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

denying the reality

was simply no way for someone whose rank was weaker than

Impossible!

was suppressed, he was still a

A Duke-ranked demon!

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

least that was how

Drip. Drip.

he heard the sound of his own blood dripping

'How is this possible?'

before feeling a sharp pain on the right side

his wound, Duke Azenoch

"…!"

see all the stares coming from the participants above.

But that wasn't all.

themselves, they also displayed a clear sense

the Duke only

weaker than that

playing

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

up! How dare

toward the crowd. But out of sheer willpower, he

was still

to stare at his opponent, the Duke stared deeply into

'Huh?'

felt a chill run down

was no avoiding the audience's observation, who

The Duke

Duke

"…This is pathetic."

more voices inside of his head with each

voices against him,

his trembling arms, he

'A…am I scared?'

he looked at him in the

..Or was

at White Reaper, the sensation he felt before vanished the moment

'…A fluke.'

thought

Yes.

to be a

that wasn't even

Impossible.

all

was simply no

"Huuu…"

Azenoch calmed himself down. Drowning out the noise coming from the arena, he slowly started to channel

work, I will just

he took a step forward and his vision warped. Reappearing in

to before, his movements were incomparably

was already nearing White Reaper's head. It was

a narrow margin. Even so, he

Swoosh-!

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

and proceeded to sweep his leg in a whipping

Bang-!

His leg was connected.

his leg came into contact with his

gritted his

"Huh?"

trying to shift his body, the Duke suddenly found a hand grasping his foot.

rose within the Duke's mind as he watched the

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

this movement, he made sure to keep his gaze focused

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

'Fuck!'

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 before being thrown down with

Bang-!

the Duke felt a great deal of pain

he didn't even have

"Again."

the time he realized what his words meant,

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