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

understand how

"Die!"

Vooom—!

fast and powerful. So much so that the space around the fist

around me lock, halting my movements. Golden runes and words appeared in

he too knows how to control

that wasn't bad enough, the fist was extremely

Chronos] active, the fist that was thrown at me moved at an unfathomable speed, and as it approached, it grew steadily

from a single glance that if the fist made contact with me, I

waited for it to arrive before my very eyes before finally making a

laws within my body, the golden runes and words floating around me shattered, and

Pak!

contact with my palm, and a loud smacking sound reverberated through the air as pressurized wind waves spread outward from the point of contact

My hair fluttered lightly.

"Mh."

was so powerful that I was pushed back several meters, and the sand beneath us disappeared

and say that the force didn't hurt me, but I did feel my entire body tremble in the aftermath of the attack, and

but it wasn't anything close to

"You... that power..."

I looked at the Prince, he looked back at me with a

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

Fwap—

he appeared before me, and

the time my vision returned, my gaze fell on his exposed back, and I reached my palm

Pak!

that his reaction was so

body suddenly twisted, and my palm once again came into contact

to jerk back again, and my arm to shake as a result of the force

seconds before it

been my real body, my bones would've shattered by now. It was a good thing that I wasn't in my physical body, but at the same time, I knew that my actions were undermining

healed, an enormous amount

couldn't let

Voom—!

more, a fist came hurling in

previous times, I didn't counter attack,

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

my sword from the sheath and aimed it

began to shatter, and a number of

"Argh!"

touched his body. Despite this,

was just the

his way. The process was the same as before, but unlike before, the sword streaks were

"Argh!!"

managed to come closer than in the

Prince's back. Pointing my sword at him, the space around him shattered once

relentless, and they grew by the

mana inside of my body drained rapidly with each attack, but at the same time, I

This…

now was a result of my

arts together, I managed to