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

I wiped the side

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 the information they had at their

my words, however, I

much as I wanted to antagonize the Union, I truly did

in the past. Furthermore, they were also unaware of who

I wasn't so blinded by rage to not understand

this was the cruel

"Haaa..."

let out a

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

he's done, however, he was simply used as a scapegoat by the Union in order to

with the empty potion bottle in front

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

that won't think twice about sacrificing you for the benefit of

bottle in my hand. Raising my head, I closed my eyes for

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

was not a

have not been apparent now, but, in

to let the world realize this now before

my head in

some expandable. Don't just start blaming the

head, I glanced toward the ceiling of the

have seen the crack in the

the ceiling of the room, I wasn't

I

how quiet everyone was being, I knew

so will your talent cap. If previously

than 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 years' time, the least

the eyes of many

and impassive expressions changed to that ones filled with shock, as

I started speaking, the reporters mustered the courage to speak

"Im...impossible..."

"It can't be..."

"You must be lying."

room as the complexion of some of the

blame

catastrophic a cataclysm was. Especially since

one might happen, people would obviously start fearing for

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

looked back

"Isn't that right, Douglas?"

"Yes."

murmurs started to spread throughout the auditorium

I continued

your shit together, because in a few years' time,

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

for everyone

planning on defeating the Demon King,

army of

kept progressing at this rate, when the time came that the Demon King arrived