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 in

aare you doing

Duke's cold voice

second that you would

eyes

'He knew!'

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

"Your excellency!"

He screamed.

"I won't tell anyone—"

grown a little impudent recently,, haven't you? Asking me this and that, you think I

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

ground, like a helpless prey that had

didn't seem as though the Duke was interested

the servant

"Your…excellency, please, I can…exp—"

I won't kill you

those words, the servant's face relaxed

didn't last for long as his face

bastard will find out that something

***

At the same time.

"This is not bad."

front of

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

my new

was only now that they had

Quite the lazy bunch.

did upon entering my

made sure to keep note

is probably heavily surveilled, so I

leak in the conversation I had with SilverMoon

for me, I had done

was carry them out

a little

down on the bed and covering my eyes with my arm, I

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

reason why I was mostly okay was because of my constitution which had changed due to the seed of

been anyone else, they would've

on the bed with my arm covering my

should also be going

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

taking other contestants' resources, I found most

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

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

"Oh well…"

wasn't because I wanted them, but because I wanted to

that I needed to

of

***

I, or should

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

on the screen, Kevin's thumb hovered over

to look through the rain to

won't go well

and every new post he sent as he recalled his past incident with

talk to me, what is this

"Ugh."

let out a

"Damn it, Ren."

be blamed

web, he would receive a lot of

of money. At least a

amount of fame he had due to his

had almost reached a point where he had more followers

only natural for him to get sponsorship and endorsement