Dimensional Keeper: All My Skills Are at Level 100

Chapter 1754: Caelira’s Son?!

"Did you just say ’my mother’..." Lumine’s expression changed for the first time, and the cold amusement in her eyes was replaced by genuine shock as she stared at Max with disbelief. "Are you Caelira’s son?"

The five surrounded elves behind Jessica also froze when they heard those words.

Jessica’s eyes widened slightly, and the sword in her hand trembled for a brief moment. Caelira’s son. Those three words struck her heart with a force greater than any attack Lumine had launched against them.

She had heard rumors from the older members of the third faction, stories whispered in the darkness of the Elf Prison, stories about Divine Queen Caelira leaving the elf race, marrying a human, and giving birth to a child who should have been the hope of their bloodline.

But most of them had believed that child had died long ago during the attack arranged by the second faction. To see a young man standing here now, speaking of Caelira as his mother, felt so impossible that Jessica almost forgot the danger surrounding them.

Max looked at Lumine, his eyes cold and calm.

"It does not matter, does it?"

Lumine stared at him for a moment, then suddenly laughed.

"True," she said, and her smile became cold again. "It truly does not matter whether you are Caelira’s son or not. If you are, then killing you here will only make this more meaningful."

Her gaze shifted toward the leading demon.

"Arnold, kill him!"

The demon leader grinned.

Arnold’s already large body suddenly expanded further. His muscles swelled beneath his rough black armor, his demonic veins bulged across his arms, and a brutal aura erupted from him like a raging beast breaking free from its chains.

The ground beneath his feet cracked as he stepped forward, and in the next instant, he shot toward Max with terrifying speed, raising one massive fist and smashing it toward Max’s head.

"Watch out!" Jessica shouted instinctively.

In her eyes, Max’s cultivation aura seemed to be only at the peak of the Law Refinement Realm. Arnold, however, was at the peak of the Law Manifestation Realm, and although demons were often crude, their physical strength was terrifying among beings of the same realm.

Even an elf at the same level would not dare to casually take Arnold’s fist head-on, much less someone who seemed to be a full major realm lower.

The fist arrived before Max.

Boom!

The wind exploded outward.

The ground behind Max cracked from the pressure alone, and several nearby trees bent backward violently from the force of Arnold’s punch.

But Max did not move.

He merely raised one finger.

Arnold’s massive fist stopped.

It was not slowed down.

It was not deflected.

It was stopped completely.

Max’s single finger pressed against the center of Arnold’s fist, and the terrifying demonic force that should have crushed his head was blocked as if it had struck an immovable divine wall.

The shockwave spread in all directions, tearing through the mist and shaking the nearby cursed trees, but Max stood there without taking even half a step back. His expression remained calm, and the finger he used to block the attack did not tremble at all.

The entire area fell silent.

Jessica stared at the scene with wide eyes.

Lumine’s expression stiffened.

Even the demons behind Arnold stopped smiling.

Arnold himself looked at his fist, then at Max’s finger, and for the first time, disbelief appeared in his eyes.

Max looked at him indifferently.

"Is that supposed to hurt me?"

Those words were quiet, but they landed like a slap across Arnold’s face.

The demon leader’s eyes instantly turned bloodshot with anger.

"You arrogant brat!"

Arnold roared and swung his other fist toward Max’s chest. This punch was even stronger than the first. Demonic energy wrapped around his arm, and a dark red light gathered over his knuckles as he tried to crush Max with brute force. The air screamed beneath the punch, and the ground around them sank from the pressure.

Max raised his other hand.

Another finger moved.

Boom!

Arnold’s second fist stopped as well.

This time, Max blocked it with another finger.

The two massive fists remained frozen in front of him, each one pressed against a single finger, and the image was so absurd that even Lumine could not immediately react.

Arnold was a peak Law Manifestation Realm demon known for his physical strength, yet Max was stopping both of his fists with two fingers, standing there with the same calm expression as though Arnold’s full-powered attack was nothing more than a child throwing a tantrum.

Max looked into Arnold’s furious eyes and spoke calmly.

"You are weak."

Arnold’s face twisted with rage.

Max’s gaze became colder.

"Let me show you what true strength is."

The moment those words fell, the air around Max changed.

A deep, ancient, and terrifying draconic pressure erupted from his body.

One thousand Draconic Essences.

Two thousand.

Three thousand.

Four thousand.

Five thousand.

The full power of five thousand Draconic Essences surged out at once, and the entire region seemed to tremble beneath the awakening of a primordial dragon. The cursed mist around Max was blasted apart. The trees nearby groaned as if they were about to be uprooted.

The ground beneath his feet shattered instantly, cracks spreading outward like a spiderweb through the dark wooden surface of the Witch God Valley. The air became heavy, violent, and suffocating, as though an ancient dragon had opened its eyes and looked down upon everything in front of it.

Arnold’s expression changed completely.

The overwhelming demonic arrogance in his eyes vanished, replaced by shock and instinctive fear. His body reacted before his mind could. Even though his fists were still pressed against Max’s fingers, his legs trembled, and he was forced to take a step back under the crushing weight of Max’s aura.

A peak Law Manifestation Realm demon had been forced back by aura alone.

Jessica felt her heart shake violently.

"This power..." she whispered.

Lumine’s face also darkened, and her eyes became filled with disbelief. This was not the power of a normal peak Law Refinement Realm cultivator. This was not even close. The pressure Max released had completely broken common sense, and for a brief instant, she felt as if she was not looking at a human, but at a beast that had worn human skin.

Max smiled faintly.

He lifted one finger.

All five thousand Draconic Essences gathered toward that finger.

The golden-black draconic power condensed rapidly, becoming denser and sharper with every passing breath. The space around his fingertip distorted slightly, and the aura gathered there felt heavier than a mountain, fiercer than a storm, and more destructive than any ordinary technique Arnold had ever faced. The demon leader’s instincts screamed at him that he absolutely could not take this attack head-on.

Arnold roared and retreated half a step, then pulled out a huge axe from behind him.

The axe was enormous, almost as tall as his body, forged from dark metal and covered in demonic runes. The moment he held it in both hands, dark red energy flowed across its blade, forming several layers of defensive power. Arnold poured all his strength into the weapon and placed it in front of himself like a shield.

"You think one finger can kill me?" Arnold roared.