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.

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

arm, I wiped

about what the Union did to me, at the end of the

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 the information they had at their disposal, sacrificing

my words, however, I merely shrugged

wanted to antagonize the Union, I truly did think

way for the Union to know that I had taken the [Seed of limit] in the past. Furthermore, they were also unaware of who I was exactly, during the time I saved Monica

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

this was the

"Haaa..."

let out a long

on the table, I gazed into

however, he was simply used as a

fiddled with the

mean I'm against their methods. All I'm trying to

won't think twice about

Raising my head, I closed my

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

not a

may have not been apparent now, but, in the very near

the world realize this now before it was

little, I turned my head in the direction of one of the cameras

Don't just start blaming the

toward the ceiling of the room

the crack in the sky,

room, I

you have, then I will

quiet everyone was being, I knew that everyone's

talent cap. If previously you had

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

the last words, the eyes of

ones filled with shock, as

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

"Im...impossible..."

"It can't be..."

"You must be lying."

echoed throughout the room as the complexion of some of the reporters

couldn't blame

a cataclysm was. Especially since the

happen, people would obviously

I just wanted to let you know that in the few years that I was missing, I was actually in the dwarven

head, I glanced at Douglas who looked back at me. After

"Isn't that right, Douglas?"

"Yes."

murmurs started to spread throughout the auditorium as the reporters started

it, I continued to

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,

let the world know about

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

Demon King, the Demon King wasn't the only enemy out

was an army of

came that the