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.

didn't need to know

the orb

do was channel my mana towards where the orb was located and I was

the mana contract it didn't matter if I gave her the core back or not, lest she completed the five-year deal with me,

given the core to her back when we signed the contract,

The reason was simple.

was waiting for a moment like this

to her and make it seem like I trusted her. On the outside, it looked as though I was trusting her and making her feel important, but in

work on the hearts and minds

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

this case the

flowery words, I made her feel special increasing her favorability towards

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

become my piece, this was the

before, I was no hero. Sometimes, for the sake of the future, I

of being a saint if it only led to a future where the demon king

the world wanted a hero, they

off of me, I'm sorry,

had to get their hands dirty for the sake

-Baaam!

nowhere a muffled explosion rang in the distance shaking the

the explosion was coming from, squinting my eyes

like the aftershock of the

again has caused the orc chief to attack

why the aftershock of the attack

...that was good though.

By distracting the demons inside of the castle and redirecting their attention towards the

lines, glancing at Angelica

"We should go"

"Yes"

steps and glancing

"Angelica walk before me"

to walk before me was

hence she could pretty much move around the castle

and internally, it was safe

was enough to

we were

No.

be careful when moving around. If someone stopped us and questioned

-Gulp!

safety precaution, I took out a [Gigantification

will be

and become larger, I quickly changed my clothes to the ones of the orc

couldn't change my skin

face, or more specifically the mask I was wearing, I tried my

a couple of seconds of molding, glancing at Angelica I

be enough, do I

me, Angelica shook her

"...not really"

even a little

if you look from

good enough

order to reduce the chances of getting caught. I wasn't actually planning on fully copying an orc as that would take too many resources and

part from far, it was good enough. Glancing at Angelica I quickly

"Alright, let's go"

Irritated, Angelica responded.

"Don't rush me human"

don't really care about reaching the

"Viscount rank?"

we're going to has the item

her eyes lit up, Angelica

"Let's go"

I shook my head as a smile appeared on

"What a child"

...

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

place where the

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

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

where our goal

"Let's go"

"Mhm"

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