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

exuded from its

"Let me introduce myself..."

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from its back casting a large

forward, smiling from ear to ear, the demon

"I am—baron of everblood!"

...

large spacious luxurious corridor, a middle-aged man leisurely walked. His hair which was tied in a ponytail, accompanied

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

-Ding!

vibration from

-Ding!

-Ding!

-Ding!

"...Hm?"

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

right, the middle-aged man took out

box, the middle-aged man's

may be more troublesome

in front of a gate with the number <<756>>

"Stop right there"

appeared, two white-clad individuals obstructed his

2...I don't have time for this

was in fact, Thomas. Taking out the small box from his

to the side and

the two guards move, Thomas disappeared once again and reappeared inside

just hope it's nothing

last words the two guards

...

"B-baron o-f everblood!"

you

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

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

'W-hy was he here?'

something a G

were ranked from, King, Prince/Princess, Duke, Marquis,

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

the approximate power levels of

demon showed up, humanity would stand

Orcs were

humanity would've

levels of the demons, it came as a great shock to know that

in mind that a Baron-ranked demon

I felt so much

thought as everything

But wait...

it's a Baron-ranked demon, why

thought occurred to me, causing my pupils to

"Dungeon overload..."

"...Hm?"

looked

did you know

could see the demon looking at me in both shock and

...as expected.

actually trying to cause 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, all the monsters

of nowhere. The consequences alone would be disastrous...Fortunately, this was not

why humanity had still not gone extinct. It was simply because the time wasn't

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

conquered and ate planets, the Demon King grew into being one of the strongest creatures in the whole universe. It had

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 attempt to stop him from

from the Demon King's ascension, there was another factor that prevented the demons from fully

was

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

overloads weren't considered a

the earth's mana density reached a certain point, the event that marked the beginning of the third cataclysm happened...Suddenly, as the people on Earth were going about their own day, dungeon

where the monsters inside 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

friends suddenly backstabbed you

the beginning

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