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.

whole plan could crumble at any time. And that, I

had a plan B, it wouldn't

middle of my brow,

be for now. I'll figure something

"...Okay."

"Good."

I double-checked the values to make

'Everything looks correct.'

values seemed out of

the second

made sure that there were no errors,

Di. Ding-

"Haa…. Done."

beacon, leaning back

much damage will the second

beacon's deactivation weakened

second beacon would have

eyes, I then proceeded to tap

me and I took a look at

***

the same time, in

beacon is

scream echoed the hymn of despair in the hearts of

those words faded, one of the lights in the sky started to fade away before completely

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

"It's the second beacon!"

the world is happening

Crack! Crack! Crack-

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

cracks slowly started expanding all

BANG-! BANG-!

the barrier, the demons attacked with greater ferocity. As they attacked, they had bloodthirsty, savage expressions on

BANG-！

it looked as though the attacks were working as the earth shook and the blasts were no longer getting dispersed like they used to before. Even the

"Over here."

at the very bottom, right at the edge of the barrier, Hein

crack forming over here!

"Got it."

and took out a communication device from

the logistics, they had asked her and the others to report to them whenever they saw a

Newton, she

*Twiit*

Newton flapped its wings and flew in the

already high up in

"Good boy."

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

currently in. So far, the crack looks small. but it appears as though it is increasing in size, although very

Click-

the

Let's go look for

"Okay."

Hein left the area

***

damage with just the

from two of its beacons not working, it seemed like my previous thoughts were

plan had to

of weakening from the

for it to be damaged this much by just losing two beacons, something had gone

now needed

"This is fucking annoying."

the development. I couldn't help

"What happened?"

asked from the

scratched the back of my

looks like we have less time than I had

you

asked, narrowing her

mean that we are going to start moving either today or

But, didn't you say

but things

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

I sat back

I could now freely

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