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..."

a decision, the demon's demeanor

exuded from its

"Let me introduce myself..."

-Fwap!

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

ear to ear,

"I am—baron of everblood!"

...

leisurely walked. His hair which was tied in a ponytail, accompanied by his unkempt beard and sunglasses made him look out of

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

-Ding!

middle-aged man felt a small vibration from his pocket followed by a light

-Ding!

-Ding!

-Ding!

"...Hm?"

to ignore it thinking that it was

middle-aged man took out a small black box from

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

may be more troublesome

where he was standing and reappeared in

"Stop right there"

soon as he appeared, two white-clad individuals obstructed

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

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

two guards immediately moved to the side

once again

hope it's nothing

guards heard before Thomas disappeared from

...

"B-baron o-f everblood!"

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

everblood, an elder of the vanity tribe, sub-branch of the

that only appears right before the third

'W-hy was he here?'

something a G rank like me

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

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 at A, Viscount at

approximate power levels of the

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

Elves, and Orcs were

humanity

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

Baron-ranked demon was four ranks

felt

everything started

But wait...

demon, why didn't

causing my

"Dungeon overload..."

"...Hm?"

the demon looked at me

you know

looking at me in

...as expected.

was actually trying to cause

desync, where the dungeon just loses connection to the demon world. In a dungeon overload, all the monsters inside of the dungeon

of nowhere. The

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

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

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

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

another factor that prevented the demons

was, apart from demons, the demon army was still unable to adapt to

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

was why dungeon overloads

earth's mana density reached a certain point, the event that marked the beginning of the third cataclysm happened...Suddenly, as

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

friends suddenly backstabbed you just

beginning of the third

-Fwap!