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.

wings flapped, a huge net was cast

to be an impossible task as the

"No, shit!!!"

cry, finally feeling despair. She knew at this moment that

"Shoot her!"

dwarves yelled, aiming their

'It's over.'

artifacts, knowing that it was

didn't close her eyes and simply stared at the artifact, wanting

WOOOM―!

Angelica, and there

looks like the

Bright and large...

wasn't such a

her vision shortly after,

"Hu?"

and light soon returned to her vision. Her vision hadn't yet fully cleared, but what she managed to catch

'Reinforcements?'

***

Swoosh! Swoosh!

out most of the sunlight and casting a murky

air was thick with the sweet scent of

"Follow closely."

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

Squish!

as though every

sure to hide your presence as

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

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

the right way,

just

deeper into the forest, the trees grew thicker and closer together until their trunks were so close that you could

here for

hand, and everyone stopped at

Immediately, everything turned silent.

I could hear were the occasional rustle of leaves under

stillness was oppressive, and I couldn't shake the feeling that I

probably using

I could feel it with my senses.

rest, I'll get

my watch to my mouth and

current situation? Have you all reached your

currently

yet; we'll be there

―We have just arrived.

we're almost there. A couple

my ears, and I nodded my head comfortably. Everything so far was proceeding

'This is good.'

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

already knew where we

I'd

where you are. Keep your guard

others on my watch before shifting my attention toward my group. It was a rather small group comprised of Amanda,

considering the gravity of the situation, I decided to leave her in Ashton City, which…

and I turned to look

but I could tell

the others, she was practically the weakest

from her and looked at the

do a proper check of the city before we decide

where I could see the faint outline of a city.

infiltrate the city and do a proper check of the place, we'll find a way to let the others in. It's important that everyone

put

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

was just as lethargic as he had been in the past, he

double checked with everyone to make sure that we were all on

"Let's go."

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