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.

wanted to take my

to understand how they

"Die!"

Vooom—!

much so that the space around the fist

my movements. Golden runes and words appeared in my vision and encircled my

knows how to control the

enough,

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

glance that if the fist made contact with me, I would

arrive before my

the golden runes and words floating around me shattered, and

Pak!

and a loud smacking sound reverberated through the air as pressurized wind waves spread outward from the point of contact between

My hair fluttered lightly.

"Mh."

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

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

was painful, but it wasn't anything close to

"You... that power..."

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

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

Fwap—

he appeared before me, and my

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

Pak!

unfortunate that his reaction was so

when his body suddenly twisted, and my

body to jerk back again, and

it stopped and my

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

time I healed, an enormous amount of mana would be

let this

Voom—!

a fist came hurling in my

time, unlike the previous times, I didn't counter attack, and

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

from the sheath and

Prince began to shatter, and a

"Argh!"

attacks disintegrated as soon as they touched his body. Despite this, I was not unhappy with

just the

more and pointed my sword his way. The process

"Argh!!"

didn't reach him once more, they managed to come closer than in the previous

my foot again, my vision blurred, and I arrived before the Prince's back. Pointing my sword at him,

attacks were relentless, and they

with each attack, but at the

This…

right now was a result of my

three arts together, I managed to create