Maxwell, while heading there, said, "I don''t think I have any business here, brother. I mean, my king."
Vincent: "So, does that mean I should assume you won''t help us?"
Maxwell, taking a deep breath, replied, "Whatever you''re doing won''t end well anyway." Saying this, he walked away.
Avinash, in a panicked voice: "Did he not see us?"
Shrinkaate: "There''s no time for this. We need to leave as quickly as possible." But in his mind, he kept thinking, Why didn''t Maxwell do anything even after seeing us? What''s going on in his mind?
A little later:
Avinash, now back to his normal size, threw up and said, "Who the h*** designed this magic circle?"
Then he added, "Are you sure this strange demon woman will help us?"
Saira, in a calm voice, replied, "She saved our lives once and told us she was working on getting us out of here."
Avinash noticed something and said, "Your demon form—it''s slowly disappearing."
Saira looked at her body, realizing her human form was returning. She thought to herself, It seems I''ve run out of mana.
Saira said, "Don''t focus on that. We need to get to our room before anyone notices."
From a distance, the Fake God, watching them, said angrily, "Damn it! What is the Demon King''s bloodline doing with that girl?"
Pig Bank asked, "So what now? Is there no other way to wake him up?"
The Fake God didn''t respond and muttered, "It''s not that simple."
A little later:
Avinash was in his room and said aloud to check his status, "Mae Ka Lal Jai Kishan!" Thinking to himself, What was the logic behind making this the command?
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"Thank goodness no one is here. Still, this is so embarrassing."
The status appeared before him:
Strength: 4.3
Agility: 5.2
Defense: 0.5
Intelligence: Low
Recovery: 0.2
Potential: Bronze
Mana: 100/26
Ability Rank: F+
Seeing this, Avinash couldn''t contain his happiness. The time had come to upgrade his ability to rank E.
He pulled out a bottle of mana water and started drinking it slowly. Just like last time, it tasted salty. He then looked at his status, where mana was rapidly restoring. Soon, his permanent mana points began increasing at a fast pace.
As the mana increased, so did the smile on his face:
Mana 125/+125
Mana 135/+135
Mana 184/+184
Mana 190/+190
Mana 199/+199
But when the mana stopped increasing further, his smile faded away and was replaced by frustration and anger.
Avinash angrily exclaimed, "Why isn''t my mana increasing further?!" To upgrade his ability to rank E, he needed 200 mana points. After reaching that milestone, the ability would start developing gradually. But now, his mana was stuck at 199.
Furious, Avinash began pulling at his hair, cursing his bad luck. That''s when he noticed the empty bottle of mana water. There was still one last drop left in it. He quickly stuck out his tongue to lap it up, squeezing the bottle with all his might to extract every single drop of the liquid.
Mana 200/+200
Seeing this, he finally felt a sense of peace. Now, his ability could begin developing slowly.
Avinash summoned the gaming window, where the option to upgrade was displayed. Without hesitation, he clicked on "Upgrade."
System updating…
Meanwhile, Saira
In her room, Saira was reminiscing about the time she had transformed into a demon. Her thoughts wandered back to Shrinkaate''s words about the Demon King''s bloodline choosing her.
But the truth was different. Using her ability, Saira had forcibly mixed the bloodline with her own blood, without any intention of letting it take control of her.
Now, a question haunted her mind—could she inherit the other bloodlines present there in the same way?
However, the answer soon became evident as the black blood within her body began trying to force its way out.
Elsewhere
Someone shouted in anger, "What do you mean you haven''t found any trace of those thieves yet?!"
The man standing before him stammered nervously, "My apologies, Princess. But we''ve tried to track them down before, and the result has been the same as always—nothing."
Isabella was furious and shouted, "Get out of here!" As soon as the man left, Isabella collapsed onto the ground, clutching her chest, and thought, What is happening to me?
She muttered to herself, At that moment, I couldn''t see even in the darkness, which is why I couldn''t recognize their faces. Why am I feeling so weak?
Could this also be the work of those two thieves? First, they stole the artifact from the treasury. Later, they infiltrated the Great Lake Prison, killed everyone there, and one of them even inherited the Demon King''s bloodline. What are they doing here? The demons are frantically searching for a suitable candidate for the new Demon King. They would never send anyone here at any cost.
Isabella, overwhelmed by anger, grabbed her head and said, What do they want to achieve? But then her attention shifted to her hands, where strands of her hair had fallen.
The sight made her face turn pale, and an intense fear was visible in her eyes.
She couldn''t comprehend what was happening to her. The feeling of weakness persisted.
(At this moment, Isabella mistakenly believed that the two individuals who stole from the treasury and those she saw at the Great Lake Prison were the same. This misunderstanding led everyone to search for these two thieves, but no one had considered the possibility that they might be different people.)
Vincent Griffin looked ahead and said, "At last, this thing is intact."
From behind, someone called out, "Your Majesty, the Hero''s Blood is also safe, but the Black Blood has been destroyed."
Just then, someone came running, bowed deeply before Vincent Griffin, and said, "The Demon Queen is coming here tomorrow."
Vincent Griffin, with a serious expression, thought, First, the destruction of the Black Blood—which means the Demon King''s blood has accepted someone. And now, the Demon Queen herself is coming here.
This means the new Demon King is present here. We must eliminate him at any cost.