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..."

the demon's demeanor completely changed

from its body,

"Let me introduce myself..."

-Fwap!

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

one step forward, smiling from ear to ear, the demon elegantly

"I am—baron of everblood!"

...

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

the side to let him walk. Despite his

-Ding!

felt a small vibration from his pocket followed

-Ding!

-Ding!

-Ding!

"...Hm?"

ignore it thinking that it was nothing important,

right, the middle-aged man took out a small

the middle-aged man's

more

the middle-aged man disappeared from where he was standing and reappeared in front of a gate with

"Stop right there"

appeared, two white-clad individuals

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

out the small box from his pocket, Thomas showed it

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

move, Thomas disappeared once

just hope it's

two guards heard before Thomas

...

"B-baron o-f everblood!"

the demon introduced itself, like when you replaced a rusty gear, everything started to click

vanity tribe, sub-branch of the demon clan

the third

'W-hy was he here?'

was not something a G rank like me

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

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

the approximate power levels of

Duke-ranked demons. If a Prince/Princess ranked demon showed up, humanity would stand no chance as each rank increase was a

Orcs were keeping the Prince/Princess

humanity would've long

shock to know that

demon was four ranks higher than

I felt so much

everything started to

But wait...

Baron-ranked demon, why

causing my pupils to dilate as I silently

"Dungeon overload..."

"...Hm?"

the demon looked at me in

did you

up, I could see the demon looking at

...as expected.

actually trying to

However, contrary to when dungeons desync, where the dungeon just loses connection to the demon world. In a dungeon overload,

of monsters suddenly appearing out of nowhere. The consequences alone

still not gone extinct. It was

with the fact that the Demon King was currently being

into being one of the strongest creatures in the whole universe. It had gotten to the point that almost

the moment, the Demon King was only one planet away from becoming the strongest being in 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

ascension, there was another factor that prevented the

the demon army was still unable to adapt to

density in the atmosphere, due to earth only have been

why dungeon overloads

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

of it would die immediately upon entering the human 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 your own survival was

backstabbed you just to ensure their

was the beginning of the third

-Fwap!