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

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

"Are you serious?"

why we were hesitant on attacking them. Furthermore, with the demons behind them, the war would only end up being our

"But—"

Daphne cut Monica off.

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

of the day, 876 did not show them enough promise to make them go to war with the Monolith

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

not worth mentioning by the likes of

because I know who

cried out inside

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

then the Monolith would be the last

don't escalate to that

inwardly prayed inside

Monica wasn't sure

***

long bray beard and turbid grey eyes sat

—Shua!

air, was an elegant young man with long black hair and ruby red

up, the old

"Leader, you have returned."

"Mhm."

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

Have they fallen

AlShayatin. "The

[A pity.]

disappointment could be felt from the voice behind the

body slightly, Malik

there anything you would

into any conflicts for at least a couple of years. Your recent failure has caused quite a few problems

words of the individual whom Malik AlShayatin referred to as your

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

his head slightly, Malik AlShayatin

for the

understand. For now,

"Understood."

you don't disappoint me

drifted in the room

the voice completely disappeared and the void before them shrank, after

do we do

at the place where the black

demons have ordered, and

three races. The incident where multiple ranks and below died, resulted in

AlShayatin had originally hoped that the Union would be hot-blooded and directly take their truce as a sign of weakness and have them attack the Monolith. This would've been the perfect chance to ambush them and get

not

"A pity."

disappointment. Glancing towards Mo

Jinhao, how

"My injuries?"

"Mhm."

for a bit, Mo

taken a couple of high-leveled potions, they are not that severe right now. If the Union had gone and attacked us, we could've

Had they not agreed, the

injuries not being that serious anymore, they could've easily have

truly a

"I see.."

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

***

2 P.M.

Caissa headquarters.

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

do we have

the papers in front of him, Smallsnake

"Around 10 million, why?"

Since when did we have so

honestly surprised

that there would've

these eight months that you were gone?" Smallsnake rolled his eyes. "Let's exclude Angelica who did pretty much all

"Information?"

tilted my head

you told me

"Ah, that."

finally dawned

companies that would rise in stock in the future, but I had long forgotten

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

many things were changing, I stopped

I tapped on my bracelet and threw something in

the object I threw at him with both hands, Smallsnake

sell it and give me the

eyes widened in

hold on. Did you

you to sell this stuff