The Author's POV

Chapter 516

"He's going to be crucial for when we escape?"

My interest was immediately piqued when I heard his words.

In an attempt to quench my curiosity, I asked.

"Who exactly is he?"

But my other self simply shook his head.

"You will find out once you challenge him."

"Haaa..."

Closing my eyes, I let out a long sigh. As usual, he would always leave out the more important details for later.

What a terrible habit.

"...So I won't be fighting against the current emperor?"

"Not yet."

A narrow grin spread across my other self's face as he replied.

"If you were to fight him right now, you would only end up losing."

"Hmm...?"

Involuntarily, my brows furrowed as I tilted my head.

"You serious?"

"...Yeah."

Processing the information, my eyes closed.

'So another one who is stronger than me...'

Honestly, I was quite troubled by his apparent confidence in his prediction of my inevitable defeat against the present emperor.

It just didn't sit tight with me.

Was I just that competitive? Wasn't too sure.

"Huuu..."

With my eyes closed and letting out a short breath, I inquired about the current Emperor.

"For you to say what you said, the Emperor must be incredibly strong."

"...Sort of."

My other self replied.

In a tight brow furrow, I stared.

"Sort of? What do you mean?"

"He may be strong, but that isn't the reason why I am saying that you will lose against him if you two fought."

"...Continue."

Taking in more of what he was saying, my ears perked up. I had a feeling that his next words were going to be extremely important.

"The games are rigged. SilverStar, the current Emperor will be made the next Overlord in the next match."

"What?"

And I wasn't wrong as his follow up made my eyes shoot wide open.

"Hold on, what are you talking about? Doesn't Edward still have over thirty matches left before he gains freedom? Shouldn't he still be fine?"

"You're right."

My other self gave a short nod.

"But there are two main fundamental reasons for this action. The first reason you should already know."

"Yeah."

gained his 'freedom,' but to avoid making it appear rigged, he was purposely set to lose a

Even then.

"Why this early?"

lost before hitting 100, I was fairly

must be another

for long to know the

breaking through to the next

"...Huh?"

of my other-self. Pricking my ears with my fingers to make sure I didn't hear incorrectly, I asked

you say? Can you repeat

"No."

other self

I shrugged my shoulders.

"...Whatever."

because I wasn't sure I had heard

I took

makes more sense

were both Dukes themselves, if Edward broke through, his strength would reach a similar level to theirs. This in itself was a threat to

bottom of my chin,

before coming here was because we wanted to attract the attention of some of the upper echelon away

self whose only reply

But that was enough.

it makes more sense for the current Duke

the territory based on

two of them been together, Edward's rank

one Duke-ranked demon, the appearance of someone of similar strength would put it

was no way he would just sit by and watch something like this unfold. He was planning on having Edward killed before he

my pondering,

why not just kill him directly instead of making

you even need to ask? Have you forgotten which

Glancing at him

"Nevermind."

Right...

course, their pride wouldn't allow them

'Stupid.'

thought as I

"Alright."

look at myself from the other side, I

of what

direction, he disappeared

of paper and a pen. Grasping the body of the pen tightly, I

I already

"...and done."

of my mouth as I

inside, I placed a couple of things in the small dimensional space the

"This should be enough."

had put in that I looked

god they didn't

To Tok—!

no response. Fortunately, I did not have to wait for long

demon's cold gaze. His croaky, brittle voice echoed in the air

"What do you want?"

to pay respect to the current

"Ha?"

little. In spite of this, he grumbled in a

'This might be fun...'

able to pick up the whisper

him speak, I decided to follow through with my plans anyway. As long as I managed to meet Edward, then everything was

"Follow me."

"Okay."

behind me,

***

the ceiling of

has it

eyes were out of focus, and

had spent in this hell hole were taking a toll

But.

a little bit

clenched his hands into a fist and

end was

little more struggle he had to endure before he could

little

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