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.

a ring like usual, and dropped her toward

was able to get Liam to push the demon toward the pillar where Angelica sat so that we could sneak attack

our plan, and things should've

Bang—!

being swung to the other side of the room, before crashing into one of the pillars as a loud banging sound echoed through

later, my

Drip—! Drip—!

my head, all I saw was black blood spilling from the demon's

pushed it into his body, and his injuries

'…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

and Angelica. They were currently both still alive, but I knew that it was only a

for Liam who was bleeding profusely and a small pool

knew that I

that the demon wasn't in the best condition at the moment. He was currently in a weakened state as he was healing from

able to notice that the longer the time passed, the weaker his attacks became. I understood then that he was

last shreds of life

ten minutes? …or maybe less, then he would without a

condition, mana erupted from

"Now!"

turned to glance

shadow servant pressed his hand against the hilt of a

Click—

which, the shadow servant's figure disappeared from the spot and

third movement of the

Bang—!

where the demon's core was. Unfortunately, in spite of the extreme speed at which he appeared and attacked, the demon didn't seem to be the slightest bit startled as

the servant into two. He soon

"Ugh."

out a small groan, I pressed my sword's hilt with my thumb and carefully took a

'Good enough.'

I sent the shadow servant toward the demon, the goal was to stop it from healing

most powerful movement

of the [Keiki style] :

Cr..crack…crack…

the surroundings as the space

formed next to the

"Huek!"

body, and even more black blood started

the demon been in the right state of mind, and not as injured, he may have been able to easily avoid my attacks, but he wasn't, and it wasn't long before his figure started

Drip—! Drip—!

a black pool of blood formed, before the white lights impairing him scattered and he collapsed on the

before the demon and reached out

Crack—!

I rapidly shattered it into pieces, and the

"Haaaa…."

butt, I leaned back and

was burning, and I was currently feeling

a lot harder

Duke-ranked demon, it took everything I had to kill him. It also

'That was really close…'

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

"Ugh."