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.

the first one. That is,

time than to get rid of him, it would be

That said.

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

need to kill him myself

him to ambush the Greed clan, I presented another clan

ambushing the Greed clan, and how they could use

just threw was a signal for

to backstab me

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

toward the opposite side, the southern area. This was only half

should also

in the distance and

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

so, this was going to

felt a burst of aura coming

"You..."

around me started to twist. Turning around, I realized that Marquis Atheora was preparing to

'Shit...'

in my direction, I once again turned to look into the distance. Yet

Eyes of Chronos, I started to assess the

at full throttle as I tried to figure out my next course

going to be a bust. Do I have

"You don't."

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

"What do you mean?"

a little

pause,

power will only serve to alert Jezebeth of

"...You're right."

I became extremely

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

me extremely apprehensive about using

thoughts, the other

skill now 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. Not only that but it's best if fewer demons know about you being a human. If they are made

doesn't

"You worry too much."

Unlike me,

If something doesn't happen by then, you can

"...Alright."

eyes and deactivating Eyes of Chronos I raised my

Placing my hand on the sheath of my sword, I activated my sword's effect, and the mana

the same time, I activated 'The

have too much of an effect on Marquis Atheora as it only worked to

he recovered from the effect, I had already

third movement of the [Keiki

Click—!

my vision started to distort, I saw Marquis Atheora's attack shoot in the direction of

Boooom—!

the area that I was

to come out unscathed as I ended up crashing against multiple trees, and felt tremendous pain invade

Bang—!

"Ukhhh..."

That said.

I had survived.

"It hurts..."

I lifted my body up a little. I had trouble moving as some of

down a couple

I recovered the demons in the distance had already

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

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

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

clan, they obviously did not refuse it and secretly sent an

exactly sure they would believe in my plan at first, but

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, they were

could be considered a

That aside.

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

"Marquis Exion."

words. With narrowed eyes, demonic energy rose from his body