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

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

rely on at the moment were my abilities

struggle… Let this be the

moved through the air and drew near the space between my eyebrows. It looked slow, but I knew better

I'll have

the restrictions on my body wasn't

Clank. Clank. Clank.

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

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

"Hm?"

was so sudden and powerful that it stunned Jezebeth, leaving him at a loss for

"Did you…"

me from top to bottom, his lips curling faintly as he

to call you stupid,

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

"Uakh."

out a groan as I tried to

Swoosh—!

appeared right 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 you

struggled to say the words, but

my

necessity, out of a hunger for pure power. It was

an eyebrow in surprise as he stared

I said, as I lifted my head up and looked

that I took from the Seven heads when I killed

as well. I knew something like this would've happened

of my hands together, and the space above and beneath Jezebeth started to fold and tremble. Suddenly, two projections depicting two

Jezebeth aback, and he squeezed his fist, forming a barrier around

opened, and the projections immediately

hands apart and made a squeezing motion. In response to the movements I made, the projections pressed against

Cr— Crack!

intense pressure, cracks started to

"Akhhh…"

suppressed my groan as best

and I poured everything I had into those projections

soon, I noticed that the cracks that

"…Still not enough?"

Fine…

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 passing