Seated on the chair with a glass of wine in his hand, Leo was calmly sipping the wine, or at least was pretending to be calm, because in reality, he was frightened out of his wits, feeling several hostile gazes on him.
'Please return quickly, Overlord.' He was constantly praying in his heart, worried the owner of these hostile gazes would throw caution to the wind and attack him.
He secretly glanced at the old man who had been tagging along with them and noticed he was standing there with his eyes closed. At a glance, he seed perfectly calm, but Leo noticed his pale face and his occasional trembles.
Seeing this, his lips curled up slightly, and he asked via his divine sense, [Scared, old man?]
Juan opened his eyes and honestly nodded.
[Don't be. They know we are Sir Overlord's companions. They wouldn't dare attack us unless… they have lost their mind.] Leo said, trying to comfort him and himself too, but the latter part of his words made him gulp and nervously glance around.
Given the current situation, the chances were very high that the demons, famous for their violence and rashness, would really lose their minds and attack.
Swoosh!
Right then, he heard soone rushing in their direction and cursed, 'Fuck! I jinxed myself.'
Just then, he heard Juan sigh in relief before saying in a teasing tone, "Don't be scared, young sir. It's the Overlord."
Right as he said this, Leo had noticed Max rushing over and sighed in relief. Then he glared at the old man before turning to Max.
Swoosh!
"You are back, sir—"
Before he could speak, Max appeared before him and placed a finger on his forehead.
"Find this man for . You have half an hour." Max ordered as he removed his finger before rushing away toward the nearest group of demons with the Thunder sword in his hand.
Leo looked at the image that had appeared in his mind before glancing at Max with a hint of excitent in his eyes.
'Finally…' He thought. Max trusting him with this task ant he had accepted him, which relieved and excited him.
He was about to rush away but stopped and stored the table and chairs. Then, before he could fly away, Juan Ming spoke up, "Young sir, please take with you; otherwise, I will be dead by the ti you and Sir Overlord return."
Leo narrowed his eyes at him, "Can you be any more shaless, old man? I don't know you, nor did it seem the Overlord knows you. So, why do I have to carry you? Not forcing you to leave our side; all this side was already generous enough."
When they t Juan Ming, Max had completely ignored him, but noticing the old man seed to know Max personally, he gestured to him to follow along. When he saw Max didn't object, his suspicion beca stronger. However, until now, Max hadn't spoken a word to him, which made him realize he didn't care about this old man. Since this was the case, he wasn't going to go out of his way to help him.
'Also, how dare he tease ?' He scoffed in his heart before saying to himself, 'Of course, this isn't the reason why I don't want to take him with . I'm not soone who holds grudges for such small things. Not at all.'
He was about to leave when he heard the old man say, "He knows . It's just that he doesn't have a good impression of ."
Leo looked at him as though he was looking at soone stupid, "That doesn't help your case at all, old man."
Saying this, he channeled his mana and took off to the sky. However, before he could fly away, he heard him say, "I might beco Overlord's grandfather-in-law in the future."
Swoosh!
Leo imdiately landed in front of him and stared into his eyes with a stern look on his face while his divine sense enveloped him. "I'll kill you if you lie. Now, repeat what you just said."
Old man Juan gulped at his words but gritted his teeth and said, "I'm not sure if I'll really beco his grandfather-in-law, but I know my granddaughter is under his care. So, we still have that connection."
Leo stared at him in silence for a few monts. He could tell the old man hadn't lied. "Co then." Saying this, he grabbed him by his shoulder and flew up.
Swoosh!
He could feel several hostile gazes were still on him, but he ignored them and activated his bloodline ability, which had evolved when Max fixed his bloodline.
Imdiately, his presence completely vanished, and the sa was true for old man Juan, who he had covered in his bloodline energy.
"Whoa! I can really use it on other people too." He exclaid in excitent.
Before evolving, it could only alter his aura and mana signature, but now, it could also perfectly hide his presence, and his experint proved he could use it on other people too.
Old man Juan looked at him in shock. If Leo wasn't holding him, he wouldn't even know soone was beside him.
"How marvelous!" He muttered in astonishnt, and a trace of envy could be seen in the depths of his eyes.
'It would have been amazing if my family also had a bloodline inheritance.' He lanted.
Leo grinned when he heard him.
…
Swoosh!
Ahh!
Raaa!
Max was fighting a group of ten Five Star demons. After a while, he killed them all and felt his irritation at not finding the person responsible for that killing intent abate a little.
However…
"Hmm?" He raised his brows when he absorbed the death energy of the demons he killed, and it started getting refined and being channeled into his mana core. Because he had compressed a significant portion of the Death Energy in his dantian and had made a conscious effort to not let it disperse even when he was looking for the person or now when he fought, there was so space in his dantian. So, he didn't feel any discomfort when a bit of Death Energy that his bloodline finished refining just now entered his dantian.
However, he could tell there was not enough room for all the new Death Energy of the ten demons.
He glanced around and saw all the demons were trying to keep their distance from him and seed ready to flee just like these ten had tried when he approached them.
Nodding to himself, he sat down right there, not even bothering to clear the area of corpses, and started circulating his bloodline energy throughout his body, but more toward his heart and brain.
After a while, he felt his irritation subside a little more—not enough to let him comfortably focus on compressing the Death Energy, but enough if he forced himself, and he did exactly that.
Martha's group was fighting so distance away, but they could see what Max was doing.
Seeing him sit down cross-legged with a look of concentration on his face, Martha frowned, realizing there was sothing wrong with him.
She then glanced at the demons in his vicinity and noticed they had realized this as well and seed to be entertaining the thought of disturbing his cultivation and possibly harming him even at the cost of their lives.
Slash!
With a powerful slash, she beheaded the demon she was fighting and ordered, "Let's go. We are moving to the center."
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