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.

I want you people to realize just how shitty of an organization

arm, I wiped the

to me, at the end of the day, I

then, with all the information they

words, however, I

wanted to antagonize the Union, I truly

taken the [Seed of limit] in the past. Furthermore, they were also unaware of who I was

for their decision, but, I wasn't so blinded by

was the

"Haaa..."

let out a

my arm which was propped up on the table, I gazed into the eyes

simply used as a scapegoat by the

I fiddled with the empty potion bottle in front

me wrong. Just because I'm bashing the Union a lot, it doesn't mean I'm against their methods. All I'm trying

about sacrificing you for

of the empty bottle in my hand. Raising my

side of the Union, if you want to survive in this world,

not

and the weakest died. It may have not been apparent now, but, in the very

let the world realize this now before it was

a little, I turned my head

you aren't some expandable. Don't just start blaming the Union or every organization out there

toward the ceiling of the

seen the crack in the

the room, I wasn't able to see

then I will let you know

quiet everyone was being, I knew

The mana density in the world will increase, and so will your talent cap. If previously you had your talent cap to blame for

to throw you away? Then you better get stronger, because, in a couple

the last words, the eyes of many individuals present in the

to that ones filled with shock, as some couldn't

speaking, the reporters mustered the courage to speak

"Im...impossible..."

"It can't be..."

"You must be lying."

with disbelief echoed throughout the room as the complexion of some of the reporters paled

blame them

how catastrophic a cataclysm was. Especially since the second cataclysm only happened eighty years

people would obviously start fearing for the

crap, however, I just wanted to let you know that in the few years that I was missing, I was actually in the dwarven domain and the elven

Douglas who looked back at me. After a short pause, Douglas nodded

"Isn't that right, Douglas?"

"Yes."

murmurs started to spread throughout the auditorium

it, I continued

the other races have gone through what we're currently going through right now. So, listen well when I tell you this, get your shit together, because in a few years' time, this so-called momentary sense of peace that you are all enjoying will be gone, and what you will see will be the

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

for everyone to

defeating the Demon King, the Demon

an army of demons

humanity kept progressing at this rate, when the time came that the Demon King arrived on earth, most