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 as

a better time than to get rid of him, it

That said.

he was injured, he wasn't someone that I could kill. Our rank difference was

didn't need to kill him myself

I had convinced him to ambush the

clan,

just threw was a signal for

planned to backstab me

directed in my direction. Without

direction my attention toward the opposite side,

should also be coming

distance and I saw nothing, my forehead

I mismatch my timing?...or did

was going

felt a burst of aura coming from behind

"You..."

started to twist. Turning

'Shit...'

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

of Chronos, I started to

to run at full throttle as I tried to

bust. Do I have no

"You don't."

from beside me. As usual, it was

"What do you mean?"

little bit

a slight pause, his voice

using that power will only serve to alert Jezebeth of your appearance in the Demon

"...You're right."

I became

to fight me. What if he showed up in his full form? Wouldn't I just die

made me extremely

of my thoughts, the other

Amanda's 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

doesn't really

"You worry too much."

the distance. Unlike me, he could freely move in

couple of more minutes. If something doesn't happen by then, you

"...Alright."

deactivating Eyes of Chronos I raised my

actions 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 same time, I

was a bit more than one rank, it didn't have too much of an effect on Marquis Atheora as it only

recovered from the effect, I had already gathered

of the [Keiki style] : Void

Click—!

in the air. At the same time my vision started to distort, I saw Marquis Atheora's attack shoot in the direction of where I was previously

Boooom—!

a split second, it arrived in the

I was unable to come out unscathed as I ended up crashing against multiple trees, and

Bang—!

"Ukhhh..."

That said.

I had survived.

"It hurts..."

body up a little. I had trouble moving

quickly chugged down a

time I recovered the demons in the distance

It looks like the information

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

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

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

exactly sure they would believe in my plan at

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

could be considered a minor conflict. It wasn't anything

That aside.

the off-chance that this was also a trap, but it didn't

"Marquis Exion."

those words. With narrowed eyes, demonic energy rose from his body at an alarming