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.

the duergars after removing the second beacon, they no longer suspected me of having ulterior motives,

for them, this had been a set-up from the

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

was essential for this

attention of the higher-ups would get focused there. This meant that less attention

couldn't guarantee that no one would take note of their appearance. The fluctuations they would release couldn't go unnoticed

a bit of thinking, I came up with another

plan was simple; create chaos inside of this facility a little bit before Waylan and his group stepped into

to divert attention away from them and have it focus on me. But I couldn't guarantee whether it would work. Yet,

was made of Rhimestone, I

would take at least a couple of 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 the trouble

chaos, the higher the chances

same time, the elders would have

this, the higher the chances of

01M

'Angelica, let's start.'

one last time,

Crash—

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

that came from the destruction of the surveillance system was

it 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 able to tell what I just

'That's one down.'