The Author's POV

Bang— Bang—

'What's going on?'

The sound of something crashing near Smallsnake awoke him from his slumber. With each passing second, the sound became more clear, and it wasn't long before his eyes were fully open.

Blinking his eyes several times, he thought to himself.

'Am I still alive?'

He could clearly remember being on the verge of dying not too long ago.

Did he die? …or was he still alive?

"Shit!"

Bang—!

Immediately after opening his eyes, he saw a figure being sent flying into the distance, before crashing heavily against what appeared to be a large metallic door.

A muffled sound accompanied the figure's crash.

"Kevin, how much longer do you need?"

A female voice shouted.

'Who is she?'

Squinting his eyes, Smallsnake's eyes paused on a female figure that he had never seen before in his life. She had long auburn-colored hair and seemed to be rather beautiful. The way that she moved across the black marble floor seemed extremely nimble, and so were her attacks that looked extremely sharp.

No, rather, she did seem familiar, but he just couldn't seem to recall who she was.

"Just buy me one more minute!"

Taking his eyes away from the female figure, Smallsnake's eyes finally paused on Kevin, and it was then that he noticed a large red hue coming out from his body.

The hue seemed to completely engulf the area they were in, making it extremely terrifying.

'What's going on?'

Blinking his eyes a couple of times, Smallsnake turned his head slightly and finally spotted what seemed to be a demon.

"Demon?"

His groggy mind sobered up and he tried to lift up his body.

"Smallsnake! You're awake!"

Feeling a hand press against his chest, Smallsnake was shocked to see a couple of familiar figures rush in his direction.

"You guys?"

"Smallsnake!"

Before he could speak anymore, he suddenly felt something hug his body tightly.

"Ryan?"

eyes. As he raised his head, he saw Leopold, Ava, and

clearly trying to

thin smile eventually spread across Smallsnake's face as he lowered his head back down and turned to stare at the

still alive,

but now he

him felt great

that didn't last long as

Bang—!

"Ukh, shit, hurry up!"

who was standing not

be standing behind what seemed to be a large

to last much longer. The core I'm using is about to run out of energy. So

"A couple more seconds."

from his body started

who had long noticed that Kevin was up to something, desperately tried to stop whatever he was doing, but regardless of much he tried, he would always get blocked by either the

"Ready!"

of the demon's desperate attempts, he was unable to fully free himself from their attacks and Kevin was finally able to complete his

head, he took a step forward and

moment, Smallsnake felt as though time had frozen completely as the air around him solidified. The last thing Smallsnake saw was the look of utter terror on the demon's face as Kevin's attack came

Booom—!

out and Smallsnake was forced to close his eyes. In the aftermath of

"Fucking hell..."

heard her curse coming from a meter away

Tin. Tin. Tin.

the sound of small rocks hitting

of seconds before it finally stopped. Opening his eyes, Smallsnake was met with a large cloud of

this point, he could clearly see the aftermath of the attack

their clothes were a mess. Nevertheless, they appeared to be relieved as

"I…did it…"

his hand. Taking another breath, he squeezed his hand

Crack—!

everyone sighed in relief and tried

much harder

voice echoed

cleaned the small pieces

I knew that Marquis ranked demons were strong, I didn't think they would be this strong. For a moment, I

"Tell me about it."

with both hands and legs spread apart. Not far from her were her two

ranked demon comes, just know that I won't be able to help you. You're

think I'll be

as he slowly stood up and

He told me that it might take a while, but I seriously think that if he takes too long, things will get quite troublesome for

their mana which was slowly recovering due

heal him into top condition, and Kevin knew this. Especially since he was still suffering from the after-effects of having used Overdrive. At

in no condition to fight, he hoped Ren would arrive before

a minute after he said those words, he was able to hear the

"Is it this way?"

complexion instantly brightened. The

turned their heads, they were confronted with a scene that changed their complexion, making their faces