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—!

over the ground as Jin's eyes shone

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

Cr…Crack!

it shattered into thousands of pieces, and the demon's body dissolved into

"Huu."

dealt with another powerful demon,

to deal

mana was depleted, and he had only killed one of the numerous powerful demons roaming the

a lot of work that he

Gulp—!

potion, his figure once again melted against the ground, and he headed for

***

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

were several demons. All of whom

found

Letvia commented, his gaze falling on a certain human boy with short blond hair and deep green eyes in the

demons and

without

me want to

silently licking his

exactly

was to win the war, they had

as

This order…

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

confused by the order,

questioning His Majesty in

tried, and the results were anything but

his gaze, and all they could do was obey his

with the little human? Does anyone want

were still present. There were more than a dozen of them, and for some time they had

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

all agreed that letting such talented individuals rot would be a

useful if there was

good cannon fodder or perhaps

fell on a particular demon. Out of all the demons, he

"Are you interested?"

"…I indeed am."

sounding extremely calm. Such

"What's your name?"

"Valling."

forward a couple of steps and stopping right in

"Valling is it?"

he seemed to be rather talented. His age and

the first time he had actually seen him, he was familiar with the demon's

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

deal with so many things and demons on a daily basis, only the most important topics would

about him was a testament to how

"Good… good…"

more the Prince observed him, the more pleased he was with

strength was adequate and fairly

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

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

"For now…"

for very long as he returned his gaze to stare