The monsters that were around him wanted to come forward to stop it, but they were too late as the blade of dark energy was already in front of Val Zahar.
It was right about to hit him, but it didn't reach him in the end.
That was because there was a wall of dark energy that appeared in front of him as well.
With narrowed eyes, Val Zahar looked at the blade of dark energy that was caught in front of him before saying, "Who is it?"
There was only silence that followed, but the monsters didn't let their guards down as they moved towards Val Zahar.
Finally, a voice broke through that silence, "Strange, what is a demon like you doing in a place like this?"
A faint smile appeared on Val Zahar's face before he asked, "I could say the same to you. What is a demon doing all the way out here?"
Silence followed after he said this, as if the other side was considering how to answer.
Then there was a laugh that cut through the air followed by an amused voice saying, "A young demon like you questioning me? At least you have this courage to you."
Then in a colder voice that demon said, "But that kind of courage could get you hurt."
There were several more blades of dark energy that appeared around Val Zahar.
He slightly knitted his brows seeing them, but he didn't hesitate to create more walls of dark energy around him that stopped all those blades. However, it didn't seem like he was completely unaffected by this.
There was a trace of struggle that appeared on his face, showing that it wasn't easy for him to stop these blades of dark energy.
"Grr." The monsters looked concerned when they saw that Val Zahar was struggling, but he raised his hand to show that he was fine.
Instead of sending the monsters forward, there was a red light that condensed in Val Zahar's eyes as he started looking around.
After a while, he finally raised his hand in one direction and flicked out with his finger to send a blade of dark energy out. This blade of dark energy didn't seem like it was being aimed at anything with the way that it flew into the darkness of the night.
However, there was someone that suddenly appeared.
This figure jumped over the blade of dark energy that was sent out and landed in front of Val Zahar and the monsters.
When the monsters saw this figure, they wanted to charge forward at it to attack.
Only they stopped when they heard a cough from Val Zahar.
Though they didn't charge forward to attack, that didn't mean that they were idle.
The monsters spread out in the end, moving in a way so that they surrounded this figure. They made sure that this figure was completely surrounded just in case it did anything.
However, that figure just took a slow step forward to reveal itself.
It was a middle aged demon that had similar features to Val Zahar, though in terms of appearance…Well, he just couldn't compare to Val Zahar.
After stepping forward, the middle aged demon said, "You're not bad. You were actually able to find where I was hiding and even released an attack against me. I rarely meet young talent like you…"
The way that he said this was as if he was praising Val Zahar, but there was something strange about the way that he said this.
Val Zahar could hear it too, so he didn't fall for anything that the middle aged demon said.
"I think that I'll take you back with me and refine your talent. If I have an elixir like you, there's no doubt that I'll become even stronger."
There was the kicker.
The middle aged demon didn't even bother trying to hide it as he directly admitted what he wanted to do.
Demons really didn't beat around the bush, they acted on their nature and this one was quite vicious.
But Val Zahar didn't panic when he heard this.
Rather, the look on his face showed that he had already expected something like this. As such, he had already prepared for his next move.
The red light that had filled his eyes didn't disappear.
Rather, that red light started to spread across his entire body starting from his eyes.
After a while, the red light completely covered Val Zahar.
With this light around him, it was as if he had turned into a completely different person.
But that wasn't the important thing.
The important thing was the pressure that the middle aged demon felt because of this.
The middle aged demon couldn't help trembling when he felt this strange feeling coming from Val Zahar.
After that, it was as if he was about to bend forward before he stopped himself from doing so.
It took a while, but the middle aged demon was able to stop himself in the end.
Only the way that he looked at Val Zahar completely changed.
He no longer looked at him as if he was a piece of meat that he could easily snatch away. Instead, the middle aged demon was now looking at Val Zahar with a trace of wariness in his eyes.
After a long silence, the middle aged demon finally asked, "How are you releasing this kind of pressure?"
Val Zahar didn't say anything as he continued glaring at the middle aged demon, but it was clear that he was also trying to put as much pressure as he could on him to stop him from doing anything.
The expression on the face of the middle aged demon slowly changed as he looked at Val Zahar.
Eventually, there was a smile that appeared as he started laughing.
With the way that he was laughing, it made the middle aged demon seem like some kind of maniac.
Only the middle aged demon didn't seem to care at all about this.
Once he was done, he finally said, "I never thought that I would find something like this here. To think that there would be someone with the potential of the demon king."