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.

him and seeing everyone staring in my

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

"Under attack?"

instantly caused Smallsnake and

who listened attentively from the side. His experience

take

myself, but leaving is

Waylen had told me beforehand, escaping this place

just be us against thousands

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

still didn't sleep

rested as I

luck

on the

"...What is it?"

what do you suggest we

looking at Smallsnake straight in the eyes and looking back at the others who were

I

my sword from my dimensional space, I put it on my waist and tapped on my

of the city appeared in front of

I soon came up with

out. It'll be good training

that, but it would also raise our

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

we're about to move

could respond, I had

*

inside of a large mountain within a massive mountain

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

areas where the bigshots were,

up the disparity, built on the lower area were many different defensive structures and artifacts, with dwarves, elves, and orcs patrolling

and kept to themselves, but the impending attack from the demons sobered everyone

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

"Oy you over there!"

buff dwarf yelled over to my side. Turning my head, I instantly

"Elluid."

that I had previously met at the entrance of the

greeting me nor waiting for me to reply, Elluid

right for tha job. Quickly come ta pick them

shouting ye fucker, I'll be there in

device, I could pretty much hear whatever they were

did ye say

what be ye

called Orimdus arrived. Glaring at Elluid, he raised his

attention towards me and the

nae bad. This will do

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

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

on the opposite side of

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

other hand, 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 to be noted that demons

the geographical

was where most of the demons were coming from. In

also the place where most bigshots

ye guys specialize

Orimdus suddenly asked.

him a rundown of our

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

mentioning of Smallsnake's and

the two of them could

that, I could only shake my

soon going to see just what those two were

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

should

"Did ye say something?"

just thinking

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

that I

reminds me, what be your

I swiftly responded

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

from Ryan and Smallsnake, pretty much everyone was now rank and above. Sort of shocking given that not too long ago, everyone was barely

be pretty strong for your

pointed towards an area in the

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