The Author's POV

"Looks like I'm not too late, no?"

Brushing my hair back, I moved to where Liam was. In my right hand was a small silver sword. It was a spare sword that Kevin had handed me before separating from me.

"Just a little…"

Liam's words left me speechless. Especially after he took out an apple and started to take bites out of it.

While he took a bite of the apple, the juices from it spilled all over his fingers before falling onto the ground.

I shook my head when I saw this.

"Here."

I handed him a potion.

"I don't need it."

"Hm?"

Catching the potion, Liam threw it back to me. His actions surprised me as I blinked a couple of times, unable to fully understand why he rejected the potion when he was clearly not in a good state.

Seemingly being able to read my thoughts, Liam raised his hand and showed me the apple.

"You see, this isn't a normal apple."

Standing up, his broken foot magically started to twist and squirm. Within the span of a couple of seconds, his leg had completely healed and he lightly jumped in the air.

"See? I'm fine."

Liam threw what remained of the apple on the floor and turned to gaze in the direction of where the demon was.

I did too.

"…Another intruder?"

Unfortunately, my surprise attack didn't seem to have had much of an impact on the demon, as he appeared to be completely unscathed.

The situation was made worse by his apparent anger, as his face twisted savagely and a powerful force enveloped the scene. Currently, we were standing in a small hall, with tall pillars supporting the ceiling.

A smoky and iron-like scent lingered in the air.

"Not bad…not bad…"

The demon spat through his clenched teeth as he alternated his gaze between Liam and I. Then, looking toward the other demons present in the room, he finally noticed something.

"Dead…"

The aura that was revolving around his body fluctuated slightly.

A thin smile spread across my face when I noticed this.

'I was right to kill the others first.'

It had been quite a bit since I had arrived here, and during the time that I was here, I spent my time killing all the demons that were in the room.

None of the demons in the room were that strong, but they still posed a liability that could cause trouble in the middle of the fight, which was why I decided to kill them before saving Liam.

'The others should also be attracting the attention of the other high-ranked demons…'

others who went for the core of the mana compressor, I knew that they would

he really needed any since he was already a lot stronger than Liam

"Where is everyone?"

decision proved to be the correct one as the Duke ranked demon seemed taken aback by the sudden

moment that I exchanged glances

'Let's go.'

even before we spoke as mana erupted from my body and a dark shadow appeared beside

[Shadow Servant]

black disc formed beneath my feet,

Crackle. Crackle.

his figure vanished from the spot, before reappearing right in front of the

his hand, he slashed toward the

SHIIING—!

the other hand, pressed my hand against

[Keiki style] : Quick

Click—!

light followed a clicking sound as mine and Liam's attack landed simultaneously on

Clang—! Clang—!

thing we heard after our

with

you think

throughout the place as

us back, as the wings on his back expanded, casting a large shadow over the area

say anything and just flapped his wings once. His figure disappeared from the spot before

had activated Eyes of Chronos he was already a couple

'Shit.'

my heart

ranked demon in spite of the fact that it was already old,

its strength rapidly declining, the demon was still leagues

'Fucking Liam.'

world did he even think he could fight against a Duke ranked demon? He

careless for even one second, I could

the way out of the situation I found myself in, I noticed what looked like a sword tip heading for the Duke's head in the midst of

'Fast.'

thought as I stared

that currently, time was flowing a lot slower than it was supposed to be. For the sword to be moving at the pace that

the demon's eyes slowly moving towards where the sword was coming, and the demon's

he was now trying to defend

be too fast for the demon to stop, and it soon made contact with his temple and dug into

time returned to normal and I saw the demon's body

Bang—!

"Haaa…haaa…"

me as he supported his body with both knees and heavily gulped for

'What just happened?'

in Liam's

has Liam become so

our strength was rather similar, however, right at this moment, he seemed a lot stronger than

"You broke through?"

I noticed the pressure coming from Liam's body, at that moment, I realized he was now

as I

passed. Did he break through in that short week that we

How monstrous.

"Haaa…haaa…yeah."

his head before placing his sword on the floor and facing