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

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

a

the constraints of the Pillar weighing me down, I discovered that I was becoming

"Y.. you… you maniac."

Prince said, his words

risk the lives of all those that were within the tower just to kill

bother finishing what

Prince appeared right in front

Clank—!

to react to my movements. But it was to

the pillar supporting him, he was still considered to be one of the

Still…

to come to an

engulfed every part of my body as

"Stop."

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

space around him shattered, revealing

This time…

time they managed to

"Argh!"

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

precisely so that they would all

forward, I arrived before the

saliva was dripping down the side of his mouth, I didn't particularly feel

as I reached out to grasp

y,you! What are you

speak, but I wasn't interested

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

to him at the moment, but when I

time for such nonsense. I needed to

And so I did.

"Goodbye."

Swoosh—!

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

uses as

I reached out for the core with my hand and calmly observed

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

the core with the laws, I put the core

looks like I've

my body and saw that a lot of the wounds I sustained weren't

laws with this body was simply…

was not fit to hold the

did I

"Ren."

of my thoughts, and when I turned my head, I caught sight of a few familiar

like they've made it out

breathed in relief when I saw that. Destroying the Pillar was a reckless move, but

within my body, I was able to preserve the

inside was still alive.

alright? What

to

scanned my body from top to bottom, and

"I'm alright."