The Author's POV

It all happened so fast that Prince Konjak was unable to react in time. Before he knew it, the world turned upside down and he caught a glimpse of his body.

At first, he was confused, but he soon came to a sudden understanding of what had transpired, and his body quickly shattered into the air.

"Haa...haa…"

As he vigorously gulped for air, the region directly below his neck began to wiggle, and a new body materialized. The transformation took place almost instantly, and Prince Konjak had no trouble getting around in his new body once it was complete.

'That was close.'

Clenching and unclenching his fist several times, Prince Konjak finally sighed in relief.

Everything seemed to be working properly.

'It's good that he didn't hit my core.'

Had that been the case… he probably wouldn't still be alive.

"…You lived."

A voice laced with what seemed to be pity drifted in the air, and Prince Konjak raised his head. His expression twisted at the sight of the figure above him, and he channeled all of his demonic energy.

"Count yourself unlucky."

Prince Konjak muttered as the demonic energy around him became tangible.

In a matter of seconds, a domain of demonic energy formed around his body. Once it expanded and reached a certain range, at the clench of the Prince's fist, the domain contracted, entering the Prince's body.

His body began to expand at an alarming rate, and his figure began to tower over the landscape, casting a shadow on the ground below.

"You had one chance to kill me…"

His tone became more profound, and the amount of energy he radiated became ten times stronger. The world was completely taken over by his presence, and the space around him warped and distorted.

"…but you failed, and therefore your one and only chance disappeared."

He clenched his fist and shifted his weight to the back of his body. As he concentrated as much demonic power as he could into his fist, the air around it burst into fragments, and he ground his teeth together.

"Now…"

Releasing all of the energy that was contained within his fist, he thrust his fist forward while shouting.

"Die!"

BOOOM—!

***

'I missed… what a pity.'

There I went and wasted my one and only chance to get rid of him quickly.

Normally, I'd be bummed out, but at the moment, I didn't particularly feel like that. In fact, I would've probably been more disappointed if he had died that fast.

I wouldn't be disappointed if he died because he was too weak; rather, I'd be disappointed because his death would've been too fast.

to take

them… to understand how

"Die!"

Vooom—!

and powerful. So much so that

me lock, halting my movements. Golden runes and

too knows how to control the

that wasn't bad enough, the fist was extremely

thrown at me moved at an unfathomable speed, and as

the fist made contact with me, I would die, but I

it to arrive before my very

golden runes and words floating around me shattered, and I brought my

Pak!

through the air as pressurized wind waves spread outward from the point of contact between

My hair fluttered lightly.

"Mh."

was so powerful that I was pushed back several meters, and

and say that the force didn't hurt me, but I did feel my entire body tremble in the aftermath of the attack, and even though I wasn't in my actual body, I could still feel

anything close to the pain my main

"You... that power..."

back, and when I looked at the Prince, he looked back at me

seemed genuinely surprised by the fact that I was able to use the laws as his eyes shook fiercely. But he was quick to

Fwap—

before me, and my vision

my gaze fell on his exposed back, and I reached my palm toward

Pak!

that his reaction was

palm was about to reach for his back when his body suddenly twisted, and my palm once again came into contact with

impact caused my body to jerk back again, and my arm to shake as a result of

several seconds before it stopped and

now. It was a good thing that I wasn't in my physical body, but at the same time, I

healed, an enormous amount of mana would

let

Voom—!

a fist came

previous times, I didn't counter

pressed my foot against the air, and when the shaking stopped, I found myself several hundred meters away from where I

I unsheathed my sword from the sheath and aimed it at the Prince while pointing it

the area around the Prince began to shatter, and a number of sword streaks appeared all around

"Argh!"

as they touched his body. Despite this, I was not unhappy with the

was just the

more, I distanced myself once more and pointed my sword his way. The process was the same as before,

"Argh!!"

reach him once more, they managed to come

Prince's back. Pointing my sword at him, the space around him shattered once more, and more and more sword streaks headed in

relentless, and

each attack, but at the same time, I started gaining more

This…

now was a result of

three arts together, I managed