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 servant murmured

you doing this to

the Duke's cold voice echoed

a second that you would live after hearing what I said

servant's eyes

'He knew!'

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

out of his body rose even more.

lay down on the ground, like a helpless prey

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

servant continued

"Your…excellency, please, I can…exp—"

won't kill you

hearing those words, the servant's

didn't last for long as his face

now, that bastard will find out that something is

***

At the same time.

"This is not bad."

at the room in front of me, I looked

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

my new

only now that they had

Quite the lazy bunch.

first thing I did upon entering my room was head

sure to keep note of every little detail of the

probably heavily surveilled, so I need to keep low for

had with SilverMoon

me, I had done

I had to do was

little

bed and covering my eyes

at this point, but since I had forced my way

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

they would've

with my arm covering

be going to

that the winner would take all of the loser's possessions, including their resources. It essentially

another note, despite taking other contestants' resources, I found most of them to be

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

since I would be able to use resources to once

"Oh well…"

resources. It wasn't because I wanted them, but because I wanted to meet

that I needed to say

couple of very

***

or should I

the phone in his

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

have to look through the rain

that things won't

he sent as he recalled his past incident with

me, what

"Ugh."

out

"Damn it, Ren."

the first place, he couldn't be blamed for

web,

At least a couple

had due to his past achievements, he had a lot of followers. And they were growing each and

he had more followers

it was only natural for him to get sponsorship and