Chapter 706 Interesting

Chapter 706 Interesting

"Sir, um, Overlord, maybe you pushed yourself too much just now." A man, who seemed to be around the same age as Mark—his late elder brother—said, "If you don't mind, you can come with us to rest. We would like to thank you properly and treat you to some fine wine."

Others looked at Max with looks of emancipation. All of them were grateful to him and wanted to form some 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 disappointment, however, Max shook his head, "I appreciate the thought, but I can't. Need to kill some more demons and gain war merits."

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. Some other demons had self-detonated.

Max narrowed his eyes. 'Just what is going on? Why are they being so ruthless?'

The same 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 means, 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 moments 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 countermeasures 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 time 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 merits. He could've earned more if he hadn't left some of the Five Star demons in the lower stages for the mages to kill. He didn't do this because he was afraid or something, but because he knew just as he needed merits, others also needed them.

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 me.' She grimaced before putting on a flattering look on her face.

"Um, what I meant was that you seniors shouldn't have halted your cultivation since you didn't have any merits 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 time in her life.

Suddenly, she noticed Kriss looking at her with interest, which made her frown and say, "What are you staring at me 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 moment before regaining his composure. He then said, "Miss Fuller, if you like, I can lend you some merits to buy those countermeasures."

Pauline's cold expression immediately 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 merits; 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 something happened to set them against each other, she wouldn't know how to treat him.

But...

She also wanted to buy the countermeasures, 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 me loaning them to you. When you return them, just pay me a little more as interest." Pauline's eyes lit up. "Right. I can do that." She nodded before taking out her merit plate, "Alright, lend me half of what you have then. If I can buy something with them, fine; if not, I'll return them to you and you can buy them."

Kriss nodded and placed his merit plate against hers before transferring half of his merits.

"So many? And these are just half of what you had left after spending earlier?" Pauline's eyes widened when she saw how many merits he transferred to her.

[War Merits: 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!"