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 was

who held the key to getting

familiar with, and the one entity that he could

was the only person to have ever beaten him,

things won't be so simple anymore now that Kevin has given him

core palpitate, and his gaze shifted toward his

right, I'm not

little

We will

the army of demons in front of him and turned

whether we will be

***

planning on migrating everyone

Octavius's voice that rang loudly inside my office. It was just the two of us at the moment, and he looked

"I'm not crazy."

"Like hell, you aren't."

"That's kind of rude."

the truth doesn't make me

"Oh yeah, it does."

"Then you're delusional."

again… Is this how you treat your

me for who knows

I had lost count.

know best that I'm making the right

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

this made perfect sense, and I

That being said…

can't get used to this

was completely at a

emotion than he ever had in the past, and some of the things he was saying and doing with his face

want the

I despised the old Octavious, he was incredibly rational

stark contrast to the current Octavious, who appeared to be on an emotional high, if one could

not like it's a bad thing, but in situations

future? Do you realize that the majority of people will be angry with you because of the

a moment and listen

out a sigh and pinched the

my words seemed to have reached his ears,

I continued.

I will not be

to Maylin and

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

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

didn't want them to be a

remain, I decided to let them be, and if they were in danger, I would place them at the bottom of my priority list of the things that I needed to care

couldn't allow them to become a burden

"Okay, I get it."

front of me, calming

normal for the first time in a while,

of an overstatement since this was

"Alright."

line of sight. Rubbing his chin,

mean if… we're going to do this, how much

"How much?"

"As in cores."

"Oh."