The Author's POV

Everything was going smoothly. Going in and out of the cells, Ryan managed to help as many prisoners as possible. Furthermore, with Leopold backing him up from behind, he was able to move rather freely.

Not only that, but the prisoners that he had rescued proved to also be a big help, as they instantly spread chaos within the cave system.

"Did you really have to take all my potions as well?"

Rushing toward another cell, Ryan overheard Leopold's grumble.

If he could, he would've rolled his eyes at him.

"You think I have a choice? I've already used all of mine."

Boom—! Boom—!

The muffled sound of explosions rang everywhere, and just as Ryan opened up another cell to free another prisoner, he was surprised to see a familiar figure.

"You're Emma."

He recognized her in an instant. It wasn't very hard.

There weren't many people out there that were as pretty as her, and furthermore, with her being one of the few people that were close to Ren, he naturally did some research on her.

Currently, she was lying down on the ground with a pale expression. Her lips seemed to be quivering, and her gaze seemed to be fixed on him.

She didn't look to be in the best of conditions, but at least, her mind seemed clear. Judging from her expression, she seemed to have recognized him too.

Bang—!

"Ryan, hurry up!"

It was Leopold's voice that broke him out of his thoughts, and Ryan snapped out of it and got to work.

"Ah, right, sorry!"

Bending over, he looked at the bracelet that was on her ankle and made quick work of it.

Click!

Removing it wasn't hard. He already had a general understanding of how the mechanism worked thanks to the hours he had put in before escaping, and he was thus able to remove it rather quickly.

"Here, drink this."

He handed Emma one of his potions, and she quietly took it. Moments after ingesting the potions, Emma's complexion cleared up, and she was soon able to stand up without a problem.

"Thank you."

"Don't worry about it."

Ryan waved his hand at her and looked back at Leopold.

Bang—! Bang—!

He was currently shooting one demon after another as sweat trickled down the side of his face. He was just barely holding on at the moment.

"Do you have any spare weapons?"

Right at that moment, he heard Emma's words, and when he turned his head to look at her, his eyes lit up.

'That's right, she's with us right now!'

Unlike the two of them, Emma was a bonafide ranker. If there was anyone who could fight the demons outside, it'd be her!

his dimensional space and retrieved

choice, as he knew she used short

have a

"A sword?"

and casually

Swoosh! Swoosh!

air would tear apart, and a faint

pack all

really knew what lay ahead

"This'll do I guess."

demons that were attacking Leopold, and her figure

appeared before the demons

Thump!

rolling down, and everything ended in a matter of

"Not bad."

able to overhear Emma's mutterings as she slashed her sword to the ground, causing the blood that had been coating it to splatter all

her with his mouth wide open. Alternating his gaze between his firearm

too old for this

to overhear their mutterings,

do

"I'm not too sure."

Ryan answered Emma.

chaos as possible so that the two of them could escape,

was strong…

no longer feared for their safety as much as before, and could take things

perhaps it's best if we

as possible, as the incident he had caused may have attracted the attention of demons of

incident without a doubt had attracted

crucial that they

can't think of anything we can do at the

over his options, Ryan's gaze eventually settled on a couple of demons not so far from where they were, and an idea popped

'That might work...'

to

bring them to this room? If we want to have a better idea of what we need to do next,

"You're right."

turned toward the demons that Ryan pointed at and disappeared from the spot. She returned shortly after and threw them both on the

Thump! Thump!

"…"

ground like rag dolls, but he kept his thoughts to himself and

live, give us a map of the

"…"

was met with no response, but Ryan didn't care and continued to

"Where exactly are we?"

"…"

"Where is the exit?"

"…"

you demons planning? Why are you capturing so many

responded to any of

"Ryan."

"What is it?"

his head. When he did, he saw Emma looking at the door of the room,

"Alright."

knees, Ryan slowly sat up and let out a long

easier if the two of you had answered our questions, but I

appeared in his hand, and he

seal your mana.

Click! Click!