The Author's POV

Opening his eyes, Ren calmly stared at the demons coming at him from all directions. As he saw them coming his way, he felt nothing.

No fear, no excitement, no anger...absolutely nothing.

With an indifferent expression, Ren slightly moved his neck sideways as the hand of a demon brushed past his cheek.

-Shuuuua!

Thereafter, aiming towards the solar plexus, Ren turned his body 45 degrees as he elbowed the demon.

-Bam!

As soon as Ren's elbow connected with the demon, a shockwave swept the surroundings as the other demons that were similarly headed in Ren's direction halted for a split second.

"Khhhhaaa—!"

Falling to the ground, the demon hit by the elbow spit out blood as he hold onto his chest area. He was in complete agony.

Staring at the demon beneath his feet, Ren slowly said

"Let me end the pain for you..."

-Click!

-Thud

Without looking at the demon, Ren placed his hand onto the grip of his sword. Shortly after a subtle clicking sound resounded across the area as the demon's head flew in the air.

...All of this happened in a matter of seconds.

-Shaaa! -Shaaa!

A split second after Ren decapitated the demon, moving backward, Ren narrowingly avoided the hands of two demons as a strand of his hair flew in the air.

-Dash

Tensing his calves, Ren quickly shot backward and distanced himself from the other demons. As he moved back, a green hue enveloped the bottom of his feet as his movement increased with every step.

"Get him!"

"Die you vermin!"

Staring at the six demons that were quickly approaching him, Ren's face remained calm and indifferent. Rather than focusing on their attacks, his attention was drawn towards their face.

...and he soon noticed one thing. How completely unfazed they were by the fact that their fellow comrades died before them. There was no shred of fear or hesitation in their eyes. Almost as if they didn't care about dying.

Noticing this, Ren glanced in Kevin's direction. He was currently back on the ground fighting against the demon leader.

Currently, both Kevin and the demon were in a stalemate. However, upon closer look, Ren could see that Kevin held a bit of an advantage. Despite the fact that neither of them budged from where they stood, Ren could tell by looking at the fine detail of their fight that Kevin was holding back whilst the demon leader was going all out.

...Moreover, he was also starting to show signs of exhaustion.

Thus without hesitation, as Ren moved backward, unsheathing his sword, Ren drew two circles in the air.

-Swooosh!

Thereafter, whilst still keeping an eye on the demons diving in his direction, quickly pointing towards Kevin, one of the circles flew in his direction.

Right after doing that, stomping his foot on the ground, Ren forcefully changed direction as his body shot towards where Kevin was. His speed didn't decrease. No, rather, it increased.

"No, you don't!"

Noticing that he could no longer catch up with Ren who was speeding up by the second, a white glow enveloped one of the demon's hands. Glaring at Ren, he quickly slashed in his direction.

-Thuaam!

image of a

-Swoooosh!

hesitation, Ren pointed towards them as

-Bam!

-Crash!

However, shortly after, the glow around the ring diminished. Not even a couple of seconds after, the ring broke

block the demon's attack. All he wanted was to delay the

for him to reach

moved, slowly, a white glow started emanating from his body. With each passing second, the

"huuu..."

away from the demon leader and Kevin, Ren exhaled as turbid

demon couldn't react, pulling out his sword from the sheat of his scabbard, a white glow enveloped

-Click!

movement of the [Keiki style] :

...

-Clank! -Clank!

and deftly dodged the

sword, Kevin would counterattack shortly after the demon attacked. Like this, for the next few

attack and one would defend. This pattern continuously alternated between the two...however this did not last for long. Just as the demon leader was about to once again attack Kevin, appearing from out of nowhere, a translucent yellow ring appeared right when the demon

-Swoosh!

-Clank!

it still slowed down the attack by a split second. But that was

the opening that was given to him thanks to Ren's ring, Kevin strengthened the grip of his

"huuuup!"

-Slash!

-Clank!

"Khhh..."

surprise, he now

help but curse as he looked towards the six demons in the

you

disruption, he couldn't help

your head away

before the demon leader, Kevin hacked towards

-Clank! -Clank!

the next minute or so, Kevin and the Demon leader fought,

faster. The demon leader was starting to struggle. Beads of sweat started dripping from

-Clank!

multiple occasions the demon leader tried to distance himself from Kevin, however, as if he was an octopus, Kevin continuously

"Huup!"

Once again, Kevin slashed.

"Khhhhaaa—ah!"

sharp nails, to

again increased the

-Slash! -Slash!

-Clank! -Clank!

this, Kevin's advantage became even more apparent. As Kevin attacked, he couldn't

Kevin knew that he was currently suppressing the demon leader...he couldn't see this fight ending any time sooner. If things went on like this, Kevin felt that the fight would end in at least twenty more minutes...that was far too long for

happen. Although he had faith in Ren killing all those demons, from his experience, Kevin felt

far, Kevin fell into deep thought

end this with

could end this fight in an instant, but there was a major

he activated that skill, depending on how long he used it for, Kevin would find himself unable to move for the

kill the demon leader during the time his overdrive was on, Kevin would be doomed. This was a really

or should I

his barrage of attacks, Kevin grit his teeth and decided to go all in. He couldn't afford to fight for that long. The faster

was confident he could

"Over—"

wind brush past

-Click!