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..."

demon's demeanor

bloodlust exuded from its body,

"Let me introduce myself..."

-Fwap!

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

step forward, smiling from ear to ear, the demon

"I am—baron of everblood!"

...

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

stepped to the side to let

-Ding!

vibration from his

-Ding!

-Ding!

-Ding!

"...Hm?"

he was about to ignore it thinking that it was

the middle-aged man took out a

black box, the middle-aged man's brows

be more troublesome than I

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

"Stop right there"

soon as he appeared, two white-clad individuals

Timothy 2...I don't have time

out the small box

the two guards immediately moved to the side and

guards move, Thomas disappeared once again

just hope it's

last words the two guards heard

...

"B-baron o-f everblood!"

you replaced a rusty

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

appears right before the third cataclysm

'W-hy was he here?'

Baron-ranked demon was not something a G rank like

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

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

were the approximate power levels of the

demon showed up, humanity would stand no chance as each rank increase was a

Dwarves, Elves, and Orcs were keeping the Prince/Princess ranked

humanity

shock to know that

mind that a Baron-ranked demon was four ranks higher

wonder I felt

thought as everything started to

But wait...

a Baron-ranked demon, why didn't the

thought occurred to me, causing my pupils to dilate as I

"Dungeon overload..."

"...Hm?"

looked at me

you

up, I could see the demon looking at me in both shock

...as expected.

demon was actually trying to

to 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 inside of the dungeon get transported into the human

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

had still not gone

with the fact that the Demon King was currently being held back by various forces, the looming threat coming from the Demon King was

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 the point that almost every race in the universe was forced to join

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

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

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

due to earth only have

was why dungeon overloads weren't considered a

third cataclysm happened...Suddenly, as the people on Earth were going about their own day, dungeon overloads started

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

backstabbed you just to ensure their

was the beginning of the

-Fwap!