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.

miscalculation, the whole plan could crumble at any time.

wouldn't hurt to come up

middle of my brow, I

figure

"...Okay."

"Good."

back towards the panel, I double-checked the values to

'Everything looks correct.'

of the values

goes the second

sure that there were no errors,

Di. Ding-

"Haa…. Done."

deactivation of the second beacon, leaning back on my chair, I closed my eyes

damage will the second beacon's loss do to

deactivation weakened the barrier

the second beacon would have a similar

eyes, I then proceeded to tap on the

long, video images appeared in front of me and I took a look at the situation

***

same time, in

second beacon is

of

in the sky started to fade away before

who were standing below and witnessed the scene firsthand had horrified looks

"It's the second beacon!"

in the world is happening

Crack! Crack! Crack-

any worse, enormous

cracks slowly started

BANG-! BANG-!

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

BANG-！

barrier, it looked as though the attacks were working as the earth shook and the blasts were no

"Over here."

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

over here! Quickly report this

"Got it."

and took out a communication device from her

taking care of the logistics, they had asked her and the others to

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

*Twiit*

Newton flapped its wings and

couple of seconds, it was already high up in the air, searching for any possible cracks on

"Good boy."

a message to Smallsnake and told him of her

far, the crack looks small. but it appears as though it is increasing

Click-

everything, turning off the communication device, Ava looked

done with this site. Let's go look

"Okay."

the area

***

much damage with just the

of its beacons not working,

plan had

type of weakening from the fourth

two beacons, something had gone terribly

I now needed to operate

"This is fucking annoying."

development. I couldn't help but

"What happened?"

asked from the

scratched the back of my

like we have less time than I had

you mean

narrowing her

exasperated tone, "I mean that we are going to start

say that

but

the plan was originally going to span a month's period, just the right time to set everything up, but it looked like I

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

removed, I could now freely

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