Mmm. Mia silently nodded.
However, Alex was shocked again. "What? You helped him? How? When?" She was watching the demon so intensely that she did not even notice the constant heals Mia was supplying.
Also, Liam had explicitly asked them not to help him. So when was he talking about? She looked at the two of them and it seemed like they had subtly done some tricks.
"Tch. So that's why you were able to tame that thing." Alex rolled her eyes. "I knew from the start it would be difficult to use this skill with a bad affinity."
"Bad affinity? I guess you could say that." Liam calmly breathed in and out, trying to relax his tired body. "By the way, you both should log out and set your social media things straight. Otherwise, this might get out of hand."
"Right." Mia nodded. "We will leave then."
"One second." Alex walked up to Liam impatiently. She chewed her lips and wasn't done with the guy just yet. "What affinity do you have? Tell me."
Just once… just once… she wanted to be correct about something!
Liam grinned and teased her on purpose. "Like you said, I have a bad one."
"Ya. What is that?"
"S grade."
"He He. I knew it!" Alex chuckled but then suddenly stopped, "What did you say?"
Mmmm. Liam quietly hummed, not responding to her anymore.
He stretched his hands and legs on that dirty charred ground containing the scars of the battle just now and the dungeon run from before. He just wanted to take a nap.
Seeing him like this, sleepy and defenseless, Alex was so tempted to lift her leg up and give the guy a good kick, but she silently sighed and gave up.
Mia as well tugged her hand, signaling that they had to leave.
"Alright. Alright. I will shut up my mouth now. Let's go." She looked at Liam again and couldn't help but silently wonder just how many top-grade affinities he had.
She knew that his nether affinity was good, at least grade S and now his demonic affinity was also at least grade S? Could it perhaps be that he had every single one of his affinities S grade?
"No. Something like that is impossible." She shook her head, and giving the guy one last look, she followed Mia out of the dungeon.
Now that the two sisters also left, only Liam was present in the dungeon. He tiredly stared at the broken high ceiling. It looked as if it was going to crumble and fall on top of him.
"I should head out too." He muttered in a daze, thinking about some things and he suddenly remembered something that he had forgotten.
Liam quickly sat up and opened the various notifications and his status screen and he finally found the thing that he had forgotten.
[Health] -500
"So lifeforce meant health?" He now understood. "This is indeed an expensive price. That demon better be worth it." Liam sighed and closed his screen.
He then stood up and walked out of the dungeon. Beside him, the white fox quietly trotted over, and besides this fox, there were now two more entities.
One was the howler demon curiously observing everything and the other one was a random demon that Liam summoned using the starter skill.
From now onwards, he planned to train in these types of demonic spells as well. This was the true reason why he was not frowning right now from his health getting cut short by 500 points.
After being in the nether realm for so long and after observing so many demons up close, he couldn't help but become curious about the demonic energy.
Especially now that he had run this dungeon, he could see the clear link between the two types of energies. Both nether and the demonic energy were unmistakably linked somehow.
He did not know where this thought was headed but he couldn't ignore it. And then there was also the abyss. Just thinking about that gave him a chill down his spine.
"No. I shouldn't distract myself so much. There is not much time before everything shuts down and the apocalypse begins. I can't be idiotically following every little breadcrumb."
He gave a quick glance at the demon walking behind him and then at Luna. He instantly knew what he lacked the most right now. He had too many lackeys and not enough experience points!
It was time to power up whatever boost he had managed to gather so far!
Instead of trying to search for new ones, he needed to strengthen what was there in his hand at the moment, his spell casting, his soul army, and his spirit beast!
"Let's go and do some hunting. Come out." Liam summoned his army of soul undeads, walking over to one of the nearby grinding spots.
It was a lush valley with several trees and rolling mountains.
More importantly, it was filled with various different types of lower-level mobs, all ranging from Level 20 to Level 30, a picture-perfect spot for his small diverse army.
"Go. Hunt. Kill. Become stronger. Don't wake me up and don't die." Liam ordered the group and he casually dropped to the grass, falling asleep quickly.
This spot was a hidden spot in between higher-level mob areas so not many players were around. Even if someone were to come, Luna was on duty to wake him up.
So there was nothing to worry about. Besides, there was also the one guy who was watching over everything.
The howler demon laid on the grass next to Liam, like a guardian bulldog keenly watching everything happening around them.
Unlike the others, the demon did not need to level up by hunting these smaller prey because the demon's level was also the same as Liam's. Level 50!
So if any other players were to approach them at the moment, it was not Liam's group that was going to be sorry!
Meanwhile… outside in the real world… just like Liam had foreseen, a terrible storm was brewing. Alex and Mia were getting bashed a lot on social media.
But that was not the worst part. The worst part was that Mia was summoned by the board of directors of her father's company.