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.

to some external factor, or even a minor miscalculation, the whole plan could crumble

it wouldn't

brow,

him be for now. I'll figure something out

"...Okay."

"Good."

I double-checked the values

'Everything looks correct.'

of the values seemed

goes the second

that there were no errors, I pressed onto

Di. Ding-

"Haa…. Done."

initiated the deactivation of the second beacon, leaning back

will the second

first beacon's deactivation weakened

second beacon would have

then proceeded to tap on

me and I

***

time, in

beacon

scream echoed the hymn of despair

the lights in the sky started to fade away before completely

firsthand had horrified looks on their faces as

"It's the second beacon!"

almighty, what in the

Crack! Crack! Crack-

it looked like things couldn't get any worse,

started expanding

BANG-! BANG-!

the demons attacked with greater ferocity. As they

BANG-！

the earth shook and the blasts were no longer getting dispersed like they used to before. Even the barrier seemed to shake in the face of such an

"Over here."

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

forming over here!

"Got it."

replied and took out a communication device from

the others to report to them whenever they saw a crack form on the

out her communication device, turning her head right, towards Newton, she ordered, "Newton, go check if there are any more small cracks

*Twiit*

wings and

was already high up in the air,

"Good boy."

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

as though it

Click-

she reported everything, turning off the communication device, Ava looked at

site. Let's go

"Okay."

Hein left the area

***

much damage with just the

barrier to weaken that much, just from two of its beacons not working,

had to

I had expected this type of weakening from the

two beacons, something had gone terribly wrong with my plans and they needed to be

now needed to

"This is fucking annoying."

of course annoyed by the development. I couldn't help but

"What happened?"

asked from the

at her, I scratched the back of my head

it looks like we have less time than I had

do you

asked, narrowing

"I mean that we are going to start moving

didn't you say that

right, but

just the right time to set everything up, but it looked like I was too

out a small communication device, I sat back on my chair and texted Waylan and the

could now freely text whomever

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