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.

Having 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 do whatever I

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 attacking the place from

was essential for

higher-ups would get focused there. This meant that less attention would be put

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

after a bit of thinking, I came up with another idea and headed towards

a little bit before Waylan and

on me.

of Rhimestone, I wasn't worried about

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

internal chaos, the higher the

was all happening at the same time, the elders would have little to no

of this, the higher the

01M :

'Angelica, let's start.'

my watch one last time,

Crash—

head, I threw a small object and destroyed

that came from the destruction of the

the sounds that came from the artifacts being tested were way louder, no one inside of the facility was able

'That's one down.'