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…"

seemed to be saying something, but I honestly couldn't understand a

that I cared as I continued to imbued her

swelled even further, and their size grew to

that I could

"Don't move."

she was about to free herself

body would start to flicker in and out of existence and accompanying it was an

my body into hers, the golden runes that surrounded her body began to

"Mhh!!!! Mhhhhmmmhhh!!"

but I paid them no attention

tear around her cheek deepened, and blood started

two eyes

a short moment, and savored the gaze before pressing my foot against her

"Let's go."

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

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

BAAAAAAAAAAAANG—!

explosion

snapped my fingers, the Princess's body

pieces

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

barrier around the two of us,

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

she was able to suppress this much energy inside

heads without a reason. She as

now, I'll finish up

my vision blurred once more and what appeared in my vision was an enormous crater that seemed to stretch very

a small light entered the hole. Shortly

didn't

fingers, a body burst out from the

Clap!

Just in case, I tapped onto the barrier and a small white ripple formed, creating

'Just in case.'

had fainted. While her

was

could tell that she was about to

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

'I'll make this quick.'

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

feeling was pleasant,

for 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

"Uagk."

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

able to suppress the pain was a testament to how painful

scream as I gritted my teeth with everything I had, and my body flickered wildly

Cr… Crack!