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.

of you this is not because I want you people to

I wiped

at the end

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,

heard my words, however, I merely shrugged my shoulders

the Union,

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

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

was the cruel

"Haaa..."

out

my chin with my arm which was propped up on the table, I gazed into

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 compare me, to him, who by the time was already dead, selling him out

with the

I'm against their

organization that won't think twice about sacrificing you for

Raising my

side of the Union, if you want to survive in this world, you must prove

was not a

survived, and the weakest died. It may have not been apparent now, but, in the

the world realize this

my head

Don't just start

my head, I glanced toward the ceiling of

have seen the crack in the sky,

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

you have, then I will

being, I knew that everyone's attention was currently

increase, and so will your talent cap. If previously you had your talent cap to blame

you away? Then you better get stronger, because, in a couple of years' time,

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

to that ones filled with shock, as some

started speaking, the

"Im...impossible..."

"It can't be..."

"You must be lying."

filled with disbelief echoed throughout the room as the complexion of some of the reporters

couldn't blame

was. Especially since the second cataclysm only happened eighty

people would obviously start fearing for the

let you know that in the few years that I was missing, I was actually in the

back at me. After a short pause, Douglas nodded

"Isn't that right, Douglas?"

"Yes."

the auditorium as the

it, I continued

tell you 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 see will be the

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

for everyone to wake up from this false sense of

though I was planning on defeating the Demon King, the Demon King wasn't the

army of demons behind

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