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."

avoid making it appear rigged, he was purposely set to

Even then.

"Why this early?"

how many matches he lost before hitting 100, I was fairly confident that nobody would find

must be

I didn't wait for long to

not far from breaking through

"...Huh?"

of my other-self. Pricking my ears with

did you say? Can you

"No."

self

I shrugged my shoulders.

"...Whatever."

I wasn't sure I had heard wrongly. That didn't seem to be the

my forehead, I

makes more

the place were both Dukes themselves, if Edward broke through, his strength would reach a similar level

bottom of my chin, I

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

my other self whose only reply was a brief

But that was enough.

sense for the current Duke

the territory based on the fact that the current Duke

Edward's rank up wouldn't have bothered

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

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

the midst of my pondering, I had a sudden

of Edward, why not just kill him

Have

at

"Nevermind."

Right...

was the pride clan. Of course, their pride

'Stupid.'

thought as I clapped my

"Alright."

look at myself from the other side, I

an idea of what

another glance in my direction, he

piece of paper and a pen. Grasping the

flew by since I already knew what I

"...and done."

tongue dipped out of my mouth as I

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

"This should be enough."

had put

god they

To Tok—!

moment of time, I was met with no response. Fortunately, I did not

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

"What do you want?"

pay respect to the

"Ha?"

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

'This might be fun...'

up the whisper of his

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

"Follow me."

"Okay."

behind me, I

***

of

has

out of focus, and his

spent in this hell hole were taking a

But.

little

up muttering as he clenched his hands into a fist and

was

had to endure

a little bit

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