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

Spurt—!

black blood sprayed everywhere, the head of the demon quietly rolled in front

"That's another one down."

just as my words

VUAAAAM—!

was then that a grim

a black humanoid figure stood in the air with its wings wide open. The moment the humanoid

shone brightly, enveloping the humanoid

whole battlefield soon came at a standstill

—Splurt!

the demon I killed before,

the second wave finally showed

***

the humanoid

"What do you think?"

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

was none other than Waylan Roshfield, Emma's father. Similarly, staring at the battle from the small room, Waylan leaned his body forward

were the images of two youths and an adult who supported them from behind. The adult would take out a weird gun-like object

his commanding abilities as he perfectly told the two youths what to do. The way the

"They're good."

was wordlessly staring at the

the screen, Waylan started

from the back seems very experienced. Judging from how he can make

could tell that the man

only were his calls the ideal ones, but the timing at

video soon focused

other hand, these two youths seem to be extremely talented,

Waylan's brows furrowed tightly.

wrong, she's controlling four beasts…that's almost unheard

only control one beast at

was the common

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

tamer could control more than one animal. If they could control more than two beasts, things would be

it perhaps

was then that he noticed the

her mouth onto it, the beasts would move. It was almost as

suddenly appeared on his face as he focused his whole

think that

hunch for now, but the more he observed, the more he found

wasn't quite sure just yet. The flute could very well be

and looking at Douglas,

do you

screen, Waylan did

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 black hair

skilfully dealt

"?"

where Douglas was looking, Waylan had

you're interested in

beard,

"You know him?"

"I've met him before."

with a

"Oh?"

and his interest

to face

tell

at Douglas, Waylan leaned back and

was walking down the streets. He was a human, so pretty easy to

middle and corrected himself, but judging from how indifferent Douglas was Waylan knew that he had

actually allowed to go anywhere near that tavern since he wasn't allowed to get drunk. After all, they couldn't

had slipped up, Waylan quickly

what makes you so interested

head, Douglas's brows knit for a

his beard, he

"...He seems familiar."

"Familiar?"

Waylan's turn

also met him before? …or have you not realized that this is the youth from the video