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.

this is not because I want you

my arm, I wiped the side of

to me, at the end

my life isn't their priority. They are an organization designed to think the best for humanity, and back then, with all the information they had at their disposal,

changed when they heard my words, however, I merely shrugged my shoulders when I saw

much as I wanted to antagonize the Union, I

[Seed of limit] in the past.

resentment for their decision, but, I wasn't so blinded by rage to not understand

this was

"Haaa..."

let out

chin with my arm which was propped up on

to have happened to Aaron. Even though he isn't exactly guilty, he also isn't exactly innocent. I won't get 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

I fiddled with the empty potion

against their methods.

think twice about sacrificing you for the

my hand. Raising my head, I closed my eyes for a brief moment before opening

on the discarded side of the Union, if you

not a

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

realize this now

forward a little, I turned my head in the direction of

Don't just start blaming the

toward the

the crack

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

have, then I will let you

was being, I knew that everyone's attention was currently drawn toward

so will your talent cap. If

rankers. You don't want the Union to throw you away? Then you better get stronger, because, in a

words, the eyes of many individuals present in the

that ones filled with shock, as some couldn't stop themselves

I started speaking, the reporters mustered the courage

"Im...impossible..."

"It can't be..."

"You must be lying."

disbelief echoed throughout the room as

couldn't blame them

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

third one might happen, people would obviously start fearing

all I'm saying is a load of crap, however, I just wanted to let you know that in the few years that I was

looked back at me. After a short

"Isn't that right, Douglas?"

"Yes."

to spread throughout the auditorium as

I continued

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

there was a better time to let the world know about what

it was time for everyone

I was planning on defeating the Demon King, the

was an army

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