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.

ring like usual, and dropped her

I was able to get Liam to push the demon toward

our plan, and things

Bang—!

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

later,

Drip—! Drip—!

the demon's

his body, and his injuries

'…how is this possible?'

I thought in shock.

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

gaze between Liam and Angelica. They were currently both still alive,

true for Liam who was bleeding profusely and a small pool of

that I had

demon wasn't in the best condition at the moment. He was currently in a weakened

weaker his attacks became. I understood then that he was on

had clearly been fighting using the last shreds of life energy inside of

I just waited, ten minutes? …or maybe less, then he would without a doubt die without me needing

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

"Now!"

shouted as I turned to glance at

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

Click—

figure disappeared from the spot and reappeared

third movement of the [Keiki

Bang—!

front 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

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

"Ugh."

sword's hilt

'Good enough.'

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

last and most powerful movement

movement of the [Keiki style]

Cr..crack…crack…

enveloped the surroundings as the space around

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

"Huek!"

and even more

echoed out. 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

Drip—! Drip—!

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

of this moment, I rapidly appeared before the demon and reached out for

Crack—!

shattered

"Haaaa…."

back on my butt, I leaned back and

and I was currently

was a lot harder

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

'That was really close…'

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

"Ugh."