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,

time than to

That said.

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

need to kill

ambush the Greed clan, I presented another clan with a similar

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

fireball I just threw was a signal for

actually planned to backstab

felt a malicious and terrifying glare directed in my direction.

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

also be coming

I looked in the distance and I

my timing?...or did they ignore

so, this was going to

felt a burst of aura coming from

"You..."

started to twist. Turning around,

'Shit...'

terrifying aura that was directed in my direction, I once again turned to look into the distance. Yet again, I saw

I started

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

is going to be a bust. Do I have

"You don't."

from beside me. As usual, it was the other me

"What do you mean?"

a little bit

pause, his

will only serve to alert Jezebeth

"...You're right."

I

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

me extremely

thoughts, the

for then. Not only

doesn't

"You worry too much."

Unlike me,

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

"...Alright."

eyes and deactivating Eyes of Chronos I raised my head and met

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

same time,

have too much of an effect

the effect, I had already gathered enough

of the

Click—!

distorted, and a low clicking sound rang in the air. At the same time my vision

Boooom—!

in the

I ended up

Bang—!

"Ukhhh..."

That said.

I had survived.

"It hurts..."

teeth, I lifted my body up a little. I had trouble moving as some of my bones were broken,

down a

the time I recovered the demons in the distance

It looks

as another demon that bore striking resemblance to

was, but I knew that he was an executive coming from the Gluttony clan. A clan that wasn't on good terms

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

plan at first, but

all they had to do was check for any

this could be considered

That aside.

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

"Marquis Exion."

was filled with spite as he said those words. With narrowed eyes,