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.

like usual, and dropped her toward one

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

plan, and

Bang—!

swung to the other side of the room, before crashing

later, my body

Drip—! Drip—!

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

pushed it into his body, and his injuries started to

'…how is this possible?'

I thought in shock.

having his core exposed like that, he was able to move his

eyes wide, I alternated my gaze between Liam and Angelica. They were currently both

bleeding profusely and a

knew that I had to

moment. He was

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

fighting using the last shreds of life energy

I just waited, ten minutes? …or maybe less, then he

erupted

"Now!"

I turned to glance at

pressed his hand against the hilt of a black sword, and the

Click—

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

movement of the

Bang—!

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

his leg and kicked the shadow servant right in the abdomen area, completely severing the servant into two.

"Ugh."

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

'Good enough.'

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

most powerful

the

Cr..crack…crack…

the space around the Duke ranked demon started

span of half a second, and it wasn't long before fissures formed next to

"Huek!"

light soon completely impaled the demon's body, and even more

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

Drip—! Drip—!

body, a black pool of blood formed, before the white lights impairing

of this moment, I rapidly appeared before the

Crack—!

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…."

back on my butt, I leaned back and heavily gulped for

was burning, and I was currently

a lot

it took everything I had to kill him.

'That was really close…'

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

"Ugh."