The Author's POV

"What the fuck are you guys even thinking!?"

An enraged shout echoed inside of simple office space. Following this, pounding violently on a wooden desk, Monica glared towards the person sitting behind the desk.

"Daphne, just what went through your heads when you decided to sacrifice the person thas singlehandedly saved me, Amon, and the others!"

Monica once again shouted. She was beyond incensed.

Upon being notified by Donna about the bounty on Ren's head, Monica flew into a fit of rage and immediately went towards Daphne's office to get an explanation from her.

"Tell me so that I can understand!"

"Calm down Monica."

Daphne helplessly raised her hand to calm Monica down.

"Calm down my ass. How can I be calm in this situation?"

"Just listen to what I have to say."

Daphne pleaded.

"..."

Without saying anything, Monica stared at Daphne's eyes for a couple of seconds.

"Fine." Crossing her arms, Monica sat down on the seat opposite Daphne and gestured for her to explain. "I really want to know what crossed your minds when you made that decision."

Finally managing to calm Monica down, Daphne breathed a sigh of relief, before leaning back on her chair.

"Where should I begin."

Pondering for a moment, Daphne decided to relay to Monica about everything that went through that meeting. From how they decided to sign a truce, to how they decided to sacrifice 876 for the truce in order to give her and Amon enough time to recuperate.

The more Monica listened to Daphne, the tighter her brows knit.

"This is bullshit!" Eventually, after a while, she stood up and once again smacked the table. "Do you guys not realize that you've wasted a golden opportunity?"

"A golden opportunity?"

"Yes!" Monica cried out."Since they are the ones that proposed the truce, it obviously means that whatever the explosion did, they suffered major losses. If there is a perfect chance to fight back, it is now! Deal a devastating blow to both those demon bastards and the Monolith."

Though Monica wasn't able to fully witness the core explode as she had already left by the time it exploded, what she did witness was the pure destructive power that emanated from the core itself.

It was frightening.

There was no way that they came unscathed from that attack.

Listening to Monica's words, Daphne shook her head.

"If only it was that easy Monica."

"What do you mean?"

"Do you think we don't know about what you've said? We've also thought about attacking them, but there are a couple of problems."

"What problems?"

Monica's face showed obvious signs of distrust.

Not minding this, Daphne explained.

"For one, we don't actually know the extent of the injuries from the Monolith's side. For all we know, the truce could be a trap proposed by them to make us think that they are severely weakened. If it truly was that way and we attack, we'd suffer massive losses."

For the Monolith to be the first one to step back, the Union heads were not naive enough to believe that the Monolith was just openly displaying their weakness.

There was a high chance that they were trying to instigate the Union into attacking them.

"If that is also not enough of a reason, Malik Alshayatin alone is enough..."

Deep apprehension flashed across Daphne's eyes.

Recalling him back at the meeting, although she knew that it was just his clone there, his presence was no joke. He was in his own league.

"Malik Alshayatin? The head of the Monolith."

Listening to Daphne's words, Monica's brows knit.

"Mhm, him."

"What about him?"

Shaking her head, Daphne sighed.

"Haa, you weren't there Monica, but the moment he stepped into the room, all of us could tell one thing." Lifting her head and looking at Monica straight in the eyes, Daphne took a deep breath before continuing. "It was that he was on another level."

"Hm? Another level?"

With deep apprehension in her eyes, Daphne explained.

"Yes. After the meeting ended, Octavious himself confirmed it. He was weaker than him."

"Tsss..."

inhaled a breath of cold

prideful as Octavios to say such a thing, it meant that it was

"Are you serious?"

with the demons behind them, the war would only end up being our

"But—"

Daphne cut Monica off.

voted against the decision, the other heads all unanimously voted for 876 to be eliminated. In the end, he wasn't

the end of the day, 876 did not show them enough promise to

they may have done something, but in the end, 876 was a measly

was not worth mentioning by the likes of them.

no, no, it's because I know who 876 is that I'm

Daphne, Monica cried out

Monica knew that if he really held a

to, then the Monolith would be

I hope things don't

her lips, Monica inwardly prayed inside

wasn't sure whose side she would

***

of a dark room, an old man with a long bray beard and turbid grey eyes

—Shua!

air, was an

up, the old man

"Leader, you have returned."

"Mhm."

Mo Jinhao a casual nod, the man who just entered, Malik AlShayatin casually swept the room with

black void suddenly appeared out of thin air. Then, after a couple of seconds, a cold and indifferent voice that seemed to come

Have they fallen for

Curtly replied Malik AlShayatin. "The

[A pity.]

could be felt

his body slightly, Malik AlShayatin

highness, is there anything you would like for me

that is it for now. Make sure you don't get into any conflicts for at least a couple of years. Your recent failure has caused

killing intent could be felt from the words of the individual

and Malik AlShayatin who were in the same room could feel this, as the void before them twisted

slightly, Malik

apologize for the

that you understand. For now, do as I

"Understood."

I hope you don't disappoint me

slowly drifted in the room before

before them shrank, after a brief moment of silence, the first to speak was Mo

do

gazed at the place where the black void used to be and

have ordered,

war with the three races. The incident where multiple ranks and

be hot-blooded and directly take their truce as a sign of weakness

not bite the

"A pity."

disappointment. Glancing towards Mo

Jinhao, how are

"My injuries?"

"Mhm."

for a bit,

severe right now. If the Union had gone and

truce. Had they not agreed, the only outcome

easily have been able to overpower the

truly a

"I see.."

flashed before he turned around and left. Staring at his expressionless face from behind, Mo Jinhao had no idea about

***

2 P.M.

Caissa headquarters.

through some files. After a while, I looked up towards Smallsnake who was

how much money do

the papers in front

"Around 10 million, why?"

million? Since when did we have so

amount honestly surprised

had originally thought that there

eyes. "Let's exclude Angelica who did pretty much all of the major tasks, but I've been using the information that you had

"Information?"

my head in

told me regarding where to

"Ah, that."

finally

of companies that would rise in stock in the future, but

honest, this was mainly due to the fact that I no longer relied on

many things were changing, I stopped relying on

on my bracelet and threw something in Smallsnake's direction.

the object I threw at him with both hands, Smallsnake looked at it and asked. "What is

potion, sell it and give me

eyes widened in

hold on. Did you just

you to