The Author's POV

"You sorted everything out?"

"Yeah"

Returning back to the treasury, I stared at the portal that stood before Kevin. Just like the first time I saw it, the black portal in front of Kevin emitted fine adulations of magic resulting in a whirlpool of different colors circling around the portal.

"Hurry, up the portal is ready, lets go back to earth"

"Alright, I'm coming"

Having achieved my goal in coming here, and having sorted Silug's situation, I knew that it was about time we returned back to earth.

Glancing at the walls of the castle, I could hear the faint sounds of fighting coming from both the insides and the outsides of the castle. The insides coming from the orcs in the prison, and the outside coming from the war that was happening in Immorra.

Although I would've loved to watch the war that was happening, I knew that it wasn't the time.

The war was merely a means to achieve my goals.

Perhaps once I returned to Immorra in the future to see how Silug was doing, I could see another war with the two other Marquess ranked demons, but that was for another time.

Staring at me who was slowly walking towards the portal, Kevin impatiently said.

"You going?"

Keeping the portal open actually took quite a toll on his body. The more Ren delayed, the bigger the toll his body faced.

He was understandably getting anooyed.

"Yup, coming, hold on a sec"

…and as I also understood this, I hurried up my footsteps and prepared myself to enter the portal.

"Ah wait..."

However, right before stepping into the portal, recalling something and glancing at my watch, I quickly tapped on it.

-Booom! -Booom! -Booom!

Shortly after, explosions rang all over the castle as the whole structure shook.

Startled, Kevin looked at me in shock as he exclaimed.

"Ren, what are you doing!?"

Glancing at Kevin, I said in a matter-of-fact tone.

"Hm? I'm just hiding our traces"

Like I said before, I didn't want anyone to find out that we've infiltrated the building through the back entrance, therefore, I installed explosives everywhere.

This way once they investigated, chances of them finding Silug were ever lower.

Although once he signed a contract the chances of him getting discovered were already low, with this, his chances of being discovered were going to be even lower allowing him to gain strength without too much trouble.

I admit, that my plan was not the most perfect one as there were a couple of more loopholes in my plan that could expose Silug, however, given that the demons were currently in the middle of a war, he shouldn't be able to get exposed for now.

Which was good enough for me, and so I could more or less now be satisfied with the outcome.

Opening his mouth, Kevin wanted to say a lot of things, but given that this was a building that housed demons, he shut his mouth.

...why should he care if the demons suffered?

In fact, he wanted nothing more for them to burn in hell.

"...I see, anyhow hurry up I can't hold on for too long"

"Aye, aye"

Taking one last look at the treasury before me, shaking my head I stepped into the portal

It was really a pity that I couldn't loot everything.

-Fwa!

As I stepped into the portal, just like before, the world around me turned dark and I lost all of my senses.

It was about time I returned back to earth.

...

-Fwa!

-Pamf

"Gah, fuck!"

the first thing I felt when I felt my

I found Kevin's body slumped on top of

"Can you get off?"

seeing the position he was in, Kevin scratched the back

the portal took a lot

felt my back go

the fact that he used most of his energy keeping the portal open, Kevin found himself passing out for

my god, are you some

"Sorry"

pain as I sat up straight. Just when I was about to scratch my cheek, I suddenly found my hand smacking me

-Smack!

"The hell!"

lighter than that of Immora's resulting in me

"pfftt..."

coming from

my teeth, I

this is

his head, Kevin tried to refuse, but the trembling of

"Pffftt...No"

I see. I'll

couldn't hold it anymore and burst out laughing as he held

believe you slapped your own face,

time, I nodded my head as

keep laughing. Just keep in mind that I

...Oh, Kevin, Kevin, Kevin.

with your own creator you wouldn't be

will

*Sigh*

sofa and slumped on

about a great

happened when I returned to earth was having Kevin fall on top of

...just great.

"huh?"

on the sofa, frowning, I suddenly noticed something weird happening

understand what it was, my eyes

me

suddenly sensing something and noticing the solemness in my voice, Kevin sobered up and

"Huh? The sky grass?"

I extended my

I'm about to

"Oh, here"

about to rank up, without hesitation, taking out a stalk of sky grass from his dimensional

"Thanks!"

sky grass from his hands and placed it

I could feel it.

on the verge of breaking through

a month in Immorra where the gravity was three times that of earth, every moment I spent there was like

to no surprise as to why I was now on the verge of breaking through

who was about to rank up, Kevin

"Should I go?"

looked at

"Yeah"

I was ranking as any distraction could prove

proposed to

I didn't refuse

head and proceeded to make his way out of

I'll see you at

"Yeah, see you"

Kevin directly left my room leaving

-Clank!

-Shua!

white hue shrouded my body as veins bulged

more painful

I slowly felt my body burn up due to how

bit of a waste as it could help still work on higher ranks, but I needed to get stronger faster, moreover, there were many other opportunities out there for me to find a similar herb

"Haa...haa...haaa"

pain on my body intensified with every chew of the grass. Multiple times I wanted to stop chewing, but gritting my teeth and enduring the pain I kept on

dripped down from my

-Fwua!

my body shrouded the whole room as I suddenly felt my body become a lot stronger and

my previous experiences, all of my senses sharpened