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.

to have Angelica turn into a ring like usual, and dropped her toward one

with Liam, I was able to get Liam to push the demon toward the pillar

was our plan, and things should've ended there,

Bang—!

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

later,

Drip—! Drip—!

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

pushed it into his body, and his injuries

'…how is this possible?'

I thought in shock.

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

were currently both still alive, but I knew that it

was especially true for Liam who was bleeding profusely and a

that I had

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

the time passed, the weaker his attacks

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

ten minutes? …or maybe less, then he

Liam's condition, mana erupted from my body as I placed my

"Now!"

turned to glance at my shadow

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

Click—

figure disappeared from the spot and reappeared right in

third movement of the

Bang—!

the extreme speed at which he appeared and attacked,

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

"Ugh."

I pressed my sword's hilt with

'Good enough.'

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

and most powerful

of the

Cr..crack…crack…

suddenly enveloped the surroundings as the space around

fissures formed next to the demon,

"Huek!"

completely impaled the demon's body, and even more black

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

Drip—! Drip—!

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

moment, I rapidly appeared before

Crack—!

shattered it into pieces, and the demon's body stopped moving and scattered

"Haaaa…."

leaned back

and I was currently

lot

the preparations 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

'That was really close…'

turning my body, I turned

"Ugh."