The Author's POV

It all should've ended with a swipe of my hand…

That was what, Mercurion, a Marquis ranked demon thought as he swiped down at the human before him.

He had a rather strong body.

One that was difficult to break with a single attack and that required quite a bit of strength, in spite of him being a rank lower. Even so, it should not have been impossible for Mercurion to overcome.

In the end, orcs had a similar level of toughness and he was easily able to kill them.

Clang—!

Mercurion was taken aback when he felt his claws strike something solid and felt a vibration emanating from his hand as a result of the impact.

"What's going on?"

He wondered aloud as he lowered his head to look at the human.

At this precise moment, Marcurion was astounded to see that the human's body had turned completely black, and thin yellow lines began to appear around the human's body.

They glowed a faint tint of yellow and brought rise to an indescribable sense of oppression.

'What's going on?'

Mercurion stared in disbelief as he sensed that something was off about the situation.

Bang—!

Before he could even begin to make sense of what was happening, he felt a strong force envelop his entire body as he was pushed several meters backward.

"Hyak!"

***

"Haaa…haaa…"

'It hurts!'

As Hein laboriously gulped for air, he was suddenly overcome with excruciating pain throughout his entire body.

Particularly, he was able to feel the throbbing and searing pain in his veins, making it hard for him to even utter a couple of words.

Nonetheless, with the pain came an indescribable amount of power.

"Aaaakhhh…"

Hein yelled out in agony as the muscles in his right hand began to twitch in an uncontrollable manner.

He was starting to lose focus and his vision was starting to blur.

The pain was that intense.

'Damn it ...I didn't expect to use this so early into the war.'

Hein muttered a curse under his breath as the shaking in his right knee and the growing darkness in his vision continued.

'Remember Hein, don't ever use it unless you're in danger. Since you are only learning about the body part, using it will result in excruciating pain that will make you want to commit suicide.

Hein started recalling a few words Han Yufei had told him in the past.

'Not only that, since you haven't fully mastered it yet, the pain will be even worse than I can describe...remember, don't ever use the Gravar style unless your life is really in danger.'

"Haha...I should've listened to him."

out a

The Gravar style.

currently using at

a small part

didn't use the sword and it didn't fit his fighting style.

focused on the

"Ughhh..."

throbbing only got worse with

don't have

twenty minutes he previously had had now turned

that he was in a difficult situation; however, when confronted by a demon with the rank of Marquis,

Boom!

into shreds and his vision distorted. Before he knew it, he was in front of the Marquis ranked demon. He raised his arm and, curling his

the demon could do nothing but stay firm on his spot as he crossed his arms together to block the

"Heukk!"

meters in the opposite direction. When he finally came

"H..how "

blank expression on his face. However, before he could even begin to comprehend

Bang!

moment for the demon to catch his breath. His fighting

was slowly losing strength with each second

for him to deal severe

Booom!

the demon's head against the ground with his hand while his right foot pinned the demon's body to the

"Hiek!"

into the ground, he let out a pitiful screech and his eyes widened in shock as he stared at the ground in

'How...how is this possible?'

observing the expression on his face as he mounted the demon's body and began

Bang!

One punch.

Bang!

A second punch..

Bang!

A third punch...

the pace of the punches began to quicken and eventually reached a frenetic state. The blows were

"Khhh..."

'This should be enough.'

a span of two seconds, he could feel his body on fire and realized that he needed to put an end to

things right away if he wanted any chance of surviving this and

preparations to put

"...Huh?"

hand frozen in mid-air as

once, and during that brief moment, his eyes came into contact with those of the demon. It came as a

same time, Hein felt his

"A..are you feeling tired?"

opened his mouth and his voice quietly entered Hein's head

to droop, and the hand that was still in the

had your fun with me already, haven't you? I think it's enough, don't

demon's voice continued to ring inside of

'Right...I'm indeed tired.'

as he heard

shine with an even greater brilliance, and Hein's hand, which had been raised

a lot of energy, how about you go to sleep? I think you deserve some sleep after everything

demon's voice gradually became softer over the course of the conversation, and Hein

'Right...he is right... '

made

were almost entirely depleted. As a matter of fact, his mental clarity had already begun to diminish well before this moment. He hadn't been able to think clearly in quite some time, and the voice of the demon completely resonated with what he was experiencing on

he somehow felt even more tired when the

you take a small nap, I