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 no longer

his body had completely

a far cry from what it

fact, without the constraints of the Pillar weighing me down, I discovered

"Y.. you… you maniac."

Prince said, his words

were within the tower just to kill me? Do… aren't

what

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

Clank—!

to my movements. But it

to be one of the most powerful beings in the known

Still…

need to come to an

every part of

"Stop."

but that was the last thing on my mind as the Prince's body came to a sudden stop

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

This time…

they managed

"Argh!"

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

all become

a step forward, I arrived

him, whose teeth were clenched and saliva was dripping down the

mind was even number as I reached out to

y,you! What

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

with my hand, I grasped onto his head, and

him at the moment,

have time for such nonsense. I

And so I did.

"Goodbye."

Swoosh—!

wind, revealing a 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 single

its uses as I brought it to

I reached out for the core with my

around it, and the demonic blood that was within my

the core with the laws, I put the core away and finally took a deep

like I've overdone

and saw that a lot of the wounds I sustained weren't healing, I knew that I

this body was simply… a recipe for

was not fit to hold

I have? I

"Ren."

I turned my head, I caught sight

they've made it out alive without

I saw that. Destroying the Pillar was a reckless move, but

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

everyone inside was still alive.

alright? What happened

one to come

had a worried look on her face as she scanned my body from top to bottom, and on

"I'm alright."