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.

need

out the orb wasn't

do was channel my mana towards where the orb was

didn't matter if I gave her the core back or not,

her back when we signed the contract,

The reason was simple.

waiting for a moment like this to

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

work on the hearts and minds of

Silug, if I wanted her to wholeheartedly follow me, I had

case

words, I made her feel special increasing

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

fully become my

was no hero. Sometimes, for the sake of the future, I had to do things that I would've

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

world wanted a hero, they

hero off of me, I'm sorry, but I couldn't grant them

had to get their hands dirty for the sake of

-Baaam!

snapping me out of my thoughts, out of nowhere a muffled explosion

coming from,

like the aftershock of the battle is reaching all the way

herself once again has caused the orc

probably took it as a provocation and hence why the aftershock of the attack reached all of the way

...that was good though.

demons inside of the castle and redirecting their attention towards the fight, it

lines, glancing at

"We should go"

"Yes"

steps and glancing at

"Angelica walk before me"

I asked Angelica to

hence she could pretty much move around the castle without

safe to assume that no one would particularly pay

she was a demon was enough to somewhat move around

were just brazenly moving around the castle with no

No.

careful when moving around. If someone stopped us and

-Gulp!

precaution, I took out a

will be

the ones of the orc that I had met at the entrance at the back of the castle

my skin pigmentation, it

more specifically the mask I was wearing, I tried my best to

of

should be enough, do

looking at me, Angelica shook her

"...not really"

a

if you look

enough for

I wasn't actually planning on fully copying an orc as that would take too many

from far, it was good enough. Glancing at Angelica

"Alright, let's go"

Irritated, Angelica responded.

"Don't rush me human"

I guess you don't really

"Viscount rank?"

to has

my response as her eyes lit up,

"Let's go"

I shook my head

"What a child"

...

layout of the castle was rather simple, there were four floors with the bottom floor

place where the treasury

was the second and third floor, but honestly, there was nothing important there as only the first and fourth floor were important as they were places I

of the castle and our goal was to reach the fourth floor. The highest and

our

"Let's go"

"Mhm"

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