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―!

started to lose color, and his body flickered with a white light as demonic energy

stopped, and his figure started to change. Right then, the projection of a huge sword appeared from within the space itself, coming out in

Woom! Woom!

within the sword, and Prince Murdock's

"T, this power..."

right beneath the sword, Ren coldly gazed at Prince

it was replenishing, but even so, for the

that was far beyond

his body and merged against the sword in the sky. The pressure that came out of

Rumble―! Rumble―!

as Ren's hand soon relaxed,

.

.

.

mouth, Ren

"Fall."

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"Hmm, what's wrong? "

thick between them.

belied the power

the air, crashing through an invisible film

Boom―!

verdant green world that appeared was peaceful and serene, but it was short-lived as Ren crashed into the ground, shattering trees and creating a

Ren with a cocked head,

you…" he said, his arms extending out as he chuckled. "…I think you've shot yourself in the foot. Not only is your mana rapidly depleting,

effects of the battle taking its toll on him. His entire body was sluggish, and the mana inside

that he didn't

of emotion, even as Jezebeth

completely unharmed and yet to use my full strength. From the looks of things, I was

have sounded confident, but in

he not

knew Ren better than anyone else and had died at his hands

the only one in the universe who could actually make him fear something, and whatever was happening at the moment

what you're

know what it was. That uncertainty was what

Crack! Crack! Crack!

the space around him and revealing hundreds of swords that stabbed at him. But Jezebeth was too quick, shattering the

appeared before Ren, but this time, his finger passed right through Ren's

"You sure run fast."

with a smile before knocking on the air to

Bang―!

and Ren was sent hurtling toward the ground once again, crashing into the verdant world

very well this isn't the full extent of your power. Is

his sentence as he thought

you couldn't be stalling for

a force that shattered the space around it and revealed a different world entirely. The impact of the strike was beyond what the world

BOOM―!