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.

want you people to realize

wiped the side of

about what the Union did to me, at

like you people aren't my priority, my life isn't their priority. They are an organization designed to think the best for humanity, and back then, with all

faces of the reporters changed when they heard my words, however, I merely shrugged my shoulders when I saw

the Union, I truly did think that

to know that I had taken the [Seed of limit] in the past. Furthermore,

hold some resentment for their decision, but, I wasn't so blinded by rage to

this was the

"Haaa..."

out a long

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

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

with the empty potion bottle in

Union a lot, it doesn't mean I'm against their methods. All I'm trying to do is let everyone know what type of

organization that won't think twice about sacrificing

in my hand. Raising my head, I closed my

on the discarded side of the Union, if

was not

not been apparent now, but, in the very near future, this would become

was best to let the world realize this

my head in the direction of one of

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

glanced toward the ceiling of

seen the crack

my eyes were currently on the ceiling of the room, I wasn't able to see the

have, then I will let

I knew that everyone's attention was currently

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

some others, 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

the exact moment, I mumbled the last words, the eyes of many individuals present in

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

ever since I started speaking, the reporters mustered the courage to

"Im...impossible..."

"It can't be..."

"You must be lying."

echoed throughout the room as the complexion of

couldn't blame

catastrophic a cataclysm was. Especially since the

one might happen, people would obviously start fearing

I'm saying is a load of 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

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

"Isn't that right, Douglas?"

"Yes."

started to spread throughout the auditorium as the reporters started

I

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

the world know about what was about to come soon,

the Demon King soon arriving, it was time for everyone to wake up from this false sense of

Demon King, the

army of demons behind

progressing at this rate, when the time came that the Demon