The Author's POV

It felt as if time had frozen. My mind blanked. My blood froze. My breathing quickened. My pupils dilated.

...I thought I was prepared.

Since reincarnation inside of my novel, I knew that one day I would encounter a demon.

I was ready...I thought

But looking at the creature haughtily sitting on the throne, hallucinations of death repeatedly replayed in my mind.

'I have to run!'

...I repeated again and again in my mind.

I knew that...yet my legs refused to listen to me

Ba...dump! Ba...dump!

The hall was silent, and only the sound of my heartbeat repeatedly pulsing could be heard.

Sweat started dripping down from my body, soaking all my clothes. With a shivering hand, I tightly clenched on my clothes, right where my heart was.

What's this...?

...Am I scared?

'There's no way I can fight against that!'

...was what my mind repeatedly told itself as my eyes transfixed themselves onto the demonic creature that was amusingly looking down on me from the throne. With its blood-red eyes, the demon looked down at me as it smiled widely.

"It seems like a little mouse has sneaked inside my abode"

Licking its lips, the demon eyes carefully looked at me up and down, almost as if a delicious snack had presented itself before it.

-Crack! -Crack! -Crack!

Using its thumb, the demon slowly cracked every one of its fingers on its right hand.

"huuuuu...."

Letting out a long breath I forcefully tried to calm myself down.

'This is all an illusion!'

What I was experiencing was the innate fear a prey faced when meeting a predator.

If I thought about it rationally, although my opponent was strong, it wasn't to the point that I would have to despair.

Yes...

The demon's stats couldn't be above F rank, else the dungeon would've already desynced.

The fear I was experiencing was all in my mind.

I didn't have to fear what was before me.

...was what I repeatedly tried to tell myself, yet I still couldn't stop my body from trembling.

The feeling I was experiencing was similar to the moments before I took my final exams.

I knew I could do it, as I had prepared rigorously for it...but even if I was prepared, it didn't stop me from being scared.

"How cute..."

Amusingly looking down on me, the Demon leaned forward as its red eyes carefully looked at me.

Instantly, it felt as if all my secrets had been laid bare for the demon to look at. It felt as if nothing could be hidden from its two prying blood-red eyes.

"G rank..."

-tap! -tap! -tap!

Shaking its head disappointedly the Demon began tapping on the armrest of the throne as it started pondering.

Finally, after a couple of seconds, the Demon shook its head in disappointment.

"Too bad, too bad..."

decision, the demon's demeanor completely changed from its leisurely self from

thick bloodlust exuded from its body, suffocating

"Let me introduce myself..."

-Fwap!

the demon's large bat-like wings expanded from its back casting a large shadow

from ear

"I am—baron of everblood!"

...

corridor, a middle-aged man leisurely walked. His hair which was tied in a ponytail, accompanied by his unkempt beard and sunglasses

were next to him stepped to the side to let him walk. Despite his looks, he was treated as if he was a

-Ding!

felt a small vibration from his

-Ding!

-Ding!

-Ding!

"...Hm?"

as he was about to ignore it thinking that it was nothing important,

something wasn't right, the middle-aged man took out a small black box

black box, the middle-aged man's brows knit together

may be more troublesome than

reappeared in front of a gate with the number

"Stop right there"

soon as he appeared, two white-clad individuals

2...I don't have

was in fact, Thomas. Taking out the small box from his pocket, Thomas showed it to

box, the two guards immediately moved to the side and allowed Thomas to enter the

the two guards move, Thomas disappeared once again

just hope

were the last words the two guards heard before Thomas disappeared from their

...

"B-baron o-f everblood!"

as the demon introduced itself, like when you replaced a

elder of the vanity tribe, sub-branch of

that only appears right before the third cataclysm

'W-hy was he here?'

a G

ranked from, King, Prince/Princess, Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, and

power level. Following Prince/Princess ranked demons, were Duke-ranked demons whose power level was around SS, the same as the strongest humans alive. After

were the approximate power levels

showed up, humanity would stand no chance

Elves, and Orcs were

humanity

the power levels of the demons, it came as a great shock to know that I was currently

mind that a Baron-ranked demon

wonder I felt so much

thought as everything started to make

But wait...

demon, why didn't the dungeon

to me, causing my pupils to dilate as

"Dungeon overload..."

"...Hm?"

demon looked at

you

I could see the demon looking at me

...as expected.

demon was actually trying to cause a

a dungeon desync in that it involved a dungeon becoming oversaturated with energy. However, contrary to when dungeons desync, where the dungeon just loses connection to the demon world. In a dungeon overload,

thousands of monsters suddenly appearing out of nowhere. The consequences alone would be disastrous...Fortunately, this was not a problem

a reason why humanity had still not gone extinct. It was simply because the time

of how unstable Earth was, the Demon King was still unable to ascend into the world. Further added with the fact that the Demon King was currently being held back by various forces, the looming threat coming from the Demon King

overlords of the universe, grew stronger the more planets it ate. Through its numerous exploits in which it conquered and ate planets, the Demon King grew into being one of the strongest creatures in the whole universe. It had gotten to the point that almost every race in the universe

the universe. Once it consumed one more planet, no being would be able to stop the Demon King. The world would be at the Demon King's mercy. Knowing this, many forces have joined together in a last-ditch attempt to stop him from conquering its next

was another factor that prevented the demons from

the demon army was still unable to adapt to the

low mana density in the atmosphere, due to earth only have been exposed to mana recently,

overloads weren't considered a

point, the event that marked the beginning of the third cataclysm happened...Suddenly, as the people on Earth

world, the monsters that came out from the dungeons were able to adapt to earth's atmosphere and survive. Soon the earth was overturned into an apocalyptic world where law and order ceased to exist and only

you thought were your friends suddenly backstabbed you just to ensure their

beginning of

-Fwap!