Supreme Devil Lord: I Can Refine All Energy-Chapter 55: First Kill

[Harem Lord Title triggered!]

[Warning! One of the host’s harem members is experiencing severe emotional fluctuations.]

Eric was stunned when these messages suddenly appeared on the system screen, clearly not expecting something like this because there was no mention of it in the Harem Lord Title’s description.

Shaking his surprise out of his mind, he hurriedly commanded the system to open his harem display.

[Name: Elsa Miller]

[Age: 20]

[Cultivation: None]

[Bloodline: None]

[Physical attribute: Less than average] (Expand)

[Love: 80/100] (Madly in love)

[Bond: 55]

[Status: Extremely worried!]

Rosalie’s status was unchanged, but there was ’extremely worried’ written in Elsa’s status.

’What happened?’ He thought, his heartbeat increasing. He tried to expand the status to see the reason why she was worried, but couldn’t.

[Host, currently, you can only see this much. To get more details and other functions, you need to upgrade the Harem Lord title.] System informed.

’Can I upgrade it with refined energy?’ Eric asked, rising to his feet.

[No, host.]

Swoosh!

By the time the system responded, he was already opening the door of his room.

As he rushed through the house and reached the courtyard, he saw Vivian, who, noticing him rushing out in a hurry, quickly stood up to ask what was going on.

"I’ll be back in a while. Also, there is no need for you to go and extend our stay. I’ll do it." Saying this, he opened the main gate and rushed away.

Running at his top speed, over ten minutes later, he reached the checkpoint. After tapping his card on the machine that told if he had paid the entry fee or whether he had stayed for longer than what he was allowed, he rushed away, praying in his heart that nothing bad had happened.

He was halfway to Liam’s house when more messages flashed on the system screen.

[Harem Lord Title triggered!]

[Warning! One of the host’s harem members is experiencing severe emotional fluctuations.]

His heart fell, and he opened the harem display once again.

[Name: Rosalie Walden]

[Age: 39]

[Cultivation: None]

[Bloodline: None]

[Physical attribute: Average] (Expand)

[Love: 5/100]

[Bond: 15]

[Status: Distressed! Anxious!]

When he saw Rosalie’s status had changed to distressed, he was hit with a sudden realization.

’Luke has returned. He must have gone to Liam’s house after he didn’t find us at our family, and that spy told him about Liam.’

His expression turned dark. After hesitating for a while, he changed direction and started running toward Rosalie’s house. He really wanted to go to Liam’s house, see why Elsa was so worried, and see if he could help her, but he couldn’t ignore Rosalie either. He had promised to help her, after all. So, in the end, he gritted his teeth and chose to go to Rosalie’s house.

Ten minutes later, he reached Rosalie’s neighborhood, drenched in sweat and out of breath.

Right then, he noticed several people looking in the direction of Rosalie’s house. When he followed their gazes, he saw Luke dragging Rosalie out of the house while a middle-aged man stood beside him, watching the scene indifferently.

He rushed forward while shouting, "Stop, you heartless bastard!" 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

"Hmm?" His shout attracted everyone’s attention. Luke looked over, and his eyes immediately lit up when he saw him. Joan also looked over, his expression indifferent, but it changed when Luke excitedly exclaimed, "Sir Joan. There he is! The bastard who I want you to kill."

"Oh?" Joan raised his brows when he heard this, his expression becoming serious as he watched Eric run over. Noticing he was clearly out of breath but was still able to run faster than an ordinary person, he said, his tone cold, "He is a warrior."

Luke shivered when he heard this. "This... How can this be possible?" He then quickly said, "Sir Joan, he must have become one in the last few days and therefore still shouldn’t be too strong. Besides, he is clearly out of breath. I think you won’t have any problem handling him."

Joan narrowed his eyes at him, "You think?"

Luke gritted his teeth, glanced at his mother on the ground, and said, "I... I’ll let you have a taste of her before I give her to our lord if you kill him."

