The Author's POV

'You're in my domain. So long as we're in here, I'll keep getting stronger and stronger. Whatever you do, it's futile.'

The clues were always there.

It was just that such an option wasn't really feasible. If the pillar crumbled, what would happen to those who were within the pillar?

It was a question that had plagued my mind since the very beginning and stopped me from doing the obvious.

That… however, only crossed my mind at the very beginning.

Reminding myself of what had happened to my family because of my indecisiveness and realizing that I had no other option, I realized what I needed to do.

It was as if something had snapped within me, and such questions stopped bothering me.

All I cared about at the moment was winning.

I wanted nothing more than to kill and satiate the numbness I was feeling.

'That's right. Who cares about what happens next… I'll solve nothing if I keep pondering over these matters... I can always deal with the aftermath of my actions later.'

Thus, I didn't think twice before channeling the laws within my body.

Boom—!

Crashing against the dunes beneath, I injected the laws beneath the ground as golden runes and words sank into the sand beneath before moving to another dune and repeating the process.

"Stop dodging."

A hand came and grasped at my throat.

When I looked up, I saw the Prince of Wrath staring menacingly at me with his crimson pupils.

His power was a lot higher than it was before, and it only kept increasing as the fight went on. I was no longer his match, but that was of no concern to me.

'I think that's enough.'

Cr...Crack!

Raising both of my hands, I twisted my neck, and my vision grew dark.

A sharp pain spread across my neck, sizzling down my back like a web of electricity.

My mana, along with the laws, depleted rapidly, and the tightness that I felt in my throat disappeared.

I wasn't exactly sure what had happened next. I couldn't really see or feel anything. It was just… dark and silent.

Eerily silent.

I wasn't sure how long it had been like that, but the sensation didn't last very long at all. My vision quickly returned, and I found that I was standing in the clouds.

The normal sky.

The one that belonged to Earth.

What remained of the pillar and the surrounding debris were scattered beneath me. They dispersed themselves across the land, wreaking havoc on the echo systems that were buried below.

It wasn't a pretty sight, but that was of no concern to me at the moment. Raising my head, my gaze paused on the Prince of Wrath.

Finally, I smiled.

seems like you

dark red hue that had been enveloping his body had completely vanished,

a far cry from

In fact, without the constraints of the Pillar weighing me down, I discovered that I was becoming

"Y.. you… you maniac."

said,

lives of all those that were within the tower just

finishing what

a step forward, my vision warped, and the Prince appeared right in front of my

Clank—!

unsurprisingly, he was able to react to my movements.

to be one of the

Still…

to come

as a searing pain engulfed every part of my body

"Stop."

spoke, my voice sounded hoarse, but that was the last thing on my mind as the Prince's body came to a sudden stop in front

that moment to point my sword at him, and the space around him shattered, revealing over a

This time…

they managed to

"Argh!"

body as

precisely so that they would all become lodged in his joints, stopping his every

forward, I arrived before the Prince

were clenched and saliva was dripping down the side of his mouth, I didn't

number as I reached out

What are

tried to speak, but I wasn't interested in anything

his head, and through the gap of

a lot of things that I wanted to say to him at the

for such nonsense. I needed to end

And so I did.

"Goodbye."

Swoosh—!

in the air. Alongside it was a pitch-black orb that materialized as a consequence of

was my doing, and it had its uses as

core with my hand and calmly observed

it, and the demonic blood that was within my body pulsed and writhed in response to the power that was hidden within the

I put the core away and finally

looks like

saw that a lot of the wounds I sustained weren't

with this body was simply…

body was not fit to hold the

did I have? I

"Ren."

my thoughts, and when I turned my

it

breathed in relief when I saw that. Destroying the Pillar was a reckless move, but I didn't do so without a

laws within my body, I was able to preserve the structure of the

alive. I

alright? What

to come was obviously

she scanned my body from top to bottom, and on any normal occasion, I would've smiled at her, but I found myself

"I'm alright."