Strongest Mage with the Lust system

“Um, young sir, is everything alright?” Havon asked uneasily when he saw Max staring at the blood oath contract with furrowed brows. His wives and sons also felt uneasy and were starting to blame Havon for approaching him.

Max peeled his eyes off the parchment upon hearing his voice, but his expression didn’t improve. He looked at Havon and then his sons and wives before sighing inwardly and nodding, “Yeah. Everything’s alright.”

Havon sighed in relief before hurriedly writing the conditions in the contract. Then he pricked his thumb with his sharp teeth and dropped a drop of his blood on it and had his sons and wives do the same before presenting the contract to him.

“Young sir, please read it and then bind it.”

Max nodded. After taking a cursory glance at it, he took out the thunder sword, which made Havon and his family jump back and put on their guards, ready to fight.

“I’m not going to attack you. Don’t worry.” Max snorted before sliding his thumb across the blade’s edge, cutting the skin. With how strong his body had become, he was unable to cut his thumb like them and had no choice but to use the thunder sword.

Immediately after he squeezed out a drop of his blood onto the contract, which made it shine with blood-red light, the small cut closed, showing his heightened healing factor.

Because he had immediately put the thunder sword back into his inventory, he didn’t notice that the little bit of his blood that was left on the blade of the sword was suddenly sucked into the sword, which made the unassuming, round crystal encrusted on the conjunction of the hilt and blade shine for a brief moment.

Max looked at Havon, who was looking at his spatial ring with a suspicious look in his eyes, and frowned before clicking his tongue in annoyance, realizing he had made a mistake.

Though demons also used weapons, due to the demonic energy’s influence, one could easily tell demons’ and humans’ weapons apart. Since his thunder sword had no hint of demonic energy on it, Havon realized it was from the human’s side.

Just this wouldn’t have been enough because it could be from a human who Max had killed, but even his spatial ring was one of human design and had no lingering demonic energy despite the fact he was wearing it.

‘Fortunately, my blood was covered by the demonic energy; otherwise, I would have been really exposed.’ Max sighed inwardly before coldly asking, “What is it?”

Havon flinched and quickly shook his head. “I… It’s nothing, young sir. Please follow us.”

‘He must have taken it recently from some human.’ Shaking his head inwardly, he stopped thinking about it. Then he glanced at his wives and sons, indicating them to follow after him, and shot toward the mountain range.

Swoosh!

…

Deep into the mountain range, within a lush valley, two figures were huddled inside an inconspicuous cave.

These two were none other than Pauline and Kriss.

Kriss’ had a grave look on his face as he watched the unconscious and bloodied Pauline.

Two days earlier, they were tracked down and ambushed by a group of Ashen Demons. Although the strongest of them was just in the mid-stage Five Star realm, they were too exhausted after being constantly on the run and had a tough battle.

He had been helping Pauline in the battles as much as he could with his assassination abilities since she was weaker than him, but this time he could barely protect himself.

Right when he thought all hope had been lost, Pauline, who was on the verge of losing her life, suddenly took out another full-body armor. The moment she donned it, her aura changed, and she became a lot stronger.

She killed the demons, grabbed him, and escaped to this mountain range. Then, however, she suddenly hacked out several mouthfuls of black blood and collapsed.

After finding this inconspicuous cave, he put down some hard-to-detect concealment and illusory formations and then fed her the best healing pills he had on himself. Unfortunately, they didn’t seem to have any visible positive effect on her, and she had been unconscious since then.

“I should have exchanged for a higher-grade healing medicine in the merit hall.” Kriss murmured before shaking his head with a wry look on his face.

He slowly stood up, wincing in pain because his injuries also had yet to heal completely. Just as he was about to take a step toward her, wanting to check her condition, his head snapped toward the entrance of the cave, his expression turning dark with rage, but there was a hint of helplessness in the depths of his eyes.

Walking over to Pauline, he crouched down beside her and extended his hand to gently caress her pale cheek, a complicated look in his eyes, but he hesitated before pulling his hand back.

Standing up, he took out a pair of daggers, and after glancing at her for a last time, he walked out of the formations with a resolute and ruthless expression on his face.

…

Outside the cave, three horned demons looked at the cave with raised eyebrows before the sole female demon among them, who seemed to be their leader, muttered, “They are here.”

“You sure?” The other demon asked before trying to sense anything out of place but failed. His senses told him this was just a simple cave.

“Yes. There are forma—” The female demon had begun speaking when Kriss walked out, dense dark elemental mana undulating around him in waves. The demon trio immediately got into their battle stances, their demonic energy thrumming inside them, ready to burst forth.

The female demon was a high-stage Five Star demon, while the other two were in the early-stage Five Star realm, making their comprehensive lot stronger than Kriss. Still, the fact that many demons had lost their lives in the last several days trying to kill them made them unable to underestimate him.

“Hmm?” The female demon raised her brows and looked behind him a little cautiously before asking, “That human girl… Why isn’t she coming out?”

Swoosh!

Clang!

A metallic clang rang out as Kriss completely ignored her question and disappeared before appearing behind her, his dagger slashing toward her neck. Unfortunately for him, she was prepared and reacted, blocking the strike without much effort.

“Oh? It seems she really used some sacrificial technique.” She revealed a malevolent grin. “This makes things easier.”

Even before she finished speaking, her other hand, coated with a thick layer of demonic energy, lashed out at him. Kriss’ pupils constricted when he saw her attack. Knowing he wouldn’t be able to dodge it given how fast she was, he hurriedly crossed his daggers in front of him to defend.

Crack!

Bang!

As her fist struck the dagger, a crisp crack resounded before Kriss was sent flying back, hacking up blood from his mouth and nose.

Apart from a pained wince, Kriss’ expression didn’t change, his cold gaze boring into the demon trio.

Landing on his feet, he spat out the remaining blood and wiped his mouth and nose with the back of his hand before looking down at his daggers, noticing hairline cracks on their blades.

‘Don’t break before I do.’ He muttered inwardly before raising his head, his eyes slowly turning black.

The female demon was about to order her companions to go inside the cave to see if Pauline was there when she felt a chill run down her spine.

“You…!”

BANG!