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.

the only way

kept denying the reality that was

someone whose rank was weaker than

Impossible!

was suppressed, he was still a Duke-ranked

A Duke-ranked demon!

to stand at the apex of all worlds. A figure who had the ability to squash Counts with a simple wave of

that was how things were supposed to

Drip. Drip.

sound of his own blood dripping toward the ground, he

'How is this possible?'

a sharp pain on the right side of

hand to cover his wound, Duke Azenoch

"…!"

could see all the stares coming from the participants above. They stared at him with obvious shock

But that wasn't all.

also displayed a clear sense of

Duke only this

he really weaker

playing around,

grew, so did the

up! How dare

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

was still

at his opponent, the Duke stared

'Huh?'

chill run down

audience's observation, who became noisier as the performance

The

the Duke actually

"…This is pathetic."

more and more voices inside of his head with each passing second. All he

the voices against him, Duke Azenoch's focus was

trembling arms,

'A…am I scared?'

sensation he felt when he looked at

it really a fluke? ..Or was he

at White Reaper, the sensation he felt before vanished

'…A fluke.'

Duke thought

Yes.

had to

someone that wasn't even Duke rank

Impossible.

because of all the voices

was simply no

"Huuu…"

calmed himself down. Drowning out the noise coming from the arena,

Count rank doesn't work, I will just take it up

vision warped. Reappearing in front of White Reaper, he extended his hand

to before, his movements

nearing White Reaper's head. It

managed to avoid the attack by moving his head back by a narrow margin. Even so,

Swoosh-!

him from below, the Duke twisted his body. He too

head and proceeded to sweep his leg in a whipping

Bang-!

His leg was connected.

contact with his

his teeth and tried

"Huh?"

trying to shift his body, the Duke suddenly found a hand grasping his foot. Without giving him a chance to react, an open palm came toward

Duke's mind as he watched

a strange angle and

made sure to keep his gaze focused on

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

'Fuck!'

Duke realized he had been baited into

Bang-!

loud banging sound, the Duke suddenly felt a hand grasp his other leg. Suddenly, he found himself being thrown up in the air before being thrown down

Bang-!

the Duke felt a great deal of pain running down his back

that he didn't even have time to

"Again."

echoed in his ears. By the time he realized what his words meant, his body had once again been flung toward

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