The Author's POV

In a large and wide corridor, footsteps echoed.

"Do you think it was the right idea to just let him go like that?"

Kevin asked, while he turned to face Amanda who was running next to him. Before she could answer, he raised his sword and slashed toward his right.

SHIIIING!

"Huek!"

The body of a demon split in half.

"Yes."

Amanda nodded. Taking out her bow, she brought the string back as three arrows formed on the bow.

Clang—!

Letting go of the string, the arrows shot toward the distance and impaled three nearby demons.

"Since he's recovered his mana, he should have no trouble protecting himself, and…"

Lowering the bow in her hand, Amanda proceeded to head deeper into the corridor.

"…he's not exactly alone."

***

Ba…Thump! Ba…Thump!

Feeling the demon's hollow gaze pause on me, my heartbeat started to rapidly increase and my breathing also became more difficult.

My back began to sweat when the demon once again began to raise his hand.

'Well, shit…'

I thought to myself as the Duke ranked demon slowly brought his hand down.

But…

A figure materialized behind the demon as his hand was halfway down and attacked him from behind.

Spurt—!

The demon began spraying black blood on the ground, and I noticed an enchanting figure standing behind him.

Her hand was currently reaching out for the demon's orb that was now visible to the naked eye, through a gaping hole in his chest area.

"Took you long enough."

I muttered with a smile and supported my body up.

'Thank god our plan worked.'

It was clear from the moment I decided to save Liam that I would not be able to defeat a Duke ranked demon with my current capabilities. Even if it was weakened and I had Liam's help. I still saw no way to defeat it.

Thus.

to have Angelica turn into a ring like usual, and dropped her toward

able to get Liam to push the demon toward the pillar where Angelica

our plan, and things should've

Bang—!

side of the room, before crashing into one of the pillars as a loud banging sound

moment later, my body

Drip—! Drip—!

I saw was black blood spilling from the demon's chest as he held onto his core

into his body, and his

'…how is this possible?'

I thought in shock.

his core exposed like that, he was able to move his body and force Angelica out of his

alternated my gaze between Liam and Angelica. They were currently both

was bleeding profusely and a small pool

I

I also noticed that the demon wasn't in the best condition at the moment. He was currently in

able to notice that the longer the time passed, the weaker his attacks became. I

been fighting using the last shreds

just waited, ten minutes? …or maybe less, then he would without a doubt die without me needing to do

Liam's condition, mana erupted from my body as I placed my

"Now!"

as I turned to glance at my

his hand against the hilt of a black sword, and the mana inside of my body started to rapidly

Click—

servant's figure disappeared from the

the [Keiki style] : Void

Bang—!

right in front of the demon, the shadow servant stabbed his sword right where the demon's core was. Unfortunately, in spite of the extreme speed at which he

in the abdomen area, completely severing the servant into two. He soon disappeared into thin air and

"Ugh."

letting out a small groan, I pressed my sword's hilt with my

'Good enough.'

sent the shadow servant toward the demon, the goal was to stop it from healing and buy me enough time to

most powerful

the

Cr..crack…crack…

bright white light suddenly enveloped the surroundings as the space around the

before fissures formed next to the demon, and

"Huek!"

even

have been able to easily avoid my

Drip—! Drip—!

of blood formed, before the white lights impairing him scattered and he

rapidly appeared before

Crack—!

felt the core in my hand, I rapidly shattered it into pieces, and the demon's body stopped moving and scattered in the air

"Haaaa…."

back on my butt, I leaned

I was currently

lot harder than I

all the preparations I had made in order to handle the Duke-ranked demon, it took everything I had to kill him. It also had to

'That was really close…'

myself. Quickly turning my body, I turned to gaze in Liam's

"Ugh."