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

through the net, but it proved to be an impossible task

"No, shit!!!"

a frustrated cry, finally feeling despair. She knew at this moment that there was no way out

"Shoot her!"

dwarves yelled, aiming their weapons at

'It's over.'

barrel of the artifacts, knowing that it was

eyes and simply stared at the artifact, wanting to

WOOOM―!

and approached Angelica, and there was only one

looks like the

Bright and large...

such

completely overtook her vision shortly

"Hu?"

her vision. Her vision hadn't yet fully cleared, but what she managed to catch a glimpse of upon opening her eyes was a flock of

'Reinforcements?'

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Swoosh! Swoosh!

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

air was thick with the sweet scent of decay and damp

"Follow closely."

mess of roots, vines, and fallen leaves that crunch

Squish!

spongy, and it felt as though every step was filled with danger,

to

twisted silhouettes of gnarled trees clawed at the sky, their

foliage and underbrush made it nearly impossible to see more than a

is the right way,

but just

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

here for

my hand, and

Immediately, everything turned silent.

silence was deafening, and the only sounds I could hear were the occasional rustle of leaves under a breeze that lingered in the

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

using an

since I could feel it with my senses. There was no one

rest, I'll get in contact with the

brought my watch to

current situation? Have

currently

yet; we'll

―We have just arrived.

we're almost there. A couple of minutes

messages reached my ears, and I nodded

'This is good.'

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

most probably already knew where we were

I'd let

are.

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

considering the gravity of the situation, I decided to leave

I turned to look at the others

rather normal, but I could

the weakest and

gaze away from her

a proper check

the distance, where I could see the faint outline of a city.

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

to put an emphasis on the final

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

he had been in the past, he was a lot more alert now and didn't

we were all on the same page before turning around

"Let's go."

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