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 above her, trapping

but it proved to be an impossible task as

"No, shit!!!"

knew at this moment

"Shoot her!"

aiming their weapons at

'It's over.'

the artifacts, knowing

didn't close her eyes and simply stared at the

WOOOM―!

and there

looks like

Bright and large...

wasn't such a bad

her

"Hu?"

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

'Reinforcements?'

***

Swoosh! Swoosh!

out most of the sunlight and casting a murky green light that filtered through the twisted

thick with the sweet

"Follow closely."

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

Squish!

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

there. Make sure to hide your presence as best

twisted silhouettes of gnarled trees clawed at the sky, their blackened

a few feet in any direction,

is the

but just keep moving for

trees grew thicker and closer together until their trunks were so close that

here for a

my hand, and

Immediately, everything turned silent.

sounds I could hear were the occasional rustle of leaves under a breeze that lingered in

I couldn't shake the feeling that I

probably using an

could feel it with my senses. There was

to rest, I'll get

my watch to

Have you all

currently waiting

yet; we'll be there

―We have just arrived.

we're almost there. A couple

wave of messages reached my ears, and I nodded my head comfortably. Everything

'This is good.'

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

fact, they most probably already knew where we

that I'd

are.

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

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

turned to look at the others

was rather normal, but I could tell that Emma was

to the others, she was practically the

away from her and

do a proper check of the city before

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

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

put an emphasis on the final

realized that there was no point in doing so because he

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

that we were all on the same

"Let's go."

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