ribs could be clearly seen, its large head held twelve crimson eyes, glaring with an intimidating gleam to the party that had just entered the room.

The overwhelming presence of the fiend before them made the party led by David freeze.

”Aah… the Hero and its party, youʼre finally here. I have been waiting for you, kids…” said the fiend… with a cracking and old voice.

David was the only that could barely look directly at the rooting dark dragon.

”Hm? Ah, where are my manners? I am Zudig, the Dragon Zombie Demigod… Of course, this is a mere vessel… I think he used to call himself the Dragonoid Sage…? Heh, his body seemed a bit hard to possess, but my curses mutated his body and finally made it comfortable enough…” it said.

”Zu… dig?” muttered David.

Vastraszʼs soul, which was inside David, became finally aware of who this being truly was.

”Kid! You need to run away! This bastard is not a good Demigod! He once preyed on my siblings… and he also was the one that took my life!” shouted Vastrasz from within Davidʼs soul.

”What…?! But I canʼt even move…!” said David through his thoughts.

”Aah… Vastrasz, is it? I remember you… bwehehe…” laughed Zudig.

”Gh…!”

The moment Zudig directed his gaze to the entire party, they had suddenly become completely paralyzed. This was thanks to his ʼDevil Dragon Eyes of Paralysisʼ and ʼDevil Dragon Eyes of Fearʼ. Such a combination could make any weak-enough mortal become completely frozen.

”Now, now… there is no point in fighting or remembering old grudges. Isnʼt it? Why donʼt we cooperate? How about it? David, you are an exceptional mortal. I will not let those other Dragon Gods take you away for themselves… I am already too tired of this physical body, become my vessel!” shouted Zudig, its entire body becoming covered in darkness as an eerie presence filled the room, Zudig showed its true Divine Soul!

Flash!

A slash of blazing flames stopped Zudigʼs soul from possessing David.

However, Vastrasz was not affected by Zudigʼs powers, even if he could not showcase his true strength, he had regained enough power to make David counterattack. A large slice of flames rushed towards Zudigʼs soul, but it was useless, a Divine Soul could not be simply damaged by a mortalʼs techniques.

”Itʼs useless, Vastrasz! I killed you already, give up the kid! Heʼs mine!” shouted Zudig, its Divine Soul shaping as if it were a furious and deadly dark dragon.

David could not move, and Vastrasz had already sued everything he had to make David move for at least a split second. His body was shrouded in the darkness of the Dragon Zombie Demigodʼs Soul.

”Gyyaaaaaaaaaahh!!!” David shouted in agony as his soul was being slowly parasitized by the evil dragon demigod! An excruciating pain clouded all his thoughts as he could only cry in pain.

However, just at this very moment, the divinity projections of other Dragon Gods appeared.