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—!

sprayed all over the ground as Jin's eyes shone at the sight of a

Jin retrieved a black core, the demon's face

Cr…Crack!

of pieces, and the demon's body dissolved into the air. The threads that

"Huu."

dealt with another powerful demon, Jin

isn't easy to deal with such

half of his mana

was still a lot of work that he needed to

Gulp—!

a potion, his figure once again melted against the

***

was a demon with long pinkish hair—a trait belonging to the higher demons within the clan—and his features were

him were several demons. All of whom

like we've found ourselves

Letvia commented, his gaze falling on a certain human boy with short

around the other demons and harvested their core

was, without

makes me want to take

Prince, silently licking his lips and feeling a

weren't exactly

was to win the war, they

many as

This order…

His Majesty desired. He insisted that they make

were confused by the

questioning His Majesty in

tried, and the results were

that could escape his gaze, and all they could do was obey his

with the little human? Does anyone want

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

very beginning, one that consisted of choosing a certain

that letting such

if there

make good cannon fodder or perhaps even main

gaze fell on a particular demon. Out of all the demons, he seemed to be the

"Are you interested?"

"…I indeed am."

answered, his voice sounding extremely calm. Such behavior pleased the Prince, who

"What's your name?"

"Valling."

of steps

"Valling is it?"

the first time seeing him, and he seemed to be rather

time he had actually seen him, he

in Ka Mankut, and it had even reached his ears. Especially lately when he heard about the situation over there

many things and demons on a

fact that he had heard about him was a testament to how well he had

"Good… good…"

him, the more pleased he

was adequate and fairly

his strength that impressed him the most; rather, it was the manner in which he carried

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

"For now…"

long as he returned