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—!

shone at the sight of a particular object inside the

core, the demon's face changed

Cr…Crack!

thousands of pieces, and the demon's body dissolved into the air. The threads that were cocooning him loosened, and they obediently returned to the

"Huu."

powerful demon, Jin took a deep

to deal

he made it look easy, it was anything but easy. Nearly half of his mana

of work that

Gulp—!

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

***

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

were several demons. All

like we've found

a certain human boy with short blond hair and deep green

demons and harvested their

without a

almost makes me

Prince, silently licking his

a secret, but the demons weren't exactly

to win the war, they had another

as many as

This order…

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

the demons were confused by the order,

His

and the results were anything

gaze, and all they could do was obey

suggest we do with the

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

had been playing a certain game from the very beginning, one that consisted of choosing a certain target

enjoy killing, they had all agreed that letting such

be useful if there was a

make good cannon fodder or perhaps

demon. Out of all the demons, he seemed to

"Are you interested?"

"…I indeed am."

calm. Such behavior pleased the Prince, who nodded his

"What's your name?"

"Valling."

of steps and stopping right

"Valling is it?"

him. This was the first time seeing him, and he seemed to be rather talented.

the first time he had actually seen him,

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

he had to deal with so many things and demons on a daily basis, only the most important topics would make it to his

heard about him was a testament to how well

"Good… good…"

Prince observed him, the more pleased

adequate and

it wasn't his strength that impressed him the most; rather,

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

"For now…"

Valling for very long as he returned