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 one

the demon toward the pillar where Angelica sat so that we could

our plan, and things should've

Bang—!

suddenly saw Angelica's body being swung to the other side of the room, before crashing into one of the pillars as a loud

later,

Drip—! Drip—!

saw was black blood spilling from the demon's chest as

body, and

'…how is this possible?'

I thought in shock.

he was able to move his body and force Angelica out of his

gaze between Liam and Angelica. They were currently both still alive, but I knew that it was only a matter of

was bleeding profusely and

knew that I had

at the moment. He was currently in a weakened state as he was healing from his

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

last shreds of life energy inside of

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

Liam's condition, mana erupted from my body as

"Now!"

shouted as I turned to glance at

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

Click—

figure disappeared from the

movement of the [Keiki style] :

Bang—!

spite of the extreme speed at which he appeared and attacked, the demon didn't seem to

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

"Ugh."

sword's hilt with my thumb and carefully took a

'Good enough.'

was to stop it

last and most powerful movement to

the [Keiki style] : Space

Cr..crack…crack…

white light suddenly enveloped the surroundings as the space around the Duke ranked demon started to crack

the span of half a second, and it wasn't long before fissures formed next to the demon, and lights began to shoot out from them, heading toward the

"Huek!"

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

to easily avoid my attacks, but he wasn't, and it wasn't long before his figure started looking like a porcupine

Drip—! Drip—!

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

moment, I rapidly appeared before the demon and reached

Crack—!

I rapidly shattered it into pieces, and the demon's body stopped moving and scattered in the

"Haaaa…."

I leaned back and heavily gulped for

and I

lot harder

order to handle the Duke-ranked demon, it took everything I had to kill him. It also had to be noted that I had the

'That was really close…'

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

"Ugh."