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

orb wasn't actually that

towards where the orb was located and I was able

her the core back or not, lest she completed the five-year deal with me, she was

to her back when we signed the

The reason was simple.

a

as though I was trusting her and making her feel important, but in reality, I was

law 43 - work on the hearts

like Silug, if I wanted her to wholeheartedly follow

case

words, I made her feel

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

to fully become my piece, this was the

for the sake of the future,

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

the world wanted a hero, they had

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

hands dirty for the sake of

-Baaam!

nowhere a muffled explosion rang in the distance shaking the whole

direction of where the explosion was coming from, squinting my eyes I

the aftershock of the battle is reaching

Angelica revealing herself once again has caused the orc chief to attack even more

as a provocation and hence why the

...that was good though.

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

those lines, glancing at Angelica

"We should go"

"Yes"

my steps and glancing at

"Angelica walk before me"

Angelica to walk before

could pretty much move around the castle without arousing

situation of the castle both externally and internally, it was safe to

demon was enough to somewhat move around the castle without much

helped somewhat, that didn't mean we were just brazenly moving around the castle with no care of the

No.

If someone stopped us and questioned us, without a doubt we would

-Gulp!

as an extra safety precaution, I took out a [Gigantification

will be

the orc that I had met at the

my skin pigmentation, it didn't

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

couple of seconds of molding, glancing at Angelica

do I look

at me, Angelica shook her

"...not really"

even a

you look from

good enough

in 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 there would be too

part from far, it was good enough. Glancing at Angelica I quickly urged her to move

"Alright, let's go"

Irritated, Angelica responded.

"Don't rush me human"

guess you don't really care

"Viscount rank?"

the place we're going to has the item that you're

her eyes lit up, Angelica quickly moved

"Let's go"

reaction, I shook my head

"What a child"

...

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

the treasury

but honestly, there was nothing important there as only the first

and I were on the first floor of the castle and our goal was

where our

"Let's go"

"Mhm"

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