The Author's POV

[Outside of Inferno headquarters.]

As powerful blasts shook the air, spreading a powerful gust of wind throughout the expansive battle. Thick residuals threads of mana lingered in the air, carrying themselves in the form of color smoke.

Suddenly, a subtle chime rang amidst the fierce battlefield.

Di Ding—!

"We've got a message!"

Bang—!

Raising his hand and pointing his gun towards one of the duergars in the distance, Leopold pulled the trigger and a powerful energy blast shot towards the duergar killing it instantly.

Without paying much mind to it, turning his head and looking towards the others, Leopold flashed his communication device.

"It's time to get a move on. Looks like its finally our turn."

Clang—!

"G...got it!"

Blocking an incoming energy blast, Hein replied with a low grunt. Taking a step back, he looked towards Ava who calmly dealt with the duergars with her pets.

But, there was a big difference to how she fought compared to her previous fights up above. During the demon waves.

Tootle too~

"Khrrr." "Khrrr." "Khrrr."

The movements of her pets were a lot more fluent and Ava was able to keep blowing onto the flute for a lot longer than before.

'Looks like Malvil has done a good job at fixing the flute.'

Hein thought to himself as he stared at Ava.

Had it not been for Malvil who had repaired a small part of the flute, Ava would've had a lot more trouble fighting against the duergars at the moment.

With her now utilizing less mana with each use of the flute, she could now fight for a prolonged period of time.

—I'm done setting up the portal.

A voice suddenly sounded in Hein's ear.

The moment the voice reached his ears, Hein's eyes instantly became sharp as he looked at Leopold and Ava who also looked back at him.

"Let's go."

Without wasting a single second, he twisted the heel of his foot and smashed his shield against one of the duergars behind him, opening up a path for him and the others to go through.

***

Ohm— Ohm—

Slowly exiting the portals, Douglas alongside a few other members carefully scanned their surroundings.

The walls of the room they were teleported in were coated by a tough metallic alloy. Plastered by the sides of the walls were all sorts of different holographic devices displaying all sorts of geometric shapes and patterns that morphed continuously.

They were a total of seven members present at the moment. For obvious reasons, they couldn't bring all the members in. If they did, not only would the elders upstairs realize they were in, but the situation outside would crumble within a short second.

In fact, their very presence at the moment was a risk in itself.

Ohm—

The last one to step out of the portal was Alga who curiously looked around.

"Where exactly are we?"

She asked, joining up with the group.

"Inside of Inferno."

replied with a calm rippleless

other present, his voice was nothing but calm as it

did you just

that we're inside of

playing a

hard time understanding just what was going on. Raising his hand to calm

don't have time to waste discussing

his head and staring at the communication device in his hands, Douglas

go. Follow me, and

walked towards the door of the room and calmly

his hands, the communication device where the location of the duergan elder council was

at Douglas's back from behind, the others looked at each other before

were initially in shock, they weren't elites for nothing.

***

"Wait here."

extended my hand

he looked at the door at the end of the long

were still quite far, about a couple of hundred meters away, but with our vision, we could clearly see that the

I decided to stop right here was because I didn't

must've already gone in..." I muttered, staring at Waylan who

there were no energy fluctuating coming out from the room in the distance that indicated that a fight was going on, judging from how the door was half-opened,

planning on waiting for the

asked from the

starting at the communication device in my

in now, we'll be nothing but

"You're right."

a bitter smile on his face, signifying that

a mana recovery potion,

that, but we also have to give them time

"Which side?"

"Both."

his left. A smile soon crept

like they're

fade, coming from the other side of the hall were the figures of multiple people headed our way. At their lead was Douglas who calmly led them

encounter any trouble on

asked, walking up to

nodding in Waylan's direction, Douglas's steps came to

our way here, but we cleanly wiped them out. With the communications

Douglas's brows knit for a brief second as he scrutinized Waylan from top

happened to you?

my mana is severely depleted at

"Okay..."

head Douglas looked at the

only the elders and I can put up a fight against us at this

"Right..."

his head in agreement as he stared at the group behind

their auras in order to not attract the attention of the elders in

door in the distance, Douglas raised his hand and

get going? The more

a large chunk of the elite from the battle outside, every second they wasted here would worsen the

with unprecedented solemness, Douglas along with the others quietly headed

"Alright, let's go."

nodded his head

head to face me, he

"Let's go."

give me a

I took a deep breath before following Waylan and the others into the

goes according to the plan, everything should end in the next

***

Thud—

stabbed deeply into his back, Gervis fell onto the cold hard

who was standing on top of his body with

about your previous decisions.

uttered with a look

the dagger that was stabbed Gervis's back, Randur stared at the blood that dripped from the sharp body of