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—!

Jin's eyes shone at the

demon's face changed drastically, but it was

Cr…Crack!

demon's body dissolved

"Huu."

dealt with another powerful demon, Jin took

to

it was anything but easy. Nearly half of his mana was

of

Gulp—!

melted against the ground, and he

***

a demon with long pinkish hair—a trait belonging to the higher demons within

were several demons. All of whom were

like we've found ourselves a rather

with short blond hair

he danced around the other demons and harvested their

was, without a doubt,

almost makes me want to

licking his lips and feeling

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

win the war, they had another

many as

This order…

His Majesty desired. He insisted that they make an effort to grow their forces

confused by the

questioning His

tried, and the results were

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

with the little human? Does

questioned as he cocked his head to the side to take a look at the Prince-ranked demons that were still present. There were more than a dozen of them, and for some time they had been standing off in the

playing a certain game from the very beginning, one that consisted

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

if there

make good cannon fodder

the demons,

"Are you interested?"

"…I indeed am."

calm. Such behavior pleased

"What's your name?"

"Valling."

answered curtly, stepping forward a couple of steps and stopping right in front

"Valling is it?"

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

though this was the first time he had actually

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 to

with so many things and demons on a daily

about him was a

"Good… good…"

observed him, the more pleased

strength was adequate and fairly

strength that impressed him the most; rather, it was

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

"For now…"

over Valling for very long as he returned his gaze to stare at the battlefield