The Author's POV

As he was returning from the tavern, Waylen suddenly heard the sirens of the city ring out.

Without wasting any time, he hurriedly ran towards the outer walls of the city where an elderly figure stood.

Deeply gazing into the distance on the top of the enormous wall outside of the mountain where Henolur resided; a terrifying wind blew from below the walls.

Oddly enough, despite the strong winds blowing, the old man's clothes remained completely still and didn't flutter the slightest.

Sensing something, the old man turned his head and greeted Waylen with a calm smile.

"Waylen, you're back."

"I just came back from a drink, what exactly is going on, Douglas?"

"Haaa."

Closing his eyes slightly, the old man, Douglas, looked towards the distance.

Waving his hand, the strong winds around them completely disappeared and silence descended.

He then pointed towards the distance, where a mass of black dots appeared in the distance.

"As you can probably tell, the demons are once again attacking. This time, they are attacking with a large number of troops."

Putting his hands on the battlements of the castle; The upright projections on the castle walls shaped to look like teeth, Waylen glared.

"Those bastards. Have they sent the big shots?"

"Not yet. It looks like they are still trying to gauge the defensive mechanism of the city."

"So they've basically sent the cannon fodder."

"Mhm, for now."

Douglas calmly nodded his head.

Stroking his long white beard, he softly reminded.

"We should still be careful. We might never know what might happen."

Nodding in agreement, Waylen suddenly thought of something.

"...Right, what did the dwarves say?"

"The dwarfs?"

"Yeah, are they allowing us to help them?"

Acting without permission could enrage the dwarves.

This was because their interference might have adverse effects on the dwarves who were perhaps planning on activating a specific defensive measure that required no interference.

If they wanted to act, they could only do so at the okay of the dwarves.

After all, they were here to please the dwarves, not antagonize them.

Understanding full well what Waylen was implying, Douglas shook his head before once again turning his attention towards the distance.

"Nothing yet, but I've already told them that we will assist them if anything happens."

"That's good enough for now."

Also turning his attention towards the distance, Waylen's eyes squinted and tangible bloodlust started exuding from his body.

"If they permit us to move, I'll slaughter each and every demon that comes my way."

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WHIIIIIII—! WHIIIIIII—!

The sounds of the sirens rang out throughout the whole city as the dwarves quickly closed up shop and hid inside of their homes.

From how unpanicked and organized this was, I could tell that this wasn't the first time that this had happened.

"Ren, what's going on?"

"Smallsnake?"

Regrouping with the others back at the lodgings, the first one to approach me was Smallsnake.

staring in my

sure, but from what I've heard, it looks like the city will

"Under attack?"

caused Smallsnake and

from the side. His experience was

we do now? Should we take cover? Or should

not sure myself, but leaving is

told me beforehand, escaping this

end result would just be

and staring at the others who seemed well-rested, I

I still

rested as I ran around

my luck

on

"...What is it?"

what do you suggest we

back at the others

whatever, I don't

again taking out my sword from my dimensional space, I put it on my waist and

of the city appeared in

a moment, I soon

go help out. It'll be

would also raise our reputation

any case, I needed this to distract my mind off of the things that Malvin had told me not too long

ready, we're about to

the others could respond, I

*

was built inside of a large mountain within a massive

with the environment; making it harder to spot from a distance, towering

divided into two areas, the upper areas where the bigshots were, and the lower areas, where

lower area were many different defensive structures and artifacts, with dwarves, elves, and

and kept to themselves, but the impending attack from the demons sobered everyone up as they

see from the level of security around

"Oy you over there!"

side. Turning my head, I

"Elluid."

that I had previously met at the entrance

to reply, Elluid

be right for tha

fucker, I'll be there in

device, I

did ye

what be ye

at Elluid, he raised his

towards me and the others,

This will

two fingers, I, along

along, he gave me and the others a brief overview of the walls defensive structure. The walls had four gates, which were named after the cardinal points. Northern,

and was on the opposite side of where the main demon force was. As such,

and the others, was the

Eastern, and Western gates, directly faced the other mountain ranges. On normal occasions, those sides would've been the easiest to defend against, however, it had

geographical advantage was

Southern gate, and that was where most of the demons were coming from. In short, that place was a living hell for whoever

also the place where

do ye guys specialize

Orimdus suddenly asked.

I briefly gave him a rundown of

beast tamer, he's good at commanding,

and Ryan's capabilities, Orimdus instantly became

of it, he didn't believe that the two of

could only

soon going to see just

long-ranged damage dealer, but your composition be still good

should

"Did ye say something?"

thinking to

me realize that I needed

I had

reminds me, what

which I swiftly

C- rank, and the others are D-/D rank with those two

Ryan and Smallsnake, pretty much everyone was now rank and above. Sort of shocking given that not too long ago, everyone was barely at the entry-level of

guys be pretty strong for your age,

towards an area in the

guys see tha area over there, right where tha tower be?