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."

still had over thirty matches left before he gained his 'freedom,' but to avoid making it appear rigged, he was purposely set to lose a bit before

Even then.

"Why this early?"

many matches he lost before hitting 100,

there must

didn't wait for

breaking through to

"...Huh?"

ears with my fingers

say? Can

"No."

my other self

I shrugged my shoulders.

"...Whatever."

I wasn't sure I had heard wrongly.

forehead, I took

makes more

Edward broke through, his strength would reach a similar level to

bottom of my

why we created all that chaos before coming here was because we wanted to

other self whose only reply

But that was enough.

sense for the current Duke to

Duke had left the territory based on the fact that the current Duke seemed

together, Edward's

city was now under the watchful eye of only one Duke-ranked demon, the appearance of someone of similar strength would

was no way he would just sit by and watch something like

my pondering,

Edward, why not just kill him directly instead

ask? Have you

Glancing at him for a second, I

"Nevermind."

Right...

Of course, their pride wouldn't

'Stupid.'

thought as I clapped my hands

"Alright."

the other side,

idea of

glance in my direction, he disappeared from his spot without saying

his actions, I tapped my bracelet and took out a piece of paper

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

"...and done."

of my mouth as I put the

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

"This should be enough."

wasn't until I was satisfied with what I had put in that I looked for the door

god they didn't

To Tok—!

with no response. Fortunately, I did not have to wait for long as the door

His croaky,

"What do you want?"

like to pay respect

"Ha?"

spite of this, he grumbled in a quiet whisper and nodded

'This might be fun...'

the whisper of his

I was slightly apprehensive after hearing him speak, I decided to follow through with my plans anyway. As

"Follow me."

"Okay."

the door behind me, I followed

***

the ceiling of his room, Edward

has it

out of focus,

years he had spent in this hell

But.

little

hands into a fist and

end was

a little more struggle he had to endure before he could regain

little

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