The Author's POV

Chapter 357

[Leviathan building, Lock.]

Bang—!

Kevin hastily entered his room, smashing the door against the side of the wall.

"Goddamn it, Where is that book?!" He repeatedly muttered out loud in haste.

Dashing towards his room, Kevin ran up to his bookshelf and threw all the books down from it as he looked for the red book.

[01 : 37 minutes]

With the timer by the side of his vision, Kevin couldn't be any more worried.

He was running out of time.

"Here it is!"

Finally, after getting rid of most of the books on the bookshelf, Kevin found the red book and placed it on the table.

Without wasting any second, he opened the book towards the last page and started reading.

"I…will…kill…you!"

Before Ren could even react, Durara aimed her staff in his direction. What followed after was a bright white light that shot in his direction, and time froze.

…Or, at least, Ren wished for it to have stopped.

Shooting at him like an unstoppable tsunami, the bright light came towards him, enveloping his entire body.

Although he couldn't tell for real, Ren felt his whole existence disappear like that.

…It all happened too fast.

What followed after the white glow was total darkness.

"Oh shit…"

Staring at the book, Kevin's face paled considerably, his arms trembled in shock. His knees buckled slightly and he uncontrollably sat down on his chair.

'The system was right… Ren really did die… This…not again…'

"What do I do, what do I do?"

Flipping through the pages of the book, Kevin had no idea about what to do next.

The system said that he had to change the outcome, but…Ren was nowhere near him! How was he supposed to help?

"How am I supposed to do this!?" Kevin shouted in desperation as he looked at the system interface in front of him.

The Quest said to use the time codex, but what exactly was that? It was the red book, wasn't it...? But, how was he supposed to use it?

He had no idea.

"System!" Kevin shouted, his voice filled with urgency and helplessness as he tried asking the system for help.

But it was useless. No matter how much Kevin asked, the interface wouldn't respond to him.

The only thing he saw was the timer slowly ticking down on him.

"Shit…shit…"

Kevin's voice echoed in the room as he flipped the book around and tried to look for anything that could help him.

At the moment, Kevin did not know how to help Ren, nor did he know how to prevent the world from ending if the demon king truly descended in two years' time as the system told him.

It had never lied to him before, so he knew that if he didn't save Ren, the demon king would truly descend in two years' time.

Even though he had many questions to ask, such as how Ren's death was correlated to the demon king's ascension, Kevin had no time for such questions.

"Ahh… Just what I am supposed to do...?" Kevin muttered as a helpless expression appeared on his face. He wanted to do something-anything-to help Ren. But what?

Ding—

Just as Kevin was about to succumb to despair, a familiar chime rang in his ears.

of the chime, Kevin abruptly lifted his head and

front of him flipped open and a

pages of the book continued to flip rapidly, until, finally, stopping at the last page. A message window appeared in front

it was one

you wish to

"Yes…yes!"

hastily nodded

"Change!"

He said out loud.

brightened up considerably, forcing Kevin

It was blinding.

Ding—

window in front

you wish

"Ren's death."

his voice

Ding—

command. The command is too vague and the user does

around the book diminished slightly and

"Bullshit!"

Bang—!

as his fist heavily pounded

"Huff...huff..."

to

for a short bit as Kevin

time he wasted the less time he had to save

is too vague... not enough

analyzed the two sentences

Furthermore, it also says that my mana is not enough… Does that mean,

a matter of a short second, he had

two short seconds passed, Kevin lifted his

"94%? Haa... That's go—"

certain sentence written in the book caught his

'What if...'

inside of his mind

the whole text in a

"Ukh!"

groan. The more he

also came with downsides. One such downside was the fact that the skill put a heavy strain

time Kevin read two pages, the pain in his head had almost become

someone had tried to split his head in

The pain was agonizing.

for Kevin's strong mental strength, he would've long crumbled on the

"Haaa…haaa…"

breathing

finally, after reading fifteen pages, he was

placing his palms

see… So you're basically trying to shut down the dampening system so that you can gain access to the portal. If

brains over the matter, it was the most plausible solution he could

[00 : 35 seconds]

his head and seeing that time was slowly running out, Kevin

glanced

the 94%

words were short and concise, straight to the point. He didn't want to be rejected once more for being too vague in

Ding—

another chime rang in his head, and

User does not have

Kevin's heart sank completely.

out loud, "What...do you mean not enough mana...? Is my mana still n-not enough? What is the amount of mana required in order

question, but contrary to his expectations, the

Ding—

[C rank.]

voiced out in a surprised

a brief second as his brows then knitted together

because he was still

his rank would increase within a month's time, but

Kevin

I cant breakthrough in my current condition.

situation seemed hopeless, Kevin suddenly remembered

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