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.

were essentially the same as the first one. That is, act

Marquis Atheora now injured, if there was a better time than

That said.

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

to

to ambush the Greed clan, I presented

clan, and how they could use this opportunity to deal damage to

fireball I just threw was a

actually planned to backstab me from the very

glare directed in my direction. Without

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

should also be

I looked in the distance and

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

so, this was going to be

of aura coming from

"You..."

voice shook the air, and the area around me started to twist. Turning

'Shit...'

directed in my direction, I once again

Chronos, I

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

like Plan A is going to be a bust. Do I have

"You don't."

from beside me. As usual, it was the

"What do you mean?"

little

slight pause, his

that power will only serve to alert Jezebeth of your

"...You're right."

power, I became extremely

he showed up in his full

thought made me extremely apprehensive about

midst of my thoughts, the other me

best if you save it for then. Not only that

situation doesn't really look too

"You worry too much."

me, he could freely move in

minutes. If something doesn't happen

"...Alright."

of Chronos I raised

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

the same time, I

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

time he recovered from the effect, I had already

the [Keiki style]

Click—!

my vision started to

Boooom—!

arrived in the area that I was previously standing

ended up crashing against multiple trees, and felt

Bang—!

"Ukhhh..."

That said.

I had survived.

"It hurts..."

I had trouble moving as some of my bones were broken, but it was worth

quickly chugged down a

recovered the demons in the distance had already arrived

here. It looks like

air as another demon that bore striking

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

deal damage to the Sloth clan, they obviously did not

sure they would believe in my plan at first, but

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

this could be considered a minor conflict. It

That aside.

they had set countermeasures in the off-chance that this was also

"Marquis Exion."

filled with spite as he said those words. With