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 as bait

better time than to get rid of him,

That said.

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

didn't need to

had convinced him to ambush the Greed clan, I presented

was planning on ambushing the Greed clan, and how they could use this opportunity

was a

to backstab me from

a malicious and terrifying glare directed in my direction. Without

attention toward the opposite side,

also be

I looked in the distance and I

my timing?...or did they ignore

was going to be

felt a burst of aura coming

"You..."

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

'Shit...'

aura that was directed in my direction, I once again

I started

head started to run at full throttle as I tried

be a bust. Do I have no

"You don't."

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

"What do you mean?"

a little

a slight pause, his voice became

will only serve to alert Jezebeth of your

"...You're right."

Jezebeth's power, I became extremely

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

the thought made me extremely

midst of my thoughts,

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 start hunting you

doesn't

"You worry too much."

me, he could freely

couple of more minutes. If something doesn't

"...Alright."

eyes and deactivating Eyes of Chronos I raised my head

within a fraction of a second. Placing my hand on the sheath of my

time, I

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

the time he recovered from the effect, I

the [Keiki style] :

Click—!

clicking sound rang in the air. At the same time my vision started to distort, I saw Marquis Atheora's attack shoot in the direction of where I was previously

Boooom—!

it arrived in the area that I was previously standing

my extreme speed, I was unable to come out unscathed as I ended up crashing against multiple trees, and felt tremendous

Bang—!

"Ukhhh..."

That said.

I had survived.

"It hurts..."

up a little. I had trouble moving as some of

down

time I recovered the demons in the

have here. It looks like the information

throughout the air as another demon

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

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

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

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,

considered

That aside.

countermeasures in the off-chance that this was also

"Marquis Exion."

said those words. With narrowed eyes, demonic