The Author's POV

Coming into the Pillar of Gluttony, I expected things to be rather serious, but I was surprised to see that the situation wasn't as dire as I expected it to be.

In fact, the situation was a lot more advantageous then I thought it to be.

"Is this your doing?"

I turned to look at Liam who was hanging on the bridge of the Princess's nose. He seemed battered, and tired, but the moment our eyes met, his expression relaxed a little.

"Oh, hey Ren. How have you been?"

"You did a good job."

Ignoring his light hearted greeting, I lowered my head to stare at the cheeks of the Princess which were currently inflated. I could feel a certain energy from within, and when I turned my gaze away, I locked my eyes on a certain figure in the distance.

'It must be her doing.'

There was only one person that was capable of producing such pure and powerful energy.

Although Liam was strong, he wasn't at this level just yet. It could only be her.

"I see… I think I understand what's going on."

Rumble! Rumble!

At the same time I realized what was happening, the Princess trashed around and destroyed everything that her feet stepped onto to. Gradually, however, she was able to somewhat stabilize the injury that she sustained in her eye, and the energy inside of her started to calm down.

"We can't be having that."

If there was anything that I couldn't allow, it was that, and as my vision blurred, my feet touched something soft.

I was standing right on top of her cheek, and the moment I appeared over there, I felt two eyes lock on me.

When I turned my head, our gazes met, and I lowered my hand and pressed it against her cheek.

Her expression changed drastically at that point, but it was already too late.

Exerting a lot the mana inside of me, her cheeks started to inflate even further, and the energy that she was trying to keep in check became even wilder.

Rumble! Rumble!

"Hmmmmm!"

Her trashing increased, and it became hard for me to keep myself steady as a result. A large shadow cast behind me, and I knew exactly what she was trying to do. Thus, frowning, I opened my mouth and imbued my voice with the laws.

"Stop."

Her body stopped at my words and her expression changed once more. Golden runes and words clamped her hand above me, and covered every inch of her body.

"Mhhh… mhhhhhmm…"

something, but I honestly couldn't understand a single word

as I continued

even further, and their size grew to such an

that I could see the skin on

"Don't move."

to free herself from

did so, my body would start to flicker in and out of existence and accompanying it was an agonizing

my body into hers, the

"Mhh!!!! Mhhhhmmmhhh!!"

but I paid them no attention

tear around her cheek deepened, and blood started to leak down her

met with two eyes that

and savored the gaze before pressing my foot against her cheek and finding myself standing right

"Let's go."

reached out my hand, which Liam gladly took, and pressed my foot

away from her, and when I looked around and saw that the place was safe,

BAAAAAAAAAAAANG—!

was an explosion unlike

body inflated rapidly,

sky, and pieces of

time, a wave of concentrated energy burst out from that direction, shredding everything that was within

of us, we were able to avoid getting injured from

felt the energy. It was quite overbearing, and

to suppress this much energy inside of

clan heads without

for now, I'll finish up

once more and what appeared in my vision

light entered the hole. Shortly after, my brows relaxed

she didn't

with my fingers, a body burst out from the hole, and I

Clap!

in case, I tapped onto the barrier and a small white

'Just in case.'

when I saw that the Princess had fainted. While her cheeks had burst,

was

trembled, and I could tell that she was

waste any time and stretched my hand which passed through the two layers and reached out for her

'I'll make this quick.'

contained within her body and channeled them toward me. Almost instantly, a wave of warmth entered my body and I found myself relaxing as the laws within my body started

was pleasant,

fallen into a deeper

"Uagk."

laws, I felt a sharp pain course through all parts of my body, and

I wasn't able to suppress the pain was a testament to how painful it was, and I almost

every last bit of me to suppress my scream as I gritted my teeth with everything

Cr… Crack!