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

to understand how they had

"Die!"

Vooom—!

powerful. So much so that the space around the fist shattered, and

felt the area around me lock, halting my movements. Golden runes

he too knows how

that wasn't bad enough, the fist was extremely

was thrown at me moved at an unfathomable speed, and as it approached, it grew steadily larger in

contact with me, I would die,

the fist, I waited for it to arrive before my very

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

Pak!

loud smacking sound reverberated through the air as pressurized

My hair fluttered lightly.

"Mh."

impact was so powerful that I was pushed back several meters, and the sand

did feel my entire body tremble in the aftermath of the attack, and even though I wasn't in my actual

close to the pain my

"You... that power..."

voice brought my attention back, and when I looked at the Prince, he looked back at me with a startled

was able to use the laws as his eyes shook fiercely. But he was

Fwap—

appeared before me, and my vision

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

Pak!

his reaction was

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

of the impact caused my body to jerk back again, and my

trembling lasted several seconds before it stopped and my arm returned

shattered by now. It was a good thing that I wasn't in my physical body, but

an enormous amount of mana would

let

Voom—!

a fist came hurling

previous times, I

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

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

shatter, and a number of sword streaks appeared

"Argh!"

they touched his body.

just the

and pointed my sword his way. The process was the same as before, but

"Argh!!"

once more, they managed to come closer than in the previous

and I arrived before the Prince's back. Pointing my sword at him, the space around him

were relentless, and they grew

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

This…

I was doing right now was a result of my

managed to create the perfect sword