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

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

was our plan, and

Bang—!

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

later, my body

Drip—! Drip—!

all I saw was black blood spilling from the demon's chest as he held onto his core

pushed it into his body, and his injuries

'…how is this possible?'

I thought in shock.

was able to move his body and force

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

bleeding profusely and a small

I had

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

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

then he would without a doubt

condition, mana erupted from my body as I placed my hand on the

"Now!"

I turned to glance

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

Click—

which, the shadow servant's figure disappeared from the

third movement of the [Keiki style]

Bang—!

at which he appeared and attacked, the demon didn't

kicked the shadow servant right in the abdomen area, completely severing the servant into two. He soon disappeared into thin air and the mana inside of my

"Ugh."

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

'Good enough.'

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

and most powerful movement to

of the

Cr..crack…crack…

the space

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

"Huek!"

body, and even more black blood started to spill on the

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

Drip—! Drip—!

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

I rapidly appeared before the demon and reached out for his

Crack—!

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

"Haaaa…."

back on my butt, I leaned back

and I was currently feeling

lot

demon, it took everything I had to kill him. It also had to

'That was really close…'

body, I turned to gaze in

"Ugh."