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.

a huge net was cast above her,

be an impossible task as

"No, shit!!!"

a frustrated cry, finally feeling despair. She knew at this moment

"Shoot her!"

dwarves yelled, aiming their weapons at

'It's over.'

barrel of the artifacts, knowing that

her eyes and simply stared at the artifact, wanting to see

WOOOM―!

beam shot and approached Angelica, and there was

like the

Bright and large...

such a bad

her vision shortly after,

"Hu?"

reason, she felt no pain, and light soon returned to her vision. Her vision hadn't yet fully cleared, but what she managed to catch a glimpse of upon opening her eyes was

'Reinforcements?'

***

Swoosh! Swoosh!

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

was thick with the sweet scent of decay

"Follow closely."

floor was a tangled mess of roots,

Squish!

it felt as though every step was filled with danger, sinking into

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

gnarled trees clawed at the sky, their blackened limbs

impossible to see more than a few feet

is the right

but just keep

grew thicker and closer together until their trunks

for

my hand, and everyone stopped at

Immediately, everything turned silent.

hear were the occasional rustle of leaves under

couldn't shake the feeling that I was being

using an

it with my senses.

to rest, I'll get in contact

brought my watch to my mouth and

current situation? Have you all reached

currently waiting

yet; we'll

―We have just arrived.

the spot; we're almost there.

nodded my head comfortably. Everything so

'This is good.'

guard down. With the unsettling feeling that I was

they most probably already knew where we were and were

I'd let

put where you are. Keep

reminded the others on my watch before shifting my attention toward my group. It was a rather

but considering the gravity of the situation, I decided to leave her

I turned to look at the others behind

normal, but I could

was practically the weakest and

my gaze away from her and looked at the

into the city and do a proper check of the city before

the faint outline of a city. It

do a proper check of the place, we'll find a way to let the others in.

was very careful to put an emphasis

point in doing so because he was no longer the Liam I knew from the

though he was just as lethargic as he had been in the past, he was a lot more alert now and didn't forget anything

all on the same page before turning around and heading for the

"Let's go."

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