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.

first one. That is, act

better time than to

That said.

he wasn't someone that I could kill. Our rank difference was just too

need to kill him

convinced him to ambush the Greed clan,

the Sloth clan was planning on ambushing the Greed clan, and how they could use this

was

actually planned to backstab me from

of it, I felt a malicious and terrifying glare directed in my direction. Without needing to look, I

my direction my attention toward the opposite side,

should also

the distance and I saw nothing,

my timing?...or did they ignore

was going to be

burst of aura coming from behind

"You..."

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

'Shit...'

was directed in my direction, I once again turned to

Chronos, I started to assess

head started to run at full throttle as I tried to figure out my

is going to be a bust. Do I

"You don't."

voice rang from beside me. As usual, it

"What do you mean?"

little

slight pause,

that power will only serve to alert Jezebeth

"...You're right."

I became

had only sent a clone to fight me. What if he showed

me extremely apprehensive about using my

of my thoughts, the other

will not be ideal. Later on, you might need to tap into that power in order to save Amanda's father. It's best if you save it for then. Not only that but it's

situation doesn't really look too

"You worry too much."

Unlike me,

doesn't

"...Alright."

my eyes and deactivating Eyes of Chronos I raised

all happened within a fraction of a second. Placing my hand on the sheath of my sword, I activated my sword's effect, and the mana inside of my

time, I activated 'The

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

the time he recovered from the effect, I had already gathered

the

Click—!

a low clicking sound rang in the air. At the same time my vision started to distort,

Boooom—!

arrived in the area that I was previously

come out unscathed as I ended up crashing against multiple trees, and felt tremendous pain invade every part of

Bang—!

"Ukhhh..."

That said.

I had survived.

"It hurts..."

moving as some of my bones were broken, but it

chugged down

demons in the distance had already arrived and had surrounded

It looks

demon that bore striking resemblance to

that he was an executive coming from the Gluttony clan. A clan

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

exactly sure they would believe in my plan at first, but it wasn't exactly hard

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

them, this could be considered

That aside.

off-chance that

"Marquis Exion."

words. With narrowed eyes,