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.

for practically all my other

[The One], [Memory Manipulation], [Dark

the moment

be the end

space between my eyebrows. It looked slow, but I

sorry, but I'll have to

restrictions on my body

Clank. Clank. Clank.

half of my face, I felt

in place was demonic energy, directly exposing the demonic energy within my body, I was able to

"Hm?"

that it stunned

"Did you…"

his lips curling faintly as he tried to comprehend

this far… I don't know whether to

an immense pressure bearing down on every inch of my body, causing the edges of my vision

"Uakh."

and I let out a groan as I tried to endure

Swoosh—!

appeared right in front

went through your head when you decided to ingest demonic blood into your body…

struggled to say the words, but I

said, my

had done it out of necessity, out of a hunger for pure power. It was a risky decision, but it

in surprise as he stared

said, as I lifted my head

I took from the

as well. I knew something like this would've happened had I not done

both of my hands together, and the space above and beneath Jezebeth started to fold and tremble. Suddenly, two projections depicting two large palms appeared out of thin

sudden attack took Jezebeth aback, and he squeezed his fist,

palms were opened, and the projections immediately followed suit,

twisted my hands apart and made a squeezing motion. In response to the movements I made, the projections pressed against his barrier from the

Cr— Crack!

a result of the projections' intense pressure, cracks started to appear on the barrier that was surrounding

"Akhhh…"

teeth and suppressed

had into those projections that were squeezing at the barrier revolving

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

"…Still not enough?"

Fine…

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 passing