"Mm? It's strange." Orlan murmured after a while, his brows furrowed in confusion.
"What's strange, father?" Amara asked, a little nervous.
"Although I can see the energies inside your body are chaotic, I can't see what's exactly wrong." Orlan said.
Upon hearing this, Amara's eyes flashed, and she thought, 'It must be senior's doing.'
Thinking this, she smiled lightly and said, "Don't worry, father. As I said, it's because there was some problem with my cultivation. Once I use some blood energy, everything would stabilize and turn to normal."
"Alright." Seeing how confident she seemed, Orlan stopped thinking about it and nodded, "You can go and cultivate in the blood pool then. Your big brother is also there."
"Oh?" Amara exclaimed in surprise when she heard this and then became a little worried. She knew Ashroth didn't like Max and he could be angry if she went there with him.
Sensing the fluctuations in her mood, Orlan raised his brows and asked, "What is it? Why do you seem concerned about your big brother being there?"
He knew how much Amara loved her big brother. So, he thought she would be happy to hear this, but she seemed a little worried, which was surprising and suspicious.
Amara inwardly cursed herself for showing her emotions on her face before smiling wryly, "The thing is, father, I want my servant to accompany me inside the pool, but big brother doesn't like him. So, he would be angry."
When Orlan heard this, he narrowed his eyes and coldly said, "I also don't like the fact that you have a human as your servant, but I allowed it since you insisted. However, now you want him to enter the blood pool, too? Have you gone mad?"
Amara had expected him to react like this so her expression didn't change and she stubbornly shook her head and said, "Father, he saved my life. It's the least I can do to repay him. So, please allow him."
As she said this, she noticed Orlan's expression turned colder and colder. Seeing this, she sighed in her heart before adding, "Furthermore, he isn't a blood demon. At most, he can enjoy the complimentary benefits of the blood pool. So, I don't see any harm in him allowing to cultivate there."
Hearing this and seeing how stubborn she was being about it, Orlan went silent for a moment before reluctantly agreeing. "Do what you want."
Whoosh!
Finish saying this, he vanished from the spot.
Phew!
Amara sighed in relief and walked out of the hall.
When she returned to her villa, Max was already waiting for her at the entrance.
Amara wasn't surprised to see him because she had guessed that 'the senior' must have told him that her father had agreed.
"Shall we go?" Max asked, a little excited about breaking through to the three-star.
"Mm." Amara nodded before saying in a low voice, "Master, please don't do anything strange after entering the pool because my father constantly monitors it and my big brother is also cultivating there right now."
"Don't worry about it." Max nodded.
Then Amara grabbed him and flew back to the Orlan's main hall.
When the two old guards saw her enter the hall again with Max, they frowned in displeasure but didn't stop them.
Shua!
Just as Max stepped inside the hall, he felt a powerful aura pressing on him. Under this aura's pressure, his bones produced popping sounds, on the verge of breaking down.
He tried to resist, but to no avail. He was completely powerless in front of this horrifying power.
Just as he thought he was dead, Amara stepped in front of him, her back almost touching him, and shouted, "Father, stop it."
"Hmph!" A snort resounded in the hall before the aura vanished, causing Max to sigh in relief. Only now he realised he was drenched in cold sweat and was trembling.
'That was too horrifying.' He thought, wiping the sweat off his forehead and trying to calm down.
[Haha, it seems your father-in-law doesn't quite like you.] System's gloating voice sounded in Max's ears.
Hearing this, Max's lips twitched.
"Are you alright?" Amara looked at him and asked worriedly.
Seeing her expression, although Max was a little touched, he cried out in his heart, 'Can you please not show such an expression since your father is here? Do you want him to kill me?'
Bang!
Just as he expected, that horrifying aura descended upon him once again. Before any of them could react, he was thrown back, crashing into the wall.
Puah!
Upon impact, he immediately spat out a mouthful of blood and he felt disoriented. His bones and internal organs were severely injured.
Seeing him spat out blood, Amara eyes widened in horror and she hastily shouted, "Father! Why are you doing this? Do you want to kill him?"
"Oh, it's nothing. I mistakenly lost control of my aura just then. Go, you guys can go ahead." Orlan's indifferent voice sounded.
Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!
After his voice sounded, the hall's floor shifted, and a staircase appeared in the middle, leading down.
Amara was angry but didn't dare to say anything. Although she had awakened her bloodline and her worth had increased a lot, she still couldn't afford to talk back to her father, the branch leader.
Therefore, she suppressed her anger, took out a yellow-coloured pill, and fed it to Max.
Just as she was about to use her demon energy to help him digest it, system's voice sounded in her head, [Don't use your demon energy.]
Although she didn't understand why the senior didn't allow her to help him, she obeyed the order and put her hand down.
Meanwhile, Max felt a warm energy enter his body. Not only did it help him digest the healing pill in a matter of seconds, it also helped him heal all the leftover injuries.
Once he was fully healed, Max stood up and said, "Thank you." This was meant for both Amara and the system.
Amara nodded while the system's laughing voice sounded in his head, [No need to thank me. I'm always glad to help. Now pay me 5000 LPs for the help.]
