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..."

decision, the demon's demeanor completely changed

bloodlust exuded from its

"Let me introduce myself..."

-Fwap!

the demon's large bat-like wings expanded from its back casting a large shadow over

one step forward, smiling from ear to

"I am—baron of everblood!"

...

leisurely walked. His hair which was tied in a ponytail, accompanied by his

to let him

-Ding!

the middle-aged man felt a small vibration from his

-Ding!

-Ding!

-Ding!

"...Hm?"

thinking that

wasn't right, the middle-aged man took out a small black box from his

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

more troublesome

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

"Stop right there"

appeared, two white-clad individuals obstructed his

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

was in fact, Thomas. Taking out the small box

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

once again and reappeared inside of

hope it's nothing

the last words the two guards

...

"B-baron o-f everblood!"

you replaced a rusty gear, everything started to click

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

before the third cataclysm in the

'W-hy was he here?'

was not something a G

demons were ranked from, King, Prince/Princess,

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

were the approximate power levels of

off at most against Duke-ranked demons. If a Prince/Princess ranked demon showed up, humanity would stand no

and Orcs were

humanity would've long gone

great shock to know that I was currently in front of a baron-ranked

demon

wonder I felt

thought as everything

But wait...

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

occurred to me, causing my pupils

"Dungeon overload..."

"...Hm?"

looked

you

could see the demon looking at

...as expected.

demon was actually trying

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

thousands of monsters suddenly appearing out of nowhere. The consequences

humanity had still not gone extinct. It was simply

Earth was, the Demon King was still unable to ascend into the world. Further added with the fact that the Demon

the ultimate overlords of the universe, 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 to

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

there was another factor that

demon army was still unable to adapt to

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

overloads weren't considered

when 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

differently from normal dungeon overloads 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

friends suddenly backstabbed you just

beginning of

-Fwap!