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.

minor miscalculation, the whole plan could

B, it wouldn't hurt

the middle of my brow, I spoke up after a

figure something

"...Okay."

"Good."

panel, I double-checked the

'Everything looks correct.'

the values seemed out of

goes the

I checked and made sure that there were no errors, I pressed

Di. Ding-

"Haa…. Done."

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

wonder… Just how much damage will the second beacon's loss do to

first beacon's deactivation weakened the barrier

have a similar effect,

proceeded to tap

of me and I took a look at the

***

the same time, in

beacon is

scream echoed the hymn of despair

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

firsthand had horrified looks on their faces as

"It's the second beacon!"

the world is happening

Crack! Crack! Crack-

it looked like things couldn't get any worse, enormous cracks started to appear on the surface of the

slowly started expanding all over the barrier's

BANG-! BANG-!

continuously, on the other side of the barrier, the demons attacked with greater ferocity. As they attacked, they had bloodthirsty, savage expressions on their

BANG-！

attacks were working as 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

"Over here."

Hein glanced behind him and

here! Quickly report

"Got it."

solemnly replied and took out a communication

they had asked her and the others to report to them

she was taking out her communication device, turning her head right, towards Newton, she ordered, "Newton, go

*Twiit*

its wings

in the air, searching for any possible cracks

"Good boy."

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

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

Click-

the

with this site. Let's go look for

"Okay."

left the area

***

damage with just the second

that much, just from two of its beacons not working, it

had

of weakening from the fourth

something had gone terribly wrong

much, but I now needed

"This is fucking annoying."

was of course annoyed by the development. I

"What happened?"

from the

to glance at her, I scratched the back of my

have less time than I

do you

asked, narrowing

"I mean that

say

but things

just the

device, I sat back on

could

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