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

to get Liam to push the demon toward the pillar where Angelica sat so

plan, and

Bang—!

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

later, my body

Drip—! Drip—!

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

pushed it into his body, and his injuries started to

'…how is this possible?'

I thought in shock.

to move his body and force Angelica out of his way before hiding

my gaze between Liam and Angelica. They were currently both still alive, but I knew that

was bleeding profusely and a

that I had to act

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

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

been fighting using the last shreds of life energy inside of

just waited, ten minutes? …or maybe less, then he would without

such luxury. Taking note of Angelica and Liam's condition, mana erupted from my body as I placed my hand on

"Now!"

shouted as I turned to glance at my shadow

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

Click—

figure disappeared from the spot and reappeared right in

third movement of the [Keiki style] :

Bang—!

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

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

"Ugh."

sword's hilt with my thumb and carefully took

'Good enough.'

the demon, the goal was to stop it from healing and buy me enough time to

most powerful movement to

movement of the [Keiki style] :

Cr..crack…crack…

light suddenly enveloped the surroundings as the space around

long before fissures formed next to the demon, and lights began to shoot out from them, heading toward the Duke ranked demon at

"Huek!"

demon's body, and even more black blood

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

Drip—! Drip—!

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

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

Crack—!

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

"Haaaa…."

butt, I leaned back and heavily

I was currently feeling extremely

was a lot harder than

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

'That was really close…'

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

"Ugh."