Krul Dragna, 16 years old.

Krul was the current youngest Demigod, being born between the union of star god Lahmu and his Proxy Shima Dragna.

Because of this, Krul was born with a high concentration of divine blood in his veins.

In fact, the term Demigod was unsuitable for him.

This was because Krul was over ¾ god.

His mother Shima, like every other God Proxy, had her body mutated to imitate her parent God. In simpler terms, she was closer to a God than a human.

There was also the fact that Shima’s father was Athena’s former Proxy, which meant she had also inherited some of Athena’s blood as well.

Krul inherited both of his parents blood, and became something like a pseudo-God.

Because of this, Krul was naturally ahead of his peers in talent and power.

As expected, Krul had never lost since the day he was born.

To others, it was something they were really envious about, but to Krul himself it was a living hell.

Life quickly became boring for him.

After all, he was a god among mortals.

They were course countless people stronger than him, but he was certain that if he put a little effort he could surpass them all.

So in the end, they were inferior to him.

Krul naturally sought ways to entertain himself.

He tried sports.

He tried arts.

He tried all kinds of stuff like games, but in the end nothing worked.

Krul was still bored.

It was actually an accident that ended his boredom.

Someone who had a grudge against his branch, or more specifically the vigilante organization they formed Star Rose, kidnapped Krul in his sleep.

When he woke up, a 6 year old Krul witnessed his kidnapper torturing kids his age, who were also kept captive.

Krul watched as the man took his frustrations on children, by systematically breaking their bodies and tearing them apart.

Krul was instantly fascinated by this act of cruelty and couldn’t turn away his gaze.

When the man noticed Krul’s gaze, he got an idea.

He would turn Krul into someone like him.

To the man, this was the perfect revenge against a lawful organization like Star Rose, who preached benevolence.

The man took Krul out of his cage and started to instruct him on how to break someone apart.

He used a child and cut her up to teach him about the human anatomy.

He used another child to teach him how to skin someone alive without killing them.

He used another one to teach him how to debone a human.

The man taught Krul always kinds of horrible things, for the period of 6 months he held him captive.

Eventually Krul was saved by his grandmother Echo, but she was too late.

When she found him, he was surrounded by countless body parts, some rearranged into art, some into furniture.

This shocked Echo greatly.

It was then that Krul noticed her and spoke.

“Look grandmother, I’ve finally found something entertaining.”

He stepped away and showed her a piece of art made with the kidnapper’s Corpse.

Krul then looked at her with a smile on his bloody face and said-

“He seemed happy when he was doing it, so I thought that he would be happier if I did it to him.”

Of course, Echo was shocked out of her mind and acted quickly.

She used her Chaotic Qi to invade Krul’s mind and tried to erase his memories of his time as a captive.

She was successful.

However, Krul remained the same.

Even without his memories, Krul exhibited psychotic behavior.

He would order the servants to kill or harm each other.

He would sneak into the jail cells, that the branch used to keep its prisoners, and tortured them.

He would capture civilians and cut them into pieces.

Krul had done countless cruel acts.

It reached the point where Echo was faced with a tough choice.

Kill her grandson, or reprogrammed him.

She naturally chose the latter.

She and the rest of the elders of the branch implanted a different persona into Krul’s body to replace and suppress his real one.

This person was referred as Krul Dragna, while the original was referred ironically as Krulty.

They couldn’t get rid of Krulty without damaging Krul’s soul, but they were able to suppress him.

At least that’s what they thought.

They soon found out that Krulty still had freedom.

It happened when Krul suffered his first defeat when he came across a greater genius.

Alec Dragna.

Alec had visited the Quartus branch in search of Augustus’ reincarnation and decided to test Krul.

He failed miserably.

Krul couldn’t surpass Alec in anyway.

Refusing to accept defeat, Krul drew out more strength from within him. But he also drew out Krulty.

Krul had gained a great increase in strength and became seemingly unstoppable.

But of course, he was still crushed by Alec, without mercy.

That was Krul’s second defeat at the hands of the same person.

Since then, it became apparent in the branch that Krul could only use his true strength by drawing out his alter ego, and this became a warning sign to the branch.

Never push Krul too far.

Krul laid on his back with his entire body aching.

He looked around the dead wonderland with dull eyes.

It was then that scenes of carnage from the past flashed in his mind.

A sinister smile appeared on his face.

“Ah, that’s right.”

He sat up.

“This is the perfect stage for some entertainment. That’s the sole reason I proposed this competition.”

He stood up.

“Time to hunt.”

He took a step forward and the bones around him started levitating.

He took another step and the sky darken.

He took another step and ominous red stars appeared in the sky.

Three steps from Krulty was all it took turn the already ghastly place into a hell.

He continued to walk forward with his sinister smile on his face.

It was then that something appeared in front of him.

It was Rin who was still using his Speed Devil technique.

Rin thrust his sword towards Krulty’s neck.

“?!”

However, it went right through him.

‘Did he dodge it and returned to same place in a split second, leaving an afterimage?!’

Rin thought in his head.

Without him being able to react, his face was grabbed by Krulty.

*BOOM!*

He was punched in his chest while being held by his face.

“Cough?!”

Blood sprayed out of Rin’s mouth like a hose.

