The Author's POV

345 Beginning of the assault[3]

[00H : 02M : 23S]

'Angelica, get ready.'

Taking my eyes away from the watch, I reminded Angelica inside of my mind.

[I got it, no need to tell me.]

Angelica coldly replied inside of my head.

'Just making sure.'

I replied back, unbothered by her attitude.

At this point, I was already used to her attitude. Even if she was cold to me, at the end of the day, she did whatever I asked her to do. So, I had nothing to complain about.

Taking a good look at the surroundings and making sure that no one was paying attention to me, I kept a close look on my watch.

'…Almost.'

Very soon, total chaos would descend on this place, both internally and externally.

The external threat would be from Douglas attacking the outside of the facility with all the warriors gathered, and the internal one would be from Waylan and the others infiltrating through the portal I had set up in the room I operated in.

Since the dampening system was turned off in that one specific room, setting up a portal was not a problem.

exactly what I did. Having completely gained the trust of the duergars after removing the second beacon, they no longer suspected me of

been a set-up

the timer on my watch hits zero, Waylan alongside his small group would appear inside of the building. Douglas, on the other hand, would start

essential for this

would get focused there. This meant that

would take note of their appearance. The fluctuations they would release couldn't go unnoticed by the elders of

bit of thinking, I came up with another

create chaos inside of this facility a little bit

from them and have it focus on me. But I couldn't guarantee

this place was made of Rhimestone, I

ranks to enter this place forcefully, and with what was happening outside, I'm

more the internal chaos, the higher the chances that the

at the same time, the elders would have little to no time to think before they would be forced to

this, the higher the

: 01M

'Angelica, let's start.'

my watch one last time, I decided to

Crash—

threw a small object

sound that came from the destruction of the surveillance

didn't matter whether I was loud or not. Since the sounds that came from the artifacts being tested were way louder, no one inside of

'That's one down.'