Chapter 669 What Gave You the Courage?
A few moments ago...
After watching two of their comrades die one after another, unable to resist in the slightest, the remaining thirteen demons felt fear and became hesitant to attack him.
Seeing this, Max nodded in satisfaction.
This was the effect he wanted.
As long as they were wary of him, they would not dare team up and attack him. And as long as they didn't team up, he would have no problem dealing with them.
Tightening his grip on the Thunder Sword, he once again, carefully, channeled the Death Energy into his mana veins.
Although he was already using the Nascent Energy to protect them, he couldn't afford to be reckless because after using it two times in such a short time, he realized even though both energies seemed to be on a somewhat similar tier, Death Energy could corrode the Nascent Energy to a certain extent if he used a lower amount of the latter and damage his mana pathways.
Since he didn't want that to happen again, he had no choice but to be careful.
Fortunately, his intimidation had worked, and he could afford to spend a few extra moments.
Just then...
Thump!
His heart skipped a beat, and his hair stood on end as a sensation of sure death washed over him. It was as if some powerful predator had locked onto him.
His bloodline sense flared as he tried to locate the source of this feeling but found nothing.
Before he could do anything...
BOOM!!
The area within several meters with him as the epicenter exploded, obliterating everythingâearth, mana, and even the air particles.
Right at this moment, Alton's furious roar rang out.
"HOW DARE YOU!!"
He tried to rush down, but the demon emperor appeared in front of him, wanting to stop him.
"Scram!"
He shouted, his pupils turning yellow.
Immediately, the demon emperor froze.
By the time he recovered, Alton had disappeared and appeared right above the place Max was standing.
'He died? Just like that?' She didn't know him well enough to feel sad for him, but this thought gave her an inexplicable sense of melancholy.
By the time she landed on the ground, Alton had appeared above the crater and cleared the cloud of dust.
...
'This kid...'
Alton looked at unconscious Max in surprise after he scanned his body with his divine sense just now; he realized even though his condition was severe, he was still alive.
Swoosh!
Right then, a beam of purplish black light shot toward Max from the distance. Apparently, the attacker had also realized he was still alive, so they wanted to finish him.
"Impudent!"
Alton snarled and slapped at the beam of light, dispersing it. Swoosh!
Right then, the demon emperor chasing after him caught up and shouted.
"How dare you break the rules and interfere!" Saying this, he immediately attacked.
Alton's gaze flickered with mockery.
Then, seemingly ignoring him, he looked up in the sky and saw Wyomin trying to rush down, but the demon empress Qumo was stopping her.
After that, he looked in the distance, in the direction where the beam of light had come from. Then he returned his gaze to the demon attacking him and calmly questioned.
"You guys no longer want to play by the rules, huh? I wonder what gave you the courage."
Despite the fact the demon was just a few meters away from himâa negligible distance even for lower realm mages, let alone emperorsâhe still wore a calm look and didn't show any sign of fighting back.
The look in the demon emperor's eyes became graver when he saw this.
"Aren't you worried your superiors would punish you for it? Or... could it be that they also no longer want to abide by the rules? Hm, if that's the case, all this makes sense." Alton wondered.
Swoosh!
"Die you arrogant bastard!" The demon emperor bellowed when he was just a meter away from him and punched toward Alton's chest.
Boom!
The moment his hand moved, a loud boom echoed as mana and air in the surroundings seemingly exploded.
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