The Author's POV - Chapter 414

With Douglas using the ‘conference’ as his reward, Waylan was able to choose his own reward. With it, he was able to boost his strength massively. Someone like Micheal should be no match for him.

“Wh?”

Booom?!

And I was quickly proven right.

Before Emma could say anything else, a sonic boom resounded in the air. Following the boom, like a broken kite, a figure quickly crashed against the ground, creating a massive crater.

Dust flew everywhere, covering everyone’s sight.

“Khhh…”

Though faint, I could hear a weak groan coming from the middle of the crater. As time passed the dust settled down, and a miserable figure appeared laying down in the middle of the crater. The figure was none other than Micheal Parker.

With his head raised and staring into the air, Micheal glared upwards, where a figure appeared to be levitating in the air.

“Dad!”

Emma cried out in joy as she spotted her father in the air.

Slowly levitating down from the ground, Waylan smiled at Emma before turning his attention back towards Micheal.

“What should I do with you?”

“You?khhh!”

Staring at Waylan above him, Micheal opened his mouth. But before he could say anything, with a flick of his fingers, a small light flashed, and Micheal’s head recoiled backward, knocking him out completely.

Staring at the passed-out Micheal, Waylan’s brows knit tightly. Then, turning his head, his eyes met with mine.

The moment our eyes met, I instantly shook my head as I mouthed. ‘Don’t look at me, and don’t talk to me. We don’t know each other.’

But it looked as though Waylan was unable to comprehend what I was trying to say as he asked.

“What do you think I should do?”

The moment his words faded, everyone turned their attention toward me.

My face froze up.

Lifting my head to look at the moon, I feigned ignorance.

“…Ehm, I don’t know what you may be talking about. I just came here.”

“You just came here?”

Waylan’s face turned strange.

“Weren’t you the one who told me to bait them?”

An intense chill ran down my body as I felt everyone’s eyes direct themselves onto me.

‘….Well, shit.’

The first to move was Kevin who tilted his head to the side to get a better look at my face.

“…Excuse me for a second, but are you saying that he knew about this all along?”

Confused, Waylan nodded his head.

“Yeah. He was the one who suggested luring them using their own trap and getting rid of them at once.”

“…Is that so?”

An all-knowing look appeared on Kevin’s face as a smile appeared on his face. It appeared as though he wasn’t the only one who understood what was going on as apart from Troy and Arnold, the eyes of everyone present frosted all over.

Curling my fingers into a fist and bringing it to my face, I lightly coughed.

“Keum…well, let’s not dwell on the technicalities.”

I then turned my attention back towards Micheal.

“Let’s settle the matter on how we should deal with him.”

Obviously, Kevin was able to see through what I was trying to pull as he said.

“…This is not over, Ren.”

“Yeah, yeah.”

Ignoring Kevin and squatting down, I stared at Micheal.

Thinking for a little bit, I sighed.

Turning my attention toward Arnold and Troy, my brows furrowed tightly.

‘Should I…or should I not?’

After a while, I shook my head. ‘No, it’s not worth it.’ Standing up once again, I walked up to them, much to their confusion.

“What’s going on?”

“Is there something wrong?”

“There is nothing wrong.”

Putting on the friendliest of smiles, I placed my hand on their heads and smashed them together as hard as possible.

Bang?!

With a loud bang, the heads of both Arnold and Troy smashed against each other as the both of them instantly fell to the ground, passing out.

“Ren!”

“What are you doing?!”

Everyone instantly became startled by my actions. Especially Jin who glared in my direction.

Innocently raising my hands in the air, I calmly said.

“Sorry, I had to do it.”

Putting my hand on my face, I quickly pulled out my mask and pointed at it.

“As you guys can see, I don’t trust them enough to have them know of my identity quite just yet.”

At my words, everyone instantly understood why I did what I did.

“…Did you really have to be that harsh?”

Kevin softly muttered from the side. Glancing at him, I repeatedly nodded my head.

“Yes, yes I did.”

Although I had already taken revenge against Arnold long ago, that didn’t mean that I still wasn’t pissed about what he did to me back then.

My pettiness was on a whole different level.

Well, that and the fact that I did not trust Troy at all. Back in the novel, he was supposed to turn on Jin and become a villain.

The fact that he wasn’t one, went to show that he had changed, but that didn’t mean that I trusted him. This was out of precaution.

Once again ignoring Kevin, I proceeded to head towards Micheal.

Bending down, I extended my hand and placed it on top of his face. A blue glow suddenly enshrouded the surroundings.

“…and done.”

I then tossed the mask to Waylan who quickly caught it with both hands.

“Use that.”

“Thanks.”

Lowering his head and staring at Micheal, Waylan asked.

“What should we do about him?”

“…Since he’s someone of importance, we should hand him over to?”

As Kevin was speaking, I extended my hand towards Micheal’s neck and clenched it tightly.

Crack?!

The sound of bones breaking resounded throughout the forest as everyone’s faces froze. Especially Kevin who had trouble processing what had happened.

Not minding their reactions, I stood up and carefully looked at Micheal who was now dead.

‘So this is how it feels to kill an ranked individual…it feels like killing any regular other person.’