Zen got the location of the Dragon from Winto, and went towards the mountains, after telling his sister and Jin that he'll be back soon. He even left Lizz back at home, not thinking she would be strong enough for the mission.

"Annie." Zen called out his Shadow, and after a lot of thinking, promoted her. "Shadow Evolution." He spoke, causing a notification to appear.

[What stat would you like for points to be taken from?]

"Luck." Zen responded, even though he felt like he heard a voice in his head, telling him he was stupid. Spending 5 points, Annie was brought up to the Commander Rank.

Going even further, he did it again, bringing her up to a Rank he hadn't even seen yet.

[Annie Leonhart]
[Level 1]
[Rank: Marshal]

"Annie, I want you to lead the Shadow Army into this battle." Zen told her, causing her face to light up in silent happiness. "Of course, My King! We'll defeat this Dragon in an instant!" She cheered, bringing a smile to his face.

"Speaking of an instant, I wanted to ask something, how long was my fight against Kirigakure?" Zen asked, wondering how it looked from an outsiders perspective.

"It was over in about... 2 minutes?" Annie replied. "It wasn't very long. None of us were put to our limits, why?" She asked. "It was only 2 minutes for you guys... For me, we fought for over 8 minutes." Zen told her, which brought new perspective to her.

"The extra time must be from time being stopped, right?" Annie pondered, causing Zen to nod. "This fight... this will not be easy. I'm gonna try and end this as soon as possible, so it may be over in 10 seconds for you, but that may be much longer for me."

Zen took a deep breath in, before he passed a barrier. Whether that barrier was set by the Dragon or otherwise, Zen didn't know.

What he did know, was that this was quite scary. Climbing to the top of the mountain, Zen saw the Dragon.

A King Waits For Fun
Level ?
Wrath

"Who else dares to enter my domain?" The Dragon huffed, before sensing Zen's energy. "Oh? Is that the Shadow Monarch, trapped in a feeble human's husk?" The Dragon's deep voice shook the air with every waking word. The Dragon laughed obnoxiously at Zen, who couldn't have cared less.

He was much more focused on the fact that he was about to fight something that he couldn't even see it's level.

"It's no matter. You will die regardless." The Dragon tried to swat Zen away, hoping to end the fight in one fell swoop, only to realize he didn't hit anything. "Oh?" He began, before getting punched on the face.

The knockback was far more than he normally handled, and was pretty surprising to him.

"Oh?! Maybe this will be fun!" Wrath's face turned into a smirk of sorts, it's face looking far from normal.

As soon as Wrath showed signs of aggression, Zen instantly activated his Time Acceleration skill and pushed it to its limits, being it's level, 50.

With all his Mana regen increasing skills, and with his skills that reduce skill costs, he was only expending about 15000 Mana every minute, which was fine for him.

He also gets a second wind if his Mana gets so low, so he had something to fall back on.

"Let's go!" Zen gave Annie the Time Acceleration buffs, so she would stay up to speed, and be able to help him in the ridiculously overly fast speeds.

Zen activated all his defensive moves, black scales growing on his skin. In an instant, he grew stronger than most could ever dream of.

Without uttering a word, Zen conjured up 4 Gungnirs, and threw them all at Wrath. Kirigakure's hands followed his own, moving to his will.

They all landed and blew up on contact, which gave Zen an idea. "Annie, draw his attention!" Zen backed up, forcing out as much Mana he could for a Black Dragon Bomb.

"If I can't spin Gungnir, I'll just make my own spear!" He deactivated Time Acceleration, and poured the additional Mana into the ball of energy.

"Now... Condense...!" Zen pulled the energy towards eachother, shaping it into a spear. He was laser focused, not noticing his Shadows fighting the Dragon with all of their might, and Annie speeding around at 20 times the speed.

[You have thought of a new skill!]

[What would you like to name it?]

"Orochimaru." Zen grinned, before holding the dark spear in his hand. Without missing a beat, Zen pushed more and more energy into the spear, filling it with the equivalent of 250000 Mana.

It took a long 3 minutes, but he held a weapon of intense destruction in his hand.

Then, he threw it.

A shiver shot up Choi Jongin's spine. He suddenly stood up from his desk, an energy like no other rocking his guild all over the place; like an earthquake, everything became unsteady, shaking uncontrollably, but this was no earthquake.

"Guild Master!" Julie rushed to where Choi was, thinking something bad may've happened to him.

She busted into the room, knowing that her master's privacy mattered less than his safety, then she saw him. He was save, but she knew his expression, she knew the expression all too well.

It was the face someone who had been faced with overwhelming power.

And seeing an S Rank with such an expression was not just scary, it was utterly horrifying.

"S-Sir?" She stuttered, swallowing as he tried to recompose himself. "Yes... Yes, Julie?" Choi took a few breath in, mentally making a decision to stay calm, instead of showing his fear.

"N-nothing sir, I just wanted to make sure you were okay after that earthquake." She backed out from the room, noticing that Choi was experiencing some nervousness.

"My god... Was that another S Rank Gate?" Choi sat back down, and instantly got a phone call from another Guild Master.

Baek Yoonho instantly felt the magical wave, and almost instinctively activated his full beast transformation, but held back.

The raw energy may have been ignored by anyone under S Rank, but anyone over that ranking noticed the massive power that seemed to appear from and vanish into from thin air.

He made an effort to get up, to do something, anything, but he couldn't. He was so fearful that he was paralysed, so without uttering a single word, without even standing, he called up a fellow Guild Master.

"Choi Jongin? This is Baek Yoonho, and we need to talk as soon as possible."

"I think... no, I know that power wasn't the same, but it was stronger... Possibly far stronger. Stronger than Kamish the destroyer." He sighed, feeling very very worried, but also very hollow.

"If there's something out there that much stronger than Kamish... we need to gather up everyone, because this may very well be the end of things as we know it."

Lolikiano, who was having a relaxing conversation with Sengon Hanzo, suddenly both of the two S Ranks stood up, ready for a fight in an instant.

Sengon's hand was on his finger, ready to pull it off and break the seal that was holding back his power.

Lolikiano was ready to drop everything and fight as well, almost summoning Horutipia in an instant.

"Kamish?" Lolikiano uttered a single word, causing for Sengon to shake his head.

"No... this was stronger, much stronger."

Just as fast at the energy came, the energy left. "Was that another S Rank Gate? Or... god forbid... was that a Hunter?" Lolikiano couldn't stop herself from shaking, before Sengon put his hand on her shoulder, bringing her back to reality.

"We must stay calm, because we are the strongest. If this is an ally, rather than an enemy, we may be in a very good position." Sengon tried to push down his own fear, feeling faint traces of the Dragon Monarch.

All throughout the country, S Ranks didn't dare to speak, feeling a power that trumped their own.

Even while in other Gates, or while fighting, the chilling and horrifying energy shot through people, and left them with a sinking feeling.

"Oh? He seems pretty powerful. I can't wait to fight him, I haven't fought a fellow Dragon in a while." A man with silver hair looked towards where the energy was.

"I wonder... was this the one our master mentioned? The one who will lead us to new heights?" He scoffed, "I can't believe it, it may actually be time."