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.

being said, the reason I'm telling all of you this is not because I want you people to realize just how shitty

arm, I wiped the side of my

I'm still pissed off about what the Union did to me, at the end of the day, I get their

with all the information they

reporters changed when they heard my words, however, I merely shrugged

I wanted to antagonize the Union, I truly did think

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

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

unfortunate, this was

"Haaa..."

let out a long

up on the table,

done, however, he was simply used as a scapegoat by the Union in order to let me come back to the human domain.

head, I fiddled with the

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

won't think twice about sacrificing

I let go of the empty bottle in my hand. Raising my head, I closed my eyes for

warning from someone who's been on the discarded side of the Union, if you want to survive

not a

been apparent now, but, in the very near

let the world realize this now before

turned my head in

just start blaming the

glanced toward the

have seen the crack in the

eyes were currently on the ceiling of the room, I wasn't

have, then I will let

quiet everyone was being, I knew that everyone's attention was

crack will 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 for your inability to climb to the

Union to throw you away? Then you better get stronger, because, in a couple of years' time, the least of your worries aren't going to be the Union nor the Monolith, but it will

mumbled the last words, the eyes

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

started speaking, the reporters mustered the

"Im...impossible..."

"It can't be..."

"You must be lying."

disbelief echoed throughout the room as

blame them

a cataclysm was. Especially since

that a third one might happen, people would obviously start fearing

be thinking that 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 missing, I was actually

back at me. After

"Isn't that right, Douglas?"

"Yes."

auditorium as

I

currently going through right now. So, listen well when I tell you this, get your shit together, because in a few years'

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

for everyone to wake up from this false sense of peace that they were

Demon King, the Demon

army of demons behind

rate, when the time came that the Demon King arrived on earth, most of them would