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 murmured

aare you doing this to

to him, the Duke's cold voice

you would live after hearing what I said

eyes

'He knew!'

this possible? He had taken all possible precautions to hide this

"Your excellency!"

He screamed.

"I won't tell anyone—"

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

pressure coming out of his body rose even

on the ground, like a

seem as though the Duke was interested as he

servant

"Your…excellency, please, I can…exp—"

I won't

words, the

long as his

that bastard will find

***

At the same time.

"This is not bad."

in front of me, I

room before me, it had a bed big

my

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

Quite the lazy bunch.

thing I did upon entering my room was

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

heavily surveilled, so

the conversation I had with SilverMoon not too long ago was confirmation

done

I had to do was carry them

little bit

on the bed and covering my eyes with

would have been normal for me to start training at this point, but since I had forced my way to

reason why I was mostly okay was because of my constitution which

anyone else, they would've been in

my arm covering my face,

also be going

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

other contestants' resources, I found most of them to

if I had to be honest, I really didn't hold any interest in any of their resources. Having just consumed some, my

since I would

"Oh well…"

was still planning on collecting Lightning Dragon's resources. It wasn't because I wanted them, but

couple of things that

couple of very

***

or

the phone in his

reflected on

have to look through the rain to see the

feeling that things won't go well if I send

and every new post he sent as he recalled his past

to me, what is this cringe?

"Ugh."

out a distressed

"Damn it, Ren."

he couldn't be blamed for

web, he would

lot of money. At least a

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

a point where he had more

was only natural for him to