The Author's POV

[Pillar of Sloth]

SHIIING—!

Silently coming from beneath the ground, Jin appeared behind a demon, and with his daggers crossed behind the demon's neck, a head rolled on the ground.

Thump!

Thin black threads emerged from the ground, enveloping the entire head before crushing it into a pulp and revealing a black core.

After the core was uncovered, the threads eventually worked their way toward it, and wrapped all over it, shattering the core at once.

Like that, a Duke ranked demon died.

"Haa…"

After releasing a soft breath, dark threads emerged from the ground and grappled onto his legs, pulling him beneath the ground, and his figure disappeared into the ground.

Boom—!

Shortly after his figure merged with the ground, a foot stomped in the area he was in, forming a large crater.

"He's gone!"

A demon huffed, looking around with a menacing glare.

It had only been a couple of minutes since he had made his appearance, but from the moment he had appeared, the situation started to turn more chaotic.

The great advantage that they had built was slowly starting to crumble, and the other races were starting to recompose themselves

"Where has he gone!? Damn, hiding bastard!"

The demon cursed and trashed, looking everywhere for any traces of the human that had appeared from out of nowhere.

It was right when he fixed his gaze in a particular direction that he suddenly felt a chill coming down his back and a voice whispering into his ears.

"I'm not hiding anywhere."

"You—!"

Swoosh—!

He swung his claws directly behind him, but to his great dismay, he saw that his claws hit nothing. Instead, thin black threads emerged from underneath the ground and slowly grappled and latched onto his hands, halting his movement.

"This! What is this!?"

The demon tried to rid himself of the threads that were gripped onto his arms, but as he pulled, he found that they didn't budge a single inch and merely stretched a little bit.

If that wasn't bad enough, more and more threads appeared from beneath the ground, encircling his legs and wings.

No matter how much the demon tried to struggle, more and more threads emerged from the ground beneath, sealing his movements.

The process moved along rather quickly, and before the demon even realized what was happening, the dark threads had encased every part of his body, with the exception of his head, which protruded from the cocoon.

"Release me!"

The demon tried to struggle, but it was a futile effort.

Appearing behind him, Jin casually looked at him from top to bottom before bending over and stabbing at his calf.

"There it is."

Spurt—!

as Jin's eyes shone at the sight of a particular object inside

core, the demon's face changed

Cr…Crack!

core into his hand, it shattered into thousands of pieces, and the demon's body dissolved into the air. The

"Huu."

powerful demon, Jin took a

to deal with

but easy. Nearly half of his mana

was still a lot of work that he needed to

Gulp—!

his figure once again melted against the

***

the Sloth Clan was Prince Letvia. He was a demon with long pinkish hair—a trait belonging to the higher demons within the clan—and his features were extremely pleasant

demons. All of whom were Prince

we've found ourselves a

certain human boy with short blond hair and

way he danced around the other demons and harvested their core

without a

makes me want

Prince, silently licking his lips

demons weren't exactly going all

was to win the

many as they possibly

This order…

desired. He insisted that they make an effort to grow their forces even more by converting those

demons were confused by the order, but none

questioning His Majesty

tried, and the results were anything but

was nothing that could escape his gaze, and all they could do was obey his

we do with the little human? Does anyone want

the side to take a look at the Prince-ranked demons that were still present. There were more than a dozen of

that consisted of choosing a certain target to bring over

they did enjoy killing, they had all agreed that letting such talented

if there was a

make good cannon fodder or perhaps even

Out of all the demons, he seemed to

"Are you interested?"

"…I indeed am."

extremely calm. Such behavior pleased the Prince, who nodded his

"What's your name?"

"Valling."

forward a couple of steps and stopping right in front of

"Valling is it?"

him, and he seemed to be rather talented. His age and the rank he had achieved were

actually seen him, he was

lately when he heard about the situation over there and how he had managed to gain an

demons on a daily basis, only the most important topics would make it

had heard about him was a testament to

"Good… good…"

Prince observed him, the more

was adequate

it wasn't his strength that impressed him the most; rather, it was the manner in which he carried

calmness was rare to see these days, and he was extremely pleased to know that there was someone like this in

"For now…"

for very long as he returned