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.

same as the first one. That

now injured, if there was a better time than to get

That said.

someone that I could

need to kill

convinced him to ambush the Greed

on ambushing the Greed clan,

threw was a signal for them to

actually planned to backstab me

me out of it, I felt a malicious and terrifying glare directed in

my direction my attention toward the opposite

should also be coming

in the distance and I

timing?...or

so, this was going to

of aura coming from

"You..."

Atheora's voice shook the air, and the area around me started to

'Shit...'

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

Chronos, I

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

be a bust. Do I have no choice but to go

"You don't."

from beside me. As usual, it

"What do you mean?"

a little bit

a slight pause, his voice became

that using that power will only serve

"...You're right."

power, I became extremely

clone to fight me. What if he showed up in his full

me extremely apprehensive about using

thoughts, the other me continued

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 best if fewer demons know about you being a human. If they are made aware of your presence, all clans will

but the situation doesn't really look

"You worry too much."

head, he stared into the distance. Unlike me, he could freely

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

"...Alright."

my eyes and deactivating Eyes of Chronos I raised my head and met Marquis Atheora's

Placing my hand on the sheath of my sword, I activated my

the same time, I activated 'The

was a bit more than one rank, it didn't have too much of an effect on Marquis Atheora as it only worked to distract him for a split second. But it was

the effect, I had already

movement of the [Keiki style] : Void

Click—!

and 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—!

arrived in the

ended up crashing against multiple

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

down a

the distance had already

It looks

sadistic voice echoed throughout the air as another demon that bore striking resemblance

he was an executive coming from the Gluttony clan. A clan that wasn't on good terms with the Sloth

clan, they obviously did not refuse it

believe in my plan at first, but it wasn't exactly hard to

Greed clan, all they had to do was check for any movement, and from there,

could be considered a

That aside.

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

"Marquis Exion."

words. With