The Dark Extra: Awakening of SSS-Skill Demon Emperor Legacy-Chapter 92: Agares Appearance after Death Rumors

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One week later.

Milenia’s residence.

Aoi recovered faster than Agares had expected. Milenia had done everything she could to help restore Aoi’s condition.

Sure enough, it only took a few hours for Aoi to recover from the training session the other day.

One by one, the adventurers left the city to return to the surface. Their mission here was complete—Agares was dead, and they believed Milenia.

Leon and Silva had left with their party four days ago. News of Agares’s death inside the dungeon had spread widely among the people. Helderic felt relieved that the demon had been defeated.

As promised, he awarded a grand prize to the person or adventuring team who played a major role in Agares’s death. In this case, Leon and his party received the most credit.

On the other hand, the Thorn Family was confused. They had been assigned to protect the successor of the Demon Emperor—Agares.

But even more shocking was that Leon Thorn, son of Casper Thorn, was the one who killed Agares.

Louise sent a letter to the Thorn Family, expressing her disappointment in their actions.

She also described how furious Princess Liel had been when she heard that Agares had died at the hands of Leon, Casper Thorn’s son.

The woman included a short message in the letter she sent to Casper Thorn. She stated that a great disaster would befall the Kingdom of Caer Vireth because of what they had done in killing Agares.

Things grew chaotic. Casper Thorn read the letter and knew how powerful Liel was. He didn’t want to take the risk of staying in the Kingdom of Caer Vireth.

Evacuating to a nearby kingdom was their best option.

"The mass return of the adventurers happened three days ago. There probably aren’t many left staying here," said Milenia, standing beside Agares at the second-floor window.

"That’s good... the more of them go home, the safer it is for me."

Aoi leapt up from the ground onto Agares’s shoulder. Both of them looked ahead, watching the city street in front of Milenia’s residence.

"Will you return to exploring the dungeon?" Milenia asked, glancing sideways.

Agares responded with a silent nod. There was nothing else he could do now—no time to relax or waste.

He had to keep exploring deeper floors to find his purpose.

As for the other adventurers? None of them would be able to reach as deep as Agares had. And even if they could, it would take them months, if not years, to get there.

For Agares, years would be more than enough to conquer all 100 floors of that S-level dungeon. So, they would never cross paths again.

"It seems so. But first, I need to do something for Aoi’s evolution."

"What is it?" asked Milenia.

"The power gap between us is too wide. I’m trying to close that gap."

Milenia nodded, slowly beginning to understand what Agares meant. Simply put, he planned to level Aoi up using a method he knew.

Her guess was that Agares would increase Aoi’s level using EXP Elixirs.

For someone like Agares, who had already explored 74 floors of an S-level dungeon, buying EXP Elixirs—even top-tier ones—wasn’t a problem at all.

The woman beside him cleared her throat and nodded. If that was Agares’s plan, then she couldn’t stop him. Besides, the city of Midgard wasn’t as busy as before.

"Merchant Lo surely has those EXP Elixirs. You should go to him and meet him."

"Alright."

Agares bid farewell to Milenia to go see Merchant Lo. Milenia turned to him, smiling broadly and nodding slightly. She allowed Agares and Aoi to leave her home.

During the week they had stayed at the residence, Milenia found herself liking Agares’s personality more and more. Agares and Aoi also seemed to genuinely enjoy living there.

Aoi had even outright said that Milenia’s residence was her second home, after Agares’s.

Milenia looked down through the window wall, watching Agares and Aoi leave the estate dressed in black cloaks and hoods to hide their identities.

One of the maids arrived, just as Milenia had instructed. She stood behind Milenia with her head bowed.

"Ms. Milenia."

"Go and keep an eye on Agares. If anyone tries to kill him, you must act quickly to eliminate the threat," Milenia said.

"Understood."

"I don’t want Agares or Aoi to get hurt."

"I’ll be careful, Miss Milenia."

In a flash of light, the maid vanished from the spot, leaving Milenia alone on the second floor of her home.

The love and affection that had grown in her heart for Agares made her hate the idea of him being hurt or in danger.

She usually didn’t give orders like this. But for her own interests, she had to do it—no matter the risk.

Agares and Aoi walked down the city’s main road, passing by several people. Even though it was crowded, Agares’s identity remained well hidden. People were too busy with their own problems to pay attention to others.

When they arrived at the city center, Merchant Lo’s shop wasn’t as busy as it used to be. Normally, he would have 5–7 people in line every hour, but now only three remained.

’Looks like the mass return of adventurers has significantly affected Lo’s income.’

’Why care about income and money? Lo is a dungeon manifestation. His goal is to collect monster cores and boss monster cores to sustain this dungeon,’ Agares thought.

He waited in line with the other adventurers, people who had never seen him before. One by one, they finished shopping and walked away.

Only Agares remained at the end of the line. When Lo lifted his head, he looked shocked—the person standing before him was Agares.

Lo clearly remembered Milenia’s announcement to the entire city about Agares’s death last week. But now here he was, standing before Lo in perfect condition.

"You... aren’t you supposed to be—"

"Stop talking and do your job. I want to buy a mid-quality EXP Elixir."

Merchant Lo froze, unsure how to respond. But since Agares had come to make a purchase, as a good merchant, he had to put aside gossip and focus on business.

He presented three different EXP Elixir qualities.

The low-quality EXP Elixir cost 100 monster cores and granted +1000 EXP.

The mid-quality EXP Elixir cost 250 monster cores and granted +5000 EXP.

The high-quality EXP Elixir cost 750 monster cores and granted +25000 EXP.

The total number of monster cores Agares had collected from floors 60 to 74 was 5400, including treasure chests and loot from other adventurers.

In total, including everything he owned, Agares had at least 7900 monster cores.

"So? Which quality EXP Elixir do you want to buy?" asked Lo.

"Give me one mid-quality and one high-quality EXP Elixir."

"Alright. That’ll be 1000 monster cores."

[Payment Successful]

[Item: Elixir EXP Mid Quality || 1x || 250 Monster Core]

[Item: Elixir EXP High Quality || 1x || 750 Monster Core]

[Total: 1000 Monster Core]

The payment was successful. Agares received the EXP Elixirs for himself and for Aoi. As he was about to leave, Merchant Lo called his name in a whisper.

It seemed Lo had something that might interest Agares. Of course, Agares turned back to see what Lo had.

"Do you need a mask?"

"Masks make someone look suspicious. That’ll only make me more noticeable."

"I’m not talking about a physical mask, but a magical accessory," Merchant Lo explained.

"With this magical accessory, you can change your appearance into someone else, and people won’t recognize you."

"That way, your identity will be safe."

"Well?" Lo asked.

Agares fell silent. He couldn’t afford to walk around being recognized as Agares—not just by people in the dungeon, but everyone on the surface likely believed he was already dead.

That’s why a magical accessory that could manipulate appearance and magical aura was important for Agares.

"Show me the item."

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