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.

was true for practically all

Manipulation], [Dark Servant], [Eyes

could rely on at the moment were my abilities and

struggle… Let this be the end of my

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

sorry, but I'll

the restrictions on my body wasn't

Clank. Clank. Clank.

I felt something grow behind my

energy that was wreaking havoc on my body and containing me in place was demonic energy, directly exposing the demonic energy within my body, I was able to free myself from the restraints and

"Hm?"

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

"Did you…"

top to bottom, his lips curling faintly

whether to call

a brilliant hue, and the blood in my body started to boil. I felt an immense pressure bearing down

"Uakh."

out a groan as I tried

Swoosh—!

appeared right in front

exactly went through your head when you decided to

words, but I

said, my voice

what he was trying to say, but I had done it out of necessity, out of a hunger for pure power. It was a risky decision, but it was

lifted an eyebrow in surprise

said, as I lifted my head up and

things that I took

well. I knew something like this would've happened

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 air, threatening to

Jezebeth aback, and he squeezed

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

a squeezing motion.

Cr— Crack!

a result of the projections' intense pressure, cracks started to appear on the

"Akhhh…"

and suppressed

I poured everything I had into those projections that were

was working, but soon, I noticed that the cracks that had formed around the

"…Still not enough?"

Fine…

pain that was unlike any other. But I bore it and poured everything I had into the projections. Crack after crack started to