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

it wouldn't hurt to come up with a

middle of my brow, I

for now. I'll figure something out while

"...Okay."

"Good."

back towards the panel, I double-checked

'Everything looks correct.'

values seemed out of

the second

made sure that there were no

Di. Ding-

"Haa…. Done."

the second beacon, leaning back on my

the

beacon's deactivation weakened the barrier

second beacon would have a similar effect,

my eyes, I then proceeded to

in front of me and I took

***

time,

second beacon

hymn of despair in the hearts of all

as those words faded, one of the lights in the

below and witnessed the scene firsthand had horrified looks on their faces as they vividly watched the barrier

"It's the second beacon!"

in the

Crack! Crack! Crack-

get any worse, enormous cracks

slowly started expanding all over the

BANG-! BANG-!

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

BANG-！

it looked as though the attacks were working as the earth shook and the blasts were no longer getting dispersed

"Over here."

the barrier, Hein glanced behind him and pointed towards a

here! Quickly report this

"Got it."

a communication device

logistics, they had asked her and the others to report

turning her head right, towards Newton, she ordered, "Newton, go check if there are any more small cracks

*Twiit*

its wings and flew

a couple of seconds, it was already high up in the air, searching

"Good boy."

sent a message to Smallsnake and told him of her

a crack 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 very slowly. I've sent you the coordinates already. Check

Click-

turning off the

with this site. Let's go look

"Okay."

Hein left the area with

***

damage with

of its beacons not

had to be

type of weakening from the

this much by just losing two beacons, something had gone terribly wrong with my plans and they

now needed to operate at a

"This is fucking annoying."

by the development. I couldn't help but curse out

"What happened?"

from

at her, I scratched

looks like we have less time

you mean by

narrowing

"I mean that we are going to

say that you needed a

but things

just the right

back on my

removed, I could now freely text whomever

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