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.

artifact that I picked up. I thought that it

"An… ranked artifact?"

I replied with a bit of

I was a

fact that we were currently

way I would give

I was about to give Waylan the glove,

head, I

to you, okay? You'll have to give

brows twitched

in an annoyed tone,

artifact, what do you expect? Of course,

of the user, the artifact was also extremely durable and could block heavy blows

was both offensive and defensive, of course, I

in his hand,

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

"It's not bad."

glad you like

not look envious, I looked away from Waylan. Only then did I notice the corpse

instantly lit

to Waylan, I asked, "Are you not going

the duergar must have had

a couple more

already checked. All of his artifacts

cold water onto my hopes, Waylan put his sword

about them as they are linked to

"I see…"

in the human world, they were a lot more common here

an example as his hammer

get

to

my eyes, Waylan asked in a

was no ounce of hesitation in

system, there were only two places left to choose from; the security room that was responsible for the protective measures installed outside

I was thinking the same." Waylan nodded his head in approval. "Once we take care of the dampening system,

I

dampening system was responsible for blocking all frequencies and other methods that connected

communicate with Douglas, who was outside, as

time and go now. Ultruk just finished as well," Waylan

in the orc's direction to make sure that he

seemed to have the same idea as

"I'm here."

"Good. Let's go."

done and had arrived before Waylan, turning

my face

not want to have my real face

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

definitely felt much better to be back to

"Ren!" Waylan hissed.

I answered while moving

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

***

mana lingered in the air as thunderous

the air as

pressurized wind gales emerging from the point of collision between the two forces shot out

persisted for over ten minutes as both sides mercilessly

"Khh…"

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

on the ground as the earth beneath his feet crumbled

was only after a whole minute had passed that the youth could finally relax. Lowering his shield slightly, he

the residual energy from one of the clashes, I wonder how strong the

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