Strongest Mage with the Lust system-Chapter 778: Locked On

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 couldn't 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 don't," 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 didn't 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 didn't put it in her spatial ring." Kriss said in realization.

Max almost rolled his eyes. Clearly, despite looking composed, Kriss still hasn't come to his senses properly; otherwise, he would already know it because a beast bag couldn't 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. I'm 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. 'Truly, people mature and change after experiencing adverse situations.'

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Pauline didn't 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, I'm 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.

'Shouldn't they have already found this place?' 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 hadn't had that premonition, he would have just shrugged his shoulders and felt relieved, but now everything out of place was making him feel suspicious.

'I need to hurry back home.' 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.

'Do you have any teleportation formation that can send me to the southern part of the Green Leaf Kingdom?' 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 wasn't 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-What's happening?" Pauline asked, instinctively moving over to Kriss' 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 don't know, but it feels as if someone… or something extremely dangerous has locked onto me."

"I feel the same." Pauline nodded.

Max's eyes flashed when he heard them because... he didn't feel the same. He then closed his eyes, activated his bloodline sense, and focused around him.

It was then he noticed...

'It's trying to lock onto me too, but…'

Weng~

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