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."

over thirty matches left before he gained his 'freedom,' but to avoid making it appear rigged, he was

Even then.

"Why this early?"

hitting 100, I was fairly confident that

must

wait for long to

from breaking through to the next

"...Huh?"

with my

you say?

"No."

other self just shook his

I shrugged my shoulders.

"...Whatever."

wasn't sure I had

my forehead, I took a

makes more sense

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

the bottom of my chin, I pondered

why we created all that chaos before coming here was because we wanted to attract the attention of some of the upper echelon away from the

at my other self whose only reply was a brief

But that was enough.

it makes more sense for the current Duke to

left the territory based on the fact that the current Duke seemed to be

of them been together, Edward's rank

eye of only one Duke-ranked demon, the appearance of someone of similar strength would put it at risk. Not only that

he would just sit by and watch something like this unfold.

my pondering, I had a

are so afraid of Edward, why not just kill him directly instead of making someone else

you even need to ask? Have you

was met with another question. Glancing at him for a second, I shook my

"Nevermind."

Right...

Of course, their pride wouldn't allow them to do

'Stupid.'

I

"Alright."

from the other side, I stretched my

of what I'm supposed

he

of paper and a pen. Grasping the body of the

few minutes flew by since I already knew what I wanted to write on the

"...and done."

dipped out of my mouth as I

couple of things in the small dimensional space

"This should be enough."

satisfied with what I had

god they

To Tok—!

I did not

croaky, brittle voice echoed in the air as he opened

"What do you want?"

would like to pay respect to the

"Ha?"

face changed a little. In spite of this, he grumbled in a quiet whisper and

'This might be fun...'

were able to pick up the whisper of his

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

"Follow me."

"Okay."

behind me, I

***

ceiling of his room,

long has it

eyes were out of focus, and his

years he had spent in this hell hole were

But.

a little

as he clenched his hands into a fist and a powerful aura erupted from his

end was in

more struggle he had to endure

little

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