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

had completely vanished, and

still considerably strong, was a far cry from

longer appeared as menacing 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."

said,

of all those that were within the tower just to

what

right in front of my eyes. Sword in hand, I

Clank—!

to

to be one of the most powerful beings

Still…

to come to an

engulfed every part of my body as I extended it

"Stop."

that was the last thing on my

him, and the space around him shattered, revealing over a dozen sword projections that shot in his direction from

This time…

time they

"Argh!"

dozen sword projections materialized all over his body as he let out

that they would all become lodged in his joints, stopping

arrived before the Prince once

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

number as

y,you! What are you

I wasn't interested in anything that he had

I grasped onto his head,

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

for such nonsense. I needed to end things

And so I did.

"Goodbye."

Swoosh—!

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

it had its uses as I brought it to

core with my hand and calmly

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

the laws, I put the core

looks like

observed my body and saw that a lot of the wounds I sustained weren't healing, I knew that I had gone

body was simply… a

this body was not

I have?

"Ren."

broke me out of my thoughts, and when I

it out

Pillar was

body, I was able to preserve the structure of the

everyone inside was still alive.

you alright? What

to

bottom, and on any normal occasion, I would've smiled at her, but I found myself unable to at the

"I'm alright."