Strongest Mage with the Lust system

Chapter 729  Dreadweave

While thinking this, Max sighed and touched his forehead.

Immediately, he remembered he had already worn the mask, and no one below the peak King mage realm should be able to find out who he was, but Leo did.

When he asked Leo this, he smiled, "Don't worry, Sir Overlord. Your mask works fine. And unlike you, who can see my true cultivation level despite my concealment necklace, I can't see through your mask. I had just happened to see you when you left Princess Martha's group. So, I was following you when you put on your mask."

Saying this, he added, "I want to say you should have been careful back there, but then I think you wanted to conceal your identity from only demons."

Max nodded, but his brows were still furrowed.

As for why?

It was because…

'Why did I only remember this when I unintentionally touched my face?' He thought. If he was a normal person, or even if he was a Three Star mage, he wouldn't have thought about it too much because it was normal for people to forget some little things sometimes.

However, after he broke through to the Four Star, his awareness seemed to have been enhanced a lot. He suspected it wasn't because of him becoming a Four Star mage, but because of him breaking his first bloodline lock.

Nonetheless, he should've realized that Leo had recognized him when he came, but he did not.

While thinking this, he looked around. There was nothing suspicious. People were sitting or standing in groups, alert and ready to fight.

Leo, seeing him looking around with his brows furrowed, realized something was wrong, but just as he was about to ask him, he saw Max's expression undergo a drastic change, becoming dark.

He gulped and immediately raised his guard and was about to ask him through his divine sense when Max gave him a look, stopping him.

Max then closed his eyes and scanned himself and found that a strange, difficult-to-detect but very malevolent energy had invaded his mind.

He immediately took control of some of the Nascent Energy and sent it into his mind. When the Nascent Energy came into contact with it, it was instantly annihilated, or rather, refined into nothingness.

Following this, he opened his eyes and looked at Leo with a surprised look in his eyes.

"Don't resist." Saying this, he placed a hand on his head and scanned his mind with his bloodline sense.

He also had the same strange energy in his mind. With some of his Nascent Energy, he refined it.

After he removed his hand, Leo couldn't stop himself from asking, "What's wrong?"

Max turned his gaze to the people in the distance and said through his bloodline sense, [Look at them." Do you see anything strange?]

Even as he said this, he reached for the communication crystal in his spatial ring and sent Wyomin a message.

…

In the war temple, in a grade three training room, Wyomin was guiding Emily and others when she got Max's message. Her expression changed when she heard it. n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

"You guys wait here. I'll be back."

Swoosh!

By the time her voice sounded, she had vanished from the room and arrived in front of Verana's chambers.

Almost at the same time, an opening appeared in the wall, and she entered.

Verana looked at her with raised brows and asked, "What is it, Wyomin?"

"This is bad, Lady Verana. The demons have..."

…

Leo looked at the people but didn't notice anything strange at a glance, but when he observed them closely, his eyes narrowed.

[They… seem calm outwardly, but they have become more anxious and afraid than they were a while ago.] He responded through his divine sense, sounding a little unsure.

Since they knew the demons are about to attack, it's understandable that they would become more anxious as time passed, but they were a little too much. Moreover, the same was true for everyone he could see, not just a few.

[You are right.] Max said, [They are being influenced by some strange energy. You and I were too.]

His gaze became solemn. [If I'm not wrong, this energy won't just mess up with their emotions, but it will also somehow affect them and make them unable to put up a proper fight when the demons attack.]

What he didn't say was that he was worried it would agitate them so much they might end up fighting and killing each other.

[Fuck! That's terrible!] Leo's face turned pale. 'Now I have even less chance to survive.'

At the same time, he sighed in relief because Max had removed the energy from him.

"Come with me." Max said after hesitating for a moment and turned around to rush in Martha and the group's direction. Even though he knew their concerns weren't wrong, their earlier attitudes had dissatisfied him, but it didn't mean he could let them die when he could help them. They were, after all, as he said earlier, his allies.

However, right as he was about to move…

Rumble! Swoosh! Rumble!

The ground started trembling as though a massive beast tide was approaching, and the sounds of air whistling sounded, indicating some people were rapidly flying over.

"They Are Here!!"

A loud voice rang throughout the battlefield. Max's expression fell. From the speed of the approaching large army, he knew by the time he reached Martha's group, they would be upon them, and he wouldn't be given enough time to remove the strange energy from their brains.

'I hope Lady Verana and others have some countermeasures against it…'

He had just thought this, giving up on going over to them, when his communication crystal buzzed.

Wyomin had sent him a message. [This energy is called Dreadweave. A special tribe of demons, mind demons, produce it. It entangles the mind in fear and hopelessness, making the victims unable to use their full power, and slowly corrodes their sanity.]

She had given him this description of the strange energy affecting everyone's mind, and it was followed by a message that made his expression ugly.