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..."

breath of

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

"Are you serious?"

hesitant on attacking them. Furthermore, with the demons behind them, the war

"But—"

Daphne cut Monica off.

against the decision, the other heads all unanimously voted for 876 to be eliminated. In the end,

not show them enough promise to make them go to war

high ranker, they may have done something, but in the

that was not worth mentioning by

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

Monica cried out inside of her

really held a grudge against them, things wouldn't really turn out as simple as

him to, then the Monolith would be the last

hope things don't escalate

Monica inwardly prayed inside of

things went that way, Monica wasn't sure

***

an old man with a long bray beard and turbid grey eyes sat crossed legs. The air around him distorted from

—Shua!

the silence and appearing from out of thin air, was an

the

"Leader, you have returned."

"Mhm."

casually swept the

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

done? Have they fallen

not." Curtly replied Malik AlShayatin. "The Union accepted our

[A pity.]

disappointment could be felt from the voice behind

body slightly, Malik

royal highness, is there anything you would like for me to

you don't get into any conflicts for at least a couple of years. Your recent failure has caused quite a few problems

intent could be felt from the words of the individual whom Malik AlShayatin

Malik AlShayatin who were in the same room could feel this, as the void before them twisted strangely, and a tangible wave of bloodlust

head slightly,

for the

now, do as I

"Understood."

don't disappoint me

slowly drifted in the room before completely

and the void before them shrank, after a brief moment of silence, the first to

what do we

the black void used to be and

do as the demons have ordered, and

at war with the three races. The incident where multiple ranks and below died, resulted in a lot of the

take their truce as a sign of weakness and have them attack the Monolith. This would've been

did not

"A pity."

disappointment. Glancing towards Mo Jinhao next to him,

how are your

"My injuries?"

"Mhm."

a bit, Mo

already taken a couple of high-leveled potions, they are not that severe right now. If the

to agree to the truce. Had

that serious anymore, they could've easily have been able to overpower the five heads of the Union without suffering any

truly

"I see.."

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

***

2 P.M.

Caissa headquarters.

flipped through some files. After a while, I looked up towards

how much money do

taking his eyes off of the papers in front of him,

"Around 10 million, why?"

Since when did we have

amount honestly surprised

originally thought that there

much all of the major tasks, but I've been using the information that you had given to me before to make quite a

"Information?"

my head

you told me regarding where to invest

"Ah, that."

finally dawned

in fact given Smallsnake a list of companies that would rise in stock in the future, but I had long forgotten

honest, this was mainly due to the fact

that too many things were changing, I

enough." Crossing my arms, I tapped on my bracelet and threw something

I threw at him with both hands, Smallsnake looked at

sell it and give me the money. The 10 million you saved

widened in

Did you just

you to sell