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..."

come up with a decision, the demon's demeanor

bloodlust exuded from its body, suffocating

"Let me introduce myself..."

-Fwap!

large bat-like wings expanded from its back

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

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

-Ding!

a small vibration from his

-Ding!

-Ding!

-Ding!

"...Hm?"

ignore it thinking that it was nothing important, his pocket

right, the middle-aged man took out

the

more

from where he was standing and reappeared in front of a

"Stop right there"

appeared, two

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

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

moved to the side and allowed Thomas to

once again and reappeared

just hope it's nothing

guards heard before Thomas disappeared

...

"B-baron o-f everblood!"

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

the vanity tribe, sub-branch of the demon clan of pride, and a baron-ranked

before the third cataclysm

'W-hy was he here?'

Baron-ranked demon was not something a G rank like me

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

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

power levels

ranked demon showed up,

were keeping

for them, humanity would've long gone

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

in mind that a Baron-ranked demon was four ranks

wonder I felt so

as everything started to

But wait...

it's a Baron-ranked demon, why didn't the

causing my

"Dungeon overload..."

"...Hm?"

looked

did you

up, I could see the demon looking at me in

...as expected.

actually trying to cause a dungeon

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 inside of the dungeon get transported into the human

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

still not gone

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

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

the universe. Once it consumed one more planet, no being would be able to stop the Demon King. The world would

factor

army was still unable to

to earth only have been exposed to mana recently,

dungeon overloads weren't

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 overloads

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 what

backstabbed you just

the beginning of the third

-Fwap!