The Author's POV

The sun started to set, and darkness slowly enveloped the land. A cold breeze brushed through the forest; the paper-like sound of the leaves fluttering sounded across the area.

The scene was rather tranquil, but everyone standing on top of the northern tower, knew that this was the calm before the storm.

Rustle—!

Soon, the silence was broken by the rustling sounds of the vegetation in the distance.

Stationed at the middle levels of the tower, I gazed into the distance. There were many black creatures in the distant forest, approaching our direction. Some were flying, whilst others weren't.

The atmosphere was heavy, and everyone on the middle level of the tower started to take out their weapons, as they quickly got back to their post, readying themselves for the upcoming battle.

"It's time we also get ready."

With the aid of my sword, I slowly stood up. Facing Ava, Leopold and Hein, I looked back towards the forest before muttering.

"This is going to be a long battle."

***

"You two follow me an' dinna touch anything."

Following the dwarf from before deep into the tower, Ryan and Smallsnake soon found themselves inside of what seemed to be the control room of the tower.

The layout of the place was quite simplistic, as the room was about the size of a normal living room. Around ten dwarves or so hurriedly paced around the room, looking through different holographic images, depicting different angles of the tower where the demons could be seen.

In the middle of the room was a large map filled with numerous dots; presumingly depicting the demons that were approaching.

Their number was quite large. Large enough to make Smallsnake gasp in shock.

On the other hand, staring at the room starstruck, Ryan couldn't help but let out an exclamation of surprise.

"Wow."

Running towards the map in the room, Ryan waved his hand over the map. His small hand passed through the holographic image.

"This looks so cool, how does it work?"

"Ryan, calm down."

Smallsnake hurriedly went to stop him.

However, their disturbance did not go unnoticed as an older looking dwarf pointed in their direction and shouted.

"Oy, who let tha two o' them in? An' what be a child doing here?"

"It's me."

The dwarf that led Ryan and Smallsnake in, raised his hand.

"Sir Bamus, I did this under the orders of Sir Orimdus."

"Orimdus? Tsk."

The older looking dwarf, Bamus, clicked his tongue.

"What be that guy thinking? Has he lost his mind?"

"He said ta let them help out with tha miscellaneous stuff. Their combat power be fairly low, an' they may end up being more useful than ye can imagine.

Bamus rolled his eyes.

Although he was the person in charge of the logistics in the northern tower, at the end of the day, Orimdus was the one in charge of the whole northern area.

He had to follow his orders.

"Alright, I'll do it."

"Thank you, sir."

The dwarf gratefully looked at Bamus.

Although Bamus was ill-tempered, he was not someone who would refuse a helping hand. Furthermore, he really needed someone to help him out.

Though he wasn't really sure about the ability of the two humans before him, the tasks he was about to give them wasn't too hard.

"You two follow me."

Following Bamus, Smallsnake and Ryan stopped in front of a large wooden desk. Atop the wooden desk was a similar map to that in the middle of the room; the only difference was that it was much smaller.

give ye guys a

the map. More specifically the red dots around the

o' tha map in tha middle o' tha room, an' it gives us an overall outlook o'

on a specific area of the map, a small square appeared on the map displaying

"Wooow!"

both Ryan and Smallsnake who looked at it

the two, Bamus's

ye guys need ta do be report ta me every couple o' minutes how many demons be approaching from tha different sides

head, Smallsnake

but why cant the device count

screen, couldn't they have a system that

the

device can, but we do this just in case tha artifacts miscalculates some o' tha data. After all, some o' tha demons cou' be using some special techniques that avoid tha detection

"...So that's why."

turned his attention back towards the

his head and mumbled something to

stroked

leave you

56 right, and

Bamus could

all over the

"H..huh?"

just about to leave almost tripped over. Turning

talking about? Are ye joking

looking at Bamus, Ryan

to know how many demons are coming? Those are

couple of times, he corrected

it's not 132 left, still 56 on the

"That's wrong Ryan."

"Huh?"

the side, startling

Soon an image of the place appeared and Smallsnake

that have infiltrated, there's about twenty-two missing from

Ryan in the head, Smallsnake's

when you're

"Sorry."

back of his head,

from behind,

"What the."

in the middle of the room, Bamus checked if what they said was

long, his mouth

"...Ah."

looking towards Ryan who was still being

perfectly matched

***

the enemy did not have any battle strategy prepared—Like a swarm of locusts, the demons charged from above. Demons riding onto huge beasts followed

—Rumble! —Rumble!

and a cloud of dust appeared in

SHIIIIII—!

on the palm of their hands. Before long, spells started raining down from above. Towards the demons in

scene from behind, I was impressed by the

in archery, I instead designed them to be good at magic rather than

the only different thing that

didn't mean elves were bad at archery, it's just that they were

quite easy to tell

and with silver, which was the hair color that royalty had,

WHIIIM—!

sky. Lingering in the air for a couple of seconds, it soon fell towards the demons in the

BOOOM—!

shook and hundreds of

head towards the elf responsible for the attack, I found out that it belonged to

"Damn."

had a low affinity with mana, that didn't mean that they

us humans, they were still

Xiu—! Xiu—! Xiu—!

only long-distance damage dealers, as the dwarves shot the demons from above with an

they were holding did somewhat resemble guns, they operated differently as they shot projectiles

each shot equalled the life of

despite the strong spells and attacks from the dwarves and

simply

"Uuuaargh!"

the orcs were already waiting for them at the

huge bodies, the orcs prevented most of the demons from infiltrating the tower where