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

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

rely on at the moment were my abilities and comprehension of

Let this be the end of

my eyebrows. It looked slow, but I knew better that it was moving at

but I'll have to

the restrictions on

Clank. Clank. Clank.

to form all over my body and cover half of my face, I felt something grow behind my

exposing the demonic energy

"Hm?"

demonic energy was so sudden and powerful that it

"Did you…"

looked at me from top to bottom, his lips curling

this far… I don't know whether to call you stupid,

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

"Uakh."

out a

Swoosh—!

appeared right in front

exactly went through your head when you decided

struggled to say the words, but

I know…," I said, my voice

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

lifted an eyebrow in surprise as he

lifted my head up and looked him straight in the

the only things that I took

their blood as well. I knew something like this would've

Jezebeth started to fold and tremble. Suddenly, two

and he squeezed his fist, forming a barrier

projections immediately

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

Cr— Crack!

the projections' intense pressure, cracks started

"Akhhh…"

and suppressed my groan as best I

everything I had into those

noticed that the cracks that had formed around the barrier were starting to heal themselves, and I clenched my teeth even

"…Still not enough?"

Fine…

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