Strongest Mage with the Lust system

Chapter 781: The Reason

Rumble!

Boom!

Immediately, every demon present in the hall released their terrifying auras, just a moment away from attacking Barren and shredding him to pieces.

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

The human experts, though confused, not understanding just what Barren did to make them so angry, appeared around Barren, staring at the demons as their auras flared dangerously.

”I dare you all to move.” Ancestor Rivervale said in a chilling voice.

The demons glowered at him, almost unable to hold themselves back from attacking, but they knew their side didnʼt have the absolute advantage at the moment, and once everyone realized the reason why they were angry, the elves would certainly join forces with the humans, which would put them in a dangerous situation.

”Hmph! Just you wait.” A blood demon ancestor harrumphed before their group vanished from the place.

Everyone was confused.

”Just what happened?” A peak human monarch asked.

The spatial tunnel had opened and was right in front of them. Shouldnʼt they have hurried to enter it and leave this cage? But instead of doing that, they left?

The beautiful female elf looked at Barren, who was still staring at the spatial tunnel, and waited. Others, though impatient to learn the reason, did the same.

The demons had already left. Even if they had some hidden agenda that Barren uncovered and made them unable to act upon, they couldnʼt do anything about it right now.

A while later, Barren closed his eyes and took a deep breath before a wry yet relieved smile appeared on his face.

”Not only is he very strong, he is very cunning too. No wonder we were unable to leave even when we had multiple Quasi-Supremes among our ranks.” He muttered,

”The head watcher?” Ancestor Rivervale asked in confusion before his eyes widened and his expression turned ugly, ”Donʼt tell me, despite being so careful, we still fell into another one of his traps?”

Barren shook his head. ”Yeah, something like that. But he prevented us from making a huge mistake.”

Lenore, the beautiful elf woman and the reigning queen of the elves, raised her delicate brows in question, ”What do you mean?”

Hadnʼt they sacrificed so many innocent souls already? So, what mistake was he talking about?

Ancestor Rivervale and others from the alliance also looked at him, but their eyes were narrowed.

Barren swept his gaze across them and explained, ”This was all an elaborate plot of demons. If Iʼm not wrong, it was their ancestors who laid down this grand sacrificial formation. They wanted to use it to not only tear a hole through the sealing formation but also to…”

His expression and voice turned grim as he finished his sentence, ”...break The Seals.”

Ancestor Rivervale and othersʼ expressions hardened when they heard this.

Because a long time had passed since that apocalyptic war that divided the human and demon continent happened, very few people knew the reason why it happened. They, being the peak experts of their respective families that had stood tall for a long time, were among these few.

They knew that war was fought to destroy an extremely dangerous group of fiends—the Devils.

Unfortunately, even after several Supreme Realm Experts banded together, they were unable to kill them. So, in the end, they had no choice but to seal them after exhausting their powers.

Because they knew no ordinary sealing formation was going to keep them sealed for long enough, with the help of several formation grandmasters, they laid down the Three Grand Sealing Formation. Not only did it seal those fiends, it also sealed the human and demon continent.

The reason they did this was twofold.

First, the Three Grand Sealing Formation needed a significant amount of energy to function, which this part of the world could provide for tens of thousands of years without any problem. Second, in case the fiends somehow broke out of their seals, the sealed continents could contain them for some time, allowing the rest of the world to act.

Although the Three Grand Sealing Formation had already consumed a significant amount of the human and demon continentʼs mana throughout these long years, there was more than enough mana for it to work for a few thousand years more.

However, the demons seemed to have designed the sacrificial formation in such a way that when activated, not only would it tear a hole through the sealing formation, allowing them a passage to the outside world, but it would also break or at least weaken the seals sealing the fiends enough for them to break out prematurely.

”Fortunately, unlike us fools, the Head Watcher knew what the demons had planned. Iʼm sure he must have had some other plan to stop the demons from weakening the seals, but when those outsiders activated the teleportation formation, he improvised and allowed me to discover the coordinates of the spatial tunnel.” Barren said, sighing in admiration.

”Now when I directed the energy gathered to break open the spatial tunnel, he siphoned away the energy that was supposed to weaken the seals.”

Ancestor Rivervale, Ancestor Rothschild, Lenore, and other Quasi-Supremes of the Central Plains Alliance couldnʼt help but sigh in admiration and relief. At the same time, they were astonished.

”That old man… he seems to have progressed significantly.” Ancestor Rothschild muttered with a dazed look on her face. Though she was thousands of years old and had a few wrinkles on her face, she was still a supreme beauty.

Ancestor Rivervale and others glanced at her, feeling a tinge of pity for her.

Over a thousand years ago, she had just reached the Quasi-Supreme stage. Bursting with confidence, she challenged the head watcher for a duel, wanting to defeat him and leave for the outside world, but she was defeated by him instead, and that too in just ten moves.

Humiliated, she vowed to surpass him and take revenge, but seeing how she hadnʼt progressed much through these years while he seemed to have progressed quite a bit toward the Supreme Realm, she wouldnʼt be able to fulfill her vow, which might result in a heart demon, stopping her from progressing in the future.

Suddenly, her eyes flashed, and she looked at the swirling spatial tunnel in front of her.

”Iʼm leaving.” She announced before immediately jumping into the tunnel.

”Wait—”

”Stop—”

Ancestor Rivervale and othersʼ expressions changed. They wanted to stop her, but by the time they reacted, she had disappeared.

Bang!

”What a reckless woman! Doesnʼt she know we still need to deal with the demons?” Ancestor Rivervale growled, stamping his foot in frustration.

Then his eyes flashed, and he moved toward the tunnel too. ”Iʼll go make sure she is safe—”

Swoosh!

However, before he could take even one step, a hand on his shoulder stopped him. Turning his head, he saw it was Barren.

”You should stop, Ancestor.” He said,

Ancestor Rivervale narrowed his eyes, his aura slowly flaring, which made it difficult for Barren to keep his hold on him.

But then several emotions flashed in his aged eyes, and his aura calmed down.

Sigh!

Sighing, he glanced at the tunnel and nodded, ”You are right. I should stop now. In fact, I should have stopped long ago.”

Right as his words fell, he vanished from the place.

”You handle the things here. Iʼll go and make up for hurting your grannyʼs feelings all these years.”