40 Demons - 40

Only a moment after Zhou Fan and the rest entered the arena, one of the fighters pierced through the other with a sword.

Zhou Fan could hear the crowd roar in excitement and was mildly surprised. From what he could hear, there were at least 1000 demons in the colosseum alone. That was almost 5 times the amount of dark elves and elves combined.

Although they had a higher rate of success when reproducing, it shouldn't be so exaggerated. In fact, out of the 10 races, the demon race had the highest reproduction rate at 1 in 10, triple that of the elves.

Zhou Fan looked at the victor of the battle who was clearly feeling happy with the praise and rode out with Xiaolong. The moment he came into view of the demons, silence descended. Following behind him was the rest of the beasts. Xuanwu, Hang lu, Bainu, and Zhuque looked around with curious eyes at the members of the demon race.

At this moment, the fearsome and bloody demons were shivering. Although they had never seen these beasts, they were huge! It seemed as if each beast could trample upon the entire demon race.

Looking up, Zhou Fan spotted a white haired demon with red eyes wearing a crown. Even when seeing the beasts, he didn't seem fearful on the surface. Zhou Fan was surprised at his indifference when the demon king spoke up.

"How are you riding the beast of calamity?"He asked while staring straight into Zhou Fan's eyes.

"Is that what you call my dragon?" Zhou Fan responded with the same indifferent face.

Looking at the beast, the demon king spoke out. "Dragon, huh. A fitting name." Looking back at Zhou Fan, the king spoke again. "I would like to invite you to my palace."

Although Zhou Fan was still surprised at the demon king's actions, he agreed.

Seeing him nodding, the demon king rose from his chair and walked out the back, followed by a middle aged lady with black hair and purple eyes.

When Zhou Fan saw her, he felt slight surprise.

'The shadow race?' He thought to himself. 'What are they doing here?'

The shadow race was ranked 7th. Although when compared to the 3rd rank elf race, 4th rank dark elf race, and the 2nd rank demon race, they seemed low, they were still a terrifying force in the past.

Zhou Fan saw them in the coliseums exit and ordered Yipeng and the beasts to follow.

When they caught up, the demon king started to lead them to the palace.

On the way, Zhou Fan looked at the black haired, purple eyed girl and asked a question.

"Are you from the shadow race?"

She nodded her head to confirm as the demon king spoke up for her.

"Indeed she is. When our races fell into the caves, there was a path between our caves without snakes. At first we were hostile to each other, but we later formed a treaty and have lived in harmony since. As for now, she is my wife and the current queen of the demon race."

Zhou Fan nodded, and they walked the rest of the journey silently. When they made it to the palace, they were led to the throne room. Surprisingly, the demon king didn't sit on the throne and instead stood in the middle of the room.

"My name is Cao Lin, and this is my wife Cao Zen. On behalf of the demon race, I can absolutely say that we bear no grudge towards the human race and hope that you can forgive our ancestors' transgressions."

Looking at Cao Lin, Zhou Fan could tell what he was thinking. It's likely that he recognizes Xiaolong as the beast of calamity and feared for his and the demon race's lives.

"What is the beast of calamity?" Zhou Fan asked. Although he had read the entire elf and dark elf library, he had never heard mention of the beast of calamity.

"It's a legend passed down from one of the demon kings that lived before we retreated to the caves. According to it, the beast of calamity is a terrifying beast that has the power of 10,000 men once it becomes an adult. As for yours, it seems to be no older than 10." The demon king said, finally having a somewhat fearful look surface on his face.

Zhou Fan nodded at the demon king's words. He had previously assumed that not only Xiaolong, but the other beasts were quite young.

"In that case, do you recognize the other beats?" Zhou Fan asked.

"No. In fact, I only recognized yours because of a drawing contained within the book. According to the past demon king, your beast's ancestor had almost decimated the demon race before they finally appeased it. When it grows to full size, it is 100 feet long and 5 feet wide. Arrows will only leave a scratch on its scales." He said.

"As for the other beasts, I assume that they are either equal or similar in power to the beast of calamity. Their age should be equal or similar as well."

Listening to him, Zhou Fan finally spoke up. "You seem like a nice guy, but I'm going to have to ask you to submit. Don't worry, I won't take control over anything or affect you in any way." Zhou Fan said.

After some brief hesitation, the demon king knelt and submitted to Zhou Fan. Zhou Fan pulled him up from the ground to show him some face, and looked at the shadow queen.

"Can you speak for your race?" He asked.

"Yes." She responded before imitating the demon king and kneeling on the ground.

It seemed they both knew they stood no chance against the beasts. As for Zhou Fan, they had no idea that he was 1000 times more powerful than all the beasts combined.

Zhou Fan told both of the rulers to inform their race of what happened here. He also allowed them to take one of the beasts, besides Xiaolong, before they left, in case the citizens didn't like that they submitted and tried to revolt.

The demon king chose the white tiger while the shadow Queen chose the phoenix.