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?!"

difficulty breathing, the servant murmured

doing this

to him, the Duke's cold voice

you would live after hearing what I said

servant's eyes opened

'He knew!'

to hide this fact, how was it possible for the

"Your excellency!"

He screamed.

"I won't tell anyone—"

Asking me this and

of his body rose even more. Rendering

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

But it didn't seem as though the Duke was interested as he long stopped looking

the servant

"Your…excellency, please, I can…exp—"

I won't kill you

hearing those words, the servant's face

didn't last for long as his face hardened completely not long

now, that bastard will

***

At the same time.

"This is not bad."

at the room in front of me,

room before me, it had a bed big enough for me to fit in, sofas, paintings,

my new

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

Quite the lazy bunch.

my room

as I did, I made sure to keep note of every little detail of

heavily surveilled, so

SilverMoon not too long ago

I had done most of

to do was carry them out at the

a little

and covering my eyes with my

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

and expect their bodies to be okay with it. The only reason why I was mostly okay was because of my constitution which had changed due to the

it been anyone else, they would've been in

my arm covering my face, I thought of

should also be going

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

taking other contestants' resources, I found most of

had to be honest, I really didn't hold any interest in any

probably be quite a while since I would

"Oh well…"

planning on collecting Lightning Dragon's resources. It wasn't because I wanted

things that

of very important

***

I, or should I

his nails, Kevin gazed at the phone in his hands. He

with one hand, staring at himself reflected on the screen, Kevin's thumb hovered over a small green button

through the rain

that things won't go well if

and every new post he

to me,

"Ugh."

out

"Damn it, Ren."

first place, he couldn't be blamed for sending

something on the web,

At least a

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

had almost reached a point where he had more

only natural for him to get