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

Manipulation], [Dark Servant],

rely on at the moment were my abilities and

struggle… Let this be the end of

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

sorry, but I'll have

the restrictions on my

Clank. Clank. Clank.

my body and cover half of my face, I felt something grow behind my back, and all of a sudden, demonic energy erupted from

place was demonic energy, directly exposing the demonic

"Hm?"

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

"Did you…"

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

whether to call you stupid, or be impressed with your

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

"Uakh."

unbearable, and I let out a groan as I tried to endure

Swoosh—!

appeared right in front of

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 decided to ingest demonic blood

say the words, but I managed to answer

I know…," I said, my voice barely

it out of necessity, out of

eyebrow in surprise as he

see…," I said, as I lifted my head up and looked him straight in the

the only things that I took

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

took Jezebeth aback, and he squeezed his

opened, and the projections immediately

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 my

I poured everything I had into those projections that were squeezing at the barrier revolving around

into them, and for a moment I thought that it was working, but soon, I noticed

"…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.