Chapter 684 Facing A Demon King

Chapter 684 Facing A Demon King

Seeing everyone moving away, Lily took a deep breath and nodded, "We'll go, but please be careful, young master."

Even as she said this, tears had appeared in her eyes, falling down her long eyelashes and on her cheeks.

Max sighed and pulled her into his embrace, gently stroking her back. "I'll be safe, so don't worry, okay? You know I'm strong, right?"

"Mm." Lily sniffled in response, pulled away from him, and wiped her tears.

She then glanced at Sera and Emily, "Let's go."

While Sera hugged him and got ready to leave his side, Emily stared at him, her jaws and fists clenched tight. She clearly was very reluctant to leave his side.

Seeing this, Max smiled, took a step toward her, and hugged her. "Listen to me this time, alright?"

Emily wanted to say no, but before she knew it, her mouth opened, and she found herself nodding, "Okay. I'll listen to you."

Just when Max wanted to say something, his bloodline sense tingled, and he immediately pushed Emily toward Lily and shouted, "LEAVE!"

Lily didn't hesitate. She immediately grabbed dazed Emily and Sera before rushing in Martha's direction, followed by Pauline and the rest of the Fullers.

Swoosh!

After shouting, Max had immediately turned on his heels and rushed in a different direction, an incomparably serious look on his face.

As he ran, he rapidly circulated his mana and bloodline energy and got ready to use the Death and Nascent Energy at a moment's notice.

The Thunder Sword appeared in the right hand. Almost simultaneously, the mixture of his three types of energies flowed out of his palm and covered it.

Then, under the demon king's narrowed gaze, he slashed at the demonic sickle and cut through it.

However...

Puff!

Even though he managed to cut it into two pieces and change its trajectory, the cut pieces didn't disperse and continued moving forward. Before he could react, they slashed into his shoulders and left more than an inch-deep gashes.

Max winced in pain, but ignoring it, he flashed a few meters back to get ready to face her next attacks. Fortunately for him, though, the demon king didn't follow up and instead stared at the Thunder Sword and the mixture of lingering energies on it, her eyes flashing with a hint of greed.

She glanced around, hoping no one had noticed it, but her face fell when she saw a few of the demon kings were trying to ditch the human king mages and rush over.

A sense of urgency filling her, she chose to ignore the orders that directed them to capture him if they could and quickly kill him. She knew she wouldn't be able to keep his body or the sword as her superiors wanted them; she would be able to absorb a significant portion of his bloodline and store some of his strange energy, which she was sure would benefit her greatly.

A ruthless and almost manic glint flashed in Max's eyes when he felt her intention to kill him skyrocket.

While trying his best to protect his mana veins with the Nascent Energy, he channeled his mana, bloodline energy, and the Death Energy into the activation of his bloodline ability—the Finger—for the second time today.

Shua! Shua! Shua!

Immediately, the mana in the surroundings turned violent as the finger started materializing above his head.

The demon king felt her heart shudder when she felt the aura radiating off the rapidly materialized finger.

'Shit!' She cursed and immediately released her demonic energy, creating several layers of shields in front of her before sending several blades of demonic energy toward him, wanting to stop or at least delay the completion of the finger even though she had realized she wouldn't succeed.