"Sir, um, Overlord, maybe you pushed yourself too much just now." A man, who seed to be around the sa age as Mark—his late elder brother—said, "If you don't mind, you can co with us to rest. We would like to thank you properly and treat you to so fine wine."
Others looked at Max with looks of emancipation. All of them were grateful to him and wanted to form so sort of connection to him while also thanking him. Who wouldn't? He was, after all, such a talented young man who, even when in the Four Star realm, could fight king realm beings. To their disappointnt, however, Max shook his head, "I appreciate the thought, but I can't. Need to kill so more demons and gain war rits."
Saying this, he bid them farewell and rushed away.
Right when he was approaching another group fighting the demons…
BOOM!
Another explosion rumbled through the sky. So other demons had self-detonated.
Max narrowed his eyes. 'Just what is going on? Why are they being so ruthless?'
The sa question everyone else, including the emperors watching over the battlefield, had in their mind. Even they couldn't understand why the demons were acting like this.
In the war temple, Tristen, Verana, and Alton were sitting in a room. "You said the first wave of demons you faced when coming here was the horned demons, right?" Verana asked, "And they were prepared to die?"
"Yeah." Alton nodded.
Verana rubbed her temples in worry. "Just what is going on in their minds? They usually use this tactic when they fall into a disadvantageous position near the end of the war, but they are already doing it now."
"Even weirder is the fact the horned demon tribe is doing the suicide bombing."
Tristen and Alton's brows creased at her words in worry. Usually, the weakest tribes, which only had a few Five Star demons at the helm, would self-destruct, and the horned demon tribe, by no ans, was such a tribe. So, their strange actions were worrying.
Alton hesitated a little before saying, "Maybe the rumors are true…"
Both Verana's and Tristen's expressions hardened. After a few monts of silence, Verana sighed as she stood up to leave, "Let's hope they are not. Otherwise… the chaos will be much more than we can handle."
Before leaving, she said, "Inform the mages about the counterasures available in the resource exchange hall."
…
Max would leave if he saw the mages could deal with the demons, and if he thought they wouldn't be able to, he would forcefully interfere and kill the demons.
By the ti the last demons died, he had killed several dozen Four Star demons and over twenty Five Star demons—nine peak Five Star, six high-stage Five Star, and the rest early and mid-stage—and earned a grand total of 98,000 rits. He could've earned more if he hadn't left so of the Five Star demons in the lower stages for the mages to kill. He didn't do this because he was afraid or sothing, but because he knew just as he needed rits, others also needed them.
Just then, Alton's voice sounded in everyone's heads.
[As you have seen, the demons aren't hesitating to sacrifice themselves to kill as many of you as they can. I'm sure many of you must be worried because most of you can't survive a Five Star demon's core detonation if you are not prepared for it.]
[We have faced such situations in previous wars and have already prepared so counterasures. You can find them in the Formation, Artifact, and Talisman sections in the resource exchange hall.]
[Since the demons usually resort to this core detonation tactic a lot later in the war, people usually have gathered quite a bit of the rits and can easily afford these special counterasures, but you guys can't as they are quite expensive.]
After saying this, he paused, causing everyone to start worrying about the lack of rits. But then his voice sounded again, a hint teasing.
[Oh, sorry. Sothing ca up. So, where was I? Yeah, they are very expensive, and since we know most of you don't have enough rits yet, we have used our limited authority to subsidize them. For the next three days, you can buy them at half the price.]
Swoosh! Swoosh!
As soon as he was done speaking, everyone started rushing toward the war temple.
Max was among them. Although he didn't need any counterasures since he had the Death and Nascent energy, Lily, Emily, and Sera would need them because he couldn't be with them at all tis.
While rushing, he didn't forget to send the trio a ssage stating he was going to buy those counterasures for them, so they didn't need to worry and could calmly continue their cultivation.
Emily, Lily, and Sera were indeed worried after Alton spoke to them because they had already spent their war rits earlier. So, when they got Max's ssage, a beautiful smile blood on their faces.
Martha waited in front of the formation house for a while for them to co out, but when they did not, she frowned.
"Are they not coming out?" Pauline asked as she walked over to her side. Kriss, Armand, and others also ca.
"It seems so." Martha nodded.
"They must have spent all their rits earlier." Pauline said, sighing, "My people and I did the sa and now can't buy those counterasures. Only if we knew we would need them so soon, sigh."
"Since you have no rits left, why did you co out? Shouldn't you have continued your cultivation?" Martha asked, looking at her with interest, a small smile tugging at the corner of her lips.
Pauline shrugged. "I was curious to see what these counterasures are. So, I ca out."
Suddenly thinking of sothing, she asked, "You have rits left, right?" She then turned to Kriss, Armand, and three others from Martha's group, "What about you all?"
"I didn't spend all of it, so I still have so." Kriss nodded while Armand and others shook their heads, causing Pauline to frown, "Then why are you here? Go, and culti–"
Swoosh!
Suddenly, her words got caught in her throat when Armand enveloped her in his aura.
'Oh shit. I forgot they are a lot stronger than .' She grimaced before putting on a flattering look on her face.
"Um, what I ant was that you seniors shouldn't have halted your cultivation since you didn't have any rits left."
Hmph!
Armand hurrumped before retracting his aura. Pauline sighed in relief and patted her chest while reminding herself to think before speaking for the billionth ti in her life.
Suddenly, she noticed Kriss looking at her with interest, which made her frown and say, "What are you staring at so creepily for, Martell?"
She knew Kriss was stronger than her, but since their cultivation and ages were similar, she wasn't as afraid of him.
Kriss panicked for the briefest mont before regaining his composure. He then said, "Miss Fuller, if you like, I can lend you so rits to buy those counterasures."
Pauline's cold expression imdiately softened upon hearing his words, but she shook her head, "No. If I take yours, you won't have enough left for yourself."
"Don't worry about it. I will have more than enough." Kriss smiled.
Pauline hesitated. She knew since he could kill a demon king, he must have killed quite a few other demons and earned a substantial amount of rits; she didn't want to receive any favor from him and complicate things between them because even though the Fuller and Martell families weren't enemies, they weren't friends either. If sothing happened to set them against each other, she wouldn't know how to treat him.
But…
She also wanted to buy the counterasures, if not for her, for her people. Many of them had already lost their lives, and she didn't want the rest of them to die too.
Kriss, realizing why she was hesitating, smiled and calmly said, "There is no need to think too much about it, Miss Fuller. Just treat it as loaning them to you. When you return them, just pay a little more as interest." Pauline's eyes lit up. "Right. I can do that." She nodded before taking out her rit plate, "Alright, lend half of what you have then. If I can buy sothing with them, fine; if not, I'll return them to you and you can buy them."
Kriss nodded and placed his rit plate against hers before transferring half of his rits.
"So many? And these are just half of what you had left after spending earlier?" Pauline's eyes widened when she saw how many rits he transferred to her.
[War rits: 60,000]
Kriss smiled and said, "Shall we go now?"
"Of course. Let's go, princess." Pauline said and started running toward the war temple. Kriss followed after her like her shadow.
Martha's eyes flickered, and her lips curled up in a thoughtful smile as she watched them leave, "Fullers' young miss and Martells' heir… how interesting!"
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