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.

as her wings flapped, a huge net

net, but it proved to be an impossible task as the net stretched

"No, shit!!!"

finally feeling despair. She knew

"Shoot her!"

yelled, aiming

'It's over.'

the barrel of the artifacts, knowing that it was

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

WOOOM―!

and approached Angelica, and there was

like the

Bright and large...

wasn't such a

her vision shortly

"Hu?"

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

'Reinforcements?'

***

Swoosh! Swoosh!

fortress, blocking out most of the sunlight and casting a murky green light that filtered through the

air was thick with the sweet scent of decay

"Follow closely."

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

Squish!

though every step

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

distance, the twisted silhouettes of gnarled trees clawed at the sky,

underbrush made it nearly impossible to see more than a few feet in

is the right way,

but just keep moving for

thicker and closer together until their trunks were so close that you could

for

and everyone stopped

Immediately, everything turned silent.

the occasional rustle of leaves under a breeze that lingered

and I couldn't shake the feeling that I was being

probably using an

the only explanation since I could feel it with my senses. There was no one near us at

to rest, I'll get in contact with

brought my watch to my mouth

the current situation? Have you

currently

we'll be

―We have just arrived.

almost there. A couple of minutes

my ears, and I nodded

'This is good.'

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

most probably already knew where we were

that I'd let

are. Keep

group. It was a rather small group comprised of Amanda, Jin,

thought about bringing Melissa, but considering the gravity of the situation, I decided to leave her in Ashton City, which…

and I turned to

was rather normal, but I could tell that Emma was

she was practically the weakest

away from her and

and do a proper check of the city before

a city. It was currently masked by the fog, but I could

the place, we'll find a way to let the others in. It's important that everyone is careful

very careful to put an emphasis on the final

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

lethargic as he had been in the past, he was a lot more alert

double checked with everyone to make sure that we were all on the same page before turning

"Let's go."

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