Joan’s eyes flashed, and he instinctively licked his lips when he heard this and saw Rosalie, who was going to be his master’s plaything. The prospect of having his way with her before his lord could was very enticing. However...

"Hmph! If our lord finds out about it, he will kill me." He snorted.

"I won’t tell him, nor will you. As for her, I know of a way to make sure she doesn’t open her mouth in front of him. So, everything will be fine." Luke quickly said, knowing he would agree.

And as he expected, after pretending to be hesitant for a moment, he nodded, "Alright."

Swoosh!

Eric reached them a moment after they finalized their deal.

Rosalie was looking at Eric in shock, relief, and worry. She hadn’t expected him to appear at this moment because he had told her he would come to take her away one day later. She was relieved because she had an inexplicable feeling that with him here, she would be fine now.

But at the same time, she was worried, not for herself, but for him. What if he wasn’t this man’s match?

Suddenly, she realized she was worrying about his well-being when her life was in danger, which surprised her.

Joan stepped forward, looked Eric up and down, and said, "So, you are Eric, huh? Not bad. You managed to become a warrior despite being a slum dweller."

Saying this, he shook his head in pity, "But what a pity. You will not be able to enjoy the life of a warrior now."

The moment Joan had stepped forward, Eric had used {Inspect} on him.

[Joan Terro]

[Age: 46]

[Cultivation: Novice Realm (Grade One)]

[Battle Power: 15]

[Status: Excited, Annoyed, Impatient.]

[Detailed Description:...]

Seeing he was just a grade one Novice Warrior just like himself, he sighed in relief but didn’t relax because he was stronger than himself.

By the time Joan was finishing his condescending speech, he ordered the system, ’System, buy one <Wind Blade Talisman> for me. Quick.’

[The <Wind Blade Talisman> has been successfully bought and stored in the system inventory.] The message flashed right when Joan finished speaking and suddenly rushed toward him.

Eric didn’t become flustered and kept watching him come closer as he withdrew the talisman and poured some refined energy to activate it.

Swoosh!

The moment Joan was less than a moment away from him and was about to throw a punch at him, Eric threw the talisman toward his chest.

Weng!

Puchi!

Immediately, the talisman disintegrated, and a transparent crescent wind blade shot toward Joan, and before he could understand what had happened, the wind blade pierced the center of his chest, severing his heart artery.

"Arghh!"

The sudden, intense pain stopped him in his tracks. When he lowered his head and saw the one-foot-long, horizontal cut on his chest that was already starting to bleed profusely, a look of disbelief colored his face.

"How... Kuh!" He opened his mouth to speak, only to spit out a mouthful of blood. Then he felt his body being drained of energy and life rapidly, his vision becoming blurry.

Thud!

He fell to his knees. "You... How dare you... kill me? You... regret..."

Before he could finish his last words, his body became still, and he fell to the side, dead, his blood overflowing from the injury in his chest.

Though Eric felt nauseous, he suppressed the feeling, and without flinching, he watched him die. Then while the onlookers, Rosalie and Luke, looked at Joan’s dead body in shock, Eric sidestepped it and appeared in front of Luke, who snapped out of his shock and opened his mouth to say something.

However, before he could...

Bang!

Eric punched him in the face with all his strength. The feeling of his nasal bone breaking and skin and flesh being pummeled under his knuckles was strangely satisfactory.

"Ahhhh! Don’t hit—" Luke cried out in pain, covering his nose.

Bang!

However, his cry was cut short when a powerful punch landed on his gut, which was immediately followed by a knee to his chest.

Bang!

Bang! Bang!

"Ahh! Stop!"

Bang!

"Please, don’t..."

Bang!

Eric didn’t stop and continued hitting him. When Luke fell to the ground, covering his head, he started kicking him in the gut, on the chest, thighs, and every other part of his body.

Rosalie watched him beat him up with an indifferent expression on her face. Though she felt a little pained in her heart, she didn’t stop Eric. Luke... deserved it all.