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

retrieved a black core, the demon's face changed drastically, but

Cr…Crack!

dissolved into

"Huu."

with another powerful demon,

to deal with such strong

it look easy, it was anything but easy. Nearly half of his mana was depleted, and he had only killed

was still a lot of

Gulp—!

figure once again melted against the

***

Prince Letvia. He was a demon with long pinkish hair—a trait belonging

several demons. All of

looks like we've found ourselves

his gaze falling on a certain human boy with short blond hair and deep green eyes in the middle of the

way he danced around the other demons and harvested

was, without a doubt,

makes me want to

the Prince, silently licking his lips and feeling a

a secret, but the demons weren't exactly going all out against those of

goal was to win the war, they had another

as many as they

This order…

rather something that His Majesty desired. He insisted that they make an effort to

the demons were confused by the order, but none

no questioning His Majesty

had tried, and the results were anything

gaze, and all they could do was obey

we do with the little human? Does

that were still present. There were more

certain game from the very beginning, one that consisted of choosing a certain target to bring over

killing, they had all agreed that

could be useful if there

good cannon fodder or perhaps

all the demons, he seemed

"Are you interested?"

"…I indeed am."

extremely calm. Such behavior pleased the Prince, who

"What's your name?"

"Valling."

of steps and stopping

"Valling is it?"

Prince looked down and heavily scrutinized him. This was the first time seeing him, and he seemed to be rather talented. His age and the rank he had achieved were testaments to

he had actually seen

had made quite a name for himself in Ka Mankut, and it had even reached his ears. Especially lately when he heard about the situation over there and how he had managed

on a daily basis, only the most

had heard about him was a testament

"Good… good…"

the Prince observed him, the more pleased

was adequate

him the most; rather, it was the manner in which

was rare to see these days, and he was extremely pleased

"For now…"

Letvia's gaze didn't linger over Valling for very long as he