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.

Angelica turn into a ring like usual,

with Liam, I was able to get Liam to push the demon toward the pillar where Angelica sat so that we

and

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 banging sound echoed through the

moment later, my body

Drip—! Drip—!

blood spilling from the demon's chest as he held onto his core with

then pushed it into his body, and his injuries started to

'…how is this possible?'

I thought in shock.

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

wide, I alternated my gaze between Liam and Angelica. They were currently both still alive, but I knew that it was only a matter of time before they

was bleeding profusely and a

knew that I had to

condition at the moment. He was currently in a weakened

notice that the longer the time passed, the weaker his

last

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

afford such luxury. Taking note of Angelica and Liam's condition, mana erupted from my body

"Now!"

turned to glance at my shadow

a black sword, and the mana inside of

Click—

from the spot and reappeared right

the

Bang—!

right in 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

he raised his leg and kicked the shadow servant right in the abdomen area, completely severing the servant into

"Ugh."

out a small groan, I pressed my sword's hilt with my thumb and carefully

'Good enough.'

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

and most powerful movement to

the [Keiki style] :

Cr..crack…crack…

suddenly enveloped the surroundings as the

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

"Huek!"

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

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—!

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

appeared before the

Crack—!

mistake as Angelica, the moment I felt the core in my hand, I rapidly shattered

"Haaaa…."

my butt, I leaned back and heavily

and I was

a lot harder than

to kill him. It also had to be noted that I had the assistance of both

'That was really close…'

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

"Ugh."