The Author's POV

Chapter 773

[Planet Idoania]

Boom―!

The sound of metal clashing against the ground reverberated through the battlefield as Angelica panted heavily.

She stared at the bulky figure lying beneath her, trying to catch her breath.

"Haa..hha… This is too much…"

She tirelessly muttered to herself.

Angelica's eyes shot up as she saw over a dozen other dwarves approaching her.

Her face paled at the sight, knowing that she was outnumbered and outmatched.

She was only a Maquis ranked demon, and while it was considered strong, it wasn't anything noteworthy in the grand scheme of the battlefield. She had already taken over a couple of dozen dwarves, but she was almost out of energy at the moment.

"Fuck."

Her grip tightened around her weapon as she prepared to face her adversaries, but she knew that it was only a matter of time before she would be overwhelmed.

She was barely holding on.

Booom―! A beam of light headed in her direction.

It was so fast that she had a hard time avoiding it.

"Ahhhhghh."

The impact of the beam was so powerful that half of her arm blew off at that moment, causing her to let out a frustrated cry and glare at the dwarf responsible for her injury.

With a pale face, her arm wiggled and slowly regenerated itself.

"Shit..."

Angelica cursed under her breath as she looked around and noticed that she was surrounded.

'Where did all that arrogance go from before?'

When she looked down, and her gaze paused on her so called prospective 'fiance', she could only sigh in disgust.

He had only lasted a couple of minutes before dying.

She knew that she was in deep trouble, and her expression crumbled.

"So much for this strategist being great."

She thought to herself.

They had clearly fallen into a trap intricately set up by the dwarves.

When she looked around and noticed that the situation was like this for the other demons too, she knew that it wasn't just her that had fallen for the scheme.

It was clear to her that the strategist was at fault for this predicament.

"Fuck it, whatever."

She could only curse another time, knowing that there was no use cursing the strategist's incompetence at this point.

Staring at the dwarves that were surrounding her and loading their artifacts, she channeled all of the demonic energy within her body.

Her eyes started to glow a red hue as she prepared to make her last stand.

"Put down your weapons."

Her soft voice echoed within the surroundings and traveled through the ears of each and one of the dwarves in front of her.

For a split second, the dwarves' movements halted, and Angelica took advantage of that moment.

Fwap―! She flapped her wings and made a dash upward, the only area that wasn't covered.

But unfortunately, the dwarves' reaction was a tad bit faster than she had anticipated.

huge net

but it proved to be an impossible task as the net stretched and absorbed her

"No, shit!!!"

She knew

"Shoot her!"

dwarves yelled, aiming their weapons at

'It's over.'

the barrel of the artifacts, knowing that it

stared at the

WOOOM―!

and approached Angelica, and there was

like

Bright and large...

wasn't such

her

"Hu?"

felt no pain, and light soon returned to her vision. Her vision hadn't yet fully cleared,

'Reinforcements?'

***

Swoosh! Swoosh!

trees overhead created a natural fortress, blocking out most of the sunlight and casting a murky green

thick with the sweet

"Follow closely."

forest floor was a tangled mess of roots, vines, and fallen leaves that crunch

Squish!

though every step

moving; we're almost there. Make sure to hide your presence

the distance, the twisted silhouettes of gnarled trees clawed at the sky, their blackened limbs reaching

nearly impossible to see more than a few feet in any direction, adding

the right

is, but just keep moving

deeper into the forest, the trees grew thicker and closer together until their trunks

for a

raised my hand, and everyone

Immediately, everything turned silent.

the occasional rustle of leaves under a breeze

and I couldn't shake the feeling that I was

using

could feel it with my senses. There was

to rest, I'll get in contact with

brought my watch

the current situation? Have you all reached

currently

yet; we'll be

―We have just arrived.

spot; we're almost there. A couple of minutes

I nodded my head comfortably. Everything so far

'This is good.'

far, I didn't let my guard down. With the unsettling feeling that

most probably already knew where we were and were planning

that I'd let

you are.

my attention toward my group. It was

of the situation, I decided to leave her in Ashton City, which… well, she was all in

I turned to look at

was rather normal, but I could tell

the others, she was practically the weakest and not

away from her and looked

into the city and do a proper check

toward the distance, where I could see the faint outline of a city. It was currently masked

and do a proper check of the place, we'll find a way to let

put an emphasis on the final

gave Liam a glance, but then I realized that there was no point in doing so because he was no longer the Liam I knew from the

lethargic as he had been in the past, he was

sure that we were all on the same

"Let's go."

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