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 can no

had completely vanished, and his

while still considerably strong, was a far cry

as he once did. In fact, without the constraints of the Pillar weighing me down, I discovered that I was becoming

"Y.. you… you maniac."

Prince said,

were within the tower just to kill

what

right in front of my eyes. Sword in hand, I pointed it straight at his

Clank—!

unsurprisingly, he was able to react to my movements. But it

to be one of the most powerful beings

Still…

to come

every part of my body as I extended

"Stop."

my mind as the

sword at him, and the space around him shattered, revealing over a

This time…

time they managed to

"Argh!"

materialized all over his body as

precisely so that they would all become

arrived before

dripping down the side of

anything, my mind was even number as

What

I wasn't interested in

grasped onto his head, and through the gap of

things that I wanted to say to him at the moment,

have time for such nonsense.

And so I did.

"Goodbye."

Swoosh—!

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

it had its uses as I brought it to my mouth and ingested

I reached out for the core with my hand

a faint demonic energy that twisted the air around it, and the demonic blood that was within my body

core with the laws, I put the core

like I've overdone

the wounds I sustained weren't healing, I knew that I had gone

body

was not

choice did I have? I

"Ren."

me out of my thoughts, and when I turned

like they've made it out alive without a

that. Destroying the Pillar was a reckless move, but

body, I was able to preserve the

alive. I could only

are you alright? What happened

first one to come was obviously

and on any normal

"I'm alright."