The Author's POV

"What odd power."

Drawing my attention was the white, viscous film that was coating my hand. The power felt rather gentle, and I sensed no rejection from it.

At a glance, one wouldn't be able to tell that this power I held was something that far surpassed mana in terms of power.

"Too bad I don't have a good grasp on it."

The most I could do with it at the moment was just move it around my hand, albeit extremely slowly.

I attempted to channel it, but, unlike the mana that flowed freely around my body, the Akashic laws proved to be much more difficult to manipulate than I had anticipated.

If mana was like water, then the Akashic laws were like peanut butter. It just refused to move forward.

'Even demonic energy is a lot easier to control than this.'

I extended my other hand and watched as a black film covered my other hand. The process was smooth, and the black film moved around my hand in a smooth manner.

"Hm."

It was right when I was playing with the demonic energy inside of my body that I noticed something.

"What's this?"

As I brought my right and left hands closer together, I was surprised to feel a sense of opposition coming from the two powers.

It was rather weak, but it was there for sure.

'Are the two of them rejecting each other?'

I pressed both hands together and closed my eyes to feel whatever was going on.

It wasn't long before I felt something, and I opened my eyes in surprise.

'Indeed, it looks like the two powers are rejecting each other.'

It was very faint, but I could feel it.

"Inter—huh!?"

I stopped halfway and hurriedly looked toward my palms. It was there that I noticed the demonic energy pushing back the Akashic laws.

"What's going on?"

I immediately grew intrigued and channeled more demonic energy into my right palm.

Gradually, I watched as the demonic energy pushed the Akashic laws around more and more.

'What in the...'

The phenomenon fascinated me, and I understood why this was happening. Compared to the laws, the demonic energy was a lot denser.

There wasn't a lot of Akashic Laws in my body, as compared to demonic energy, and I had a sudden thought.

'What if I use demonic energy to help me move the laws better around my body?'

The concept piqued my interest, and I did not squander any time before putting it into action.

The results were immediate. The moment that I started channeling the demonic energy inside of my body, the Akashic laws started to move against it. Almost in repulsion, and suddenly, I felt myself getting more and more familiar with this new power.

that very moment, but when I thought about

blow this place up

"Huuu…"

demonic energy and

had a little bit

too thin for me to control properly. While I indeed found a

that'll do for

to get more familiar with

to avoid

'Now…'

slowly stood up from the ground. I was currently in a

place to train. Due to my unfamiliarity with this new ability, I determined

happen, I wouldn't really

"Huaaam."

my mouth, I stretched my

Ding—!

to look at my watch. When I pressed the message, I noticed

[ACCO.txt]

more efficient than I gave them

and several files appeared on my watch. I

"Huh."

through each and every one of the files didn't take me very long at all. About an hour, and by the time I was

lot more

I felt complicated, but…

think I know how to get back

***

sun hung in the sky, illuminating all that was beneath, and a gentle breeze accompanied the

In a certain park.

quite a hard

man. On one of the park benches,

up and down, they wrestled and tackled each other to get to the

found the answer that you were

"More or less."

sat down on the

"May I?"

"Go ahead."

feeding the pigeons, I decided to give

few of the crumbs and flung them in the direction of the birds. By the time

"It's rather calming, eh?"

"You call this calming?"

the bag back. This

"Not a fan?"

continued to feed the pigeons. It looked

you going to

keeping his eyes on

moment to muse over my thoughts before leaning back on the

clue, I don't know whether it's the right clue. I'd have to check back

"Mhm."

to the pigeons. His expression was rather hard

that you

"I can go back?"

the sudden revelation. Could I finally go back to

"You can go back."

didn't hear incorrectly. I immediately found myself getting excited at