The Author's POV

"Your excellency, if I may ask…"

Taking a knee on the ground before Duke Azonech, the demon paused halfway through his sentence, waiting for the Duke's confirmation.

He got it soon enough.

"...You may ask."

"Thank you."

The servant thanked the Duke. Secretly, he tried his best to stop himself from smiling.

'As expected of the Duke, he does not suspect anything.'

In reality, he wasn't merely asking out of curiosity. He was asking so that he could report what was going to the other Duke.

It was a secret order that he had received before he had left.

By doing this, he was treading a thin line, but as soon as he remembered the rewards promised to him by the other Duke, all of his fear dissipated.

It was simply too tempting.

With his head lowered, he proceeded to ask something that he had been curious about.

"Why did you tell that human to keep the Overlord alive?"

It was well known that the current Overlord was close to breaking through to the next level. What the servant was curious about was why the Duke didn't have any intentions of killing him directly.

His question was answered not long after.

"It's because I'm planning on giving him a contract."

Upon hearing those words, the servant looked surprised.

But it soon replaced it with a look of understanding.

"….Understood your excellency."

Everything quickly puzzled itself together inside of the servant's mind as he made sure to remember everything.

The Duke's plan was rather simple. He was planning on taking the Blood Prince to his side. Everything was starting to make sense to the demon as he came up with one conclusion.

'He wants to be the sole owner of the arena.'

In spite of this, he immediately began to sweat profusely after coming to such a conclusion.

His command over the Blood Prince would inevitably give him more power than the other Duke thus forcing him to give him control over the arena.

As his thoughts paused there, the demon felt cold chills run down his spine.

'As expected of Duke Azenoch, ruthless as ever.'

Unfortunately for the Duke, what he didn't know was that the demon he shared this information with worked for the other Duke. He was simply crippling himself.

"Do you have any other questions to ask?"

Jolting him out of his thoughts was the Duke's voice that reverberated throughout the whole room.

Lowering his head further, the servant quickly shook his head.

"…No your excellency."

'This is enough. The Duke will certainly reward me after I tell him this.'

Thinking such thoughts, he tried his best to suppress his excitement.

"Good."

But it was then that a powerful force suddenly permeated the air, causing the servant to feel a rush of energy.

"Ughk."

With a pained groan, he suddenly found himself stuck on the ground, unable to lift his head due to the sheer pressure that was bearing down on him from above

"W…what?!"

breathing, the servant

you doing this to

cold voice

for a second that you would live after hearing what I said

servant's eyes opened

'He knew!'

possible? He had taken all possible precautions to hide

"Your excellency!"

He screamed.

"I won't tell anyone—"

a little impudent recently,, haven't you? Asking me this and that, you think I don't

Duke's face sunk as the pressure coming out of his

down on the ground, like a helpless prey that had been caught by its

his mouth, he tried to beg his case. But it didn't seem as though the Duke was

the servant

"Your…excellency, please, I can…exp—"

won't kill you

those words, the servant's face

as

bastard will find out

***

At the same time.

"This is not bad."

front of me, I looked around the

a bed big enough for me

was my

me before, but it was only now that they had decided

Quite the lazy bunch.

did upon entering my room was head straight

I did, I made sure to keep note of every

surveilled, so I need

leak in the conversation I had with SilverMoon not too long ago

done

do was carry them out at

little bit

and covering my eyes

normal for me to start training at this point, but since I had forced my way to rank, I needed time

okay with it. The only reason why

anyone else, they would've been in

with my arm covering my face, I thought

should also be going to

rule of the arena was that the winner would take all of the loser's possessions, including their resources.

resources, I found most of them to

hold any interest in any of their resources. Having just consumed some, my body couldn't

probably be quite a while since I would be able to use resources to

"Oh well…"

wasn't because I wanted them, but because I

things that I needed

of very

***

or should I

the phone in his hands. He

with one hand, staring at himself reflected on the screen, Kevin's thumb hovered

have to look through the rain to see

things won't go well

post he sent as he recalled

don't talk to me,

"Ugh."

out a distressed

"Damn it, Ren."

he couldn't be blamed for sending his

on the web, he would receive a lot

money. At least a couple million U

expected. With the amount of fame he had due to his past achievements, he had a lot of followers. And they were growing

point where he had more followers than

only natural for him to get