The Author's POV Chapter 577 Reuniting [3]

Chapter 577 Reuniting [3]

Bang—!

A powerful blast reverberated through a large room as a figure skidded back.

"Cough…cough…"

What followed after the blasting sound was a series of coughs as the dust in the air settled, revealing a figure with long black hair and yellow eyes.

"Cough...heee.."

Liam smiled as he wiped his mouth and noticed the smudge of blood on his thumb.

"That was pretty strong."

"What is another human doing here?"

An effeminate-looking humanoid with two curly horns floated in the air opposite Liam.

While levitating in the air, the demon licked his lips slowly as he gazed at Liam.

"Now that I'm getting a closer look at you, you're quite the handso lad..."

"Uh?"

Shivers ran down Liam's body as he felt the gaze of the demon.

'What's going on?'

What prompted the shivers wasn't the demon's weird gaze, but sothing else...sothing deeper...it was his sixth sense. Sothing he had honed over countless battles and struggles.

At the mont, it was telling him that sothing was wrong with the situation.

His instinct was right as he felt a sharp whistling sound coming from his right cheek. It was there that Liam noticed the demon appearing right beside him.

It had only taken a short second for him to appear next to Liam and attack him.

'Fast…'

Liam thought as his eyes glead with a strange yellow hue and lightning began to crackle around his body.

Clang—!

A tallic ring echoed throughout the air as the demon's sharp nails ca into contact with the sheath of Liam's sword that was only slightly tilted to the right.

Even then...

"Cough!"

Skidding several ters back, Liam coughed again. This ti, blood ca out of his mouth as his knee trembled and he was forced to stab his sword to the ground in order to stop himself from crashing against the nearby wall.

'…How powerful.'

Lifting his head up to gaze at the demon, Liam clenched and unclenched his fist as he placed the sheath of the sword next to his waist.

Massaging the side of his neck, he quietly mumbled to himself.

"As I thought, fighting against a Marquis ranked demon while I'm still rank, isn't suitable."

In the anti, the demon was carefully observing Liam.

"You're pretty strong."

The demon comnted.

Raising his head to stare at the demon, Liam lowered his heads

"Thank you."

"Keke."

The demon chuckled as the wings on his back folded together.

He then extended his hand.

"Continuing this fight is pointless. You're weaker than , and you know that. It would be a pity to let such talent die, so…"

The demon's hand was suddenly enshrouded in a black hue as a scroll unexpectedly materialized on the top of his palm.

"…How about signing a co—"

"I'm good."

Liam cut the demon off before he could even finish speaking.

Taking a glance at the contract, he shook his head.

"I appreciate your offer, but I'd rather not sign a contract with a demon belonging to the Lust clan."

Tapping onto his dinsional space, an apple appeared in Liam's hand.

Crunch—!

When he bit into the apple, juice spilled on the ground as an echoing crunching sound was heard.

"You guys are rather..munch…weak…munch…I would much rather sign a contract with a d…munch…emon from the envy clan…munch…of course, that is only on the premise that I'm interested to sign one in the fir..much..st place…munch…but I'm not."

Licking his fingers after having devoured the apple in his hand, Liam stretched his neck.

"Good snack."

He then placed his hand on the sheath of his sword.

"Alright, I'm ready."

"Haha…"

After Liam finished his words, the demon let out a small laugh as he covered his face with the hand that was holding onto the contract.

"Hahahahhahahah."

The laugh soon turned into a full maniacal laugh as the demon pressed his stomach and hunched over. By the second, his laughter beca louder, and a frown appeared on Liam's face.

"What's so funny?"

Liam asked with a confused tone.

Following his words, the demon stopped laughing and his face twisted.

"Your naivety."

Fwap—!

The back of his wings expanded rapidly and a terrifying aura suddenly sprang out from the demon's body as the room started to shake.

"To think that there would be soone stupid enough to reject my offer and choose to die like this."

His nacing pressure reached all the way toward Liam who felt his clothes and hair flutter.

Within a couple of seconds, the pressure had already expanded toward every inch and corner of the room as the demon's terrifying pressure continued to expand.

"I'll show you exactly what happens when soone rejects !"

The figure vanished from the spot before reappearing right in front of Liam.

"Di—"

Click—!

A clicking sound echoed throughout the room.

Thump—!

Everything happened so fast that no one was able to react to the sudden changes. After that, with two loud thuds, a dissected body landed on the ground in front of Liam who picked his ear with his pinky.

"You talk too much."

He mumbled under his breath as he let the sword fall into its sheath. After that, he kicked the demon's body and flipped it around.

"H…how?"

It was there that he heard the demon's voice as he stared at Liam with eyes wide open. Given that his core had still not been shattered, he was still alive.

