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

it looks like

"Under attack?"

instantly caused Smallsnake and the others

side. His experience was

do now? Should we take

sure myself, but leaving is

told me beforehand, escaping this place was no

be us against thousands of

forehead and staring at the others who

I still

had not properly rested as I ran around the whole

my luck

at the moment, Smallsnake tapped me on the shoulder disrupting me out

"...What is it?"

do you suggest we

and looking back at the others who were also waiting for

I don't

my dimensional space, I put

holographic map of the city

a moment, I soon came

out. It'll

would also raise our

needed this to distract my mind off of the things that Malvin had told me

about to

respond, I

*

built inside of a large mountain within a

from

the upper areas where the bigshots were, and

disparity, built on the lower area were many different defensive structures

amongst their own races and kept to themselves, but the impending attack from the demons sobered

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

"Oy you over there!"

my side. Turning my head, I instantly

"Elluid."

had previously met at the entrance of the

to reply, Elluid shouted onto a small device in

right for tha job. Quickly

shouting ye fucker, I'll

lowering the volume of the device, I could pretty much hear whatever

fuck did ye say

what be

Elluid, he raised his middle

and the others, he

bad. This will do for

follow him with his two fingers, I, along with the others, followed Orimdus towards the northern

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

was currently at, directly faced an expansive forest and was on the opposite side of where the main

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

gates, directly faced the other mountain ranges. On normal occasions, those

the geographical advantage was almost

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

the place

ye

Orimdus suddenly asked.

around, I briefly gave him a rundown of our

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

my mentioning of Smallsnake's and Ryan's

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

I could only shake my

to see just what those

but your composition be still good for

should get

"Did ye say something?"

thinking to

realize that I needed to get a long-ranged damage dealer in my

was a serious flaw that I had not taken into account

me, what be

to which I

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,

be pretty strong for your age, I'll give

pointed towards an area in the

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