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 to explain

as he kept denying the reality

someone whose rank was weaker than his

Impossible!

was suppressed, he was still a

A Duke-ranked demon!

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

was how things were supposed

Drip. Drip.

his own blood dripping toward the ground, he

'How is this possible?'

feeling a sharp pain on the right side of his

his hand to cover his wound, Duke

"…!"

all the stares coming from the participants above. They stared at him with obvious shock on their

But that wasn't all.

they also displayed a clear

the Duke

really weaker

is playing around,

as the whispers grew, so did the noise, and their voices were heard by the Duke whose

How

lungs toward the crowd. But out of sheer willpower, he

was still

he raised his head to stare at his opponent, the Duke stared

'Huh?'

eyes met, the Duke suddenly felt a chill run

observation, who became noisier as

that? The Duke took a

the Duke actually

"…This is pathetic."

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

all of the voices against him,

his trembling arms,

'A…am I scared?'

he looked at him in the

a fluke? ..Or was he just imagining

glanced once again at White Reaper, the sensation

'…A fluke.'

thought

Yes.

to be a

wasn't

Impossible.

probably because of all the voices

was simply no other

"Huuu…"

the noise coming from the arena,

will just take

step forward and his vision

to before, his movements were

hand was already nearing White Reaper's head. It was so close, just a couple of

avoid the attack by moving his head back by a narrow margin. Even so, he did manage

Swoosh-!

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

head and proceeded

Bang-!

His leg was connected.

the Duke's disappointment, his leg came into contact with his arm which was raised to block

Duke gritted his teeth and tried

"Huh?"

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

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

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

made sure to

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

'Fuck!'

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

Bang-!

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

Bang-!

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

impact was so powerful that he didn't even

"Again."

he realized what his words meant, his

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