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.

same was true for practically all

One], [Memory Manipulation], [Dark Servant], [Eyes of

moment were my abilities

struggle… Let this be

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

sorry, but I'll

restrictions on my body wasn't

Clank. Clank. Clank.

scales began to form all over my body and cover half of my face, I felt something grow behind my back, and all of a sudden, demonic energy erupted

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 was able to free myself from the restraints and move back,

"Hm?"

that it stunned Jezebeth,

"Did you…"

lips curling faintly as he tried

go this far… I don't know whether to call you stupid, or be impressed with your

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

"Uakh."

pain was unbearable, and I let out a groan as I tried to

Swoosh—!

appeared right in

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 into your body… are you not aware of the fact that I can

say the words, but I managed to answer

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

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 one

an eyebrow in surprise as he

said, as I lifted my head up and looked him straight

weren't the only things that I took from the Seven heads when I

well. I knew something like this would've happened had

hands together, and the space above and beneath Jezebeth started to fold and tremble.

took Jezebeth aback, and he squeezed his fist, forming a barrier around

were opened, and the projections

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

Cr— Crack!

result of the projections' intense pressure, cracks started

"Akhhh…"

clenched my teeth and suppressed my

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

everything into them, and for a moment I thought that it was working, but soon, I noticed that the cracks that had formed around the barrier were starting to heal themselves, and I clenched

"…Still not enough?"

Fine…

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