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.

one. That is,

was a better time than to get rid of him,

That said.

I could kill. Our rank difference was just too

need to kill him

him to ambush the Greed clan, I presented another clan with a

ambushing the Greed clan, and how they could use this

I just threw was a signal for

backstab me from the

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

didn't care as my direction my attention toward the opposite side, the southern area.

should also be

looked in the distance and I saw

my timing?...or did they

this was

of aura coming from

"You..."

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

'Shit...'

terrifying aura that was directed in my direction, I once again

Chronos, I started to

full throttle

A is going to be a bust. Do I have no

"You don't."

beside me. As usual, it was the other me appearing from out of

"What do you mean?"

little

pause,

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

"...You're right."

I became extremely

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

the thought made me extremely apprehensive about using my

the midst of my thoughts, the other me

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.

but the situation doesn't really

"You worry too much."

distance. Unlike me, he could

a couple of more minutes. If something doesn't happen

"...Alright."

of Chronos I raised my head and met Marquis

a fraction of a second. Placing my hand on the sheath of my sword, I activated my

same time, I activated

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

he recovered from the effect, I had

of the

Click—!

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

Boooom—!

split second, it arrived in the area that I was previously

out unscathed as I ended up crashing against

Bang—!

"Ukhhh..."

That said.

I had survived.

"It hurts..."

moving as some of my bones were broken, but

quickly chugged down a

in the distance had already arrived and had

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

throughout the air as another demon

the Gluttony clan. A clan that wasn't on good terms with the Sloth clan, the clan

presented 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

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 from there,

to them, this could be considered

That aside.

in the off-chance that this was also a

"Marquis Exion."

with spite as he said those words. With narrowed eyes, demonic energy rose from his body at