Strongest Mage with the Lust system

“Thank you.” Anna nodded, a hint of glee appearing in her eyes, but it was quickly overshadowed by her concern.

She wanted him to share his worries with her, but seeing he wasn’t willing to tell her, she didn’t ask again.

But she realized something—he was carrying too much burden on his shoulders.

‘No matter how I was feeling, I shouldn’t have treated him so coldly,’ she thought, feeling bad for her behavior this past month.

A while later, they left the inn and were walking on the streets, taking in everything they saw and heard.

“Strength is really important,” Anna muttered when she saw people sleeping on the streets, looking haggard and miserable.

Most of these people were weaker than Five Star because those in the Five Star realm or above were able to find a place to stay even if they didn’t have enough mana stones.

“It indeed is,” Max agreed.

Just then, they heard a commotion, and many people gathered in the distance.

“Let’s see what’s happening there,” Max said, and after hesitating a little, he extended his hand toward her.

Anna looked at his outstretched hand, took a breath, and grabbed it, which put a bright smile on Max’s face.

Seeing this, Anna felt a surge of warmth in her heart.

When they reached the crowd, Max forced his way in. This naturally displeased the people who were standing in his way, but before they could lash out at him, he swept his gaze across them, and they immediately stiffened in place.

Max ignored them and pulled Anna in with him.

Most of these people were weaker than Five Star, so when he enveloped them in his aura, they realized he was a lot stronger than them, making them dare not mess with him.

“Please don’t do this! My family is starving.”

Max and Anna saw a mid-stage Five Star mage wailing on the ground, looking at two people—Peak Five Star mages—who stood in front of him.

“Hmph! How does that concern us?” One of them scoffed coldly. “Now disappear from my sight, or I’ll kill you on the spot.”

Confused, Max asked a female Four Star mage standing beside him, “What’s happening here?”

The female mage glanced at the Five Star mage duo and hurriedly shook her head. “Ask someone else.”

Max didn’t mind her and glanced at a man standing nearby, a low-stage Five Star mage.

However, before he could even ask, the man’s lips curled up in disdain, and he ignored him, making Max sigh and release his aura.

Yi!

Immediately, the man shivered.

[Kindly tell me what’s going on here, sir,] Max asked via mental communication.

The man gave him a wary look and hurriedly explained what was going on before leaving the crowd.

After Max heard him, his eyes turned cold.

The man on the ground was a survivor from the desolate region, which he had already realized. Having spent all his savings on the town’s entry fee, he and his family of three were broke and had nothing to eat.

Desperate, he found work in their Inn. He was to clean the empty rooms and work as a waiter in the inn’s restaurant.

Today, it was his third day working there, and as they had agreed when he started working, he was supposed to get paid today, but right before his shift ended, he was moving dirty dishes when someone made him trip, causing the dishes to fall down and shatter.

Not only did these two, who were apparently from the central plains and part of the inn’s management, ignore the real culprit who made him trip, but they also beat him before throwing him out.

When he asked about his pay, they beat him up again and said his pay would be used to settle the loss the inn suffered because of it.

Noticing his expression, Anna asked him what he found out. When he told her everything, Anna’s expression frosted over.

“These bastards, they really don’t treat people from the desolate region as humans,” she said through gritted teeth.

How could she not be angry? It was evident he was set up, and the inn didn’t have any intention of paying him from the beginning.

As soon as she said this, a hushed silence fell over the place.

Swoosh!

All the surrounding people moved away from her like she was some plague.

Killing intent flashed in the two Peak Five Star mages’ eyes as they moved their attention from the man on the ground to Anna.

“Did you just curse us?” one of them asked, his voice cold.

Anna realized she had brought unnecessary trouble to them, but she was too angry right now and met his gaze and said in an equally cold voice,

“Did you expect me to praise you after seeing how ruthlessly you are exploiting a desperate person?”

“You got courage, little beauty.” The other man laughed, his gaze looking her up and down. Then, he licked his lips and sneered, “But you are going to pay a terrible price for disrespecting us.”

