The Author's POV

Chapter 531

'The chip inside of my head? …What is he talking about?'

I always used the chip inside of my head.

In the split second that 'Eyes of Chronos' was activated, I wouldn't have been able to think if it weren't for the chip.

Was there another function of the chip that I did not know about? ...If there was, I wasn't aware of it.

It was then that the other me spoke. My attention once again shifted.

'Pay attention one more time.'

With his words fading, the Duke's body stumbled backward.

This came as a result of the previous punch.

As he stabilized his body, there was no longer any look of shock on his face, and in its place was an impassive and unreadable expression.

In front of the silent audience, he attempted to keep a straight face.

His figure disappeared once more as he expanded his wings, casting a large shadow over the arena. This time, his movements were clearly different. It was a lot faster than before.

But…

Bang-!

The results were the same.

"Huaaakk!"

Casually elbowing the right side, the Duke's body reappeared. It was only a casual elbow, but it was that casual elbow that caused his eyes to widen and his stomach to cave in.

A glob of spittle flew towards my face, but my face remained unchanged.

'Did you manage to see?'

The echo of his voice reverberated throughout my mind.

Finding it difficult to digest what had happened, it took a while for me to answer back.

But I eventually did.

'…I have.'

While the answer was quite easy, it was the concept that I found difficult to grasp. Or even accept it as something that a human was remotely possible of achieving...

'Observe everything. From muscle movement to the direction that feet and bodies point, and eye movement. Connecting everything together...'

Lowering my hand, I pressed my thumb against the hilt of my sword.

The moment I did that, the Duke once again decided to move.

But…

Click-!

Shifting my body ever so slightly toward the right, a subtle clicking sound resonated throughout the arena.

Following the sound, the whole arena froze as the Duke's figure once again materialized in front of me.

A gaping hole appeared on the right side of his chest.

'...You will be able to predict their movements.'

Drip. Drip.

It was only the sound of blood dripping on the ground that echoed throughout the arena.

Drip. Drip. Drip.

Trying to comprehend what had happened, the Duke's head rose and fell repeatedly as he stared at his right chest.

Throughout the silence, my mouth opened.

"…What a pity."

***

A fluke.

A simple and miraculous fluke.

only way to explain

the reality that was presented before his

rank was weaker than his to be

Impossible!

he was still

A Duke-ranked demon!

was supposed to stand at the apex of all worlds. A figure

that was how things

Drip. Drip.

own blood dripping toward the ground, he

'How is this possible?'

only memory was moving one step before feeling a sharp pain on the right side of his

cover his wound, Duke Azenoch

"…!"

that moment on, he could see all the stares coming from the participants above. They

But that wasn't all.

whispering among themselves, they also displayed a clear sense of

the Duke only

weaker

is playing

to be faint with their voices, but as the whispers grew, so did the noise, and their voices

How

to shout at the top of his lungs toward the crowd. But out of sheer willpower, he managed to

situation was

his head to stare at his opponent, the Duke stared deeply into

'Huh?'

moment their eyes met, the Duke suddenly felt a chill

observation, who became noisier as the performance

The Duke

Duke

"…This is pathetic."

his head with each passing second. All he could hear

despite all of the voices against him,

at his trembling

'A…am I scared?'

sensation he felt when he

really a fluke? ..Or was

again at White Reaper, the sensation he felt before

'…A fluke.'

thought to

Yes.

to be a

wasn't even Duke rank

Impossible.

because of all

simply no other

"Huuu…"

the noise coming from the

will just take

rank in an unnoticeable way, he took a step forward and his vision

before, his movements were

White Reaper's head.

avoid the attack by moving his head back by a narrow margin. Even so, he did manage to graze him just a little bit as a red line

Swoosh-!

below, the Duke twisted his body. He too was able to

time he avoided the attack, he raised his head and proceeded to sweep his leg in a

Bang-!

His leg was connected.

with his arm which

Duke gritted his teeth

"Huh?"

grasping his foot. Without giving him a chance to react, an open

of doom rose within the Duke's mind as he watched the

as he twisted his body at a strange angle and swung his other foot toward his opponent's

made sure to keep his

change in White Reaper's expression, as his lips slowly curled into a grin and his left hand

'Fuck!'

the time the Duke realized he had been baited into doing such a move,

Bang-!

Suddenly, he found himself being thrown up in

Bang-!

air as a crater formed beneath him. In addition, the Duke felt a great deal of pain running down

powerful that he didn't even

"Again."

realized what his words meant, his body

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