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.

Angelica turn into a ring like usual,

with Liam, I was able to get Liam to push the demon toward the pillar where Angelica sat so that

plan, and things

Bang—!

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

moment later,

Drip—! Drip—!

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

it into his body,

'…how is this possible?'

I thought in shock.

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

They were currently both still alive,

bleeding profusely and

knew that I

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

passed, the weaker his attacks became. I understood then that he was on the verge of

using the last shreds of life

then he

mana erupted from

"Now!"

shouted as I turned to

of a

Click—

shadow servant's figure disappeared from the spot and reappeared right in front

the [Keiki

Bang—!

shadow servant stabbed his sword right 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 he

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

"Ugh."

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

'Good enough.'

toward the demon, the goal was to stop it

and most powerful

movement of the

Cr..crack…crack…

suddenly enveloped the surroundings as the space around the

to the demon, and lights began to shoot out from

"Huek!"

soon completely impaled the demon's body, and even more black blood started to spill

Had 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 looking like a porcupine as a myriad of long white lights impaled

Drip—! Drip—!

demon's body, a black pool of blood formed, before the white lights impairing him scattered and

moment, I rapidly appeared before the demon and reached out

Crack—!

wanting to make the same mistake as Angelica, the moment I felt the core in my hand, I rapidly shattered it into pieces, and the demon's body stopped moving and scattered in the air in

"Haaaa…."

butt, I leaned back and heavily gulped

I was currently feeling extremely

lot harder

demon, it took everything I had to kill him.

'That was really close…'

body, I turned to

"Ugh."