He then walked toward her, step by step, his aura flaring out and enveloping Max and Anna.

Anna’s expression turned pale. She was just an early-stage Three Star mage. How could she endure a Peak Five Star mage’s aura?

However, right then, she felt Max give her hand a reassuring squeeze. Immediately after which, the oppression of the aura vanished without a trace.

She glanced at him, a guilty look on her face. “I’m sorry for inviting unnecessary trouble.”

Max smiled. “There is no need to apologize. I would have taken action regardless.”

Anna bit her lip and nodded.

She wasn’t worried in the slightest about these two because she had already seen Max deal with people stronger than them.

However, knowing they were part of the main management of the inn, she knew stronger ones would come out after he dealt with them.

‘Should I message Esme?’ she thought.

The man’s eyes narrowed when he saw they were unaffected by his aura.

Immediately, his focus shifted from Anna to Max, a hint of surprise and caution appearing in his eyes.

But then he saw them converse as though he didn’t exist, and his temper flared.

“Die, you bastard!”

With an enraged shout, he flashed in front of Max and punched toward his head, wanting to kill him before dealing with Anna.

Max stared into his eyes, his own flashing crimson as he slowly reached out with his hand and…

Pat!

Easily captured his fist.

The man’s pupils constricted into pinholes.

Although he hadn’t used any magic spell in the punch, his mana and aura were reinforcing it. Even a high-stage Five Star mage would have difficulty blocking it, but he, a mere Peak Four Star mage, blocked it, and seemingly without any effort at that.

‘He hadn’t used any magic artifact to negate my aura’s effects.’ Realization struck him.

Horrified, he wanted to pull back, not wanting to face this monster of a person, but… no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t pull his fist out of Max’s grasp.

His companion was feeling dissatisfied because he had the same intentions as him—he wanted to lay his hands on Anna first but was slow to react, causing him to lose the opportunity.

After seeing the scene playing out in front of him, however, all his dissatisfaction vanished, and he even let out a sigh of relief.

He had realized Max was one of those monsters who could battle across realms, and seeing how completely unbothered he looked facing his companion, who was no weaker than him, he knew they were definitely not his match, at least not individually.

However, he didn’t want to join forces because no matter what, Max was a savage from the desolate region and was just a Four Star mage. How humiliating would it be to join forces against him?

Just as he was sighing in relief and thinking what he should do…

“Ryder, come help me!” He heard his companion’s shout, which made him curse him in his heart.

‘You want me to suffer with you, bastard, don’t you?’

However…

Despite his reluctance, he had no choice but to help him because not only were they fellow workers, but also because if people saw he was scared of Max, he would be even more humiliated.

Swoosh!

Just as he took a step forward, rushing toward Max, he saw Max raise his other hand, and then…

Crack!

Bang!

He heard a crisp bang and saw his companion’s head explode and watched, horrified, as red and white matter flew in his direction and stained him from head to toe.

“You… You killed him?!” He asked in disbelief.

Max calmly pulled his hand back and released the now dead man’s fist, letting him fall to the ground.

Thud!

As everyone shuddered, Max nodded, his eyes filled with killing intent, as he uttered coldly, “Just the fact he wanted to kill me was enough for him to die, but he had to go and harbor ill intentions for my woman. How could I not kill him?”

Anna stared at him in a daze, her heart racing.

“Do you… not know we are from the central plains?” Ryder asked, not able to understand what gave him the courage to kill someone from the central plains.

Shouldn’t he be afraid of them? They had, after all, strong backing, while he was just a refugee in their home.

“I do,” Max nodded, taking a step toward him, “But, so what?”

Ryder inhaled sharply and…

Swoosh!

Immediately turned around and rushed toward the Inn. He knew he had met an unreasonable fellow, and seeing how his killing intent still hadn’t vanished, he knew Max wanted to kill him too.

How could he have the courage to stay there and face him?

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