The Author's POV

A/N : Title will be changed from [Start of the slaughter] to [Mana recovery.]

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After pacing around and gazing at the doors to the rooms for a while, Exilion suddenly halted.

"Strange…"

He muttered as he walked toward one of the rooms and placed his hand on the door.

Sensing that there was only a person inside, he slowly let go.

"Nothing."

Not too long ago, he felt a strange fluctuation coming from that room, but he didn't see anything strange when he checked it out.

"...There's a good chance I'm overthinking this."

Folding his wings behind his back, Exilion continued to pace around the rooms. Another room soon caught his eye as he walked.

Walking up to it and placing his hand over it, a smile cracked on his face.

"It looks like he won't last for long."

Feeling the weak heartbeat of the human inside, Exilion knew that he was almost as good as dead.

"...Should I tell them of his death, or pretend he didn't die and tell them that they will only be able to see him at the end of the month once the work is completed...imagining the look on their faces when they realize they have been fooled...keke."

Exilion chuckled out loud.

The more he thought about the faces that humans would make when they learned that their comrade had died, the more his face twisted.

"What's so funny?"

Another voice echoed at that moment, and a demon slowly walked toward Exilion. He was Impedus. The other demon in charge of overlooking the cells.

"Nothing, nothing."

Waving his hand at Impedus, Exilion stopped smiling and leaned against the side of the wall.

"Judging from your reaction, I don't think it's nothing."

"Well, it's nothing big."

Knock—! Knock—!

As he knocked on the door next to him, Exilion gave him a brief overview of what he thought.

"He's about to die, and I was just thinking of how I could mess with the other humans."

"Oh?"

A smile cracked on Impedius's face as he showed an impressed look.

"You call that nothing? It sounds a lot more entertaining than the other things I'm doing."

"Keke. That's probably because you're soon going to be promoted. You don't have much time to think of these trivial matters as you used to in the past."

SHIIIING—!

A bright light appeared on Impedius' lower waist just as he was about to reply, and the two demons changed their faces.

'An emergency!'

They both simultaneously thought as Impedius took out a small black orb from his waist and casually crushed it in his hand.

Crack!

Moments after the orb was crushed, purple flames rose in the air, and a series of words manifested in front of the two demons.

[Intruder emergency! Reallocate the workers in the emergency vault.]

other for a few seconds before rapidly rushing into action as they tried to figure out

"Make it quick!"

both demons went their separate ways and headed for a different

Krrr—! Krrr—!

echoed out loud as

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Plop—! Plop—!

focused their attention on the tools in front of Melissa as a bubbling sound

"How much longer?"

I asked.

burner, Melissa shook the solution and glimpsed at

hour at most. It might be faster if

attention back on the mixture,

your problem when I've only handled the plants for like a day? I know I'm a

'Well, she isn't wrong.'

head, I sat down on the

many days have passed since you arrived in this

"…About a week."

with a look

concerns were understandable. Suddenly disappearing from the face of the human domain, her parents must be extremely worried about her

"Eh…"

a thought. Turning to look at Amanda, I

will think that you've come

"…No?"

head. My thoughts were contradicted by her increased pitch at the end of

"Ugh."

after we returned back to the

return before me. I don't think I'll

anything. My brows

do I

Krrr—! Krrr—!

that moment, I heard a familiar stone grating sound and the doors of the room suddenly opened, much to my

"What's going on?"

as he took out his sword and got into a

spill into the room, but unlike before, I no longer needed to cover my eyes as my eyes were

revealing the figure of a demon who stared into

"What's going on h—huek!"

SHIIIING—!

slashed his sword before the demon could

Thump—! Thump—!

any time, Kevin extended his hand, engulfing the demon's figure

the floor and Kevin stepped

Crack—!

looks like we don't have much

into the

"Where are you going?"

called out as I got out

"Who are you!?"

echoed in the distance right as

SHIIING—!

dissecting another demon that appeared to be opening another

Crack—!

the core of the demon,

"Done."

"…That was fast."

to where Kevin was and staring toward the cracked core on the ground,

have killed

"Ah?"

should've questioned him

pinching the shards of the core,

that we're currently in some unknown territory we have no idea. We

"About that..."

have to worry

Kevin was about to

"Hm?"

to face her