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.

into a ring like usual, and dropped her

able to get Liam to push the demon toward the pillar where Angelica

our plan, and things

Bang—!

suddenly saw Angelica's body being swung to the other side of the room, before crashing into

later, my

Drip—! Drip—!

black blood spilling from the demon's

pushed it into his body, and

'…how is this possible?'

I thought in shock.

his core exposed like that, he was able to move his body and force Angelica out of his way before hiding the core

Angelica. They were currently both still alive, but I knew that it was only a matter

especially true for Liam who was bleeding profusely and a

I had to

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

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

clearly been fighting using the last shreds of

…or maybe less, then he would without a doubt die

I couldn't afford such luxury. Taking note 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 my

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

Click—

from the spot

movement of the [Keiki

Bang—!

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

which, he raised his leg and 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

"Ugh."

pressed my sword's hilt with my thumb

'Good enough.'

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

and most

of the [Keiki style] : Space

Cr..crack…crack…

light suddenly enveloped the surroundings as the space around the Duke ranked

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

"Huek!"

the demon's body, and even more black blood started

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 long

Drip—! Drip—!

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

moment, I rapidly appeared before the demon

Crack—!

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

"Haaaa…."

leaned back

chest was burning, and I was

lot

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

'That was really close…'

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

"Ugh."