Chapter 647 Bait

In the distance, Count Wiley shivered when he felt his gaze.

Dean, running beside him, noticed this and asked in a whisper, “He is looking?”

Wiley silently nodded, which put a subtle smile on Dean’s face.

“That’s good.”

Wiley just gave him an indifferent look, but inwardly, he was seething.

‘Of course, you would say that. If something goes wrong, I would be the one to die, after all.’

‘And this bastard… maybe I should’ve ignored the Royal family and killed Ashton and his family. If I had, he wouldn’t be here today to kill me.’

While he cursed his luck, Max’s eyes flashed when he noticed the short exchange of words between them with his bloodline sense.

He hadn’t used it in the plaza, fearing Verana and other Emperor Magus might notice it, but now, Alton was busy leading the way while Wyomin wasn’t paying any of them any attention, so he had less inhibitions and had used it when he glanced at Wiley.

‘So, they are using him as bait to lure me in? Not bad.’ He thought,

Once they were a few miles away from the city, Lily and Sera moved closer to him. Emily, however, stayed at arm’s length.

“We are safe now, right?” Lily asked,

“Yes. No one had followed us from the city.” Max nodded. “Um, young master, should we remove the masks then?” Max thought for a moment before he shook his head, “No, let’s wait for a while more.”

He then asked, “Why? You are not comfortable hiding your identity?”

“No, it’s not that, young master.” Lily shyly shook her head.

Max waited for her to answer, but she kept silent, causing him to raise an eyebrow.

Just as he was about to ask her, Sera leaned in and whispered, “She must not like the fact that you look at her but don’t see her real face.”

Lily lowered her head and a slight blush appeared on her face when she heard this while Max, finally enlightened, was speechless.

…

After leaving the city, Alton slowly increased the speed and after an hour, he was flying at the top speed of an average Early-Stage Three Star Mage.

Among these around eight thousand Magus, over seventy percent were in the Three Star realm. So, after running at this speed for a few hours, the exhaustion had started to creep in.

Alton however didn’t lower the speed.

…

Ha!

Huff! Huff!

Six hours after leaving the city, almost every Three Star Magus was out of breath and they had slowly started to lag behind.

Noticing this, Wyomin sent a mental message to Alton.

[Let’s let them rest for a while.]

Alton agreed and stopped.

“You have one hour to rest. The next time we stop, it will be when we arrive at the battlefront.”

…

Since Lily, Sera and Max were in the Four Star realm, they were only slightly out of breath, but Emily, though she fared better than other High-Stage and even Peak Three Magus, was heaving slightly deeper breaths.

“Are you alright?” Max walked over and offered her some water.

“Yes.” Emily curly nodded and took the proffered water which put a relieved smile on Max’s face.

Emily gave him a side eyed look as he drank the water and took deep breaths.

“How far is this battlefield?” Max asked Pauline who had walked over after talking to her people.

“At the same speed, it should take us another six to seven hours.” Pauline said as she sat on the ground, took out a spirit fruit and took a bite.

“How delicious!” She exclaimed before glancing at Max, Lily and Sera, “Want one? It can restore your stamina and increase mana recovery.”

“Yeah. Give me one.” Max said as he sat beside Emily. Lily and Sera also sat down.

After Pauline gave them each a fruit, she reluctantly took out another and held it toward Emily, “Here, you need to recover your stamina more than us.”

This would have been a very polite gesture, and might have even served to reduce the tension between them if she didn’t have that ‘Punch me’ expression on her face.

Emily silently looked at her, and then to her and Lily’s surprise, took the fruit from her.

“Give a few more. I’ll save your life one time in exchange.”

“…”

Pauline looked at her with a blank look on her face, not comprehending what she had just heard.

Then, her face turned dark as she snarled, “Do you think I would need to be saved by someone weaker than me? You underestimate me too much.”

Ignoring her outburst, Emily indifferently said, “You don’t have more. It’s alright. Don’t feel embarrassed.”

“You!” Pauline was speechless. She took out a few fruits and threw them at her before leaving in a huff.

“So, she had them.” Emily muttered, catching them and storing them away in her spatial ring.

“…”

Max and Lily exchanged looks, seeing surprise on each others’ faces. It was the first time either of them had seen her act like this.

“What’s with that look you two have?” Emily asked, her eyes narrowed.

“N-Nothing.” The duo timidly shook their heads. Then, a moment later, “Hahaha!”

All of them burst out in loud laughter, attracting everyone’s attention, even Alton and Wyomin’s. Many in the crowd looked at them strangely while others were angry, not liking it that they were treating this excursion like some picnic. freewebnvel.coɱ

Max and the four ladies, however, ignored them all.

In some distance, Pauline grounded her teeth, and stomped the ground, “Those bastards! They are laughing at me, aren’t they?”

The High-Stage Five Star mage beside her shook her head, “No, miss. They are not.”

Pauline glared at her before glancing at the group, “It’s good then.”

Saying this, she returned to Max’s group, flopped down beside Sera and asked, “What are you guys laughing about?”

Sera shook her head, and awkwardly said, “I don’t know. They were laughing so I joined them.”

After they calmed down, Emily looked at Max in silence, causing him to become nervous.

He had just thought she was no longer angry, was he wrong?