Strongest Mage with the Lust system

Chapter 623  Healing Sophie's Magic Foundation

Seeing her reaction, Sera's eyes became misty and she said again, "Sir Max… he has solved my bloodline problem. It is no longer eroding my lifeforce and I no longer have any bottleneck to Five Star realm."

"This… how…" This news sent Riva in a state of disbelief for a few moments.

When she recovered her senses, she jumped out of the sofa and placed a hand on Sera's chest to confirm if what she said was true even though she knew Sera wouldn't lie.

A few seconds later, she opened her eyes and she burst out in tears of relief and joy, "It's true. It's really true."

She then pulled Sera into her embrace, "This is really great, truly great. It seems today is my lucky day. Not only Sophie will recover, your incurable problem was also solved."

Sera nodded in agreement while shedding some happy tears in her embrace. After a while when she felt Riva recover from the rush of emotions, she raised her head, causing Riva to look down at her, and ask, "What is it?"

Sera blinked her misty eyes and carefully asked, "Um, Elder Riva, can you approve of my relationship with Sir Max?"

Hearing this, Riva hugged her tighter and sighed, "I won't lie. He is a complete pervert and I really don't like him."

Sera continued looking at her unblinking, waiting for her to continue which she did a moment later, "...however, I can also see that he isn't a bad person. So, as long as he can keep you happy and safe, I won't say anything about your relationship."

Hearing this, Sera exhaled in relief. "Thank you, Elder Riva."

Riva looked at her happy face before looking in the direction of Sophie's room and thought, 'I hope you can survive those hyenas.'

She didn't know how Mike was going to help him leave the city, but what she did know was that it would be dangerous.

She looked down at Sera, wondering whether she should tell her about his situation but decided against it, 'He should tell her on his own.' After a while, she patted her back and broke the hug before asking, "How did he do it? I mean how did he solve your bloodline problem? With his bloodline energy?"

"...I don't know." Sera hesitantly shook her head, "Once we finished doing that, he said my bloodline will no longer harm me and I can continue my cultivation."

Riva raised her brows when she saw her shifty eyed look and understood he must have forbidden her from telling anyone.

She didn't also pry because whatever it was, it was his secret.

'No wonder those three and even the Royal family want him. He is just too valuable.'

…

While they talked, Max arrived in front of Sophie's room. After knocking, he entered.

Seeing he came alone, Sophie became nervous, "Where is mother?"

"In the hall. I told her to leave us alone." Max said with a grin.

Hearing this, Sophie panicked, and hurried to explain, "S-Sir Max, I wasn't disappointed. You misunderstood me…"

Seeing her reaction, Max wanted to tease her more but when he remembered what Sera said after he told her about his other women, he controlled himself.

Walking over to the bed, he smiled, "Don't worry. I was just teasing you. Now, shall we get to work?"

Sophie relaxed when she heard this. She nodded before hesitantly asking, "How did you boost your bloodline energy? I mean… did you do it with my–"

While speaking, she suddenly paused and sniffed.

"You… did it with sister Sera?"

"Oh?! You can tell?" He asked in surprise. He had taken a quick bath once they were done to get rid of sweat and smell.

Just to make sure, he smelled his shoulders and couldn't smell her.

'It seems she has quite a sensitive nose.'

Sophie was dazed when she realized Sera had indeed sacrificed herself.

"My mother… she didn't force her, right?" She asked,

"No. She did not. Sera did it on her own volition. So, there is no need for you to feel guilty." Max said, looking into her eyes.

He then added with a chuckle, "Furthermore, she got herself the best life partner she could ever ask out of it. So, she didn't suffer any loss."

"Huh? You mean…" Sophie asked with an incredulous look on her face. She could understand Sera doing it with him for her sake, but her becoming his woman due to that… she couldn't understand.

"Of course. She is my woman now." Max declared, a hint of pride oozing out of his voice.

However, he grimaced when Sophie scoffed, "You must be dreaming."

"Tch!" Clicking his tongue, he sat beside her and said.

"Take off your top."

"Huh? Why?" Sophie asked, reflexively covering her chest with her arms.

"I need to have a direct touch with your body to heal your magic foundation." Max explained before saying, "You can relax. I have no intention to take advantage of you."

'...now.' He added in his mind.

A minute later, Sophie was laying on her back, her chest covered but her abdomen exposed.

"Now relax your body and try not to distract me." Max instructed.

Seeing Sophie nod, he took a deep breath, put both of his palms on her naval region and closed his eyes.

A few seconds later, tendrils of a colorless energy–Nascent Energy–started flowing out of his palms and entering her body.

Under his control, it phased through her flesh, blood and organs before entering her magic foundation–her dantian.

(A/N: I don't know what else to call it. So, I hope you don't mind.)

A dantian was an abstract or metaphysical organ in humans that housed the mana core and allowed one to sense and interact with ambient mana.

If one's mana core got damaged or even destroyed, although very difficult, it could be rebuilt using various means. It was even easy as long as you had the right resources and someone to help you.

The same wasn't true for the dantian because… it was a metaphysical organ and very few things in the world were capable of affecting it. Unless you could find those rare few things and control them to heal the dantian, there was nothing you could do.

But finding the things capable of affecting metaphysical things was a tall task. Even if by luck you found them, it would still be useless because only Monarch or Supreme Mages could hope to control and use them.

This was why, once someone injured their dantian/magic foundation, their path to magic would be permanently cut off.

Sophie's situation was even worse. Her dantian wasn't just injured, it had completely withered and cracked. So, trying to heal itself, it was sucking her vitality, lifeforce and even soul energy. But apart from the soul force that could somewhat affect it, the other could do nothing and thus, were just getting wasted.

In a way, her condition was similar to Sera's.

Fortunately for her and others in her situation, his Nascent Energy could not only interact and affect the dantians, it could also heal and nourish them.

Max dare say, once people find out about this ability of his, he would become a sensation throughout the world.

He chuckled at the thought, 'I really hope that doesn't happen.'Nôv(el)B\\jnn