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

kept denying the reality that was

someone whose rank was weaker than his

Impossible!

suppressed, he was still a

A Duke-ranked demon!

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

that was how things were supposed

Drip. Drip.

blood dripping toward the ground,

'How is this possible?'

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

hand to cover his wound,

"…!"

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

But that wasn't all.

they also displayed a

Duke only

he really weaker than

playing around,

faint with their voices, but as the whispers grew, so did the noise, and their voices were heard by

up! How

the crowd. But out of sheer willpower, he managed to stop

situation was

his head to stare at his opponent, the

'Huh?'

suddenly felt a chill run down his body as

no avoiding the audience's observation, who became noisier

that? The Duke took a

Duke

"…This is pathetic."

inside of his head with each passing second. All he could hear were

all of the voices against him,

at his trembling arms, he

'A…am I scared?'

he felt when he looked at him in the

fluke? ..Or was

Reaper, the sensation he felt before vanished the moment his

'…A fluke.'

thought to

Yes.

had to be a

that wasn't even Duke rank scare

Impossible.

because of all the voices around

was simply no

"Huuu…"

a deep breath, Duke Azenoch calmed himself down. Drowning out the noise coming from the arena, he slowly started

rank doesn't work, I will just take

forward and his vision warped.

before, his

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

a narrow margin. Even so, he did manage to graze

Swoosh-!

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

head and proceeded to sweep his leg in a whipping motion, hurtling it towards White

Bang-!

His leg was connected.

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

Duke gritted his teeth

"Huh?"

a hand grasping

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

erupted from his body as he twisted his body at a strange angle and swung his other foot toward his opponent's head with its back

he made sure to keep his

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

'Fuck!'

Duke realized he had been baited into doing

Bang-!

a hand grasp his other leg. Suddenly, he found himself being thrown up in

Bang-!

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

he didn't even

"Again."

the time he realized what his words meant, his body had once again been

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