The Author's POV

My next set of actions was quick.

As I was dealing with a Marquis-ranked demon, every little second mattered.

Taking out a stack of magic cards from my dimensional system, I injected them with my mana before throwing them in the air.

Swiping my hand, three rings formed around the igniting cards.

By the time the cards were about to fully ignite, the rigs turned red and a small ball of fire resembling a sun was contained in the middle of the rings.

"Go."

With a simple wave, the rings flew toward the sky.

"What's this?"

Catching sight of the ball of fire, Marquis Atheora reached his hand out. But it was already too late.

BOOOM—!

A large cloud of fire bloomed in the air and accompanying it was a thunderous explosion.

The fire receded after a couple of seconds, but it served its purpose.

"Anytime now..."

"You."

Feeling Marquis Atheora's gaze land on me, I raised my head and stared back at him.

Slowly descending to the ground, he looked back at the area where I threw my attack.

"What were you trying to do?"

"Testing something."

"...You seriously want me to believe that?"

Raising his head, he smelled the air. His face changed a little.

"This sensation..."

I felt his gaze pause on me, as he carefully scrutinized my body. After a while, his eyes opened up.

"You...You're not a demon."

'Ah, looks like the cat is out of the bag...'

In order to make it seem like I was a demon, I had placed a couple of cores inside of my body. By simply creating a thin coating of mana, I stopped the demons from regenerating, and in the process, created an effect that made it seem as though I had demonic energy inside of my body.

This was a trick that I learned from my other-self.

It was quite a useful one at that as it really helped me out quite a bit. Without it, I would've probably been found out in the first month.

Had it not been for my last attack that left some lingering mana in the air, Marquis Atheora would have never found out.

"A pity..."

I muttered underneath my breath.

"I don't know how you—"

Stopping himself mid-sentence, Marquis Atheora's head snapped toward the distance. It was then that he managed to spot several demons heading his way, coming from the northern side.

His face finally changed.

"This..."

Staring at him from below, I smiled from behind my mask.

"It looks like someone noticed all of the commotions you've caused."

Not quite.

From the moment that I decided to help him out, I knew that he was going to try to silence me. Even if he wasn't, I wasn't still going to go through with my plans.

same as the first one. That is, act as bait

better time than

That said.

was injured, he wasn't someone that I

to kill him

had convinced him to ambush the Greed clan, I presented another clan with

clan, and how they could use this opportunity to deal damage

was

backstab me

of it, I felt a malicious and terrifying glare directed in my direction.

direction my attention toward the opposite side, the southern area. This was only half of my

also be

and I saw nothing,

mismatch my timing?...or did they ignore

this was going

a burst of aura

"You..."

shook the air, and the area around me started to twist. Turning around, I realized that Marquis Atheora

'Shit...'

in my direction, I once again turned to look into the distance.

Eyes of Chronos, I started to assess

head started to run at full throttle as I tried to

is going to be a bust. Do I have no choice but to go

"You don't."

it was the other

"What do you mean?"

little bit

slight pause, his

mind that using that power will only serve to alert Jezebeth

"...You're right."

power, I became

What if he showed up in his full form? Wouldn't I just

extremely

thoughts, the other

father. It's best if you save it for then. Not only that but it's best if fewer demons know about you being a human. If they are made aware of your

the situation doesn't really look

"You worry too much."

me,

couple of more minutes. If something doesn't happen

"...Alright."

my eyes and deactivating Eyes of Chronos I raised my

sheath of my sword, I

time, I

much of an effect on Marquis Atheora as it only worked to distract

the time he recovered from the

movement of the [Keiki style] :

Click—!

vision distorted, and a low clicking sound rang in the air. At the same time my vision started to distort, I saw Marquis Atheora's

Boooom—!

second, it arrived in the

unscathed as I ended up crashing against multiple trees,

Bang—!

"Ukhhh..."

That said.

I had survived.

"It hurts..."

little. I had trouble moving as some

chugged down a

the demons in the distance had already arrived

have here. It looks like the

echoed throughout the air as another demon that bore striking resemblance to Marquis Atheora

an executive coming from the Gluttony

presented them with an opportunity to deal damage to the Sloth clan, they obviously did not refuse it and secretly sent an

plan at

the Sloth clan would make a move against the Greed clan, all they had to do was check for any movement, and

to them, this could be considered a minor conflict. It wasn't

That aside.

that they had set countermeasures in the off-chance that this was also a trap,

"Marquis Exion."

words. With narrowed eyes, demonic energy rose from his body