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.

turn into a ring like usual, and dropped her toward one of

Liam to push the demon toward the pillar where Angelica sat so that we could sneak

and things should've

Bang—!

swung to the other side of the room, before crashing into one of the pillars as

moment later, my body

Drip—! Drip—!

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

body, and

'…how is this possible?'

I thought in shock.

he was able to move his

both still alive, but I

for Liam who was bleeding profusely and a small pool of

knew that I had to act

the moment. He

the weaker his attacks became. I understood then that he

using the last shreds of life energy inside

less, then he would without a doubt die without

of Angelica and Liam's condition, mana erupted from my body as I placed my hand on

"Now!"

I turned to glance at my

orders, the shadow servant pressed his hand against the hilt of a black sword, and the mana inside of my body

Click—

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

of the [Keiki style] : Void

Bang—!

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 appeared and attacked, the demon didn't seem to be the slightest bit startled as he just move a little

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

"Ugh."

sword's hilt with

'Good enough.'

mind when I sent the shadow servant toward the demon, the goal was to stop it from healing and buy me enough time to accumulate enough mana to finally use

and most

of the

Cr..crack…crack…

the surroundings as the space around the Duke ranked demon

within 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

"Huek!"

completely impaled the demon's body, and even more

able to easily avoid my attacks, but he wasn't, and it wasn't long before his figure started

Drip—! Drip—!

the demon's body, a black pool of blood formed, before the white

rapidly appeared before the demon and reached out for

Crack—!

my hand, I rapidly shattered it into pieces,

"Haaaa…."

I leaned back and heavily gulped

was burning, and I was currently feeling extremely

a lot harder than

I had made in 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 assistance of both Liam and Angelica along

'That was really close…'

my body, I turned to gaze in Liam's direction and forced

"Ugh."