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,

doing this

Duke's cold

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

eyes opened

'He knew!'

all possible precautions to hide

"Your excellency!"

He screamed.

"I won't tell anyone—"

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

the pressure coming out of his body rose

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

it didn't seem as though the Duke was interested as he

servant continued

"Your…excellency, please, I can…exp—"

won't kill you

the servant's face relaxed

last for long as his

now, that bastard will find out that

***

At the same time.

"This is not bad."

of me, I looked around

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

my new

only

Quite the lazy bunch.

I did upon entering my room was head

as I did, I made sure to keep note

surveilled, so I need to keep low

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

done most

had to do was carry them out at

a little

the bed and covering my eyes with my

this point, but since I had forced my way to

breakthrough and expect their bodies to be okay with it. The only reason why I was mostly okay was because

else, they would've been in

with my arm covering my face, I

also be going to

the loser's possessions, including their resources. It essentially crippled the loser

taking other contestants' resources, I

I really didn't hold any interest in any of their resources. Having just

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

"Oh well…"

resources. It wasn't because I wanted

were a couple of things that I

of

***

I, or should

gazed at the phone in his hands. He was

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

through the rain to

that things won't go

and every new post he sent as he recalled

don't talk to me,

"Ugh."

out a distressed

"Damn it, Ren."

he couldn't be

on the web, he would receive

lot of money. At least a couple million U per

his past achievements, he had a lot

point where he

to get sponsorship and endorsement