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.

flapped, a huge net was cast

but it proved to be

"No, shit!!!"

out a frustrated cry, finally feeling despair. She knew at

"Shoot her!"

aiming

'It's over.'

at the barrel of the artifacts, knowing that it was over

simply stared at the artifact, wanting to see what

WOOOM―!

and approached Angelica, and there was only

looks like

Bright and large...

such

completely overtook her vision shortly

"Hu?"

fully cleared, but what she managed to catch a glimpse of upon opening her eyes

'Reinforcements?'

***

Swoosh! Swoosh!

canopy of towering trees overhead created a natural fortress, blocking out most of the

air was thick with the sweet

"Follow closely."

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

Squish!

was soft and spongy, and it felt as though

almost there. Make sure to hide your presence as best as

twisted silhouettes of gnarled trees clawed at the sky, their

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

the right

is, but just

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

here for

and everyone stopped at my

Immediately, everything turned silent.

could hear were the occasional

couldn't shake the feeling that I

probably using

with my senses. There was no one near

get

I brought my watch to my mouth and

Have you all reached

currently waiting

we'll be

―We have just arrived.

we're almost there. A

wave of messages reached my ears, and I nodded my

'This is good.'

unsettling feeling that I was being watched, I knew that the demons weren't completely unaware of

they most probably already knew where we were and were planning

that I'd

put where you are. Keep your

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

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

me sigh, and I turned to look at the others behind

I could tell that Emma was

the weakest and not

from her and looked at

city and do a proper check of the city before

could see the faint outline of a city. It was currently masked by the fog, but I could feel it from

of the place, we'll find a way to

careful to put

realized that there was no point

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

double checked with everyone to make sure that we were all

"Let's go."

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