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?!"

difficulty breathing, the servant murmured

doing this to

him, the Duke's cold voice echoed throughout

would live after hearing what I said

servant's eyes

'He knew!'

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

"Your excellency!"

He screamed.

"I won't tell anyone—"

you? Asking me this

face sunk as the pressure coming out of his body rose even

on the ground, like a helpless prey that had been

tried to beg his case. But it didn't seem as though the Duke was

servant

"Your…excellency, please, I can…exp—"

I won't kill

words, the servant's face relaxed a

didn't last for long as his face hardened

I kill you now, that bastard will find out

***

At the same time.

"This is not bad."

at the room in front of me, I looked around the

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

was my new

only now that they had decided to

Quite the lazy bunch.

I did upon entering my room was head straight for

course, as I did, I made sure to keep

is probably heavily surveilled, so

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

for me, I had done

I had to do was carry

a little bit

bed and covering my eyes with my

start training at this point, but since I had forced my way

a breakthrough and expect their bodies to be okay with it. The only reason why I was mostly okay was because of my constitution which had changed

else, they would've been in a tougher

bed with my arm covering my face, I thought of

going to

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

note, despite taking other contestants' resources, I found

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

while since I would be able to use resources to once again

"Oh well…"

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

were a couple of things that I needed to

of very

***

I, or should I

his nails, Kevin gazed at the phone in

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

through the rain to see the

things won't go well if I

began to fear each and every new post he sent as he

away, don't talk to me,

"Ugh."

let out

"Damn it, Ren."

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

on the web, he would

At least a couple million

expected. With the amount of fame he had due to his past achievements, he had a lot of

had almost reached a point where he had

natural for him to get