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.

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

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

plan, and things should've ended there,

Bang—!

swung to the other side of the room, before crashing into one

moment later, my

Drip—! Drip—!

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

pushed it into his body, and his injuries started to

'…how is this possible?'

I thought in shock.

his body and force Angelica

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

bleeding profusely and a small

that I had to

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

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

had clearly been fighting using the last shreds of life energy

he would without a doubt die without me

luxury. Taking note of Angelica and Liam's condition, mana erupted from

"Now!"

to

servant pressed his hand against the hilt of a black sword, and the

Click—

figure disappeared from the spot

movement of the [Keiki style] : Void

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

servant right in the abdomen area, completely severing the servant into two. He soon

"Ugh."

sword's hilt

'Good enough.'

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

most powerful

fifth movement of the [Keiki

Cr..crack…crack…

suddenly enveloped the surroundings as the space around the Duke ranked demon started

next to the demon,

"Huek!"

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

demon's helpless screams 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 white lights

Drip—! Drip—!

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

rapidly appeared before the demon and reached out for

Crack—!

I rapidly shattered it into pieces, and the demon's body stopped

"Haaaa…."

leaned back and heavily

and I

a lot harder than

to handle the Duke-ranked demon, it took everything I had to kill him. It also had to

'That was really close…'

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

"Ugh."