The Author's POV

"Cut my throat, slash my body, cut my limbs… I can't die."

Dark Servant was a skill that consisted in creating a body made out of pure mana. Being a skill, so long as there was mana supplying the skill, the Dark Servant was technically invincible.

Unless the user ran out of mana, or the mana was directly cut off, there was simply no way to kill Ren.

…but that was the thing.

Ren's body was being sustained by his other self, a fact that weighed heavily on him.

Each time he died, he took the mana from the other him who was fighting against Jezebeth. He was invincible, but at the same time, his actions held a considerable weight on the outcome of the real fight that was taking place.

As Ren stood there, his body slowly regenerating, his thoughts raced.

He knew that he couldn't allow himself to die again like before. While he couldn't see how the situation between his other self and Jezebeth was unfolding, he knew that his death could have made the situation a lot more difficult for his other self.

"Hmm."

Ren's thoughts were interrupted by the sound of the Prince's voice.

"So you can't be killed, huh?"

The Prince's words gently traveled through the air, reaching Ren's ears. When Ren looked down, he was met with a smile.

"You can't die, but can you kill me?"

The Prince asked. The smile on his face deepened as he looked around him. He no longer looked as lost as he did before.

"I can tell that you're here to get me, but will you really be able to kill me? I've already got a grasp of your strength. Just like I can't kill you...you can't kill me. I'm sure you can tell that too."

The Prince looked up, his gaze meeting with Rens once more.

"So that gives rise to the question. What are you doing here? Are you perhaps trying to stall for time? Perhaps keep me in check while others are―"

"Stall for time?"

Ren's cold words echoed within the air, cutting the Prince's words. Raising his head and letting the raindrop fall on his face, his mouth parted open.

"Keep you in check?"

He muttered again; the water beneath him split apart, and water particles flew in the air.

The space around him started to distort massively as his figure suddenly vanished from the spot, reappearing right before the Patriarch of the Envy Clan.

Appearing right in front of him with his sword pointed at Prince Murdock's brows, Ren's face distorted to an unbearable degree, and his voice raised.

"Why?!"

Rumble―! Rumble―!

him started to lose color, and his body flickered with a white light as demonic energy and mana sprouted out of his

to change. Right then, the projection of a huge sword appeared from within the space itself, coming out in a rapid manner until its full body

Woom! Woom!

held within the

"T, this power..."

the sword, Ren coldly gazed at

inside his body was depleting at a faster rate than it was replenishing, but

that was

didn't care as black threads floated out from his body and

Rumble―! Rumble―!

didn't last for long as Ren's hand soon relaxed, and the world turned

.

.

.

his mouth,

"Fall."

***

"Hmm, what's wrong? "

faced each other, the tension thick between them. Jezebeth's

on Jezebeth's face belied the

hurled through the air, crashing through an invisible film that shattered like glass and revealing

Boom―!

was short-lived as Ren crashed into the ground,

down at Ren with a cocked head,

was taken aback by his appearance in the pillars, but now that I look at you…" he said, his arms extending out as he chuckled. "…I think

its toll on him. His entire

didn't have much time

even as Jezebeth extended

use my full strength. From the looks of things, I

have sounded confident, but

he

and had died at his

the universe who could actually make him fear something, and whatever was

what

knew that Ren had something planned, but he didn't know what it was. That uncertainty was what made him fear

Crack! Crack! Crack!

and revealing hundreds of swords that stabbed at him. But Jezebeth was too

single step, Jezebeth appeared before Ren, but this time, his finger passed right through Ren's figure, which

"You sure run fast."

smile before knocking on the air to his

Bang―!

again, crashing into the verdant world below. Jezebeth approached Ren once more, his calm gaze looking

the full extent of your power. Is this some sort of

his sentence as he thought of something,

right, you couldn't be stalling

world entirely. The impact

BOOM―!