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.

you can

that had been enveloping his body had completely vanished, and his body had shrunk back to

strong, was a far cry from

constraints of

"Y.. you… you maniac."

said,

risk the lives of all those that were within the tower just to kill me? Do… aren't

what you wanted to

vision warped, and the Prince appeared right in front

Clank—!

was able to react to my movements.

he was still considered to be one of the most powerful

Still…

need to come to an

engulfed every part

"Stop."

my mind as the Prince's body came to a sudden stop

space around him shattered, revealing over a dozen sword projections that shot

This time…

they managed to

"Argh!"

a dozen sword projections materialized all over his body as

that they would all

forward, I arrived before the Prince

dripping down the side of his mouth, I didn't

was even number as I reached out to grasp his

What are

to speak, but I wasn't interested in anything

onto his head, and through the gap of my fingers, our eyes

of things that I wanted to say to him at the

have time for such nonsense. I needed

And so I did.

"Goodbye."

Swoosh—!

small core that levitated in the air. Alongside it was a pitch-black orb that materialized as a consequence of the ambers in the Prince's body coming together to form a

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

the core with my hand

demonic blood that was within my

the core away and finally

looks like

a lot of the wounds I sustained weren't healing, I knew that I had gone too

body was

this body was not fit

did I have? I was

"Ren."

thoughts, and when I turned my head, I caught sight of

seems like they've made it out alive

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

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

was still alive. I

alright?

to come

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

"I'm alright."