Danger Zoo

All of the sudden, the bird dropped to the ground for no reason. This made Crocus and Envy stupefied.

"What happened?"

The bird that is in the sky fell for unknown reasons like the surrounding gravity disappearing. Soon, Crocus shook his head. He looked at his clone servant Envy and thought.

Not far away from them, a Zombie man had his arms pointed at the giant bird who was struggling on the ground attacked by a group of zombies.

Crocus on the other side didn't want to know the reason it dropped to the ground.

'The sky is dangerous. Maybe I'll try the underground to go to other places. Asmodeus doesn't have a heavy sin on its aura and mind, it's time to hide it to avoid being in conflict... TSS... I never thought a sin demon clone would be this problematic.``

"Envy, transform into a centipede that can crawl underground."

Soon the Envy who had an envious look on its face previously transformed. It is a fleshy-like creature, but it still had the head of Crocus that it copied earlier, but its body is long and the centipede arms are arms of that of humans. 

Seeing this, Crocus smiled. With no signals, the centipede Envy crawled a path underground for Crocus. While inside the cave-like path, Crocus looked back at the entrance.

"I need to cover this."

Crocus did not forget and got outside and take some heavy stones to cover the entrance.

*Huff* *Huff*

For about an hour and thirty minutes, the oxygen inside the cave is dimming and Crocus can feel it.

"Envy, Go to the surface." 

Envy listens like a good servant. Not delaying and seemingly knowledgeable about some survival stuff.

*Dig!* *Dig!*

Coming out of the surface. 

"Where is this place?"

It looks like a hidden Laboratory or some sort, it's broken down into tiny pieces.

"Oh no! I don't like this kind of setting."

Crocus hurriedly commanded Envy to dig faster, away from this place. He knew this is not a game, this is real life, he didn't have more hearts, so he have got to be careful if anything didn't require battling, he must evade it.

After they left the laboratory, a humanoid creature landed on the hole that they covered. It was tall with a lot of limbs and its claws were nearing from the dirt that covers the cave hole Crocus and Envy were in.

Swack!

The creature tries to pierce it with its tentacles on the back.

However, there is a sixth layer cover to avoid any creature from following Crocus on the other side.

Hisss!

With its little intelligence, it stopped digging and left.

Soon, Crocus and his slave Envy entered a random field. However, Crocus's eyes were locked on the cages. 

'Fuck! First, is it a laboratory and now a Zoo? Are you kidding me!?'

Crocus instantly let Envy dig, even deeper to avoid the animals.

'That shitty bird earlier that Envy wanted and had to kill was as big as a bus. Now, this is a zoo. I don't even want to think about it.'

Again, he instantly commanded Envy to dig another tunnel. As he was afraid that any mutated animal would attack him. Soon the ground crumbles, and they entered a new place with a little pond for small fishes. It was small, and a lot of rotten corpses of koi fish were scattered everywhere.

"A dead pond? Koi fish in a zoo is normal here unlike on earth."

Crocus looked up and saw the Zoo sign. 

'A sign that we are still in a zoo. God damn it! I can't take it anymore. With limited air to breathe, I would die if I entered a tunnel again.

'I also need water to keep myself hydrated in this apocalypse. The only answer is how do I get one? How to clean this pool?'

However, without a warning, he sensed something. Crocus consciously moved to the side to avoid whatever it was, but...

*Snap!*

Crocus's arm was ripped off of him. 

'Huh?'

He looked at his back where his arm was sent from. 

*Wriggle* *Wriggle*

The pain registered when Crocus saw the creature that rips his arm off and it was a long fishlike creature with a sharp sword-like body. His survival instinct kicked in as he opened his mouth, while his blood splattered from his left arm.

"There's no way I'm going to die in this place!"

Crocus ignored the pain as he looked at the pond with hatred.

"Asmodeus!"

He screamed and Envy came in front of him and transformed itself into a fleshy meat shield from the incoming danger. 

*Bam! Bam! Slice! Slice!*

Crocus couldn't see the Eel and how they attacked Envy who was shielding him. However, he knew that from the sound of sliced flesh and blood thumps that those Eels would jump from the water and use their tails as a blade.

"If I let those Eels attack him, Asmodeus will die. I need to think of something... Wait... Should I tell him to use his demonic transformation or I would use my demon Wrath ability? I can sense that he is still alive, and I can copy Wrath's ability. However, I don't know how long I could use it and it is stated that only for a short amount of time, and with what happened to my arm, I'm not sure I can still make it.

"I can also copy Asmodeus's ability, but seeing him right now, I'm not entirely sure I want to use it because there's a lot of Mutated Eels attacking. Right now, Asmodeus demonic transformation is my first choice. Copying Wrath's ability is my last choice."

Crocus looked at the mindless Envy, or what he called Asmodeus, and then his severed arms. He can feel that he is losing too much blood, so he holds his t-shirt and...

*Ripped!*

He used his clothes and wrapped them around his bleeding shoulder than it temporarily stopped the bleeding. However, he is tired because of it.

Knowing that he was losing his blood, Crocus looked at his slave Envy and says.

"Asmodeus, Demonic Transformation."

However, he fainted after that. The body of the demon Envy or Asmodeus had hair-like things crawling to any part of his body. It's like a colony of ants invading until every part of the body is covered with hair.

The face that is covered with black hair sprouted a giant golden eye: the true form of Ultimate demon Envy.

"Haaaaaaaa...

"Haaaaaaaa..."

Envy with its demonic body looks like it breathes out slowly. However, it didn't have a mouth, an ear, or a nose, which made it look more creepy.

"I am back?"

The old man Asmo Jos, the last human of Envy or Asmodeus is back!

The rule with the seven demon master Crocus is that he should be stronger or at least as strong as his demon to enslave them. Right now, the demon Envy may be a level one creature like him, however, he is seven times as strong while still in level one. 

So Crocus needs to improve to level two or become stronger than the Envy in level one.