"How did I defeat you?"

Tilting his head, Liam brushed his hair back.

With a shrug of his shoulder,s he replied.

"Since I couldn't beat you when I was ranked , I just decided to rank up."

His words caused the demon's eyes to open even more.

Shrugging his shoulders once again, Liam's yellow eyes shined and he stabbed toward the demon's abdon area.

Crack—!

A cracking sound echoed out and the demon's body slowly disintegrated into the air.

"Alright."

Stretching his shoulder a little, he turned around and headed toward the far end of the room where he was t with another dark corridor.

As he slowly walked in that direction, his footsteps halted and he lowered his head.

He suddenly recalled sothing.

"…Did I break the cores of the two demons that were standing outside?"

A frown erged on his face as he deeply thought about the situation.

"Ugh."

But after wrapping his head over the matter and being unable to recall anything, he eventually ruffled his hair and continued to head deeper into the tunnel.

"Whatever, it'll be more fun this way. It'll help test my new strength."

Now that he had broken through to rank, he felt a lot more powerful and he couldn't wait to test his new strength.

***

"Ehm…"

Blinking several tis to make sure that I was hearing correctly, I picked my nose with my pinky. I just wanted to make sure that there wasn't anything wrong with my hearing.

'Am I that far gone after all that training?'

It may have been dark, but the small familiar light coming from what seed to be a cigarette, and the sll…

"Leopold?"

I instinctively called out.

"Hey! Hey!"

*Puff*

"!!!"

Not expecting a reply, I flinched and took several steps back.

"What's going o—off."

Stopping mid-sentence, I felt sothing soft embrace . My thought process halted for a short second.

"…I'm glad you're okay."

A faint whisper sounded near my ear, causing my body to shiver as a strange feeling enveloped .

"What's happening? I can't see shit."

It was then that a familiar voice echoed and Amanda distanced herself from .

Following that, my eyes reflexively closed as a bright light flooded the room.

"Ren."

A voice called out for .

"Aye."

I could easily make out that the voice belonged to Kevin as I slowly opened my eyes and saw several figures standing in front of .

"So many…"

Taking note of reverting that was present, I opened and closed my mouth, speechless.

'Just how many people got transported in this place?'

Kevin, lissa, Ryan, Amanda, Angelica, Leopold, Hein, and Ava.

Excluding the others that were with , practically almost everyone was here with .

"How did this happen?"

I asked as I turned to look at Kevin who shook his head with a bitter smile.

"I also don't know."

"Hmmm…"

I lowered my head to ponder over the situation. But just as I was about to speak my thoughts, I heard lissa's sour voice.

"Hm? This place is pretty fragile."

Knock—! Knock—!

lissa turned to look at as she knocked on the side of the wall.

"Although they aren't exactly weak, given your strength, you should've been able to easily break the walls. How co you didn't escape?"

Everybody moved to the wall and felt it for themselves as soon as they heard her words.

"You're right."

"It's true."

"This is indeed pretty weak."

Everyone turned to look at as they confird her words.

I wryly smiled and extended my hand.

"It would've been easy for had I been in my normal conditions, but as you can see, my mana is sealed. I can't really do anything right now."

"Let see."

Grabbing by the wrist, lissa channeled her mana into my body as a hue ca out of her body.

She then closed her eyes. In that mont, everyone's eyes were directed in her direction, trying to see what she was doing. I did feel an uncomfortable stare coming from a certain direction, but I promptly ignored it.

It was nothing big.

Seconds passed and lissa eventually opened her eyes.

Her brows furrowed tightly.

"He's not lying."

Covering her mouth with her hand, she had a thoughtful look on her face before she turned my wrist and started patting my body all over.

"Woahh!"

Her sudden actions startled as I tried to move my body back.

"Stop moving."

But grasping my wrist, lissa stopped from moving and continued patting my body all over. Her actions caught everyone off-guard. I took particular notice of Angelica's actions as she covered Ryan's eyes with her hands.

"Hey, what are you doing? I want to see?"

To make matters worse, the stare from before beca more intense as the back of my neck suddenly turned cold.

'Give a break.'

I thought to myself as lissa's cold hands continued to pat around the body. Had it not been for the fact that she was currently a lot stronger than , I would've already pushed her back by now.

"Alright, let check your blood."

Fortunately, her session of sexual harassnt didn't last for long as she distanced herself away from and took a small device from her dinsional space.

It may have not been too bright, but the mont lissa took the device out, I was able to instantly catch sight of what seed to be a sharp needle.

A bright smile adorned lissa's face as she beckoned to co to her.

"Co Ren. Let test your blood."

"Ehmm..."

I took a step back as I took note of her expression.

"...lissa, can we talk about this?"