His chest felt not just hot but stinging, and his blood seemed to be drying up rapidly.
This strange sensation was definitely not an illusion.
‘Hot…?’
Feeling a sense of crisis, Lee Seongjin quickly observed his entire body.
But there was no noticeable change in the aura he was operating. That meant there was a problem with the passage itself.
[Lee Seongjin!]
The Demon King also seemed to have sensed something, calling him with a voice full of anxiety.
‘First, let’s put out the urgent fire!’
Lee Seongjin hurriedly stopped the aura operation in the passage. Then, even though it was invisible, he could feel Max’s size shrinking rapidly through his skin.
Whine!
Groping and embracing the wolf-dog, which was whimpering anxiously, Lee Seongjin gathered as much of his insufficient aura as possible to envelop the dog.
Meanwhile, his mind was racing to find the cause of the problem.
-Morres.
Quite a while ago, on the day the Holy Emperor had personally blocked the passage while destroying the backyard of the main palace.
Lee Seongjin had heard the warning conveyed through his strong will.
-Remember that if you pull the water from the aqueduct, the things on the other side will be pulled along with it.
Yes, he hadn’t forgotten.
Since that day, his father’s warning had always been engraved in his heart.
But…
‘Compared to the enormous aura that was pushed in to block the passage, the aura I used is barely a handful!’
At that level, when he returned to the…