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—!

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

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

Cr…Crack!

the demon's body dissolved

"Huu."

dealt with another powerful demon, Jin

easy to deal with

but easy. Nearly half of his mana was depleted, and he had only killed one of the numerous powerful

a lot of work

Gulp—!

again melted against the ground, and he headed for his next

***

Master of the Sloth Clan was Prince Letvia. He was a demon with long pinkish hair—a trait

were several demons. All of whom were

It looks like we've found ourselves a rather

a certain human boy with short blond hair and deep green eyes in the middle

other demons and harvested

was, without a

me want to take

his lips and

the demons weren't exactly going all out against those of

was to win the war, they had another

as they

This order…

but rather something that His Majesty desired. He insisted that they make an effort to grow their forces even more by converting those who

of the demons were confused by

no questioning His Majesty in

the

his gaze, and all they

suggest we do with the little human?

still present. There were more

a certain game from the very beginning, one that consisted

that letting such talented individuals

when they could be useful if there was a

make good cannon fodder or perhaps even main

Out of all the demons,

"Are you interested?"

"…I indeed am."

Such behavior pleased

"What's your name?"

"Valling."

stepping forward a couple of steps and stopping right in front of

"Valling is it?"

he seemed to be rather talented. His age and the rank he had

though this was the first time he had actually seen him, he was familiar

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

with so many things and demons on a daily basis,

him was a

"Good… good…"

observed him, the more pleased he was with what

strength was adequate and fairly

the most; rather, it was the manner in

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

"For now…"

didn't linger over Valling for very long as he returned his