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

doing

the Duke's cold voice echoed throughout

a second that you would live after

servant's eyes opened

'He knew!'

was this possible? He had taken all possible precautions to hide this fact,

"Your excellency!"

He screamed.

"I won't tell anyone—"

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

the pressure coming out of his body rose even more.

on the ground, like a

seem as

servant

"Your…excellency, please, I can…exp—"

won't

words, the servant's face

for long as his face hardened

bastard will find out that something

***

At the same time.

"This is not bad."

front of me, I looked around

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

my new

only now

Quite the lazy bunch.

my room was head

sure to keep note of every little detail of

is probably heavily surveilled, so I need to keep

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

me, I had done

I had to do was carry them out at the

a little bit

my eyes with my arm, I slowly started

me to start training at this point, but since I

couldn't just force 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 due to the seed

else, they would've

relaxed on the bed with my arm

going to

loser's possessions, including their resources. It essentially crippled the loser of the fight, but these were the

other contestants' resources, I found most of them to

honest, I really didn't hold any interest in any of their resources. Having just consumed some,

quite a while since I would be able to use resources

"Oh well…"

collecting Lightning Dragon's resources. It wasn't because I wanted them,

were a couple of things that I needed to say to

couple of very important

***

or should

phone in his hands. He was currently in

reflected on the screen, Kevin's

to look through the rain to see

have a feeling that things won't go

and every new post he sent as he recalled his past

talk to me,

"Ugh."

out a

"Damn it, Ren."

couldn't be blamed

web, he would receive a lot

of money. At least a couple million U per

With the amount of fame he had due to his

point where he had more followers than most high-profile

was only natural for him to