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, the

you doing this

Duke's cold voice echoed

that you would

servant's eyes

'He knew!'

to hide this fact, how

"Your excellency!"

He screamed.

"I won't tell anyone—"

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

sunk as the pressure coming out of his body rose even more. Rendering the servant

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

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

servant

"Your…excellency, please, I can…exp—"

won't kill you

hearing those words, the servant's face relaxed a

last for long as his face hardened completely not

you now, that bastard will find out that something

***

At the same time.

"This is not bad."

the room in front of me, I looked

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

was my

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

Quite the lazy bunch.

entering my

made sure to keep note of every

probably heavily surveilled, so I need to keep low for

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

me, I had done most of

to do was carry them out

a little

the bed and covering my

point, but since

their bodies to be okay with it. The only reason why I was mostly okay was because of my constitution which

been anyone else, they would've

with my arm

be going to get

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

resources, I found most of them

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

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

"Oh well…"

wasn't because I wanted them, but because

couple of things that I needed to say

couple of very

***

or

nails, Kevin gazed at the phone in his hands. He was

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

through the rain to

things won't

he sent as he

to me, what is

"Ugh."

out a

"Damn it, Ren."

place, he couldn't be blamed for

on the web, he would receive a

At least a

to his past

reached a point where he

for him to get sponsorship and endorsement deals