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.

seeing everyone staring in

I've heard, it looks like the city will

"Under attack?"

Smallsnake and the others to

the side. His experience was starting to show,

do now? Should we take cover? Or should we just

but leaving is not an

had told me beforehand, escaping this place was no longer an

be us against thousands of

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

I still didn't sleep

had not properly rested as I ran around the

luck

moment, Smallsnake tapped me on the shoulder

"...What is it?"

do you suggest we

Smallsnake straight in the eyes and looking back at the

I don't care

again taking out my sword from my dimensional space, I put

city appeared in

moment, I soon came up with

help out. It'll

only that, but it would also raise our

distract my mind off of the things that

we're about to move

others could respond,

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was built inside of a large mountain

it harder to spot from a distance, towering walls

the upper areas where the bigshots were, and

make up the disparity, built on the lower area were many different defensive structures and artifacts,

talked amongst their own races and kept to themselves, but the impending

the stronger individuals. One could see from the level of security around the area that brought towards to the higher level, that highly

"Oy you over there!"

side. Turning my head, I instantly recognized

"Elluid."

previously met

greeting me nor waiting for me to reply, Elluid

right for tha job. Quickly come ta pick

shouting ye fucker, I'll be there

bother lowering the volume of the device, I could pretty

ye say ta

be

the man called Orimdus arrived. Glaring at Elluid, he raised

turning his attention towards me and the others, he began to size

This will do for

fingers, I, along with the others, followed Orimdus towards

The

and was on the opposite side of where the

the dwarf that was guiding me and the others, was the one

sides, the Eastern, and Western gates, directly faced the other mountain ranges. On normal occasions, those sides would've been the easiest

geographical advantage was

there was the Southern gate, and that was where most of the demons were coming from.

was also the place where most

ye

Orimdus suddenly asked.

gave him a rundown

tamer, he's good at commanding, and these two can help with

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

he didn't believe that the two of them could

could only shake my

was soon going to see just what those two were

dealer, but your composition be

should get

"Did ye say something?"

just thinking

I needed to get

was a serious flaw that I

what

thoughtlessly to which I swiftly

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

pretty much everyone was now rank and above. Sort of shocking given that not too long

be pretty strong for your age, I'll give

towards an area

tha tower be? go there, an' one o' tha people shou' make arrangements for