Strongest Mage with the Lust system

Chapter 778: Locked On

Ha!

Pulling his hands back from the golden pythonʼs body, Max heaved a deep breath, his forehead covered with sweat.

He had done nothing but help Pauline recover her exhausted blood essence via his bloodline energy, which, although exhausting, wasnʼt too difficult to do.

However, when he attempted to heal the golden python, he hit a roadblock—his bloodline energy wasnʼt potent enough.

Still, he tried to use quantity to overcome the quality, and in doing so, he almost exhausted his bloodline energy reserves but still failed to make any significant difference to the pythonʼs injuries.

Kriss was sitting beside the bed Pauline was lying on. After Max had helped her and told him she was going to be alright, he wasnʼt as worried and regained his composure.

For a while now, he had been watching Max and the golden python with fascination. Even with his knowledge, he didnʼt know what magic beast it was, but what really fascinated him was the fact that the beast was only giving off the aura of a Grade Five beast, but it was still alive despite several tyrannical energies, stronger than a king mageʼs energy, rampaging in its wounds.

Seeing Max stop, he was about to speak up but before he could; Max once again put his hands on the python and closed his eyes.

Nascent Energy slowly seeped out of his palms and entered the pythonʼs body.

A few minutes later, Max felt the pythonʼs stiff body relax, which put a smile on his face. He then started moving the Nascent Energy toward a wound on its back, but…

Boom!

The violent energy in the wound reacted and rebuffed it, and their collision caused Python pain, which made it twitch.

This was the first time he was seeing his Nascent Energy fail at something. Although he was aware that no matter how magical it was, he couldnʼt expect it to work everywhere, and even if it could work in this case, his current realm—Four Star—was limiting its potential, his expression fell.

After staring at the unconscious python for a while, he sighed and continued injecting more Nascent Energy into its body, trying to relieve as much of its pain as he could.

Since neither his bloodline energy nor his Nascent Energy was useful in this case, the thought of using the Death Energy came to his mind, but he squashed it as soon as it came because if even the Nascent Energy—the gentlest energy he knew about—caused such a violent reaction, the reaction the Death Energy would cause would be several times worse.

”Is this your companion beast?” Kriss asked when Max finished. This question had been bothering him ever since he saw him carry the Python.

Max glanced at him before looking at the Python. ”Yes.”

”Then—”

”Enough with the questions.” Max interrupted him, ”Tell me, do you have a beast storage bag?”

”I donʼt,” Kriss shook his head before looking at Pauline with a sympathetic gaze. ”But Miss Pauline has one. Her companion beast died a few days ago. So, you can use it.”

Max nodded and waited for him to take it from Pauline and give it to him, but Kriss didnʼt move, making him raise his brows.

”What are you doing?”

”Huh? Nothing.” Kriss said, confused.

Max resisted a twitch of his lips and said, ”Then get it for me.”

”How? Only she can use her spatial—oh, she didnʼt put it in her spatial ring.” Kriss said in realization.

Max almost rolled his eyes. Clearly, despite looking composed, Kriss still hasnʼt come to his senses properly; otherwise, he would already know it because a beast bag couldnʼt be stored in a spatial ring. So, everyone kept it on their person, and it gradually became a habit.

Kriss stood up, looked at her unconscious Pauline, and reached out with his hand toward her slender waist, nervously gulping.

Just then…

”What are you doing?”

He froze and stiffly tilted his head, looking at Pauline, who had just opened her eyes. Quickly calming himself, he pulled his hand back and stood straight. ”I-I was taking your beast bag. Max needs it to store his beast.”

”Max?” Pauline furrowed her brows.

A short while later, Kriss finished telling her how Max came to help them after finding that they were still alive and how he helped her heal.

Pauline looked at Max and bowed her head, ”Thank you for coming to save us, Max. Iʼm grateful, truly.”

Seeing this, Kriss followed her lead and thanked him.

”No need to thank me. I just did what I felt was right.” Max casually said while inwardly sighing. ʼTruly, people mature and change after experiencing adverse situations.ʼ

Pauline didnʼt say anything in response but maintained her posture for a few seconds more. Seeing this, Kriss, who had raised his head after Max spoke, dipped his head again.

A while later, Max stored the Golden Python in the beast storage bag and glanced at Pauline. ”Do you need to rest a bit more?”

Pauline shook her head. ”No, Iʼm good to go.”

”Good.” Max nodded before taking out two black robes. He pulled on the devil blood in his heart and stained the robes with pure demonic energy.

”Here, wear these and follow closely after me.”

…

Swoosh!

The group left the mountain range without facing any problem, which made Max frown.

ʼShouldnʼt they have already found this place?ʼ He thought.

While it had only been just over half an hour and the place from which Golden Python teleported over might be far away, he knew emperors, given their extraordinary means, should have already arrived, but there was no trace of them.

If he hadnʼt had that premonition, he would have just shrugged his shoulders and felt relieved, but now everything out of place was making him feel suspicious.

ʼI need to hurry back home.ʼ He thought before taking out his communication crystal. He had tried sending a message to Anna, but apparently he was too far for the communication crystal to work.

ʼDo you have any teleportation formation that can send me to the southern part of the Green Leaf Kingdom?ʼ He asked Ashroth.

Originally, he first planned to go to the Royal City. There he would free Flavia and take her, Little Ruo, her grandpa, Claire, and her son along as he returned to Ninam City. But now, he shelved, or rather delayed, his visit to the Royal City and was returning to Ninam City directly.

Right then…

Rumble!

The ground quaked, and the sky seemed to darken. At the same time, an extreme sense of danger arose from the depths of his heart.

And apparently, he wasnʼt the only one to feel this way because behind him, Kriss and Pauline had gone pale from the dread they were feeling and were uncontrollably shivering.

”W-Whatʼs happening?” Pauline asked, instinctively moving over to Krissʼ side and grabbing his hand.

Kriss showed no previous nervousness and hesitation as he protectively wrapped his arm around her waist and looked up with a grave look in his eyes, ”I donʼt know, but it feels as if someone… or something extremely dangerous has locked onto me.”

”I feel the same.” Pauline nodded.

Maxʼs eyes flashed when he heard them because... he didnʼt feel the same. He then closed his eyes, activated his bloodline sense, and focused around him.

It was then he noticed...

ʼItʼs trying to lock onto me too, but…ʼ

Weng~

Just then, an almost inaudible sound rang out, and the sense of danger they were feeling multiplied several times.