The Author's POV

"We've come a long way, everyone…"

Jezebeth stared at the sea of demons that stood before him. They numbered in the millions, and they all looked at him with fervent eyes.

The sight made Jezebeth smile.

'Who'd have thought that our race, which was on the verge of extinction a few centuries ago, is now the most dominant of all races.'

The sight…

It moved him, and the smile on his face deepened if ever so slightly.

"A lot of you are probably confused… perhaps even annoyed by the sudden orders, but I want to make something clear."

Jezebeth paused and looked down at all of the demons present.

"The order… It was something that I had passed down. It was a decision that I made, and not something that was made on the fly."

Jezebeth's soft vice traveled through the ears of each of the demons present.

It gently vibrated within their minds, and almost seemed to bewitch some of the demons as their eyes turned hazy and their bodies swayed.

"If you are dissatisfied with the orders, you can voice out your complaints now. I'm all ears."

Jezebeth stopped and looked at the army of demons in front of him. He waited for someone to speak up, but none dared.

The place was incredibly quiet, and all the demons looked at him with the same eyes as before.

"So it seems like no one here is dissatisfied…"

He didn't know whether to be happy or disappointed with this news.

He would've loved to have seen a few demons oppose him. Show him that they were different from the others, but he was disappointed to know that such demons didn't exist.

'I expected too much.'

Hiding his disappointment, Jezebeth raised his head up and looked at the demons in front of him once more.

"Now that I got out of the way, I am happy to announce that the war is officially over," Jezebeth continued before the other demons could cheer, "but! ..and I mean but! The real war hasn't even started yet so don't be too quick to rejoice."

As if pouring cold water on them, all of the demons that were previously showing excited expressions revealed disappointed ones.

Jezebeth continued.

"What we have dealt with at the moment is merely a taste. A taste of the true war that is about to come to us…"

What everyone had currently experienced was merely the prelude to the true war that was about to come.

Their forces were strong, and Jezebeth was confident in his chances of victory, but… that was before he came to learn of Kevin's action.

At the moment, he was uncertain.

He was uncertain about the imminent future.

What he previously thought was certain was no longer certain, and at the moment, all preparations seemed for naught.

That being said, there was actually one certainty… And that this was truly the last regression.

Having collected all of the Akashic fragments, he was certain and knew that whoever won between the two of them would be the ultimate winner.

With the Protectors gone, there was nothing stopping him from getting to the records.

fact, there

someone who held the

who he was very familiar with, and the

was the only person to have ever beaten

be so simple anymore now that Kevin has

shifted toward his right. He

I'm not completely

still a little

We will

gazed at the army of demons in front of

dictate whether we will be the only race that exists within the

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on migrating

at the moment, and he looked at

"I'm not crazy."

"Like hell, you aren't."

"That's kind of rude."

truth doesn't make me

"Oh yeah, it does."

"Then you're delusional."

you go being rude again… Is this how you

between Octavious and me for who

I had lost count.

know best that I'm making

could see where he was coming from, I still don't think my choice

obvious that this made perfect sense, and I had no doubt that Octavious was aware of this on

That being said…

get used to this

was completely at a loss

great deal more emotion than he ever had in the past, and some of the things he was saying and doing

want the old

I despised the old Octavious, he was incredibly rational and never let his emotions get the better of

be on

a bad thing, but

concerned about the blowback that is going to be directed toward you in the near future? Do you realize that the majority of people will be angry with you because of the decision you make? Do you have absolutely no

for a moment

a sigh and pinched the middle of

have reached his ears,

I continued.

begin, I will not be

stated this to Maylin and the

not going to do that, I'm confident that there won't be any protests... and if it turns out that some do exist, I'll have to reevaluate my perspective on where we stand as

would be that stupid,

war is about to come, and what I am doing is merely providing them with a safe haven to help

to be a burden on me, but I kept that to

them be, and if they were in danger, I would place them at the bottom of my priority list of

couldn't allow them to become a burden

"Okay, I get it."

front of me, calming

normal for the first time in a while, and he fell into

an overstatement since this was supposed

"Alright."

meet my line of sight. Rubbing his chin, he leaned back

if… we're going to do this, how much

"How much?"

"As in cores."

"Oh."