Demon King: Hero, don’t run away!

Walking through the wide corridor, Yang Yu and the members of the Red Blood Rose, under the guidance of the servants, took their seats in the reception room.

Along the way, Yang Yu observed around and only saw a few people with star eyes like Sena.

Before coming here, Yang Yu once asked Sena how many people were in her family and how many had star eyes.

Sena could only give a rough estimate: her family had about sixty or seventy people, but only about twenty had star eyes.

The number was a bit more than Yang Yu had expected, but not by much.

While waiting for Duke Doro Krunges, Yang Yu flipped through the task list and found a task accepted from the Hall of Courage long ago:

[Achievement Task

The Continuation of Bloodline

Task Description: You are entrusted by the ancestor of the star-eyed people, hoping you can save their descendants in a time of crisis.

Task Requirement: Save at least one person with star eyes when the Demon King invades.

Task Reward: Title [Rare Bloodline Guardian] (increases Defense and Special Defense by 5% for each rare bloodline holder in your team in battle, up to four times), three lottery draws per person saved, 100,000 Experience per person saved.]

Due to not being much affected by the Magic Tide...

More accurately, perhaps because of absorbing various racial essences, those racial essences offset the negative statuses that should have affected him.

Yang Yu’s attributes neither increased nor decreased.

The ancient humans also couldn’t adapt to this high-magic world, which is why they developed things like racial essences.

The people of the past likely had some technique to fully use racial essence to completely turn ancient humans into subhumans.

But now, due to the break in civilization and the loss of technology, wanting to transform into another race can only rely on trivial mutations that are not only unstable but also unsafe.

Yang Yu has the system, which allowed him to relatively stably digest the racial essences of other races.

Although there have been mutation options when using racial essence, Yang Yu never dared to choose them.

If an adverse mutation occurred, it would be catastrophic.

From the above inference, it can be deduced...

Those adversely affected by the Magic Tide may only be able to use racial essence to rid themselves of its negative impact.

And for ordinary people, racial essence is not so easily obtainable.

The level is about to reach the cap, and the equipment will soon become saturated; the means for Yang Yu to improve in the future will become increasingly limited.

The achievement task ”The Continuation of Bloodline” offers a decent title and quite a bit of experience; Yang Yu took this into consideration when forging the current alliance with Red Blood Rose.

However, Yang Yu is still unsure how this task will be settled.

Now that the ”taunt” has fallen on the family that possesses star eyes, Yang Yu wonders if he can persuade the Krengris family to establish a stronghold here.

The geographical location of Serti is quite peculiar, bordering every country.

If a stronghold is built here, it could both protect the Krengris family and use Serti’s geographical convenience to gather intelligence on the Demon King and make various decisions.

Yang Yu sincerely hopes the family head of the Krengris family is easy to talk to.

However...

After waiting for about three to four minutes, a stout middle-aged man with a pouty face sat opposite Yang Yu’s group.

Glancing at the panel, the person was indeed the family head of the Krengris family, Duke Doro Krenge.

Before Yang Yu could greet, Duke Doro Krenge shook his cheeks and spoke:

”A bunch of unfamiliar faces; new members of the Red Blood Rose?”

Gordon responded with a smile: ”I wish they were our members. Unfortunately, they are not. Since you mentioned it, you must have investigated us, right?”

Duke Doro Krenge chuckled lightly: ”An S-Class adventure group active in the country must be understood a little to avoid offending you.”

Gordon also chuckled at Duke Doro Krenge: ”Since you know this, you should also know your daughter is in our team.”

”I don’t know.” Duke Doro Krenge laid his arms on the chair and crossed his legs, ”At this point, who would still remember such an unfilial daughter? I almost can’t remember what she looks like. Even if she suddenly appeared in front of me now, I wouldn’t recognize her.”

Yang Yu slyly glanced at Sena, not far away. She didn’t speak, just lowered the parasol she had always kept open before entering the villa.

It felt more troublesome than imagined.

This greasy uncle, after so many years, still hasn’t calmed down, acting like a child, throwing a petty tantrum.

Duke Doro Krenge looked at Gordon, completely ignoring Yang Yu, and spoke:

”There’s no smoke without fire. Tell me, what brings Red Blood Rose here today?”

Gordon’s lips curled into a slight smile: ”The one who wishes to see you isn’t me, but this gentleman here.

After we arrived in this city, it was also he who quickly dealt with those suddenly appearing magic beasts.

In a sense, he is your benefactor.

He’s not just anyone, and ignoring him to talk to me...

Might make him angry and cause some very terrible consequences.”

Only upon hearing this did Duke Doro Krenge look directly at Yang Yu for the first time. Someone who could come here with Red Blood Rose was definitely not an ordinary person, but this didn’t mean Duke Doro Krenge had to humble himself before someone he met for the first time. After all, he was a duke of a country, representing his entire family.

”I sincerely thank you for everything you’ve done.

But even without your intervention, the city guards could handle it.

Though I don’t know why you are here, the fact that you have helped us a little is undeniable.

Speak! What do you want from me?

As long as it’s not an excessive request, I’ll do my best to fulfill it.”

Yang Yu sighed and sat down in his chair with a posture even more casual than Duke Doro Krenge, also crossing his legs,

”Your Grace makes light of things.

You have not faced the monsters we’ve faced. Though they may be easy pickings for us, for this city, they are a disaster.

If we hadn’t intervened, merely watching from the sidelines wouldn’t suffice. Those rodent-like magic beasts could have destroyed who knows how much.

Their agility is beyond your imagination, capable of growing and shrinking within a certain range.

If not thoroughly dealt with in one go, and they burrow into the city sewers to breed again.

How much loss would that bring, how many would become homeless, and how much responsibility would you bear as the lord?

This is not something that can be brushed off with a simple ’sorry, we couldn’t handle it, we’ll definitely defeat them next time.’

By dismissing what we’ve done, you just want to pay less money.

You should think it over; being stingy now may invite even greater disaster.”