Very soon, a shop employee brought a spatial ring and handed it over to Beille before leaving the room with her head down.
Beille threw the ring toward Amara.
Amara caught it and took a glance inside. Seeing everything she asked for was in it, she stored it and stood up, "I'll go now, aunty."
Beille nodded silently.
"Let's go," Amara said to Max and walked out. Max immediately followed her.
Just as they were about to leave the shop, Beille's voice sounded in their ears, [Be mindful of all the things you do from now on.]
Amara subtly nodded her head while Max acted as if he didn't hear anything. He already knew what he needed to do.
After they returned to Amara's residence, she took out some wooden boxes from the spatial ring she got from Beille, storing them in her personal ring and gave the former ring to Max, saying, "Master, there are tens of core strengthening demonic liquid bottles in the ring. Given master's realm, you can drink half a bottle at a time."
"You seem to be in a rush. What did she tell you to make you act this way?" Max curiously asked.
"Hmm. Master also should know about it." Amara nodded.
"Hm?" Max raised his brows when he heard this. What could it be that he needed to know on the demon continent?
Amara took a deep breath and explained, "Aunt told me that the invasion on your continent that was supposed to take place more than half a year is going to happen in a month."
"Demon race invasion?" Max was startled. Although he knew that after the division of the continent in two, the demon race invaded their continent occasionally, he never heard that another invasion was going to take place in a year's time.
"Master didn't know about it?" His reaction surprised Amara. She always thought he was here to scout before the invasion, but his expression told her he didn't even know anything about the invasion.
Max didn't respond to her question and fell in deep thought.
From the timeline, he realized that the academy selection and final competition were scheduled to complete within the year, and it seemed to coincide with the demon invasion.
'Could it be that the competition between the academies wasn't just to allocate resources but also to select soldiers?' He thought.
Then he also remembered that Aria, Rima's teacher, was also seemed to have been injured by a demon. Perhaps that demon had arrived there in advance and ran into her, resulting in a battle?
He glanced at Amara and seriously asked, "Are you sure about it?"
"Yes, master. I'm completely sure because my big brother and others from the tribe are going with the first army." Amara nodded, her eyes flashing with worry.
Max took a deep breath and asked, "Do you know from where you'll invade? Is it from the western direction or they are going to take another route?"
Although he asked this, he already knew the answer was most likely the west direction because according to what the system told him, when the continent was divided, the west part became the demon continent, while the right part was the other continent Max belonged to.
Even though demons had invaded from northern and southern direction in the past, this time they should take the direct route to save time travelling.
"Yes. It'll be from the west." Amara nodded.
"Damn it." Max shouted in frustration. The west part was where the Green leaf and other smaller kingdoms were. This meant these kingdoms would suffer the most. He didn't care what happened to other people, but he couldn't see his family and his women being affected by the war.
For a while, Max was incomparably panicked and couldn't think straight.
Phew!
In the end, he could only sigh and stop thinking about it. Since the system was slumbering right now, he couldn't ask it to send him back. Of course, he also knew the system most likely wouldn't agree.
'What I should do now is focus on increasing my strength, pay back what I owe system before the demons start the invasion and return.' He thought, clenching the spatial ring in his hand.
He then glanced at Amara, took out his communication crystal and gave it to her. "Register your mana signature in it so I can contact you when I need to."
Amara nodded and hurriedly did as he asked before giving him hers. Max did the same.
Looking at her impatient expression, he waved his hand. "Go, do your thing and try not to disturb me unless I message you."
Saying this, he walked toward his room where he slept last night. Amara nodded and rushed away like lightning.
After a while, she arrived in front of a villa that was more splendid, extravagant and more than two times larger than hers.
There were two strong looking demon guards standing at the entrance. They were about to stop her but seeing it was Amara, they immediately kneeled down on one knee in greeting, "We greet the young lady."
Amara, however, wasn't in the mood to accept their greeting.
Whoosh!
She rushed inside without even glancing at them.
After she had vanished from their sight, the demon duo stood up, looking puzzled.
One of them smiled faintly. "It seems the young lady has found out about young Lord Ashroth's enlistment in the first army."
The other one nodded before asking, "Hey, don't you think we were too hasty in showing our loyalty to young Lord Ashroth? From what I heard, the chances of him returning alive are too low thanks to young Lord Osmont."
Slap!
The first demon slapped the back of the others' head and berated in a low voice, "Do you want to die? Speak quietly."
…
In the main hall, many demons were sitting on the both sides while Ashroth was sitting on the throne-like sofa at the end of the hall. These people had been loyal to Ashroth before he was imprisoned.
Now that he needed to spearhead the invasion, he had called all of them here to see which of them were still loyal and could accompany him.
While they were talking—
Bang!
Amara directly rushed to the main hall and kicked open the door, shouting, "Brother. Why didn't you tell me?"
Seeing someone suddenly barge in, the hall bustling with discussions, immediately quietened down.
