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 bait and

if there was a better time than to get

That said.

was injured, he wasn't someone that I could

to kill him myself

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

clan was planning on ambushing the Greed clan, and how they could use this opportunity to deal

was a signal

to backstab

a malicious and terrifying glare directed in my direction. Without needing to look, I already knew who it belonged

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

also

I looked in the distance and I saw nothing, my forehead started

I mismatch my timing?...or did they ignore

so, this was

of aura coming from

"You..."

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

'Shit...'

directed in my direction, I once again turned to look

Chronos, I started

throttle as I tried to figure out my next

a bust. Do

"You don't."

As usual, it was

"What do you mean?"

little

pause, his voice became

serve to alert Jezebeth of your appearance in the

"...You're right."

I

he showed up in his full form? Wouldn't I just die with

made me extremely apprehensive about

of my thoughts,

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

the situation doesn't really

"You worry too much."

into the distance. Unlike me, he

of more minutes. If something doesn't happen

"...Alright."

deactivating Eyes of Chronos I raised my head and met

of my sword, I activated my sword's effect, and the mana inside of my

the same time, I activated 'The

than one rank, it didn't have too much of an effect on Marquis Atheora as

recovered from the effect, I

third movement of the [Keiki style]

Click—!

the same time my vision started to distort,

Boooom—!

the

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

Bang—!

"Ukhhh..."

That said.

I had survived.

"It hurts..."

little. I had trouble moving as some of my bones

chugged down a

recovered the demons in the distance had already arrived

we have here. It looks like the information wasn't

as another demon that

executive coming from the Gluttony clan. A clan that wasn't on good terms with the Sloth clan, the clan Marquis

clan, they obviously

believe in my plan at first,

them that the Sloth clan would make a move against the Greed clan, all they had to

be considered a minor

That aside.

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

"Marquis Exion."

said those words. With narrowed eyes, demonic