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.

completely gained the trust of the duergars after removing the second beacon, they no longer suspected me of having ulterior motives, and just let me

this had been a set-up from

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

essential for

of the attention of the higher-ups would get focused there. This meant that less attention would be put on Waylan and the others who would enter the headquarters

of their appearance. The fluctuations they would

came up with another

inside of this facility a little bit before Waylan and

have it focus on me. But I couldn't guarantee whether it would work.

made of Rhimestone, I wasn't worried

ranks to enter this place forcefully, and with what was happening outside, I'm sure the elders would suddenly suffer a massive headache with all

more the internal chaos, the higher the chances

this was all happening at the same time, the elders would have little

of this, the higher

: 01M :

'Angelica, let's start.'

watch one last time, I

Crash—

my head, I threw a small object and destroyed the surveillance system in

destruction of the surveillance system was

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 the facility was

'That's one down.'