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

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

moment were my abilities and comprehension

struggle… Let this be the end of

drew near the space between my eyebrows. It looked

I'll have

on

Clank. Clank. Clank.

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

of the fact that the 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

"Hm?"

so sudden and powerful that

"Did you…"

to bottom, his lips curling faintly as he tried to comprehend what he was

I don't know whether to call you stupid,

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

"Uakh."

let out a groan as I tried

Swoosh—!

right in

that I see you in front of me, I'm starting to wonder what exactly went through your head when you decided to ingest demonic blood into your body… are you not aware of the fact that I can suppress just about any bloodline that

the words, but I managed to

I know…," I said, my voice barely above

knew 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,

lifted an eyebrow in surprise as he stared

I said, as I lifted my head up and looked

fragments weren't the only things that I took from

blood as well. I knew something

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

took Jezebeth aback, and he squeezed

and the projections immediately followed

barrier that surrounded him, I gently twisted my hands apart and made a squeezing motion. In response to the movements I

Cr— Crack!

result of the projections' intense pressure, cracks started to

"Akhhh…"

suppressed

had into those

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

"…Still not enough?"

Fine…

appeared on the fingers of the projections, and I felt my entire body tremble with pain that was unlike any other. But I bore