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?!"

had difficulty breathing, the servant murmured

you doing

to him, the Duke's cold voice echoed throughout

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

eyes opened

'He knew!'

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

"Your excellency!"

He screamed.

"I won't tell anyone—"

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

sunk as the pressure coming out of his body rose

like a helpless prey that had been

he tried to beg his case. But it didn't seem

servant

"Your…excellency, please, I can…exp—"

I won't kill

words, the servant's

as

bastard will find out that

***

At the same time.

"This is not bad."

front of

many decorations in the room before me, it had a bed big enough for me to fit in, sofas, paintings, and all types

my new

before, but it was only now that they

Quite the lazy bunch.

did upon entering my room was head straight for

to keep note of

place is probably heavily surveilled, so I need

had with SilverMoon

had done most of

had to do was carry them out at the

a little bit

covering my eyes with my

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

only reason why I was

it been anyone else, they would've been in

bed with my arm covering my face, I thought of

going to get my

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

despite taking other contestants' resources, I

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

would be able to

"Oh well…"

resources. It wasn't because I

couple of things that I needed

of very important

***

or should I

Kevin gazed at the phone in

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

the rain to

things won't go well if I send

he sent as he recalled his past

talk to me, what is

"Ugh."

out

"Damn it, Ren."

be

web,

a lot of money. At least a

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

almost reached a point where he had more

to get