The Author's POV

"Huuu..."

Taking a deep breath and calming my emotions down, I took out a pen from my dimensional space.

With Aaron following me, this was the only option I had at the moment. If I lead him to Kevin, things might worsen.

"Please work."

Channeling my mana into my fingers, I decided to make some changes to the book.

Unfortunately...

"Damn it!"

My grip on the book tightened. The changes that I had made to the book disappeared within five seconds.

It became apparent to me that I was still too weak.

Even though I could make changes to the future with the book, the changes were only proportional to the amount of mana I had. At this moment, my mana was only at the level of a rank. It was pitifully low. The only changes I could make were not something that could help Kevin.

'Calm down...calm down, I need to calm down.'

I repeated inside of my mind.

Repeating the process a couple of more times, and once again failing miserably, my breathing started to get rough as panic started to set in.

"...I have no choice." My teeth clenched tightly. "I'm going to forcefully breakthrough."

Though I was breaking through a couple of days before I was supposed to, this was the only way I could save Kevin at the moment.

As long as I broke through to rank, there might be a chance for me to change the future a little bit.

Clenching my fists tightly, I took out a small pill from my dimensional space.

"Ugh, I was saving this up for later but..."

Throwing the pill in my mouth, I closed my eyes and waited for it to enter my system completely.

The pill that I took was nothing really special, it had the ability to help one breakthrough when they felt that they were near. Originally, I had planned on using this pill in about a week's time, but given the circumstances, I had no choice.

"This is probably gonna hu'”khuak!"

Not even a second after I said that, an electric current ran down my body as all of my muscles spasmed uncontrollably. This was the consequence of forcefully breaking through.

Immense pain followed by potential future repercussions. The reason for this was simple. Because my body was still not fully capable of withstanding the huge increase in power that would come from a rank increase, by forcefully breaking through I was putting my body under immense strain.

If you put too much stuff inside of a box, the box will overflow. What I was doing was essentially the same thing. Stuffing my body with items, or in this case, energy.

My current body was still not fully capable of withstanding the large amount of energy. Hence why the unbearable amount of pain.

...but I did not have time to think about those problems. My main priority right now was saving Kevin.

"Haaa...haaaa..."

Fortunately, the pain didn't last long. Within half a minute everything was already over. With my body splattered all over the floor, I took massive breaths as I forcefully pushed my body up.

"...Please work."

With trembling hands, I opened the book and once again tried to make changes. Making the opponent miss, Making Kevin's attack land, Making the opponent trip...I tried everything.

"Khuak!"

Eventually, as if my soul was getting sucked out of my body, the book slowly changed.

"It's working."

My eyes lit up. Slowly but surely the future was changing...but my joy did not last for long.

'”Thud.

Falling face-first on the ground, Kevin's heart stopped moving.

On this day. Kevin Voss died.

"What? Dead again?"

Dropping the book on the ground, I covered my face with body hands and ruffled my hair.

Once again Kevin died.

The only difference was that he had managed to stay alive for eight more minutes.

"Damn it!"

from my lips

that I did useless? Was there really no

No.

replenishing potion from

already. With my newfound strength, I should be

'”Sha!

through the air and aimed for my head. Fully on

was Aaron who

to

I don't

muscles relaxed

definitely going

my head slightly, and glaring at Aaron that had finally caught up, I

"Monarch's indifference."

***

arrived at the area they first engaged with

done by

the location and staring at the five

from the very beginning. There were about fifty instructors on standby at the moment overlooking the

they could spectate some of the matches the students were having. The instructor saw Ren's whole match

strongest individuals before taking out the weaker three. He

get

all of the students on the ground floated in

"Hm?"

abruptly paused. He suddenly noticed

over to a certain area, he tilted his head to the side. From where he

"What the..."

eyes, he bent down and dug the ground. Not even a minute after he started digging

instructor's eyes opened widely as a curse escaped

"Shit'”!"

on his watch, the instructor flusteredly sent a message to the

We've got

***

'”Rustle! '”Rustle!

vegetation being pushed to the side echoed across

cold figure, whilst on the other

have let me

Aaron playfully smiled.

to Aaron's provocation, Ren's face remained indifferent

of the

"...Oh? Why should I?"

"..."

Ren did not respond.

hand on the sheat of

"Hmmm"

from Ren's body,

SHIIIIING!

right in front of Ren. Thrusting his dagger forward, he aimed

something totally unexpected

made no effort in dodging the attack at all. Placing his hand on the

'”Click!

"...What the!"

rang out, the back of Aaron's

stopping his dagger right before Ren's throat, Aaron disappeared and reappeared a couple of meters back. At the exact moment he disappeared, a lightning-fast sword

as he

you trying to kill yourself to get

manner. Had he not dodged at the last moment, he would've

Ren who merely stood

"No."

head as

didn't you defend yourself

knew that you

calling me

"Yes."

with Aaron, Ren secretly placed his hand on the sheath of his

trying to

lips. "To think that I'm

palm of his hand, Aaron's

think I didn't know that you were gathering

'”Fwuaa!

Aaron's body. Bending

been doing the same thing. Let's see

suddenly slashed diagonally with