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.

telling all of you this is not because I want you people to realize just how shitty of an organization the Union is, no, that's

wiped the

to me, at the end of the day, I get their decision. Everyone has their

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 me was the correct

of the reporters changed when they heard my words, however, I

antagonize the Union,

taken the [Seed of limit] in the past. Furthermore, they were also unaware of who I was exactly, during the time I saved Monica and

for their decision, but, I wasn't so blinded by rage to not

unfortunate, this was the cruel

"Haaa..."

let out

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

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

my head, I fiddled with the

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

think twice about sacrificing you for

Raising my head, I

as 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

not

apparent now, but, in the

best to let the world realize this

a little, I turned my head

some expandable. Don't just start blaming the

toward the ceiling of

the crack in

ceiling of the room,

then I will let you

quiet everyone was being, I knew that

expand. The mana density in the world will increase, and so will your talent cap. If

want the Union to throw you away? Then you better get

eyes of many individuals

filled with shock,

since I started speaking, the reporters mustered the courage

"Im...impossible..."

"It can't be..."

"You must be lying."

disbelief echoed throughout the room as the complexion

blame

knew just how catastrophic a cataclysm was. Especially since

one might happen, people would obviously start fearing for

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

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

"Isn't that right, Douglas?"

"Yes."

throughout the auditorium as the reporters started talking

it, I continued to

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, this so-called momentary sense of peace that you are all enjoying will be gone, and what you will

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

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

Demon King, the Demon King wasn't the

an army of demons

came that the Demon King arrived on earth, most of them would end