The Author's POV - Chapter 355

With her bloodline advantage, she was able to keep them in check…but just barely.

Catching a glimpse of her fight, I noticed that she was currently in a bit of a disadvantageous position as the three duergars attacked her from all sides. They were relentless as they didn’t even leave her any room to catch her breath.

Fortunately, all she had to do was stall them, not beat them. Although she was at a disadvantage, she was still handling it well. Without a doubt, she should be able to hold on for the next thirty minutes which was all I asked for.

Swooosh?!

Sensing something, my head snapped toward my left where I saw the pointy tip of a cold blade heading for my eyes.

Clink?!

“Huuah!”

Reacting almost out of instinct, I stabbed the rod upwards, hitting the bottom of the blade. Once the top of the rod hit the blade, it redirected it upwards and the tip of the blade narrowly missed my eyes.

Cold sweat trickled down my back as I realized just how close of a call that was.

Focusing my attention towards the perpetrator, I found a duergar standing not so far from where I was. Next to him, were the other four duergars.

Staring at them, and glancing toward my right arm, I silently cursed.

“…well shit.”

Xiu! Xiu! Xiu!

Without giving me a chance to properly analyze the situation, one of the duergars, the weakest one, raised his gun and shot in my direction. Almost at the same time he started shooting, the three other duergars also began to act.

Following behind the energy blasts that shot from the gun, they quickly headed towards my direction.

Stomping my foot on the ground, the ground beneath me cracked apart and my body shot back.

Despite doing so, my body was still slower than the incoming energy beams as they easily gained ground on me.

Staring at the incoming energy beams, rather than panicking, I raised my left hand, the one that held onto the metal rod, and channeled all my mana into it.

Within seconds, a translucent green hue enveloped the body of the rod. Once the hue completely enveloped the rod, my body soon came to an abrupt halt.

“Haaa!”

Crying inside of my heart, I twisted the rod in my hand in a circular motion.

Once I spun the rod in my hand, a sort of translucent circular shield appeared in front of me. Taking a step forward, I met the attacks head-on.

Clink! Clink! Clink!

A strange scene followed suit. The moment the energy blasts met the body of the rod, instead of hitting it, they changed direction completely, shooting away from me.

Before I knew it, all three beams shot away from me.

‘As expected, all my training with Waylan wasn’t for nothing.’

I inwardly muttered as I looked at the rod in my hand which was currently coated by the same green glow as before.

The trick I had just used was a trick that I had learned from fighting against the demons during the waves.

By coating my weapon with wind psyons, I could essentially create an effect in which the wind psysons would act as a repellent for anything that touched them.

It had to be noted that this sort of thing was not something I could’ve pulled off before. Although it looked easy, it was nothing but easy.

What I just did required a high level of control over psyons and if not for Waylan and Douglas’s teaching over the past month, I would’ve never been able to pull off such a move.

Swoosh!

Not even a second after I managed to redirect the attacks away, the three other duergars were already upon me.

But I was prepared.

The moment they arrived before me, lowering my left hand, the green glow enveloping the rod disappeared.

Turning my head, I stared at the duergars right in the eyes and inwardly muttered.

‘The one…’

The atmosphere instantly froze and the bodies of the three duergars came to an abrupt halt.

Following this, their faces paled, and their body trembled.

With my eyes locked on a particular duergar, putting the rod away, I raised my hand and enveloped his face with the palm of my hand.

Crack!

The sound of a skull breaking sounded and blood spurted all over my face.

At the same time I squeezed my hand, twisting the heel of my right foot, I twisted my torso and my body spun. As my body spun, I raised my left leg and kicked with it, further adding to the momentum of the spin.

Crack!

Midway through the spin, I felt a slight force on the heel of my left foot. What followed after was the sound of something breaking sounded.

Thud! Thud!

Once I managed to stabilize my body, the bodies of the two duergars I killed fell onto the ground with two small thuds.

Without even looking at where the sound originated from, I focused my attention on the last two duergars who were stunned by what they saw.

I, of course, took advantage of this.

Extending my left hand the rod once again appeared in my hand.

Lightly throwing it in the air, I once again twisted the heel of my right foot at an angle of 45 degrees. Simultaneously, I raised my left foot and kicked.

Xiu!

My foot soon connected with the tip of the rod, and the rod disappeared from my vision.

As I had not channeled mana into the rod, no lightning formed around it. But, that didn’t really matter.

To only deal with a rank, that was enough.

Swoosh?!

Using the momentum of the kick, once my foot kicked the rod, it did not stop as it quickly headed towards the last duergar that was close to me.

Raising both hands, the Duergar tried to block my attack, but it was in vain. Once my foot connected with his arms, the sound of his arms breaking sounded and he fell backward onto the hard ground.

“Hieeek!”

Bang?!

Once the duergar fell onto the ground, the rod appeared before the other duergar and hit him directly in the head. Whether he had lived or died, I wasn’t sure.

Raising my foot, I stomped down and killed the last duergar.

Spurt?!

Blood once again sprayed everywhere.

“Haaa…haaa…”

Once I killed the last duergar, I noticed that my breathing was quite heavy.

Swallowing a mouthful of saliva, and wiping the sweat that had accumulated on my forehead, I moved towards the main room and checked the holographic map.

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[Data synchronisation.]

0%_________[94%]_100%

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“Haaa…94%? That’s go?”

Booom?!

But just as I was about to rejoice at the fact that the dampening system was about to deactivate, a terrifying explosion sounded near me.

Turning my head, my face paled considerably and what replaced it was a look of horror.

All forms of fighting stopped, and the atmosphere froze completely.

“Oh…shit…”

With a blank look on my face, my head stopped working as a feeling of death enveloped my entire being.

“You…”

A blue skinny hand pointed in my direction. Following this, a high pitch voice sounded across the entire hall.

“You….because of…you!”

Standing over Ultruk’s body, with disheveled hair, and half of her entire face burned, was Durara.

Raising her staff and stabbing it right into Ultruk’s heart, blood spilled all over her entire body.

“I…will…kill…you!”

Before I could even react, Durara aimed her staff in my direction. A bright white light shot in my direction, and time froze.

…or should I say, I wished for it to stop.

Coming at me like an unstoppable tsunami, the bright light came towards me, enveloping my entire body.

There and there, although I couldn’t tell for real, I felt my whole existence disappear like that.

…It all happened too fast.

What followed after the white glow was total darkness.