Chapter 868: The Pet Dragon. Part-2.

Looking at the sky, Rio’s eyes widened as he noticed hundreds of miasmic rifts continuously spilling liquid miasma on the ground.

Rivers of miasma fell from the broken sky and corroded the land everywhere.

The air itself was turned faint purple from the sheer concentration of miasma in the area, and most notably of all, there was no snow in the central area of the continent!

The entire land was dark black and covered in corrupted black mud!

Such dense miasma concentration reminded Rio of the ’Final Gamble Area,’ where the ’Miasmic door’ was located and Ellie was living.

’Is there a second miasmic door here? No, that’s not possible; if there was such a thing, Allen and Bela would have sealed or destroyed it back in their era.’

King Allen and Bela searched the entire solar system for a thousand years to locate the door of the abyss and even caused the war to keep going for years just to find a clue about that one entrance.

Eventually they located the entrance in the spirit realm and sealed it!

If there was a second entrance in the demon continent, they wouldn’t have had to search the entire solar system and would have already found this entrance long ago during the early years of the demon extinction war!

’Such dense miasma concentration clearly tells that miasma is hiding something here... it is a fitting place to hide Zain Dred...’

’For others this density of miasma would have been a severe deterrence, and even an SS ranker would have chosen to retreat... but this attempt to hide secrets only makes me more curious!’

[Sword Intent!]

[Sword Sage’s Enlightenment: Miasma Manipulation: Path of Demonic Sage!]

With a wave of Rio’s sword, the densely packed miasma in the air was split into two, and a path forward was opened in an instant!

Instead of obstructing him, miasma retreated in fear of him and dared not stop him.

’Being an anomaly does have its own advantages after all...’

Without wasting any more time, Rio flew through the opened path and entered the central area without being affected by the corruption in the slightest!

*Rumble!* *Rumble!*

The moment Rio stepped in the central area, the land shook and the nearby hills and mountains collapsed in an instant, the ground cracked open, and a gigantic dragon skeleton crawled out of the ground like a demon crawling out of a hellhole!

*ROOOOOOARRRRRRRRRR!!!!!*

[Ding! You are in the presence of a Rotten Abyss Dragon and are affected by its rotten existence!]

[Ding! Your mana control has been suppressed by 70%!]

[Ding! Your base stats have been suppressed by 90%!]

[Ding! Your skills and their effects have been suppressed by 85%!]

[Ding! Your soul has been suppressed by 50%!]

[Ding! ERROR!!!]

[Ding! Your skill ’True Immunity’ has been triggered!]

[Ding! You are now immune to all the debuffs and your condition has returned to your peak!]

Seeing the giant skeleton crawl out of the ground with such overwhelming momentum and watching the notifications on his status panel, Rio was shocked speechless!

"D*mn! Such an insane opening cinematic! This must be a high-level boss monster!"

"It even triggered my ’True Immunity’!"

Ever since Raika and Alverto, Rio hadn’t met anyone strong enough who could trigger his ’True Immunity’ skill so easily.

The creature in front of Rio was just a cluster of bones with a damaged soul and a destroyed body, and yet it still had so much power that even Rio felt amazed by it.

"An Abyss Dragon? Isn’t that one of the rarest species of dragons?"

Abyss Dragons, commonly known as ’Black Dragons,’ were a species of the Dragon Race that had existed since the descent of mana and miasma!

Unlike the other dragons who used mana for their sustenance, Black Dragons were born from miasma and gained power from miasma just like the demon race, giving them the nickname of ’Abyss Dragons’!

In terms of body shape, the black dragons looked pretty much identical to the shadow dragons, who had similar black-colored scales, but the black dragons were fundamentally completely different from any other race of dragons!

Their entire body oozed with enough miasma to flood a nation and corrupt everything!

Born in miasma, by the time these black dragons became adult, they were already mindless and insane!

Wherever they went, destruction, corruption, and death followed!

The concentration of miasma in the body of an abyss dragon was so high that over time that miasma would destroy the creature’s own body completely, and only bones would be left behind by the end of it!

"This bone dragon must be a Black Dragon that had its flesh and blood corroded and destroyed... now it’s just a mindless beast."

"Thankfully, in such a corrupted state, it likely has no thinking power left and likely can’t even use its ’World Authority’ despite being at the level of a demi-god!"

Yes, the bone dragon in front of Rio was clearly giving off the aura of a genuine demi-god-level powerhouse!

’The demon continent is really a fascinating place; powers of demons and corrupted demi-gods are almost everywhere! No wonder barely anyone dares enter this place!’

To be honest, Rio was impressed that Kevin Flash had once managed to cross this entire land and reach the Demon Palace despite only being an ordinary S-ranker!

*AHHHHHHHHUUUUHHHHHHHH!!!!!*

While Rio was contemplating various things in his mind, the bone dragon immediately went berserk the moment it laid eyes on Rio.

Screams of pain and horror appeared from the depths of its soul and carried out mental attacks on Rio while the bone dragon itself jumped towards Rio.

Unfortunately for it, though, Rio was immune to mental attacks and, with the crown of realms, had insanely high mobility!

*ZMMMMMM!!*

By using the powers of the crown, Rio bent the space-time fabric and easily dodged the other party’s attack.

"It doesn’t seem to have any skill... it’s just doing physical attacks like a barbaric mindless beast..."

"Well... it’s just bones; it doesn’t even have a brain, so it’s understandable it can’t think properly..."