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.

like you

hue that had been enveloping his body had completely vanished, and his body

a far cry from what it

of the Pillar weighing me

"Y.. you… you maniac."

said, his

the lives of all those that were within

bother finishing what you wanted to

warped, and the Prince appeared right in front of my eyes. Sword

Clank—!

or unsurprisingly, he was able to react to my movements.

the pillar supporting him, he was still considered to be one of the most powerful beings in

Still…

need to come

every part of my body as I extended it

"Stop."

last thing on my mind as the Prince's body came to a sudden

him, and the space around him shattered, revealing over a dozen sword projections

This time…

time they managed to

"Argh!"

projections materialized all over his body as he let out an agonized scream, spraying black blood

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

forward, I arrived before the Prince once

him, whose teeth were clenched and saliva was dripping down the side of his mouth, I didn't particularly feel

was even number as I reached out to grasp his

y,you! What are you

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

out with my hand, I grasped onto his head, and

things that I wanted to say to him at the moment, but when I tried to speak, I

for such nonsense. I needed to end things

And so I did.

"Goodbye."

Swoosh—!

that levitated in the air. Alongside it was a pitch-black orb that materialized

uses as I brought

I reached out for the core with my hand and calmly

demonic energy that twisted the air around it, and the demonic blood that was within my body pulsed and writhed in response to

with the laws, I put the core away

looks like

and saw that a lot of the wounds

with this body was simply…

body was not fit to hold

did I

"Ren."

when I

like they've made it

I saw that. Destroying the Pillar was

body, I was able to preserve the structure of the pocket

still alive. I could only

you alright? What

to come was obviously

to bottom, and on any normal occasion, I would've

"I'm alright."