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

Even then.

"Why this early?"

before hitting 100, I was fairly confident that nobody

must be

wait for

far from breaking through to the

"...Huh?"

my other-self. Pricking my ears with my fingers to make sure I

you say? Can you repeat

"No."

my other self just shook his

I shrugged my shoulders.

"...Whatever."

I had heard

my forehead, I took a deep

guess it makes more

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

the bottom of my chin, I pondered out

because we wanted to attract the attention of some of the upper echelon away

glanced at my other self whose only

But that was enough.

it makes more sense

based on the fact that the current Duke

Edward's rank up wouldn't have bothered them

Duke-ranked demon, the appearance of someone of similar

and watch something like this

pondering, I had

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

even need to ask? Have you forgotten

met with another question. Glancing at him

"Nevermind."

Right...

clan. Of course, their

'Stupid.'

as I

"Alright."

from the other side,

of

my direction, he

piece of paper and a pen. Grasping the body of the pen

few minutes flew by since I already knew what

"...and done."

of my mouth as

in the small dimensional space the size of a

"This should be enough."

wasn't until I was satisfied with what I had put in that

they didn't

To Tok—!

response. Fortunately, I did not have to wait for long as the

His croaky, brittle

"What do you want?"

pay

"Ha?"

little. In spite of this, he grumbled in a quiet whisper and nodded after

'This might be fun...'

able to pick up the whisper of

hearing him speak, I decided to follow through with my plans anyway. As long as I managed

"Follow me."

"Okay."

the door behind me, I

***

of his room,

long has it been

were out of focus, and

had spent in this hell hole were taking a toll

But.

little

hands into a fist and a powerful

end was

more struggle he had to endure before he could regain his

a little

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