Strongest Mage with the Lust system

Chapter 779: Mass Sacrifice, Enraged

Max felt his heart shiver.

This was too overwhelming, but he knew he couldnʼt afford to be distracted because whatever it was, it was going to arrive in the next few seconds.

Immediately, he tapped on his Nascent Energy reserves and started pulling it out of himself without holding anything back. At the same time, he looked at Kriss and Pauline. Seeing they seemed to be in a daze and were unsteadily swaying on their feet, his expression fell.

”COME TO ME!”

He shouted at the top of his lungs while trying to inject some Nascent Energy into his voice to help them come to their senses quicker. Unfortunately, he wasnʼt a Sound Elemental mage, nor had he ever tried doing so before, so he failed.

His expression worsened.

He had already pulled out some Nascent Energy. If he were to move over to them, he would lose control over at least half of it.

However… seeing his shout wasnʼt effective, he had no choice unless he wanted to see them die.

Swoosh!

Right as he made up his mind to sacrifice the Nascent Energy, Krissʼ eyes regained clarity. Activating his shadow movement spell, he rushed over while pulling Pauline along.

Since they werenʼt too far apart, it took them less than a second to arrive beside him.

Seeing this, Max focused on creating a spherical barrier around them. Because he had too little time, he managed to pull out Nascent Energy barely enough to create a thin barrier that any regular Four Star mage could destroy.

But if he wasnʼt wrong, just this would be enough to help them survive the incoming danger without any problem; otherwise, nothing—even a barrier strong enough to resist an emperorʼs attack—was going to be enough.

In the next moment, he heaved a sigh of relief because the overwhelming sense of danger was no longer there.

Standing beside him, the moment the barrier was completed, Kriss also felt the sense of danger disappear.

Sighing in relief, he looked at Max in amazement. Just like him, he also felt that nothing could stop whatever it was from reaping his life, but Max managed to surprise him yet again.

ʼThis man… Just who is he?ʼ

Pauline gradually came to her senses, and upon seeing they were within the barrier created by Max, she knew he had once again saved their lives.

She bit her lower lip, her expression unreadable. Then she said, ”Thank you for saving us again.”

Max didnʼt acknowledge her this time because he was busy thinking just what had happened. What was this calamity-level danger, and how come just a simple barrier of Nascent Energy managed to overcome it? Also, was it just directed at them or… everyone?

He shuddered when this thought crossed his mind.

Maybe those in the Emperor and maybe even those in the King realm could survive this enigmatic danger, but just how many were emperors and kings? And just how many were in the lower realms? What about the ordinary folks?

If it was really targeting everyone in a certain area, he feared there was barely anyone alive now. After all, not everyone had Nascent Energy or something similar that could save them.

But more than these countless unrelated people, he was more worried about those close to him. That was why he hurriedly took out his communication crystal and messaged Wyomin, but… the barrier blocked the message.

His worried mind told him to open the barrier and allow the message to be sent, but his logical mind told him to wait for a while in case the danger hadnʼt passed yet.

After hesitating for a while, he took a deep breath and closed his eyes, having decided to wait.

If they were safe now, they would be safe a while later too, and if…

ʼNothing bad must have happened to them, otherwise Iʼll make every involved party in this mess regret ever being born.ʼ

As he decided this, in his bloodline space, both the Lust Overlord Bloodline and the Imperial Bloodline thrummed, their glow intensifying ever so slightly while his aura underwent a subtle change.

Max, however, didnʼt notice any of this because he wasnʼt in the right state of mind to do so. Standing beside him, Kriss and Pauline, however, felt as though they were standing next to some supreme, sacred, and untouchable entity, which induced a reverential and dreadful feeling within them.

…

After the earth quaked, every living being in the kingdomsʼ and empiresʼ territory, meaning all of the human continent save for the central plains, froze in place, feeling the overwhelming danger.

Throughout the region, be it human, demon, elven, dwarf, or any other raceʼs emperor, everyoneʼs expressions turned somber. They then released their auras, covering as many people as they could, wanting to save their lives.

Shua!

Outside the War Temple, King Azaroth appeared in the sky above the place where Princess Martha and others from the Green Leaf kingdom were and released his domain, covering them. At the same time, he swept his gaze across the battlefield and saw just a few emperors—Lady Verana, Alton, Tristen, Wyomin, and two others of their group—were trying to save the masses, which caused his expression to darken.

Unlike most emperors, who had already received information beforehand, he didnʼt know anything and just instinctively felt that people, as long as they werenʼt an emperor or above or extraordinary king mages, were going to die.

That was why he rushed out and took his subjects in his domain, hoping it would save them.

It took exactly one minute for the sense of danger to vanish.

As soon as it did, his domain also vanished.

Normally he could keep his domain deployed for hours, but now, just after one minute, he was thoroughly spent.

Ha! Ha! Ha!

He heaved deep breaths, his face pale and his body covered with perspiration.

ʼJust what was that?ʼ

He thought before turning his head around to look at Lady Verana and others. Just like him, they were also heaving deep breaths, appearing exhausted but not as much as him.

Then he looked down, and immediately his face fell.

More than half of the people who were inside his domain had died, their bodies shriveled up as if someone had sucked everything out of them, while many had fallen unconscious. He only sighed in relief upon seeing his sister was safe.

After that, he swept his gaze across the battlefield.

Just six emperors could cover everyone, especially when people were spread out and it drained quite a bit of their stamina and mental energy to keep the aura field and spheres activated.

So, he already expected many people to have died, but when he saw almost 90% of the people present on the battlefield were now nothing but dried-up corpses, his expression couldnʼt help but turn grimmer.

Swoosh!

He moved over to Lady Verana and coldly asked, ”What just happened?”

Lady Verana looked up before sighing, ”They were… sacrificed.”

Azarothʼs pupils constricted, a vague piece of information he read several years ago surfacing in his mind.

”Donʼt tell me…”

…

BANG!

Max punched a large boulder into pieces, his aura fluctuating erratically.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

”Arrrggghhhh!”

He smashed several more boulders before raising his head toward the sky and letting out an enraged roar.