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..."

up with a decision, the demon's

thick bloodlust exuded from its

"Let me introduce myself..."

-Fwap!

expanded from its

forward, smiling from ear to ear, the

"I am—baron of everblood!"

...

which was tied in a ponytail, accompanied by his unkempt beard and sunglasses made him look out

the corridor, the people that were next to him stepped to the side to let him walk. Despite his looks, he was treated

-Ding!

man felt a small vibration from his pocket followed by a

-Ding!

-Ding!

-Ding!

"...Hm?"

it thinking that it was nothing important, his pocket started vibrating

the middle-aged man took

on the black box, the middle-aged man's brows

more troublesome than

where he was standing and reappeared in front of a gate with the

"Stop right there"

he appeared, two white-clad individuals obstructed

1, Timothy 2...I don't have time

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

to the side and allowed Thomas to

Thomas disappeared once again and

just hope it's nothing

two guards heard before Thomas disappeared

...

"B-baron o-f everblood!"

introduced itself, like when you replaced a rusty gear, everything started

an elder of the vanity tribe, sub-branch of the demon clan of

that only appears right before the third cataclysm in the later half of the

'W-hy was he here?'

a G

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

Demon prince and Demon princess had a power level equivalent to around SSS, in terms of human 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 Duke-ranked demons were Marquis-ranked demons at a power level of around S followed by Earl-ranked demons

approximate power levels of

ranked demon showed up, humanity would stand no chance as each rank increase was

Elves, and Orcs were keeping the Prince/Princess ranked

them, humanity would've

it came as a great shock to know that I was currently in front

in mind that a Baron-ranked demon was four

I felt

as everything

But wait...

Baron-ranked demon,

to me, causing

"Dungeon overload..."

"...Hm?"

looked at me

you

up, I could see the demon looking at me in both shock and

...as expected.

actually trying to cause

contrary to when dungeons desync, where the dungeon just loses connection

of monsters suddenly appearing out of nowhere. The

had still not gone extinct.

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

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 was forced to join hands in order

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

there was another factor that prevented the demons from fully

demon army was

in the atmosphere, due to earth only have been exposed to mana recently, monsters couldn't survive

was why dungeon overloads weren't considered

the beginning of the third cataclysm happened...Suddenly, as the people on Earth were going about their own day,

that came out from the dungeons were able to adapt to earth's atmosphere and survive. Soon the earth was overturned into

friends suddenly backstabbed

the beginning of

-Fwap!