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.

even a minor miscalculation, the whole plan could crumble at

B, it wouldn't

brow, I spoke up after

for now. I'll figure something out while I'm

"...Okay."

"Good."

my attention back towards the panel, I double-checked

'Everything looks correct.'

of the values seemed

goes the second

that there were no errors, I pressed onto the

Di. Ding-

"Haa…. Done."

the deactivation of the second beacon,

Just how much damage will the second

beacon's deactivation weakened the barrier

second beacon would have a

I then proceeded

me and I took a look at the

***

same time,

beacon is

scream echoed the hymn of despair in the hearts

in the sky

were standing below and witnessed the scene firsthand had horrified looks on their faces as they vividly

"It's the second beacon!"

in the

Crack! Crack! Crack-

worse, enormous cracks started to appear

the cracks slowly started

BANG-! BANG-!

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

BANG-！

the 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

"Over here."

Hein glanced behind him and pointed towards a small crack

over here! Quickly

"Got it."

out a communication device

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

device, turning her head right, towards Newton, she ordered, "Newton, go

*Twiit*

its wings and flew in the

a couple of seconds, it was already high up in

"Good boy."

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

as though it is increasing in size, although very slowly. I've sent you the

Click-

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

with this site. Let's go look for more

"Okay."

Hein left the area with

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damage with just the

its beacons not

had to be

I had expected this type of weakening from the fourth beacon's

this much by just losing two beacons, something had gone

needed to operate

"This is fucking annoying."

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

"What happened?"

asked from

glance at her, I scratched the back of

like we have

do you

asked, narrowing

my forehead, I replied in an exasperated tone, "I mean

you say

but things

was originally going to span a month's period, just the right

small communication device, I sat back on my chair

removed, I could now freely text

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