chapter 741 even bigger threat
after catching his breath, he was about to move again when leo, who had met him three hours earlier, spoke up, "overlord, please rest for a little while. i know you can continue for a few hours more, but you shouldn't push yourself to the limits."
"yes, sir overlord. please rest for a while." another voice sounded, and this belonged to little ruo's paternal grandfather, juan ming, who was surprisingly still alive and without injuries when he came across him an hour ago. since then, he had been following him too.
max frowned. he didn't really want to stop because massacring the demons was making his blood boil, and he was enjoying it quite a bit.
"maybe i really need to rest a little." he nodded. he had already realized this was his yet-to-awaken garfield bloodline influencing him, and although it was easily manageable, he didn't like it. so, he decided to rest and recover from it. additionally, he needed to check something too.
swoosh!
leo immediately rushed over, cleared the corpses... by storing them in his spatial ring, and took out a chair for him. it was covered with the hide of some furry beast's hide and seemed quite comfortable.
"please have a seat, overlord." he said. after max sat down, he took out a small table, some spirit fruits, and spirit wine.
"here, overlord. although they aren't high-grade products, they are still good, very delicious, and will be able to help you recover a little."
max stared at him silently before shaking his head and picking up the glass of wine leo just poured him.
"you sit down too." he said after taking a sip.
leo's expression brightened, and he immediately took out another chair for himself. this one was a normal, wooden chair. "thank you, overlord. i'm honored to have a drink with your esteemedâ"
"quit the flattery. it's annoying." max glared at him. he was tired and needed rest and some quiet. leo immediately shut his mouth and silently drank wine with him.
juan, standing at some distance, chuckled inwardly at leo's blatant bootlicking. but the look on his face said he wouldn't miss the chance to bootlick if he got one.
...
in the distance, many peopleâboth demons and humansâwatched max relax and leisurely drink wine, appearing as though he wasn't sitting in the center of the battlefield but in his backyard. while the human mages, except for hostile forces like the seidel family's group, looked at him with bright eyes, strangely feeling good, the demons were enraged seeing his complete and utter disregard for them. however, they could only seethe in their hearts, not daring to do anything about it.
high in the sky, inside the isolation barrier, both human and demon emperors had solemn expressions on their faces as they watched the ongoing battle within azaroth's aura domain.
after the domain turned opaque, unable to restrain themselves, they had unanimously decided to use their divine sense to watch what was happening inside.
as they had expected, in just half an hour, azaroth had completely dominated all the demon kings. but strangely enough, he didn't kill any of them. instead, he removed the suppression of his domain from them and asked them to fight him. essentially, he was using his domain just to contain the demon kings so they wouldn't massacre the human army.
bang! bang! bang!
thud! thwack!
boom!
psshh!
currently, over a dozen demon kings were ganging up on azaroth while the rest kept the seven human kings in check. his originally neat robes had turned into rags, and he was supporting several injuries that had turned him into a bloodied figure.
however, he had an excited look on his face and seemed full of energy while the demon kings were huffing in exhaustion. they had tried their best to take advantage of his arrogance to kill him, but they were only able to leave minor injuries on him.
after a few hours, frustrated, a howler demon king had tried to self-detonate to kill him, but azaroth immediately froze him with his domain's suppression. he didn't kill him; instead, he cut off his limbs, inflicted several more injuries, and destroyed his mana core before throwing him to the side to suffer.
after that, no one tried to self-detonate and continued fighting in turns in hopes of exhausting and killing him, even though they knew their hope wouldn't be realized unless the emperors attacked his domain from outside, the chances of which happening were almost negligible.
[this human needs to be killed.] matriarch luen spoke to the demon emperors through her divine sense.
it was one thing if he dominated all the demon kings using his domain, but for the last few hours, he was fighting without its assistance and was still dominating them. and the fact that they couldn't see through why he was able to do this made him an even bigger threat.
vigil's gaze flickered, a hint of helplessness flashing deep within his eyes. he knew his scarlet demon tribe had lost the last chance of becoming the lord of the green leaf's territory along with the devil horned tribe.
[are you going to ask them for help?] he asked after a moment.
[yes. we have no other choice.]