The Author's POV

Chapter 339

339 Setting the pieces in motion (3]

"...That took way too long."

I muttered wearily, taking my eyes away from the panel in front of me.

It has been about a week ever since I infiltrated the place, and so far, everything was progressing smoothly.

Well, sort of.

The deactivation of the second beacon took a lot longer than my initial expectations.

Compared to the first beacon, the process was a lot different.

The whole process was coded in a completely different manner compared to the first beacon, making it almost impossible for me to complete it quickly.

Any wrong step and I would end up locking the whole system.

Furthermore, the panel I was currently using was less advanced than the one I previously used when deactivating the first beacon.

With those factors added together, the whole process took a lot longer than originally anticipated.

Fortunately, using the excuse that Jomnuk's memories were too jumbled up and that I needed to reorganize them properly, I managed to placate some of the impatient elders.

It wasn't easy, but given my previous performance, they let it slide.

It had to be noted that they were all individuals whose minds were corrupted by demonic energy, so the fact that I managed to calm them down was a miracle in itself.

"Are you done?"

A cold voice reached my ears. It was Angelica.

"Yeah, I'm pretty much done."

Before I knew it, Angelica was standing next to me, looking at the panel in confusion.

Seeing the confusion on her face as she looked at the panel, I shook my head at her.

"Don't bother trying to understand it, even I don't know what I did. I won't be able to explain even if you asked."

I only did what the instructions told me to do.

I had no real idea of what I was doing.

Had I known what I was doing, then perhaps I would've completed it at a much faster pace.

"I see..."

Relaxing her brows, Angelica proceeded to move towards where Tomnuk was.

Standing next to him, she put her hand on the helmet and asked, "What should we do with him?"

"Him?… Good question."

Turning around and staring at Karl, I frowned.

"Also, don't touch that. I don't know what that thing does."

It was a fact that I couldn't kill him.

If he died, then everyone would know that I wasn't the real Karl. After all, the demon that he was contracted with would definitely report back.

That was part of why I didn't want Angelica to touch the helmet. If something happened to Karl, then everything would come crashing down.

"Okay."

Fortunately, Angelica understood that. She removed her hand from the helmet.

"Thanks."

Thanking Angelica, I turned my attention back towards Karl.

'Could I use him to my advantage?" I pondered.

So far, the plan that I set up was perfect. At least, that's how it seemed to me.

But I knew better than anyone else that no plan was ever perfect.

Even if there were no apparent flaws in a plan, anything could ruin it at any time. There were too many unknown variables to account for, especially in my situation.

due to some external factor, or even a minor miscalculation, the whole

wouldn't hurt to come up with

the middle of my brow, I spoke up

him be for now. I'll figure

"...Okay."

"Good."

back towards the panel, I double-checked

'Everything looks correct.'

the values seemed

the second

there were no errors, I

Di. Ding-

"Haa…. Done."

keyboard and initiated the deactivation of the second beacon, leaning back on my

damage will the second beacon's loss

beacon's deactivation

second beacon would have a similar effect,

I then proceeded to

video images appeared in front of me and I took

***

time, in Henolur's outer

beacon

hymn of despair

as those words faded, one of the lights in the sky started

and witnessed the scene firsthand had horrified looks on their faces as they

"It's the second beacon!"

in the world

Crack! Crack! Crack-

just as it looked like things couldn't get any worse, enormous cracks started to appear

cracks slowly started

BANG-! BANG-!

of the barrier, the demons attacked with greater ferocity. As they

BANG-！

earth shook and the blasts were no longer getting dispersed like they used to before. Even the barrier seemed

"Over here."

the very bottom, right at the edge of the barrier, Hein glanced behind him and pointed

forming over here! Quickly report

"Got it."

took out a communication

her and the others to report to them whenever

head right, towards Newton, she ordered, "Newton, go check if there are any

*Twiit*

wings and flew in the

couple of seconds, it was already high up in the air,

"Good boy."

flow off her shoulder, Ava quickly sent a message to Smallsnake and

a crack in the location that I'm currently in. So far, the crack looks small. but it appears as though it is increasing in

Click-

everything, turning off the communication device,

this site. Let's go look for more

"Okay."

the area with

***

damage with just the second

two of its beacons not working, it

had to

this type of weakening from the fourth beacon's deactivation, not

something had gone terribly wrong with my plans and they needed

now needed to

"This is fucking annoying."

by the development. I couldn't help

"What happened?"

asked from the

at her, I scratched the back of

have

do you mean by

asked, narrowing her

exasperated tone, "I mean that we are going to

you say that you

right, but

to span a month's period, just the right time to set everything

back on my

removed, I could now freely text whomever I

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