Max was absorbing the star power when the intensity of star power around him increased rapidly. He felt the bottleneck in his cultivation realm. His star seed was completely recovered. Not only that, he could feel his star seed compressing his star power slightly like it was making room for an additional amount of star power.
The fluctuations around Max became intense as a bright light shone from his body. Max opened his eyes and exhaled a mouthful of turbid air.
"Rank 4 Star Knight?!!"
Astoria exclaimed. She woke up from her meditation when she felt the star power movement in the cave. So when she saw Max breaking through the realm, she was shocked. Max looked like a 12-13 year old boy. She has never heard of a thirteen year old Rank 4 Star Knight. Her academy also had Nine-star bloodline users, even their cultivation speed was not this fast.
Max stretched his muscles while looking at his body. He felt like he was better than ever.
'May be the feeling is because my star power was sealed for a month. Now that I have star power back, even more than amount before, of course it feel good.'
Astoria saw Max suddenly had a frown on his face while stretching his brows. She had a bad feeling in her heart.
Max perceived around ten auras approaching the area. They are two kilometers far from here. He vaguely sensed their cultivation around Rank 5.
"I think people came here searching for you. My breakthrough alerted them."
Max said while looking into her eyes.
Astoria's heart sank. If the bandits came searching for her then it means her senior brother was already dead. She was very sad. She blamed herself for his death. I she had not sneaked out of the college to travel, he wouldn't have died.
Astoria thought those bandits would not pursue her in the night. She realized that she was wrong. Those bandits wanted to kill her to seal the matter. They did not want to face the revenge of a big clan.
"You can leave. They came for me."
She sighed resigning herself to fate.
"Do you think they will allow any witness to leave? Stay here without making any noice."
Max instructed her. She could only obey his order and watch him leave worriedly. She did not think Max was a match for those bandits. Even if her senior brother killed the bandit group's boss and the vice head, the remaining members were at least Rank 5 Star Knights. Even a genius cannot defeat Rank 5 Star Knight with Rank 4 cultivation. Not to mention Max who had just been promoted to Rank 4, facing off against a group of them.
How could she guess that Max had Nine-fold Dark shadow art that can increase his stealth by seventy percent at night besides his physical body equivalent to a Rank 5 Star beast cultivated with Titan body art.
Thousand meters away from the cave, Ten members wearing masks were walking around searching for something.
"The head and the vice both died, we were lucky to escape the man's self destruction."
One of the masked men talked with fear.
"Yes, we should find and kill her, no one can know it was us."
another voice sounded.
"We can distribute the loot after we robbed her and flee from the forest just in case to prevent from being caught."
All the ten people's eyes flashed with greed. The girl was definitely not ordinary. She would definitely have treasures on her. As the saying goes, 'Wealth and risk coexist.'
"What do you say, Miles?"
One of the guys questioned. Miles was the wisest guy among them.
"Miles?"
He questioned again when he did not get any response. Everyone was instantly alerted. They looked around but did not find Miles around them. All of them felt cold in their hearts.
A few feet away from them Max covered the mouth of the guy they called Miles. Miles struggled but could not break free from the grip of Max. Max slit his throat and silently laid him down and the ground and silently hid himself again staring at the remaining nine.
All of them felt a shiver ran from the spine. They felt as if they were being stared at like a beast gazing its prey.
"Aaaa——h"
A blood spilling scream came from the rear of the group. All of them were instantly frightened and turned around briskly. An initial stage Rank 5 star knight among the group was kneeling down on the ground. His pupils were dilated, both hands covering his throat, scarlet blood continuously pouring from between his fingers at high pressure. A thin dagger can be seen piercing his throat.
"Who is it?"
One of the men shouted. All of the men started to activate their star power along with the nata spirits. One of the men had a light attribute which lit up the darkness to a certain radius. A clear shadow enlarged on the ground under the brilliance of the light attribute. The Star Knight who was standing in the rear suddenly felt a numbing sensation, and immediately afterward he saw two needles piercing his neck when he touched the area of numbness. He suddenly felt dizzy, before he closed his eyes he saw a shiny light. It was a moon shaped blade sealing his throat. He wanted to scream, he opened his mouth but he could not utter anything.
One by one, five people fell in a row under the sharpness the moon blade. The death of these people made the remaining ones feel dreadful. It seemed like peerless beast opening its mouth to swallow their souls. Death was not the terrifying thing, the process of death made them sink in horror.
Only four people remained. Two of them wanted to escape this place forgetting their goal. Living in pursuit is better than a terrible death. They would rather face the revenge of a great clan.
It's just that when two of them wanted to leave two moon blades rotating at high speed cut their heads off. Their heads fell to the ground. They could still see the bodies running for a moment. It was then they realized they were dead.
"Brother let's unleash our strongest attack!"
The both of the masked men seemed to have made a decision after calming down. Since they could not escape they could only take a chance. They can only hope that the attacker's defense is bad unlike his stealth and killing skills.
As Max finished killing, he saw a wind blade and a cluster of fire balls coming towards him. He immediately activated the Ghostly Six Shadows and dodged all the attacks easily and once again performed the Ghostly Six Shadows.
Seeing that the two attacks missed, they unleashed their respective Star Skills once again. But before they could flash their rune to activate the skill, they saw six phantoms rushing towards them as two blades enlarged in their eyes, two moon blades each cut off the heads of the two.
They died without expressing anything. Their minds went blank before their death.
Max made sure he killed everyone before he trotted back to the cave. He was very thrilled today. It has been a very long time since he shed this much blood. The night massacre made his blood boil. The fact that he killed ten Rank 5 Star Knights made his heart beat faster.
This was the moment he felt truly alive. He wanted to continue his mantle on this continent. He wanted to face off against those powerful Star Knights in the future. Thinking of this he seemed to find his goal for the future.