“Ah~. There it is. The sweet sound of a chest plate shattering and a bone piercing the lung.”

Krulty spoke as if he was admiring a classic.

Rin lifted his sword and slashed at Krulty.

*BOOM!*

His sword was slapped out of his hand by Krulty.

“Ah, you’re a swordsman right?”

Krulty smiled.

He then gripped Rin’s arm and pulled it down.

A creaking sound resounded immediately after.

“Ahhhhhh?!”

Rin screamed out in pain when he got his arm dislocated.

“Ah, bones rubbing together makes really beautiful music.”

“You bastard!”

Rin roared.

He immediately activated dragon rage and created a fist out of his aura.

He used the fist to punch Krulty in the face.

“Did you do something?”

*BOOM!*

Krulty smiled and slammed Rin on the ground.

He then stomped on Rin’s shoulder and gripped his arm.

“Since you can form limbs out of aura, you don’t need this.”

With a sinister smile, Krulty suddenly twisted Rin’s arm until it looked like a bloody rope with bones sticking out of it.

“Guaaaaaa?!”

Rin screamed in agony when it happened.

“Yes, that’s it. Scream! I love it with my playthings beg for forgiveness!”

Krulty laughed like a madman while he continued to destroy Rin’s arm.

“Get the fuck off, Rin!”

Nen appeared out of nowhere and slammed his fist on the side of Krulty’s face.

He was sent flying before crashing into a mountain of bones.

“Rin are you alright?”

Miko walked up to him and started to heal his arm.

“I-I’m fine. T-This is nothing.”

Rin said with a forced smile.

He then looked at Nen who was facing Krulty.

“How rude. Suddenly punching people like that.”

Krulty stood and said while fixing his jaw that seemed to be broken.

He suddenly appeared in front of Nen.

“I’ll have to kill you as punishment.”

“Try it.”

Nen spoke with an angry tone.

“Then I’ll do that!”

*BOOM!*

Krulty hit Nen with an uppercut.

*BOOM!*

However, he was immediately hit with a jab.

*BOOM!* *BOOM!* *BOOM!*

Nen started to pound away at Krulty with lightning fast jabs, that held incredible weight.

Krulty’s body shook from left and right while Nen who was in frenzy, rained down punches on him.

He staggered back a couple steps, but Nen gripped him by his shoulder and pulled him in.

“Fuck off!”

*BOOM!*

Nen slammed his fist in Krulty’s face and sent him flying.

“Miko, stop Nen. The power he’s using is incredible, but it’s self-destructive.”

Rin said after seeing Nen attacking Krulty.

Miko looked at Nen, and noticed that his body was giving off red steam.

Nen rushed after Krulty and jumped into the air.

*BOOM!*

Krulty, who was trying to stand up, was punched in the back of his head and forced into the ground.

Nen picked him up and made him stand.

“you fucker!”

*BOOM!*

He hit Krul with a body blow.

“Do you know how precious that arm is to Rin?!”

*BOOM!*

He uppercut him.

“Do you know how many times he was brought to tears because of his strict training?!”

*BOOM!*

He punched him across the face with a hook.

“And yet you…Die!”

Nen started to wildly slammed his fists on Krulty’s body.

He was no longer punching him with a discipline form, but was simply attacking him like a beast.

It was like he had lost himself in his anger.

The amount of steam his body was releasing grew by the second.

“Hm?”

It was then that Miko realized that every time Nen threw a punch, bruises appeared over his body.

‘His body is being destroyed?’

Miko thought while remembering what happened to his hands earlier.

“I see. So that’s how it is.”

“Die! Die! Die!”

Nen screamed while he mercilessly attacked Krulty.

He didn’t stop even when blood was leaking through every pore in his body.

‘Guess I should stop him now.”

Thinking that Miko stood up, but before he could act the situation changed.

*BOOM!*

A fist pierced through Nen’s stomach and out his back.

“His arm was precious to him?”

Krulty laughed.

“Fool! That’s why I took it!”

He pulled his hand out of Nen and lifted his leg.

“More importantly, when did it became acceptable for a toy to rebel against its master!”

*BOOM!*

He slammed his heel on top of Nen’s head, which nearly caused his eyes to pop out.

“You need punishment!”

A dark star appeared in the center of Krulty’s hand.

“I don’t remember any of us, becoming your toys!”

KC jumped over Nen and sat on Krul’s soldiers.

“Die!”

*BOOM!*

He slammed his gauntlet in Krulty’s face and the crossbow on the wrist shot a burst of flames.

Krulty stumbled back.

KC flipped off his shoulders and lifted Nen over his shoulders.

He aimed his fist at the burning Krulty.

“Demolition Arrow!”

The crossbow on his gauntlet fired a black arrow which hit Krulty in the chest.

*BOOM!*

A huge explosion devoured him and the mountains of bones, leaving a deep crater behind.

Seeing that, KC immediately retreated carrying Nen.

Miko picked up Rin and retreated as well.

‘I doubt that did anything other than stall him.’

Miko thought to himself.

‘I know we forced him out, but that thing is one hell of a monster.’

He smiled.

“I’m at less than 30%, but I don’t feel cornered at all.”

He ran while carrying Rin.

“After I hide Rin, I’ll return and discover what my limits are and what lays past them.”