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…'

core of the mana compressor, I knew that they would attract the attention of a Marquis ranked demon, and

really needed any since he was already a lot

"Where is everyone?"

proved to be the correct one as the

was right at this moment

'Let's go.'

our task was even before we spoke as mana erupted from my body and a

[Shadow Servant]

a black disc formed beneath my feet, and I

Crackle. Crackle.

lighting crackled around Liam's body, and his figure vanished from the spot, before reappearing right in front of the Duke

hand, he

SHIIING—!

on the other hand, pressed my hand against

the [Keiki

Click—!

a clicking sound as mine

Clang—! Clang—!

thing

both of our attacks with

do you think

the place as his red pupils glared in

pressure suddenly sprang out from his body, forcing the two of us back, as the wings on his back expanded, casting

his teeth, the Duke ranked demon didn't say anything and just flapped his wings once.

by the time I had activated Eyes of Chronos he was already a couple of inches

'Shit.'

to myself as my heart tightened and

in

its strength rapidly declining, the demon was still leagues

'Fucking Liam.'

could fight against a Duke ranked

was careless for even one second, I could kiss goodbye to

trying to figure out the way out of the situation I found myself in, I noticed what looked like a sword tip heading for

'Fast.'

as I stared at the

time was flowing a lot slower than it was supposed to be. For the sword to be moving at the pace that it was…it could only be

inches away from the demon's temple, I noticed the demon's eyes slowly moving towards where the sword was coming,

was now trying to defend himself from Liam's sudden attack. Apparently,

stop,

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

Bang—!

"Haaa…haaa…"

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

'What just happened?'

as I stared in Liam's direction

when has Liam

similar, however, right at this moment, he seemed a lot stronger than he was since I

"You broke through?"

pressure coming from Liam's body, at

on me, as I just speechlessly looked

only one week has passed. Did he break through in that

How monstrous.

"Haaa…haaa…yeah."

sword on the