Carnage waved a hand, and a guard came to let Karl out of his cell, shocking all the other inmates.

Not only was he being let out of his cell, he had jumped the whole line by what they assumed was committing suicide. Probably not permanently, but Carnage was definitely going to kill him at least once or twice.

They did have a healer on duty in case someone thought that they could get out of their sentence by committing suicide.

When the demons said you had ten thousand years to serve, they meant all ten thousand, not just until you died.

That would be too easy on the prisoners.

"Follow me. Once we're outside the prison, there is a training area that we can use. How large is your preferred combat form?" Carnage asked.

"Against you? I will go for something similar sized. The oversized body of a World Dragon will just be a hindrance, and you likely fly as fast or faster than I do, so the wings won't be a major advantage.

So, I will just enlarge this form so that I'm not punching below the waist." Karl explained.

Carnage nodded. That was a reasonable enough sort of skill for most types of Demons to have. So, he didn't ask any questions about what sort of skill it was, or if it gave any benefits.

In fact, he was making a point of not asking, so that most of what Karl would do should be new to him.

He liked surprises.

By the time that the got to the training grounds, not only the off-duty guards, but hundreds of Demons who were working in nearby facilities had gathered to see the spectacle of someone who thought that they could go two minutes with Carnage.

If they were smart, two items and one minute was a much better deal, assuming they had interpreted his offer correctly.

None of them expected Karl to live more than five seconds anyhow, and that meant everything he had on him would be lost unless he had a sentence waiting for him.

In that case, someone would resurrect him.

"If you have buffs, now is the time to cast them." Carnage declared as the two faced off across the sand of the training grounds.

Karl nodded, then began to stack buffs on himself, finishing with [Behemoth] to set his size to roughly match the Legendary Demon.

Carnage laughed with joy as he saw that the cat demon form of the Avatar of the World Dragon was something roughly appearing to be a match for him. They were multiple ranks apart, but at least this creature had the decency to make an attempt.

Then, Karl smiled at him, and cast [Epic Golems], summoning a pair of Oathbreaker Demons, fully buffed by his skills and enlarged with [Behemoth] to more closely match the nearly five metre tall Wrath Demon.

"You brought me... Oathbreaker?" Carnage asked, confused.

"Summoned duplicates of him." Karl agreed.

Carnage gave him a vicious smile. "Perhaps you will live for two minutes after all."

Karl nodded and then the Oathbreakers vanished, appearing on either side of Carnage as a massive axe appeared in the Demon's hands. The blade spun at an impossible speed, parrying attacks from all eight blades that the pair could wield.

Karl sent [Chaos Vortex] attacks into the fight, not aiming so much to injure as to blind and distract Carnage, hoping to make him miss a parry.

If the Oathbreakers could land even one hit on him, Karl would be impressed.

Sensing danger, Karl used [Shadow Step] to move twenty metres to the right, just before Carnage's axe split the location where he had been standing.

"Hehe, you're faster than you look." The big Demon laughed.

Karl shook his head in dismay, and called a new copy of [Bestial Raiment] armour, as Carnage's blade had managed to shear most of his left arm's plating off, but barely scratched him.

He hadn't even seen it coming.

Karl vaguely recalled something about this fight being unarmed, but that appeared to have gone straight out of the conversation once he summoned Oathbreaker, who was remarkably still alive, even thirty seconds into the fight.

They couldn't take a hit from Carnage.

Neither could Karl.

But they didn't have to. They might not be able to land a solid hit on him, but they could attack fast enough that the two of them could keep him from hitting them, either. So, the battle simply turned into a blur of motion, with Karl attacking from a distance and relying on his intuition to keep him dodging.

He picked a random spot on the arena floor every time that he moved, hoping to keep Carnage from guessing where he was.

And for the first minute, that was actually working.

The Demons were fighting each other, and Karl was managing to dance around the arena with minimal damage taken. But that luck was not eternal. Not even

for Karl.

A kick from Carnage managed to land on Oathbreaker, and the Golem vanished in a spray of black blood. And that was all the advantage that Carnage needed.

The other Oathbreaker was swatted into the crowd, and then Karl found himself looking down at a massive red fist through his chest.

"And that's that. One minute twenty seconds. Not bad, for an Immortal."

Carnage laughed.

He shook Karl's body off his fist, then frowned as he felt a surge of power from

the moderately interesting challenger.

Karl had cast [Epic Golem] again, this time summoning Carnage, as seen in the

dungeon challenge.

The three demons had zero hesitation before they launched directly into combat, discarding their weapons to turn the match into a melee brawl.

Carnage didn't understand where these two had come from, as the challenger was clearly dead already. But perhaps it was a precast spell that had triggered with his lingering mana.

Either way, he got to fight some more, and he got to fight weaker clones of

himself.

Karl smiled weakly as he watched the part of the fight that was in front of his face. His regeneration was already kicking in, and the [Chaos Dragon] constitution worked wonders with [Void Body], turning the hole in his chest to black mist, and then into strings of flesh as it recreated the majority of his

internal organs.

Once he felt his own heartbeat, and he was breathing again, with what felt like an intact ribcage, Karl rolled to his knees and watched the three Demons

happily wrestling.

Carnage wasn't trying to destroy the clones of himself, they were just having fun, under the assumption that the challenge was already over.