The Author's POV

BOOOM—!

I don't quite remember what happened after the world around me collapsed and an explosion sounded.

I just felt something press against my body, and at the same time, my body was thrown a great distance away from where I had been.

Everything happened so fast that I barely had time to process it.

That being said, I was in no pain. It didn't hurt, and sensing something on my right, I turned my head and swiped my finger in the air.

Crack!

A fissure formed in the space next to me, revealing a white hand behind it.

But just as it was about to open, the space twisted, and the tear moved forward several meters away.

The hand did come out, but it clenched at nothing but the air.

Touching my sword, the space right next to the hand distorted, and a sword projection appeared. It tore through the air and aimed at the exposed hand.

Unfortunately, I was just a tad bit too late, as the hand had already vanished before my sword could get to it.

Swoosh—! A subtle breeze blew past in the air, and I turned my head to look to my right. I felt something over there, but I couldn't quite tell what it was.

'Ah, I see.'

Channeling the laws within my body and waving my hand once, the space in front of me folded like a piece of paper, and a beam passed through to the two ends of the fold.

It was quite the bizarre sight, but the more familiar I became with the laws, the more I realized how endless the possibilities were…

It felt as though I could control everything.

"You're quite good at handling the laws. I've never seen him use them before, so how did you manage to pick up on them so fast?"

A gentle voice tickled my ear, and my head snapped backward.

Jezebeth's head peaked from the crack, his crimson eyes glistening with brilliant light. Almost immediately after that, I felt my body freeze, and Jezebeth stepped out into the open.

Emerging from the crack, my vision suddenly filled with more than a thousand different holographic representations of him.

'The chip is useless…'

I tried to anticipate what he would do next by analyzing his muscle movements and determining where his eyes were looking with the help of the chip in my head; however, it quickly became apparent to me that the chip was incapable of dealing with the entity in front of me.

same was true for practically

Manipulation], [Dark Servant], [Eyes of Chronos]… Nothing

rely on at the moment were my abilities and comprehension of the

Let this be the end of my

drew near the space between my eyebrows. It looked slow, but I

I'll have

the restrictions on my body

Clank. Clank. Clank.

form all over my body and cover half of my face, I felt something grow behind my back, and all

exposing the demonic energy within my body, I was able to free myself

"Hm?"

so sudden and powerful that it stunned

"Did you…"

lips curling faintly as he tried

to call you stupid, or be

and the blood in my body started to boil. I felt an immense pressure bearing down on every inch of my body, causing the

"Uakh."

out a

Swoosh—!

in front

couldn't sense it before since 'he' managed to hide it well, but now that I see you in front of me, I'm starting to wonder what exactly went through your head when

say the words, but I managed to answer

know…," I said, my voice

say, but I had done it out of necessity, out of

eyebrow in surprise

I said, as I lifted my head up and

only things that I took from the Seven heads when I

taken their blood as well. I knew something like this

and beneath Jezebeth started to fold and tremble. Suddenly, two projections depicting two large palms appeared out of thin air, threatening to squeeze Jezebeth on the

sudden attack took Jezebeth aback, and he squeezed

were opened, and the projections immediately followed suit, imitating my

a squeezing motion. In response to

Cr— Crack!

projections' intense pressure, cracks started to appear

"Akhhh…"

and suppressed my

pain was excruciating, and I poured everything I had into those projections that were squeezing at

moment I thought that it was working, but soon, I noticed

"…Still not enough?"

Fine…

complex runes of golden color appeared on the fingers of the projections, and I felt my entire body tremble with pain that was unlike any other. But I bore it and poured everything I had into the projections. Crack after crack started to form around the barrier, expanding with each