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

as Octavios to say such a

"Are you serious?"

with the demons

"But—"

Daphne cut Monica off.

other heads all unanimously voted for 876 to

enough promise to make them

have

not worth mentioning by

no, no, it's because I know

cried out inside

knew that if he really held a grudge against them, things wouldn't really turn out

Ren grew as she expected him to, then the Monolith would be the last

don't escalate

inwardly prayed inside of

wasn't sure

***

bray beard and turbid grey eyes sat crossed

—Shua!

the silence and appearing from out of thin air, was an elegant young man with long black hair and ruby red

up, the

"Leader, you have returned."

"Mhm."

entered, Malik AlShayatin casually swept the room with his eyes before raising

after a couple of seconds, a cold and indifferent voice that seemed to come from the deepest parts of hell rang

Have they fallen

AlShayatin. "The Union

[A pity.]

disappointment could be felt

body slightly, Malik

there anything you would like for me to

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 quite a few problems

from the words of the

as the void before them twisted strangely, and a tangible wave of bloodlust

slightly, Malik

apologize for the

understand. For now, do as I

"Understood."

you don't

in the room

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

what do we do

gazed at the place where the black void used

as the demons have ordered, and

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

originally hoped that the Union would be hot-blooded and directly take their truce as a sign of weakness and have them attack

not bite the

"A pity."

disappointment. Glancing towards Mo Jinhao next

how are your

"My injuries?"

"Mhm."

bit, Mo Jinhao

now. If the Union had gone and attacked us, we could've done a quick work

truce. Had they not agreed, the

not being that serious anymore, they could've easily have been able to overpower the five heads of the Union without suffering any major

was truly a

"I see.."

Staring at his expressionless face from behind, Mo Jinhao had no idea about what

***

2 P.M.

Caissa headquarters.

some files. After a while, I looked up towards Smallsnake who was sitting opposite me

money do we

eyes off of the

"Around 10 million, why?"

did

amount honestly surprised

originally thought that there

who did pretty much all of the major tasks, but I've been using the

"Information?"

tilted my head

told me regarding

"Ah, that."

finally dawned

companies that would rise in

to the fact that I no longer relied

things were changing,

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

both hands, Smallsnake looked at it and asked. "What is

it and give me the money. The 10

eyes widened

hold on. Did you just

all, I want you to