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 in

you doing this

the Duke's cold voice echoed throughout

would live after hearing what I said just

eyes

'He knew!'

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 I

out of his body rose

only lay down on the ground, like a helpless prey that

mouth, he tried to beg his case. But it didn't seem as though the Duke was interested as he long

servant continued

"Your…excellency, please, I can…exp—"

I won't

the servant's face relaxed

that didn't last for long as his face hardened

you now, that bastard

***

At the same time.

"This is not bad."

front of me, I looked

a bed big enough for me to fit in, sofas, paintings, and all types of

was my new

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

Quite the lazy bunch.

upon entering my room was head straight for the

sure to keep note of every

place is probably heavily surveilled, so I

had with SilverMoon not too long ago

had done

was carry

little

and covering my eyes with my arm, I slowly

point, but since I had forced my way to rank, I needed

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

anyone else, they would've been in a

with my

be going to get

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

contestants' resources, I found most of them

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

would be able to

"Oh well…"

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

things that I needed to

of very

***

I, or should I

gazed at the phone in his hands. He was currently in

on the screen, Kevin's thumb hovered over a small green button

through the rain to

have a feeling that things won't go well

each and every new post he sent as he

talk to me, what is this cringe?

"Ugh."

out a

"Damn it, Ren."

the first place, he couldn't be blamed for sending his

posted something on the web, he would

At least a couple

his past achievements, he had a lot of followers. And

reached a point where he had more

to get sponsorship and endorsement deals