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..."

up with a decision, the demon's

thick bloodlust exuded from its

"Let me introduce myself..."

-Fwap!

large bat-like wings expanded from its back casting a large shadow

one step 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 by his unkempt beard and sunglasses made him

to the side to let him walk. Despite his looks, he

-Ding!

man felt a small vibration from

-Ding!

-Ding!

-Ding!

"...Hm?"

as he was about to ignore it thinking that it was nothing important, his

middle-aged man took out a small

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

may be more troublesome than

and reappeared in front of a gate with the number

"Stop right there"

he appeared, two white-clad individuals obstructed

2...I don't have time

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

guards immediately moved to the side and allowed Thomas

guards move, Thomas disappeared once again and reappeared inside

just hope it's

last words the two guards heard before Thomas

...

"B-baron o-f everblood!"

like when you replaced a

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

before the third cataclysm in

'W-hy was he here?'

Baron-ranked demon was not something a

King, Prince/Princess, Duke,

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

power levels of the

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

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

not for them, humanity

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

Baron-ranked demon was four

I felt so much

thought as everything started to make

But wait...

a Baron-ranked demon, why

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

"Dungeon overload..."

"...Hm?"

the demon looked

did you

see the demon looking at me in both shock and

...as expected.

demon was actually trying

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

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

still not gone extinct. It was simply because

into the world. Further added with the fact that the Demon King was currently being

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 hands in order to stop

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

was another factor that prevented the demons

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

mana density in the atmosphere, due to earth only have been exposed to

overloads

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 started occurring in almost

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

your friends suddenly backstabbed you just

beginning of the third

-Fwap!