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 in my direction, my brows

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

"Under attack?"

caused Smallsnake

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

now? Should we take

not sure myself, but leaving

Waylen had told me beforehand, escaping this place was

result would just be

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

shit, I still didn't sleep

rested as I ran around the whole city ever since

my luck

the moment, Smallsnake tapped me on the shoulder disrupting me

"...What is it?"

you suggest we

head and looking at Smallsnake straight in the eyes and looking back at the

whatever, I don't care

space, I

map of the city

for a moment, I soon came up with

It'll be good training

also raise our reputation amongst

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

ready, we're about to move

others could respond, I had already

*

was built inside of a large mountain

environment; making it harder to spot from a distance,

the upper areas where the bigshots were, and the

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

races and kept to themselves, but the

restricted for the stronger individuals. One could see from the

"Oy you over there!"

dwarf yelled over to my side. Turning

"Elluid."

had previously met at

me to reply, Elluid shouted onto a

who be right for tha

ye fucker, I'll

the device, I could pretty

fuck did ye say ta

what be ye gonna

Orimdus arrived. Glaring at Elluid, he raised

and the others, he

This will do

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

along, he gave me and the others a brief overview of the walls defensive structure. The walls had four gates, which

directly faced an expansive forest and was on the opposite side of where

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

Eastern, and Western gates, directly faced the other mountain ranges. On normal occasions, those sides

the geographical advantage

demons were coming

place

do ye guys specialize

Orimdus suddenly asked.

around, I briefly gave him a rundown

beast tamer, he's good at commanding,

and

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

could

to see just what those two were capable

your composition be still good for

I should get

"Did ye say something?"

thinking

that I needed to get a long-ranged damage dealer

a serious flaw that I had not taken

what

which I

C- rank, and the others are D-/D rank

Sort of shocking given

for your age, I'll give ye

pointed towards an area in the

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