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.

due to some external factor, or even a minor miscalculation, the whole plan could crumble at any time. And that, I couldn't afford

had a plan B, it wouldn't hurt

brow, I spoke up after a

I'll figure something out while I'm at

"...Okay."

"Good."

towards the panel, I double-checked the values

'Everything looks correct.'

of the values

the

sure that there were

Di. Ding-

"Haa…. Done."

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

Just how much damage will the second beacon's loss

first beacon's deactivation weakened the barrier

would have a similar effect, if

I then proceeded to tap on the

me and I took a look at the

***

the same time, in Henolur's outer

second beacon

scream echoed the hymn of despair in the hearts of

one of the lights in

scene firsthand had horrified looks on their faces as

"It's the second beacon!"

the world is

Crack! Crack! Crack-

like things couldn't get any worse, enormous cracks started to

cracks slowly started expanding all over

BANG-! BANG-!

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

BANG-！

attacks were working as the earth shook and the blasts were

"Over here."

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

here! Quickly

"Got it."

replied and took out a communication device from her

asked her and the others to report to them whenever

Newton, she ordered, "Newton, go check if there are

*Twiit*

wings

already high up in the air, searching for any possible

"Good boy."

Ava quickly sent a message

looks small. but it appears as though it is increasing in size, although very slowly. I've sent

Click-

off the

site. Let's go look

"Okay."

left the

***

with just

of its beacons not working, it seemed

plan had to be

expected this type of weakening from

by just losing two beacons, something had gone terribly wrong with

now needed to operate

"This is fucking annoying."

the development. I couldn't help but

"What happened?"

from the

to glance at her, I scratched the back of

have less time than

do you

narrowing

I replied in an exasperated tone, "I mean that we are going to start moving

didn't you say

right, but

month's period, just the right time to set everything up, but it looked

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

the dampener removed, I could now freely text whomever I

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