The Author's POV

I felt a sudden sense of amusement rise from within me as I stared at Octavious.

Even though I couldn't tell at first, he really did look like Melissa from up close. Was that possibly the reason for my sudden sense of amusement?

I couldn't tell.

Turning my attention back toward the reporters, I continued.

"You people are probably unaware about what truly transpired before a bounty was put on my head, however, if I had to summarize what happened, I would say..."

Leaning my body a little, I placed my hand underneath my chin and looked upwards.

"Hmm, I guess you could say that I did what the Union couldn't do for quite a while, and that's actually doing some damage to the Monolith."

"..."

Silence.

Once again, despite of the words I just said, no one was able to say anything as they just continued staring at me with a dumb look on their face.

They were apparently still processing what I previously told them.

Regardless, I continued.

"To summarize what happened between me and the Union, it would be like this..."

Raising my hand, I pointed at myself.

"I, Ren Dover, dealt more damage to the Monolith than the Union ever had in their whole existence. The piece of recording you just listed was proof of that. Why else do you think the Monolith would be so adamant in using me as a counterparty for the Union to sign the truce? Just for the sake of it?"

I shook my head.

"No, it's cause I can actually do something about them, unlike the Union who can't seem to be able to do anything at this point."

Shaking my head, even more fiercely, I let out a sigh.

"Haa..."

Then, taking out a potion from my dimensional space, I quickly chugged it down.

"Hmm?"

As I was chugging the potion down, I suddenly had a thought.

'Shit, I'm starting to become like Melissa.'

Over the past week, I had been taking the potions as though they were water.

'I need to do something about this.'

I knew that this couldn't keep going in the future. I needed to find a way to completely dispel my mental traumas.

Plack—!

Smacking the potion on the table, I gazed at the reporters.

of you this is not because I want you people to realize just how shitty of

I wiped

did to me, at the end of

then, with all the information they had at their disposal, sacrificing me was the

they heard my words, however, I merely

to antagonize the Union, I truly did think

simply no way for the Union to know that I had taken the [Seed of limit] in the past. Furthermore, they were also unaware of who

their decision, but, I wasn't

was the

"Haaa..."

out a

was propped up on the table, I gazed into

too much detail about what he's done, however, he was simply used as a scapegoat by the Union in order to let me come back to the human domain. If you compare

I fiddled with the empty potion bottle in

I'm against their methods. All

organization that won't think twice about sacrificing you for the benefit of

empty bottle in my hand. Raising my head, I

been on the discarded side of the Union, if you want to survive

was not a peaceful

died. It may have not been apparent now, but, in the very near future, this would become more

to let the world realize this now before it was too

little, I turned my head in the

start blaming the Union or every organization out there for your

toward the ceiling of

have seen the crack in the sky,

currently on the ceiling of the room, I wasn't able to see the reactions of the

have, then I will let you

from how quiet everyone was being, I knew that everyone's

talent cap. If previously you had your talent cap to blame for your inability to climb to the top, now

but so did some of the current high rankers. You don't want the Union to throw you away? Then you better get stronger, because, in a couple of years' time, the

the eyes of many individuals present in the room started to open

that ones filled with shock, as

I started speaking, the reporters mustered the

"Im...impossible..."

"It can't be..."

"You must be lying."

the room as the complexion of some of the

couldn't blame them

was. Especially since the second cataclysm only happened

might happen, people would obviously

you know that in the

back at

"Isn't that right, Douglas?"

"Yes."

murmurs started to spread throughout the auditorium as

I

this, get your shit together, because in a few years' time, this so-called momentary sense of

there was a better time to let the world know about what was about to come soon, now was the best

arriving, it was time for everyone to wake up from this false sense of peace

I was planning on defeating the Demon King,

army

came that the Demon King arrived on