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

wanted them… to understand how they

"Die!"

Vooom—!

my way. It was fast and powerful. So much so that the

runes and words

expected, he too knows how to control the

bad enough, the fist was extremely

moved at an unfathomable speed, and as it approached, it

made contact with me, I would die, but I did not

arrive before my very eyes before

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

Pak!

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

My hair fluttered lightly.

"Mh."

pushed back several meters, and

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

was painful, but it wasn't anything close to the pain my

"You... that power..."

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

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

Fwap—

wings, he appeared before me,

fell on his exposed back, and I reached my palm

Pak!

was unfortunate that his reaction was so

for his back when his body suddenly twisted, and my palm

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

before it stopped

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

healed, an enormous amount of mana would be

couldn't let this

Voom—!

fist came hurling in my

times, I

the shaking stopped, I found myself several hundred meters away

and aimed

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

"Argh!"

they touched his body. Despite this, I was not

just the

myself once more and pointed my sword his way. The process was the same

"Argh!!"

once more, they managed to come closer than in

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

were relentless, and they

drained rapidly with each attack, but at

This…

was a result of my

arts together, I managed to