The Author's POV

—Spurt!

Retrieving my sword back from the corpse of a demon, I icily looked towards the distance.

About half a day had passed since the start of the second wave and as of now, the situation was under control.

Although the first line of defense had been breached multiple times, I, alongside Hein, Ava, and Leopold, had done an excellent job at keeping the demons from breaching the second line.

Of course, we weren't the only ones standing in the second line of defense, but judging from the body count alone, we were some of the few individuals that had made the most contributions. This was mainly due to the fact that the powerful individuals had not made a move yet.

Spi Sli—!

Slashing the sword down to get rid of the blood coating it, I turned to face the others.

"You guys doing alright?"

—Clang!

Blocking an incoming attack, Hein let out a muffled groan before finally stabilizing his footing. Turning his head, he forced a smile.

"Khh...Yeah, though I'm a bit tired."

Raising my hand, I pointed towards my wrist, or more specifically, towards my bracelet.

"Drink a potion then. It'll help out."

"...Right, I almost forgot about that."

"You what?"

His answer made me shake my head.

Perhaps it was because he was too excited, but it seemed as though Hein completely forgot about the fact that potions existed.

"Tell the others to cover for you while you drink a potion."

"Oka—Huk!"

But just before Hein could take out a potion, a demon shot explosively towards him, and a whistling sound arose. Soon the demon violently clashed against Hein's shield.

—Bang!

Fortunately, Hein was quick to react. Even though he had been distracted the moment the demon attacked, angling his shield right in front of his shoulder, he nudged it slightly and cushioned the attack of the demon. Sparks flew, and Hein proudly remained standing on the same spot as before.

Unmoving.

"..."

Silently staring at Hein from behind, I was impressed by his performance. Not only him but Ava and Leopold's performances deeply impressed me. In fact, they were doing so well that all together, they had accumulated quite a substantial amount of kills.

Quite a few more than me who was a whole rank higher than them.

Well, this was to be expected. After all, I wasn't fighting at my fullest abilities. My body count would've been way higher if I had been using the Keiki style.

On another note, I was also improving as the fight continued. The more I got used to this new fighting style, the faster I started killing the demons. If before it took me a minute to get rid of a ranked demon, it only took half of the time now.

Slowly but surely, everyone was improving.

"Hm?"

Sensing something, I looked towards my right.

Sure enough, a demon was quickly headed in my direction. Before long, it appeared a couple of meters away from me.

"Hieeek!"

Sinisterly opening its mouth, the demon let out a screech and viciously slashed in my direction.

WIIIIIING!

Staring at the incoming attack, I was completely unfazed. Raising my sword and thrusting it forward, the green hue enveloping my sword expanded and contracted rapidly.

Shuop—!

What came as a result of this was a subtle suction force that altered the direction of the demon's attack. An instant later, gently tapping on the ground with my foot, the ground cracked apart with a 'bang,' and I appeared only a few centimeters away from the demon.

react in time. Raising my sword, I slashed upwards, cleanly cutting the demon's

Spurt—!

black blood sprayed everywhere, the head of the demon quietly

"That's another one down."

just as my

VUAAAAM—!

grim pressure suddenly

its wings wide open. The moment the humanoid figure appeared, I instantly knew that things were about to

moon shone brightly, enveloping the humanoid figure

soon came at a standstill and everyone

—Splurt!

I killed before, unprecedented seriousness clouded my

the commander of the

***

before the humanoid

"What do you think?"

a small room. One of them had his hands interlocked behind his back; he was the

with his arms crossed. He was none other than Waylan Roshfield, Emma's father. Similarly, staring at the battle

of two youths and an adult who supported them from behind. The adult would take out a weird gun-like object and shoot it at the demons from

told the two youths what to do. The way the three of them

"They're good."

on his seat, he crossed his arms and looked at Douglas, who was wordlessly staring at the same screen. The

screen, Waylan started making small

who is leading them from the back seems very experienced. Judging from how he can make

that the man helping the two youths

the timing at

video soon focused on the

youths seem

Waylan's brows furrowed tightly.

not wrong, she's controlling four beasts…that's almost

beast tamer could only control one beast

the common

even then, they were extremely expensive to take care of, and most of the time, they weren't a class that people paid

one animal. If they could control more than two beasts,

perhaps

that he noticed the

beasts would

intrigued looked suddenly appeared on his face

that there was

was just a hunch for now, but the more he observed, the more he found his

flute could very well be an artifact that enhanced her

his head and looking

you

Waylan did

a particular youth on the screen. He was neither the girl nor boy that Waylan was looking at but someone else. He was another youth with jet

skilfully dealt with

"?"

toward where Douglas was

see, so you're interested

beard, Douglas curiously

"You know him?"

"I've met him before."

with a

"Oh?"

brow raised, and his interest was

to face

you tell

Douglas, Waylan leaned back and nodded his

walking down the

but judging from how indifferent Douglas was Waylan knew that he

tavern since he wasn't allowed to get drunk. After all, they couldn't allow themselves to let

had slipped up,

what makes you so interested

head, Douglas's brows

his beard,

"...He seems familiar."

"Familiar?"

was Waylan's

you not realized that this is the youth from the video