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…"

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

continued to imbued her cheeks with

of seconds, her cheeks swelled even further, and their size grew to such an extent that

puffed up to such an extent that I could see the skin on her

"Don't move."

herself from my

body would start to flicker in and out of existence and accompanying it was an agonizing pain, but I resisted through the

laws that were contained within my body into hers, the golden runes

"Mhh!!!! Mhhhhmmmhhh!!"

but I paid them no attention and continued

cheek deepened, and blood started to leak

with two eyes that were

for a short moment, and savored the gaze before pressing my foot against her cheek and finding myself standing right

"Let's go."

which Liam gladly took, and pressed my foot against her skin once

appeared quite a fair distance away from her, and when I looked around

BAAAAAAAAAAAANG—!

was an explosion unlike any

moment I snapped my fingers, the Princess's body inflated rapidly, and her cheeks finally

rained from the sky, and pieces of flesh fell all over

out from that direction,

hand and erecting a barrier around the two of us, we were able to avoid getting injured from the

quite overbearing, and if not for my strength, I'd have difficulty

she was able to suppress this much energy inside

of the seven clan heads without

now, I'll finish up

more and what appeared in my vision was an enormous crater

entered the hole.

didn't die just

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

Clap!

I clapped my hands. Just in case, I tapped onto the barrier and a small white ripple formed, creating a second

'Just in case.'

fainted. While her cheeks had burst, they were slowly

was

could tell that she was about to wake

couldn't waste any time and stretched my hand which passed

'I'll make this quick.'

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,

the fact that I had felt this sensation before, I'd have fallen into a deeper sense of depravity, but I held my focus and transferred all of her laws into

"Uagk."

course through all parts of my body, and I almost

wasn't able to suppress the pain was a testament to how

me to suppress my scream as I gritted my teeth with everything I had, and my body flickered

Cr… Crack!