The Author's POV

'The situation is not looking good.'

Angelica's expression was one of gloom as she stooped down to examine Hein, who was lying unconscious on the ground at that moment.

'Luckily, he seems fine, but he is completely spent at the moment.'

She sighed in relief when she realized that Hein was fine and slowly stood up and scanned her surroundings.

The area surrounding her was completely empty, as a circle formed in her vicinity as any demons that entered her radius abruptly turned around and charged the other demons in the area with blank looks on their faces.

"What are you doing?! We're on the same si-huak!"

"Traitor!"

This was all thanks to her power that allowed her to control the weaker ranked demons.

"Report to me your situation."

Angelica raised her wrist and whispered something.

It wasn't long before she received several replies.

[Uek, I'm not holding out too well. I've lost eight of my pets already, and I'm being pushed back at the moment!]

The first one to reply was Ava, and it sounded as though she rushed when she spoke. Her manner of speaking made it abundantly clear that the circumstances surrounding her were dismal.

[I'm with Ryan at the moment, and I'm helping out from above, but the demons have already infiltrated a small par-hak!]

Leopold's audio was cut off in the middle, and Angelica's brows furrowed.

'What happened?'

A crisp voice echoed after Liam's voice. It belonged to none other than Amanda who kept shooting her arrows in the sky, killing hundreds of demons at the time.

[I'm fine for now, but I'm slowly running out of mana. I've been targeted by a few demons so my mana is depleting rapidly.]

[I'm also fine...but I'm currently fighting against five Marquis ranked demons, so I don't think I'll be fine for much longer.]

The response from Han Yufei arrived much later than the one from Amanda, and when it did, Angelica lowered her wrist and furrowed her brows.

Raising her head she looked at Liam who was in the sky and her expression turned even grimmer.

'...This is not good.'

It was at this precise moment that she became aware of the fact that the war's equilibrium was on the verge of tipping. If they waited just a few more minutes, they would all be in some very serious trouble.

Her heart unknowingly quickened.

***

Click!

The all too familiar clicking sound echoed inside of Liam's head as he felt something sharp brush past his skin. With just a blink of his eyes, he cocked his head to the right and narrowly avoided the Duke ranked demon's sword.

"You dodged that?"

A look of surprise appeared on the demon's face.

Liam chose not to respond and instead focused his attention on the Duke-ranked demon standing in front of him.

His current appearance was identical to Ren's in every way. From the structure of his body, his hair, and his eyes. He was a carbon copy of Ren in every possible way imaginable. To such an extent that Liam had the impression that he was currently in a fight with Ren.

There was only one problem...

'This...it's not fun.'

He had already fought with Ren dozens of times before. He knew almost everything about Ren's fighting style. It was effortless for him to counter his usual fast movements.

It seemed as though things were getting easier for him, even though he was in a situation that should have been getting harder.

"I don't like this."

he was voicing out

Duke ranked demon

"You don't like this?"

"I...I don't."

clear

the past I've faced off against Ren? It's to the point where I can't even keep track

more like he forgot, but he wasn't going

you seriously

and focused his attention on

furthest thing from

similar clicking sound. The Duke-level demon was barely able to parry the attack with a sword swing. Despite

Liam pursued after him.

that impressive. I can do

been present and witnessed the scene, he

my sword art become as common as a

there to be two people who were using something similar

would have unquestionably begun reevaluating

that they were able to imitate it to that degree would've

Click!

directly in front of the Duke-ranked demon, the lightning crackling around his arm intensified, as did his movements. If he was

Clank!

everything he got, forcing the Duke ranked demon back

'Not enough!'

was occurring all around Liam's body became even louder. His form, which had been visible just moments before, disappeared into the background, leaving behind

long before they seemed to

of the [Ivorian style]

the direction of the Duke ranked demon. The force with which the attack came was extremely devastating, and it was sufficient to cause the complexion of the Duke-ranked demon to change as several

of vindication],

which had previously been the size of an airplane, shrunk considerably when it saw the circles for the first time, and it wasn't long

when he saw the

felt the hair on the back of his head standing up. Shortly after that, he

think I'd fall for something

his hand in the direction

at which he was moving was simply mind-boggling. Even he,

just how fast Liam's

was that the demon wasn't just a Duke

the back of his head, the space around Liam began to crack, and what appeared to be the pointed tips of actual

"Shit."

himself as he stopped whatever

different white lines started to appear in his field of vision. This was immediately followed by his yellow pupils shining with a

skilfully sidestep the white lines that were headed in the direction

the number of white lines was simply far too many for him to completely

Spurt! Spurt!

shoulder, and right

felt something sharp in those areas. Blinking once, his vision returned to normal and it

He was clearly injured.

"Are you bored now?"

from the direction of his far right. Instead of turning,

"Not talking?"

he didn't attack again. Instead, he slowly approached Liam who was floating in the air with a serious look

are you thinking

area around Liam had started to become enveloped by a darkish

look on his face, he carefully scrutinized Liam's

"Say..."

He no

it was impossible

about

and Liam felt his body grow

contract appeared in the demon's

"Sign the contract."

demon swept his eyes

"Sign the contract and-huh?"