Money Body’s voice was calm and collected as if he had everything under his control as he said, "Now, tell me what you are here for, and I might save you. Be quick with your answer because you’re running out of time."
Loki wasn’t surprised that Money Body had come to this conclusion. After all, it was exactly as Money Body had claimed. The fact that he had joined an alliance and sacrificed his Cave Heaven to another person was simply the most reasonable explanation for why he possessed the strength he did.
Since it was the most reasonable explanation and since he didn’t plan to tell the truth, he decided to lean into this ruse and accept the lie as the truth.
So he sneered and said, "And why should I tell you anything? It is not as if I can trust you. You’ve proven beyond a reasonable doubt that you are not trustworthy. I guess lying and cheating run in your alliance."
That last comment was about what he had experienced in the last life when he helped the money cultivators, only for them to turn on him and trap him.
Money Body didn’t know about that event since it never happened in this timeline, but he didn’t deny it. Instead, he said, "So be it. Be that way if you want to."
Loki shot back in anger, "Don’t tell me how to be. I will be stubborn with or without your permission."
He was truly angry with Money Body and had it in mind to say more words in anger to the money cultivator. But then he perceived a truly colossal object barreling toward him.
What he wanted to say got stuck in his mind, and he opened his eyes wide in shock as he said, "No way."
Even the fist that he had cocked back in preparation for a punch had paused in the middle of the process because of his shock. Fortunately, he quickly recovered his wit.
He got over his shock, but instead of continuing to punch, he chose to leave the dragon and escape. He chose the option to escape as soon as possible over the option to continue to fight without hesitation.
In fact, he had lost his will to fight. This was because the fight had become too big for his liking.
As it turned out, the two dragons hadn’t been bluffing. The dragon king was really on its way to kill Loki.
While Loki took off, the dragons behind him began to jeer. The cobra dragon sneered and said, "Where are you going? Why don’t you come back and fight?"
The frilled dragon also said, "Don’t you like fighting so much? Come and fight us now. We want to fight."
Loki refused to let them mock him, so he sneered and said to them, "If not for your dragon king, you would have died today. I don’t know why a loser like you would still be talking after taking such a beating."
He was sure that the dragon king had only made an appearance to scare him into letting the dragons go. After all, that was the smartest and most efficient thing to do in order to make sure that it could save the dragons and prevent Money Body from taking advantage of its absence.
But it seemed that wasn’t the plan at all. The dragon king didn’t just show up to scare him. The dragon king actually continued to pursue him and mobilized its power against him.
Even before the dragon king made a move on him, he had already mobilized all of his power. He had used the Power Shifting Ability to convert the Splitting Edge Metac and Viper Fangs Metac into the Vengeful Bones Metac in order to increase his power.
His willingness to go all out raised his power from 3,532,032 units of divine power to 6(Cultivation Rank) × (6(Body) + 6(Mind)) × (6(Vengeful Bones Metac × 7) + 6(Gold Body) + 6(Nanite Metac))× 146 million (Cave Heaven) × 8(Law Fragments), which is 4,541,184 units of divine power.
He went all out because of what he saw when he activated the Power Identification Ability on the dragon king.
Race: Dragon
Available Lifespan: 4,800 Years
Cultivation Rank: 8
Cave Heaven: 1,406 million square kilometers
Body: 8
Soul: 8
Mind: 8
Will: 8
Insight: 8
Law Fragment(Amplification): 4,975,312,694 (900%)
DIVINE METAC(RANK): Electric Horn(8)
Together with the 3,036,960 units of divine power that he stole earlier, his power is now 7,578,144 units. It is an increase of 15.36% from the 6,568,992 units of divine power that he was using earlier. But even this didn’t give him confidence that he would be able to get away from this.
From what he could see, the dragon king possessed just one rank 8 Divine Metac. But when the dragon king made a move against him, it used more than one Divine Metac.
The dragon king first activated the Sea Devouring Metac. This Metac caused a whirlpool to appear around Loki. This whirlpool was dragging him backwards towards the dragon king.
This whirlpool was very powerful, but it couldn’t pull him backward. It could only slow him down immensely. This was because the power of the whirlpool was 8(Cultivation Rank) × 8(Mind) × 8(Sea Devouring Metac)× 1,406 million (Cave Heaven) × 10(Law Fragments), which is 7,198,720 units of divine power.
These 7,198,720 units of divine power were less than the 7,578,144 units of divine power that he was using to escape. So it couldn’t stop him from escaping, but it could make him lose a lot of his power in order to overcome the whirlpool.
The dragon king was surprised by this outcome since the power he just used was far greater than what Loki had shown when he was beating the two dragons. The fact that Loki hadn’t been subdue already meant that he had been hiding his strength.