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 my

[The One], [Memory Manipulation], [Dark

moment were my

be

It looked slow, but I knew better that it was moving

I'll have

the restrictions on my body wasn't

Clank. Clank. Clank.

over my body and cover half of my face, I felt something grow

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 was able to free myself from the restraints and move back, narrowly escaping his finger

"Hm?"

was so sudden and powerful that it stunned Jezebeth, leaving him

"Did you…"

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

to

boil. I felt an immense pressure bearing down on every inch of my body,

"Uakh."

pain was unbearable, and I let out a groan as

Swoosh—!

in front of

in front of me, I'm starting to wonder what exactly went through your head when you decided to ingest demonic

to say the words, but I managed to

my voice barely above

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

an eyebrow in surprise

see…," I said, as I lifted my head up

only things that I took from the Seven

I knew something like this would've happened

both 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

The sudden attack took Jezebeth aback, and he squeezed his fist, forming a

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

a squeezing motion. In response to the movements

Cr— Crack!

result of the projections' intense pressure, cracks started

"Akhhh…"

suppressed my groan as best

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

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

"…Still not enough?"

Fine…

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