Strongest Mage with the Lust system

However, before he could, the demon appeared in front of him and punch at him in the face.

Whoosh!

The wind whistled as the punch flew toward him and the force of the punch made Max's pupils constrict.

Since he couldn't dodge the attack, he covered his hands in his mana, strengthening them by a few folds before raising them defensively in front of him. 

At the same time, he conjured up multiple layers of mana shields, hoping they could negate some of the punch's force even though he knew they wouldn't make any difference since the mid-stage four-star demon in front of him had used almost of his physical strength in his attack.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

Just as he expected, as soon as the shields came into contact with his fist, they collapsed as though they were fragile like paper. Then the fist continued on its way, unobstructed.

BANG!

Crack!

As the punch landed on his hands, the force sent him flying backwards and despite the mana enhancement, a crisp bone cracking sound sounded and his face contorted in pain.

Max, however, didn't pay attention to this and even as he was flying backward, he continued to pour his mana into the [Pheonix Wings].

Whoosh!

Just then, the demon appeared behind him like an apparition and threw a punch at his back.

'Fuck!' Max cursed and his eyes turned bloodshot as he used every bit of his focus to pour the last remaining bits of mana to cast the [Pheonix Wings]. 

He knew if this punch connected, his spinal cord would most definitely shatter and that would effectively cripple him because healing spinal cord wasn't as easy as healing other bones in the body.

Whoosh!

Right as the punch was about to hit his back, a pair of fiery wings on sprouted out on his back and he flashed away, barely dodging the attack.

He appeared 100 meters away from the demon and the first thing he did was to spend 50 SPs to buy a grade-four healing pill, which he popped into his mouth. 

Immediately, he felt the pill dissolve in his mouth and the medicinal power spread throughout his body before concentrating on his hands and started repairing his broken bones.

He continued to pour mana into his fire wings to maintain the spell, and then looked at the demon, who was looking at him with a frown on his face.

"So, you can somehow conceal mana traces which make it look like you are instantly casting the spells." Saying this, the demon's expression grew fiercer, and he shouted, "You took advantage of this to trick and kill my wife, didn't you? YOU DAMNED HUMAN BASTARD!"

Even as he was shouting, Max took out his sword which he had unfortunately put in the inventory, thinking that it would hinder his movement after killing the demoness. It was only after breaking his bones he realized he shouldn't have done so and used it to defend or maybe counter attack the demon.

Whoosh!

Right as he retrieved the sword, the demon appeared in front of him and punched at his head.

Gripping the sword tightly, he slashed at the incoming fist with all his might.

The demon's eyes flashed when he saw this and right before the punch and sword collided, a black metal glove appeared on his hand.

Clank!

The collision produced the sound of metal clashing against metal and resulting vibrations caused the web between Max's thumb and forefinger to split apart.

Whoosh!

The wings flapped, and he retreated 50 meters back, looking at the demon warily.

The demon didn't chase after him this time and looked down at his gloved hand instead. There he could see a centimeter deep cut from which was flowing out blood which caused him to such in a cold breath. 

His two demoness companions also looked shocked.

"H-He cut husband's glove?" One of them said, a look of disbelief on her face.

The other one also had the same expression. She looked at the thunder sword in Max's grasp and said, "That sword… it should be a peak emperor or maybe monarch rank weapon."

As she said this, a greedy light flashed in their eyes. Exchanging a glance between them, they moved and appeared on either side of the demon, looking at the sword in Max's hand, almost drooling.

The demon looked at the sword with a solemn look and said, "That's a very powerful artifact since it can damage my peak king rank glove without it being activated." Then his eyes flashed with a cold light, "Unfortunately for you, it's not enough to save your life because, unlike you, I can activate my glove."

Buzz!

As soon as he said this, he raised hand and poured his demon energy into the glove, which emitted a black light along with a droning sound. As the black glow covered the glove, the damaged part started recovering, albeit slowly.

As soon as the glove activated, Max's hair stood on the ends and, 

Puah!

Without any warning, he spat out a mouthful of blood and blood also poured out from his nose and ears.

His face went pale and then he spat out another mouthful of blood and then another.

On the other side of the battlefield, Rey, Ellie and her mother watched this with pale faces while the four demons revealed reverent and fearful expressions.

After over ten mouthfuls of blood, everything started to become blurry.

'This is… a sonic attack…' He thought, falling to his knees.

The demon slowly walked over to him and then kicked him with enough force to make him fall on his back. He then asked, his voice grim,

"You enjoyed yourself torturing my wife, didn't you? Now, I'll return the favor by doing the same, only thousands of times worse, to you and your companions."

"Now, let's start with your companion." He said and turned to look at Rey and others.

Right then,

System's voice sounded in Max's head, [Congratulations! Lust Overlord bloodline's partial merging successful!]