The Author's POV

346 Beginning of the assault[4]

"…well fuck."

Staring at the barrel of the gun right in front of me, the world around me froze.

Despite of the fact that I had a gun barrel aimed at my head, I was calm. My eyes paused on the hole of the narrow barrel where I could see a small energy blast forming at the very end of it. Upon closer look, I noticed a small bundle of spherical mana agglomerating towards the very end of the barrel, forming a small pink ball.

Not taking my eyes away from the ball, the chip inside of my head started processing at full power, and all sorts of different scenarios materialized inside of my head.

All the scenarios had different survivability probabilities.

Some high, some low.

All the processing and analyzing happened within a short second, and before the ball had fully formed, I already knew what to do.

'…and I really wanted to conserve my mana.'

In the end, after simulating the many scenarios inside of my head, I decided to go with the most efficient method.

Although I really didn't want to do this as I had to conserve as much mana as possible, I was left with no choice but to do this.

Slowly lifting my head, I inwardly muttered.

'The one.'

The moment my words faded, the duergar standing opposite to me abruptly came to a halt as the hand that held onto the gun shook. The energy beam that was forming at the end of the barrel suddenly twisted and disappeared into the air like smoke.

Calmly placing my left hand on the gun, I moved it slightly. Then, leaning my head backward, I head-butted the duergar right in the face.

"Huek!"

Thud—

Falling butt first onto the ground, the duergar let out a strange sound and let go of the gun.

Without giving him any chance to recover, I stomped my foot on the ground.

Spurt—

A gory scene appeared in my vision as blood and pieces of flesh covered the ground below me.

Unemotionally staring at the scene below me, deactivating the effects of the one, I walked towards my sword and picked it up.

Tapping on my bracelet using my left hand, taking a potion out from my dimensional space, I uncapped the lid and chugged it down.

Gulp—

"Haaa…"

Downing the whole potion in one go, my shoulder slowly started to heal. Unfortunately, the process was not a quick one as my whole shoulder had almost gotten blown away.

It was so bad that I may as well have had my whole arm amputated. At this point, it was practically useless.

According to my estimates, I would need at least a couple of hours for it to fully heal.

Normally I wouldn't have had a problem with this, but that was on normal occasions. Unfortunately for me, this was no longer a normal occasion.

With everything that was going on, time was of the essence, and the fact that my dominant hand was no longer working was a cause of concern.

'To think that things have gone wrong this early into the plan…'

From how I practically lost my right arm to how I used more mana than I had originally anticipated.

Things were not going as smoothly as I had anticipated.

BANG—

was only coming from my end as Angelica swiftly dealt with the

side of the walls, blood splattered everywhere, and a gory scene once again presented

"Hm?"

disposed of the duergar, turning her head to face my direction, the first

she pointed at

"What happened to you?"

"A little accident."

of the place. The one

turning to

wait at the door

attacked and disposed of the duergars in the room. If my estimate was

as well, and the fact that my right hand was no longer

"…"

relief, Angelica understood the situation and headed toward the

system and tried my best to

by measuring the mana that is lingering in the

recalling what the guard had said. With the aid of the chip inside of my head, remembering word for

be over

was in, I immediately spotted the mana sensory system. It wasn't far from where I was and it also wasn't

it, I would be dumb not to spot

: 00S :

"——!"

watch and noticing that I barely had any

mana density that is lingering inside of the whole room, I'd estimate that the sensor will only activate once the mana that is dispersed throughout the whole room reaches a certain level. If I channel my mana right above the sensor, I should be able to distort the data and replicate a scenario

thoughts were running wild, I soon arrived before the

BANG—

explosion resounded from behind

any time, I raised my left hand and touched the sensor with my finger. Upon touching the sensor, I channeled all the mana inside of my body towards it and a white thread that detached from my body sank

BANG— BANG—

to interfere with the sensor, the sound of fighting behind me rang even

you

"What have you done!?"

are you

of the duergars behind me powerfully rang throughout

'Come on…come on…'

concentrated on the task at hand and

: 00M :

sped up

managed to do the most important step of the plan, which was to gather the attention of everyone, that

that everyone's attention was on me. If the security system did not work, I would find myself in a scenario where I would end up facing the elders of

activated would I truly be saved, albeit

Di Ding— Diiii—

I thought I wouldn't have enough time to activate the system, a large chime

Rumble—

followed after was a small rumbling sound as the doors of the

"The system activated!"

"Hurry!"

moment the doors started closing, the duergars became alarmed and attacked even more fiercely. But

hand, a small ball materialized in her hand. The ball was about the size of a baseball, but the energy that emanated from it was no joke. With threads of demonic energy encircling it, Angelica pushed the ball forward,

"Shit! Move back!"

that this was a full-powered attack

Clank—

could see whether the attack had any effect or not, the doors of

mana in the

"Did we do it?"

BOOOM—

could even reply, a terrifying explosion rang from outside

"Ah…I guess we did."

touching the sensory system, my shoulders relaxed a

"…it has finally started."

between the dwarves and