The Author's POV

Chapter 349

"Hm."

My brows furrowed as I took a step out of the room.

Turning my head and staring towards the right, a scene of carnage appeared in my vision. Holding onto an enormous axe, an orc swung it horizontally, in wild abandon. As the axe moved, it tore the air apart and a whistling sound arose. What followed after was a fountain of blood as the axe split the bodies of several duergars in two.

"Is he the one you brought along with you?" I asked as I turned to face Waylan again.

Taking a closer look at him, my brows jumped up lightly, "That aside, what in the world happened to you?"

Now that I had taken a closer look at Waylan, his complexion seemed to be quite pale. His breathing was rough, and with both of his hands on his knees, he looked to be having a rough time.

"Haaa…haa… Don't worry too much. In order to get rid of the elder, I was forced to use my strongest move. I already drank a potion, I should be good in a bit. What about you? You don't seem to be in optimal shape as well."

Waylan said as he pointed at my right arm. Lowering my head and staring at my arm, I helplessly shrugged, "It happened because of my inexperience."

"…Ah."

At my words, Waylan had a sudden look of understanding.

He then patted me on the shoulder.

"Don't worry about it. I've been through it too. If you think duergars and dwarves are easy to fight just because of their small statures, you're damn wrong. Those bastards could become one hell of a tough opponent. Especially since they seem to have an endless amount of tricks up in their arsenal."

"…I learned this the hard way."

I replied with a bitter smile.

Just as Waylan said, duergars were very tricky opponents. Possessing an arsenal packed with a multitude of different artifacts, their attack pattern was almost unpredictable.

Unlike when fighting other opponents, I couldn't properly gauge what they would do next, making them that much harder to fight.

Furthermore, their cunning tactics that were aimed at my weak points made things even more annoying.

"By the way, what's that? I've never seen you with that before."

Disrupting me out of my thoughts was Waylan who pointed at my hand.

Leaning forward to get a closer look, he silently muttered, "It looks like a regular metal pole. Anything special about it?"

"Oh, this?"

Raising my left hand, revealing the long metal stuff, I swung it around.

Swiiish—

With each swing, the air split apart, and a crackling sound similar to that of a whiplash would arise.

It was pretty good.

Putting the bottom end of the metal rod on the ground, I leaned on it slightly.

"Just something I looted from the place. Since I can't use my arm I figured that this would do for now."

Another reason why I chose to go to the artifact testing room was obviously because of the artifacts.

That was a no-brainer.

Since my right hand was currently out of action, I took the liberty of taking the metal staff artifact that the duergar used against me.

Although there were other artifacts, I did not choose them since they were either far too high in rank and would rapidly consume my mana or were utility-based. Which meant that they had no use in my current situation.

"Now that you've reminded me, take this."

Remembering something, taking out a glove from my dimensional space, I handed it to Waylan.

"What's this?" He asked with a pointed look.

I picked up. I thought that it might be useful

"An… ranked artifact?"

with a

only I was a

of mana and the fact that we were currently participating in a very important mission, I decided to hand it to Waylan.

would give such a nice artifact for

about to give Waylan the glove, my hand

head,

lending it to you, okay? You'll have to give it back after you're done

brows twitched at my

he commented in an annoyed tone, "You're a greedy one, aren't

ranked artifact, what do you expect? Of course, I'm going

the

and defensive,

in his hand, Waylan put it

expanded to fit his hand. Clenching his hand repeatedly, Waylan

"It's not bad."

you like

then did I notice the corpse

instantly lit

I asked, "Are you not going to

was an elder, the duergar must have had some

couple more

I've already checked. All of his

my hopes, Waylan

as they are linked to his

"I see…"

human world, they were a lot more common here

an example as his hammer was a bounded

get moving

artifacts on the elder were bounded to his corpse, I quickly

eyes, Waylan asked in a

I quickly replied. There was no ounce of

was another team currently headed for the surveillance system, there were only two places left to choose from; the security room that was responsible for the protective measures installed

same." Waylan nodded his head in approval. "Once we take care of the dampening system, communicating and coordinating with the others will be much

what I

responsible for blocking all frequencies and other methods that connected

communications and thus be able to communicate with Douglas, who was outside, as well as with

Waylan said

my tooth slightly, I briefly glanced in the orc's direction to make

seemed to have the same idea as me as he waited for Ultruk to

"I'm here."

"Good. Let's go."

before Waylan, turning his

I touched my

down, I did not want to have my real face exposed in

regular skin mask. I had also removed the effects of the potion and was

felt much better to be back

"Ren!" Waylan hissed.

answered

my face, I followed Waylan and Ultruk deep into the hall. The dampening system's location

***

threads of mana lingered in the air as thunderous explosions rang in

flashed in the air

of collision between the two forces shot out towards

for over ten minutes as both sides mercilessly attacked each

"Khh…"

blonde youth pushed his shield forward and blocked the wind gale that

leg muscles, the youth's body stood rooted on the ground as the earth beneath

had passed that the youth could finally

the residual energy from one of the clashes,

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