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

sure, but from what I've heard, it looks like the city will

"Under attack?"

instantly caused Smallsnake and the others

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

do now? Should we take cover? Or should we

sure myself, but leaving is not an

had told me beforehand, escaping this place

would just be us against thousands

at the others who seemed well-rested,

I still didn't sleep

still had not properly rested as I ran around

my luck really

Smallsnake tapped me on the shoulder disrupting me out

"...What is it?"

do you suggest we

straight in the eyes and looking back at

I don't care

my dimensional space, I put it on my waist and

the city appeared in front

I soon came up

help out. It'll be good training

that, but it would also raise our reputation amongst

to distract my mind off of

about to move

respond, I had

*

a large mountain

to spot from a distance, towering

areas where the bigshots were, and the lower areas, where the

disparity, built on the lower area were many different defensive

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

level was more restricted for the stronger individuals. One could see from the level of security around the area that brought towards to the higher level, that highly classified meetings

"Oy you over there!"

buff dwarf yelled over to my side. Turning my

"Elluid."

dwarf that I had previously met at the

to reply, Elluid shouted onto a small device

right for tha job.

shouting ye fucker, I'll

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

ye

what be ye gonna

the man called Orimdus arrived. Glaring at Elluid,

the others, he began to size

This will do

him with his two fingers, I, along with

overview of the walls defensive structure. The walls had four gates, which were named after the cardinal points. Northern, Southern,

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

guiding me and the others, was 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

geographical

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

was also the place where

do ye guys specialize

Orimdus suddenly asked.

I briefly gave him

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

mentioning of Smallsnake's and Ryan's capabilities, Orimdus

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

could

to see just

for a long-ranged damage dealer, but your composition be still good for when

should

"Did ye say something?"

just thinking

that I needed

serious flaw that I had not taken

reminds me, what

which I swiftly

are D-/D

now rank and above. Sort of shocking given that not too long ago, everyone was barely at

for

pointed towards an

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