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.

behind him and seeing everyone staring in my direction, my brows furrowed

what I've heard, it looks like the city will be

"Under attack?"

Smallsnake and the

His experience was starting to show, as he remained coolheaded

now? Should we take

not sure myself, but

Waylen had told me beforehand, escaping this place was no

be us

the

shit, I still didn't

had not properly rested as I ran around the whole city ever since

my luck really

tapped me on the

"...What is it?"

do you suggest

the eyes and looking back at the others who were also waiting for my answer, I let

I don't care

my sword from my dimensional space, I put it on my

holographic map of the city

for a moment, I soon

just go help out. It'll be

also

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

about to move

could respond,

*

built inside of a large

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

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

order to make up the disparity, built on the lower area were many different defensive structures

and kept to themselves, but the impending attack

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

"Oy you over there!"

yelled over to my side. Turning my head, I instantly recognized

"Elluid."

had previously met

me to reply, Elluid shouted

right for tha job. Quickly come ta pick

fucker, I'll be there in

device, I could pretty much

did ye

be ye gonna

Orimdus arrived. Glaring at Elluid, he raised his middle finger and

me and the others, he began to

bad. This

I, along with

defensive structure. The walls had four gates, which were

that I was currently at, directly faced an expansive forest and was on the opposite side of where the main demon force was. As such, it was supposedly the easiest side to

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

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

of this, the geographical advantage

of the demons were coming from.

place where most bigshots

do ye guys specialize

Orimdus suddenly asked.

around, I briefly gave him a rundown of our

at commanding, and these two can

Smallsnake's and Ryan's capabilities,

he didn't believe that the two of them could

I could only

going to see just what those two

but your composition

I should

"Did ye say something?"

just thinking to

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

I had not taken

reminds me, what

I swiftly

and the others are D-/D rank with

Sort of

pretty strong for your age, I'll give

pointed towards an area in the

area over there, right where tha tower be?