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

heard, it looks

"Under attack?"

words instantly caused Smallsnake

side. His experience was starting to show, as he remained

we do now? Should we take

not sure myself, but leaving

told me beforehand, escaping this place was

end result would just be us against thousands

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

I still

as I ran

my luck really

tapped me on the shoulder disrupting me out

"...What is it?"

what do you suggest we

at the others who were also

whatever, I don't

I

map of the city appeared in

soon came

just go help out. It'll be good training

only that, but it would also raise our reputation amongst

I needed this to distract my mind off of the things that Malvin had told me not

we're about to

the others could respond, I

*

was built inside of a large mountain within a massive mountain

to spot from a distance, towering walls erected from outside of

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

many different defensive structures and artifacts, with dwarves, elves, and orcs patrolling

but the impending attack from the demons sobered everyone up

could see from the

"Oy you over there!"

side. Turning my head,

"Elluid."

dwarf that I had previously met at the entrance of the

for me to reply, Elluid shouted onto a small device in

right for tha job. Quickly come ta pick

fucker, I'll be

didn't bother lowering the volume of the device, I could pretty much

did ye

what be ye

man called Orimdus arrived. Glaring at Elluid,

the others,

bad. This will do

to follow him with his two fingers, I, along with the others,

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

at, directly faced an expansive forest and was on the opposite side of where the main demon force was. As such,

that was guiding me and the others, was the one that oversaw the operations on the

the other two sides, 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 to be noted that demons

of this, the geographical advantage

gate, and that was where most of the demons were coming from. In short, that

was also the place where

do ye guys specialize

Orimdus suddenly asked.

around, I briefly gave him a rundown of our

commanding, and these two can help

Smallsnake's and Ryan's capabilities, Orimdus instantly became

it, he didn't believe that the two of them could match the

that, I could only shake my

going to see just what those two were capable

dealer, but your composition be still

should get

"Did ye say something?"

thinking

previous words made me realize that I needed to get a long-ranged damage dealer

I had not taken into

reminds me, what be your

asked thoughtlessly to which I swiftly responded

are D-/D rank with those two at around

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

be pretty strong for your age, I'll give

towards an area in the

see tha area over there, right where tha tower be? go there, an'