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.

like you

dark red hue that had been enveloping his body had completely vanished, and his body had

strong, was a far

no longer appeared as menacing as he once did. In fact, without the constraints of the Pillar weighing me down, I discovered that I was

"Y.. you… you maniac."

Prince said,

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

what you wanted

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

Clank—!

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

he was still considered to

Still…

come to

as a searing pain engulfed every part of

"Stop."

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

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

This time…

they

"Argh!"

body as

had aimed them precisely so that they would all become lodged in his joints, stopping his

arrived before

whose teeth were clenched and saliva was dripping

anything, my mind was even number as I reached out to grasp his

What

tried to speak, but I wasn't interested

with my hand, I grasped onto his head, and through the gap of

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

didn't have time for such nonsense. I needed to

And so I did.

"Goodbye."

Swoosh—!

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

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

reached out for the core with my hand

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

core with the laws, I put the core away and finally

looks like I've

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

with this body was

not fit to hold

did I

"Ren."

voice broke me out of my thoughts, and when I turned my head, I caught sight of a few familiar

it out

Destroying the Pillar was a reckless move, but I

I was able to preserve the structure of the

alive. I could only hope

you alright?

first one to come was obviously

look on her face as she scanned my body from top to bottom, and on any normal occasion, I

"I'm alright."