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?!"

he had difficulty breathing,

aare you doing this

Duke's cold voice

that you would

servant's eyes opened

'He knew!'

possible? He had taken all possible precautions to hide this fact, how was it possible for the

"Your excellency!"

He screamed.

"I won't tell anyone—"

grown a little impudent recently,, haven't you? Asking me this and that,

sunk as the pressure coming out of his body rose

a helpless prey that had been

his case. But it didn't seem as though the Duke

the servant

"Your…excellency, please, I can…exp—"

won't

those words, the servant's face

for long as

you now, that bastard will

***

At the same time.

"This is not bad."

front of me, I looked around

me, it had a bed big enough for me to fit in, sofas, paintings, and all

my

me before, but it was only now that they

Quite the lazy bunch.

entering my room was

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

heavily surveilled, so I need to

leak in the conversation I had with SilverMoon

had done most of

had to do was carry them out at

little

covering my eyes with

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

okay with it. The only reason why I was mostly okay was because of my constitution

else, they would've been in a

relaxed on the bed with my

going to get my

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

note, despite taking other contestants' resources, I found most

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

quite a while since I would be able to use resources

"Oh well…"

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

of things that

of very important

***

I, or should I

phone in his

on

look through the rain to see the

have a feeling that things won't go well

every new post he

away, don't talk to me, what is this

"Ugh."

let out a distressed

"Damn it, Ren."

he couldn't be blamed for

something on the web, he would receive a lot of

money. At least a couple million U per

was only to be expected. With the amount of fame he had due to his past achievements, he had

had almost reached a point where he had more followers than most high-profile

only natural for him to get