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.

everyone staring in my direction,

I've heard, it looks like the city will

"Under attack?"

caused Smallsnake

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

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

but leaving is not

beforehand, escaping this place was

end result would just be us against

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

I still didn't

as I ran around the whole city ever

my luck really that

on the shoulder disrupting me

"...What is it?"

do you suggest

at the

I

out my sword from my dimensional space, I put it

of the city

soon

out. It'll be good training

would also raise our reputation amongst the

any case, I needed this to distract my mind off of the

ready, we're about to

others could respond, I had already

*

large

environment; making it harder to spot from a distance, towering walls erected from outside

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

were many different defensive structures

races and kept to themselves, but the impending attack from the

restricted for the stronger individuals. One could see from the level of security around the area that

"Oy you over there!"

over to my side. Turning my head,

"Elluid."

previously met at the entrance

for me to reply, Elluid shouted onto a small

right

I'll be there

volume of the device, I could

ye say

be ye

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

his attention towards me and the others, he

nae bad. This will do for

his two fingers, I, along with the

others a brief overview of the walls defensive structure. The walls had four gates, which were named

gate, the gate that I was currently at, directly faced an expansive forest and was on the opposite

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

other mountain ranges. On normal occasions, those sides would've been

geographical

most of the demons were coming

the place

do ye

Orimdus suddenly asked.

him a rundown of our

swordsman, he's a tanker, she's a beast tamer, he's good at commanding, and these two can help with a

Smallsnake's and

he didn't believe that the

I could only shake my

just what those

but your composition be still good for when

I should

"Did ye say something?"

just thinking

me realize that I needed to get a long-ranged damage

serious flaw that I had not taken

what

which I swiftly responded

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,

guys be pretty strong for your

pointed towards an

there, right where tha tower be? go there, an' one o' tha