The Author's POV

Chapter 183

After separating from Silug and Kevin, glancing at the ring on my finger I softly said.

"Alright, Angelica you can come out now"

-Fwa!

Following my voice, black smoke rose from my left finger and Angelica's figure slowly materialized before me. Opening her eyes, Angelica glanced at me and softly said.

"I'm ready"

Smiling, out of nowhere, I threw an orb-like object in her direction.

"Here"

-Plack!

"Huh? What's this?"

Catching the orb with her hand, Angelica tilted her head in confusion as she observed the black orb in her hand.

"It's your core"

Noticing Angelica's confusion, I smiled.

"..."

Taking a couple of seconds to process the object in her hand, opening her eyes wide and looking at me, Angelica's voice raised a few pitches.

"Ah?"

Seeing Angelica's reaction, raising my brow, I teased.

"What? You don't want it? If you don't want it I'll gladly take it back"

"No, no, no, I'll take it"

Shaking her head, Angelica quickly placed the orb in her chest.

-Shua!

Shortly after, as if made out of water, the orb directly melted into Angelica's body.

-Fwua!

As the core melted into her body, a terrifying red hue enshrouded her body giving her regal and majestic presence.

After a couple of seconds, slowly opening her eyes and turning her attention back to me, with a skeptical look on her face Angelica asked.

"...why are you giving it to me?"

Thoughtfully placing my hand on my chin, I shortly replied.

"Mhh, let's just say that I'm trusting you"

Taken aback by my answer, Angelica didn't know how to answer.

Being a demon and coming from a place where everyone would screw you over at the simplest mistake, the word 'trust' was not something Angelica was very familiar with.

There was no such thing as trust amongst demons and so Angelica was naturally unaware of how it felt to be trusted by someone.

...yet that all changed today.

For the first time in her life, someone had said that they trusted her. Moreover, it was the same human that had enslaved her and made her work for him for five years.

...it was weird and made Angelica feel odd.

Although she wasn't sure how she was feeling right now, deep down, just a little part of her felt grateful.

Turning her head away from me, Angelica softly muttered.

"...I see"

Seeing her reaction, unaware of what she was thinking, I kept a simple smile on my face.

Everything was a lie.

Of course, that wasn't the truth.

she didn't need

out the orb wasn't actually

my mana towards where the orb was located and I was able to

matter if I gave her the core back or not,

back when we signed the contract, but I refrained

The reason was simple.

for a moment like this

I was trusting her and making her feel important, but in reality, I was merely trying to appeal

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her to wholeheartedly follow me, I had to appeal to

case

I made her feel special increasing

I sounded manipulative and perhaps borderline psychopathic, I didn't really care. I needed to do

become

of the future,

what was the point of being a saint if it only led to a future where

wanted a

they desired a hero off of me, I'm sorry, but I couldn't grant

to get their hands dirty

-Baaam!

out of nowhere a muffled explosion rang in the distance shaking

was coming from, squinting my eyes I

of the battle is reaching all

again has caused the orc

probably took it as a provocation and hence why the aftershock of the

...that was good though.

laxer this place was. By distracting the demons inside of the castle and redirecting their attention towards the fight, it would in turn allow for Angelica and I to have an easier time when

along those lines, glancing at

"We should go"

"Yes"

my steps and glancing at

"Angelica walk before me"

asked Angelica to walk

much move around the

both externally and internally, it was safe to assume that no one would particularly pay too much close attention to

a demon was enough to somewhat move around the castle

were just brazenly moving around the castle

No.

still needed to be careful when moving around. If someone stopped us and questioned us, without

-Gulp!

as an extra safety precaution, I took out a

be

I quickly changed my clothes to the ones of the orc that I had met at the

my skin pigmentation, it didn't

fingers on my face, or more specifically the mask I was wearing, I tried my best to distort my features to look

of seconds of molding, glancing at Angelica

should be enough, do I look like an

at me, Angelica

"...not really"

even a little

you look from

enough for

actually planning on fully copying an orc as that would take too many resources and there would be too

as I looked at the part from far, it was good enough. Glancing at Angelica I

"Alright, let's go"

Irritated, Angelica responded.

"Don't rush me human"

you don't really care about reaching the

"Viscount rank?"

we're going to has the item

response as her eyes

"Let's go"

I shook my head as a smile appeared

"What a child"

...

rather simple, there were four floors with the

place where the treasury was

second and third floor, but honestly, there was nothing important there as only the

the first floor of the castle and our goal was

where our

"Let's go"

"Mhm"

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