The Author's POV

"You handle the weaklings."

Taking a bite of the fruit, black threads of demonic energy sprung forth from Angelica's body. Her clothes fluttered accompanied by her glossy black hair that wildly flung around.

With cold and apathetic eyes, she eyed the duergars standing opposite to her before her delicate foot gently pressed onto the ground and her figure disappeared.

Swooosh—!

Once Angelica made her move, turning to face Waylan, I pointed towards one particular duergar whose aura was incomparably stronger than any of the other duergar present.

"Can you stall that guy?"

With his eyes already locked onto the duergar, I was talking about, Waylan nodded his head.

"…I should be able to. Although I can't defeat him, I think I should be able to stall him. Especially since that demon companion of yours should be able to somewhat weaken his strength."

"I'll leave it to you."

Nodding my head, I took out a small circular device from my dimensional space and threw it on the floor.

The moment the device touched the floor, four retractable claws extended from the bottom of the device, hooking themselves onto the ground.

Fine miniature crevices appeared on the ground as the device hooked itself firmly on the ground.

it, I waved my

Vooom—!

in the surroundings started spiraling towards

each second that passed, the mana spiral would become bigger and bigger. Before long, a miniature portal

I inserted the coordinates of the room I had previously used

done

looked at the timer and noticed that it had moved

deactivate, I shouldn't have a problem using the portal since there was no longer anything blocking the portal from connecting with the other portal I had

BANG—!

suddenly sounded from behind

hand, turning to face the direction of where

'Still not good…'

I had lost had returned, but it was still not in the state where I could use it

metal rod with my left hand, I put all my mana into it until the

Kracka! Kracka!

formulate around the rod, channeling wind psyons at the bottom of the soles of my shoes, my toes pressed

Kracka! Kracka!

"Huuup!"

before the nearest duergar and slashed downwards

diagonal blue line formed in the air, tracing