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"is this the kid you said was going to become a threat?" the strongest ashen fiend emperor asked, glancing at yshoy with a disdainful look in her eyes. "someone like him who despairs when put in a seemingly hopeless situation isn't worth a shit even if he has that destructive energy and a good bloodline."
yshoy narrowed his blood-red eyes, anger flashing within them. then his expression became neutral, and he scoffed, "you would say that, wouldn't you? after all, none from your tribe would feel afraid when in such a situation, right? you also didn't despair and kill your son when he offended the infernal princess."
the ashen emperor's face fell when she heard this, and dark cinders started floating around her, the air becoming thick with tension. her three companions also glared at yshoy, ready to fight if their matriarch attacked.
right then, however, vigil spoke up and diffused the situation.
"there is no need to get angry, matriarch luen. what sir yshoy meant to say was that that kid, even though it seems he has gone mad, must be up to something."
tristen and others shook their heads in disappointment seeing the demons didn't fight. 'tsk! it would have been good if they killed each other.' tristen thought. he didn't like the current situation where they couldn't do anything to the demon side.
he could only console himself by telling himself that when the reinforcements came from the central plains, they would once again gain the upper hand.
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[do it, overlord.] leo gave the go-ahead. his bloodline was already useless, so there was basically no loss if something bad happened to it. however, if it recovered, the gains would be amazing, and he would be able to save himself from the current situation without much of a problem.
max nodded and started injecting his bloodline energy into his body and started directing it toward his bloodline. he was sure if he used nascent energy, the process would be faster and easier, but unlike his bloodline energy, which he could recover a few times using mana stones or crystals without any worry, as only after a few times would he start losing himself to his lust, the nascent energy wasn't easily gained.
he still had to fight for around thirty hours. so, he had to be frugal about every bit of nascent energy he used.
after a few moments, he realized his bloodline energy had started affecting leo's bloodline, slowly purifying and strengthening it, which made him sigh in relief. although his bloodline energy was the catalyst for emily's bloodline awakening, meaning it could also affect the bloodlines like the nascent energy, though not as much, he wasn't sure if it could help leo. so, seeing it was effective and he wouldn't need to waste his nascent energy, he sighed in relief.
he then looked behind and saw the demon kings were still hot on his trail, and the distance between them was slowly becoming less and less.
'if not for the frostclaw demons, i wouldn't have been able to escape.' he thought, feeling grateful but a little surprised. 'do they also want to make a deal with me like amara's father?'
unlike before, he couldn't easily promise to help them because following through with those promises wasn't difficult.
suddenly he remembered something: 'i need to head back to ninam city too and heal granny.'
he had checked in the war temple and found that although the healing medicine that could help an emperor mage was very expensive, and although difficult, he could still afford them if he tried his best.
however, apart from the initial surprise, they didn't give it much thought because everyone in the crowd was weak and wouldn't be a hindrance.
a few moments later, however, they narrowed their eyes when max suddenly conjured three one-meter fireballs and hurled them toward the crowd.
boom!
boom!
boom!
max had used differing amounts of death energy when creating the fireballs. the first fireball he created was strong enough to severely injure mid-stage five star beings, and he threw it close enough for the crowd to feel its destructive power but far enough not to injure them.
the second fireball was powerful enough to seriously injure early-stage five star beings, and he threw it at the periphery of the crowd. when it exploded, a few humans and demons died while a few more got injured.
he sighed. he didn't want to kill any humans if he could, but to save his skin, he had to do it.
the third fireball was slightly bigger than the first two but was weaker than them in power, only able to lightly injure peak four star beings, and he threw it toward the center of the crowd, but at a slow speed.
the first explosion had startled the crowd, and the second one caused them to panic, and seeing the third, a bigger one flying toward them, everyone started escaping in all directions while cursing max.
max was pleased to see this, and right before it exploded, he mixed into the fleeing crowd, put on his mask, and changed his clothes.
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swoosh! swoosh!
a few seconds later, the demon kings arrived where the third fireball had exploded and watched the fleeing crowd in panic with ugly expressions on their faces.
no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't sense max's presence. he had vanished without a trace.
"that sly bastard!" the howler demon king ground his jaws in rage, his aura whipping around, creating loud booms in the sky.
the ashen demon king's expression was... ashen. he couldn't believe a four star mage had escaped from him, a mid-stage demon king. it was unacceptable and shameful even if the said mage was someone extraordinary. unlike the demon beside him, however, he didn't show his impotent rage and stayed silent. a moment later, his eyes flashed with a ruthless glint, and he flew toward the nearest fleeing group that had both humans and demons and attacked them indiscriminately.
boom!noÌv(el)b\\jnn