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.

that I picked up. I thought that it

"An… ranked artifact?"

with a bit of

I was a

that we were currently participating in a very important mission, I decided to hand it to Waylan. Of course, I was merely just lending it

way I would give such a nice artifact

I was about to give

head, I

to you, okay? You'll have

twitched at my

hand, he commented in

an ranked artifact, what do you expect? Of

fact that it increased the strength of the user, the artifact

both offensive and defensive, of course, I

his hand, Waylan put it

he put it on, the glove magically expanded to fit his

"It's not bad."

you like

Waylan. Only then did I

instantly lit

to Waylan, I asked, "Are you not going to loot

he was an elder, the duergar must

couple more ranked

bother, I've already checked. All of his artifacts are bounded

my hopes, Waylan put his sword

can't do anything about them as they are linked

"I see…"

world, they were a lot

being an example as his hammer was a bounded

we get

the elder were bounded to his corpse, I quickly gave up

his head to meet my eyes, Waylan asked in a serious

quickly replied. There was no ounce of

from; the security room that

take

what I think

was responsible for blocking all frequencies and other methods

to communicate with

Waylan said as he

glanced in the orc's direction to make

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

"I'm here."

"Good. Let's go."

had arrived before Waylan, turning his head to

my face and made sure that the mask

the security system was still not down, I did not want

mask I wore was just a regular skin mask. I had also removed the effects of the potion and was now back to my

definitely felt much better to

"Ren!" Waylan hissed.

I answered while

Waylan and Ultruk deep into the hall. The dampening system's location

***

lingered in the air as thunderous

multitude of colors flashed in the air as two different forces clashed against each

between the two forces shot out

for over ten minutes as both sides mercilessly

"Khh…"

the far end of the army, a blonde youth pushed

muscles, the youth's body stood rooted on the ground

could finally relax.

one of the clashes,

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