The Author's POV

"I'm done Nola, come here"

Smiling, I waved at Nola in the distance and urged her to come to me.

"Um"

Nodding her little head, putting the phone away, Nola ran in my direction.

"Up"

Lifting her into my arms, I smiled and pointed towards the playground in the distance.

"Let's go play"

"Yes!"

Walking towards the playground, although I was smiling, that was merely a facade I put on since Nola was with me.

My mind was in a current state of turmoil.

After 'politely' conversing with the two individuals, I found out a few things.

First off, the long-haired guy's name was Simon Perk and his father was a relatively influential person inside of a bronze-graded guild. The guy next to him was called Greg Topaz and he was his childhood friend as well as bodyguard.

...The reason why they knew me was because the old Ren and they, used to attend the same middle school.

Fermin middle school.

One of the top middle schools in the northern district.

However, from what I've uncovered from my 'talk', the previous Ren Dover was a social outcast.

It wasn't like this before, but after a series of events, he became an outcast. This probably happened right after he got accepted in the lock.

Although I wasn't able to get a clear picture of what had happened since they weren't part of Ren's class, I was able to deduce that an important event had happened in Fermin middle school.

Which was enough of a start for me...I at least had a direction to focus on now.

"Bwader?"

As I was busy pondering over the old Ren's matters, feeling a light tug on my pants, I saw Nola's droopy eyes staring at my shoes.

"Are you tired already?"

"um"

Nodding her head, Nola extended her hands in my direction.

11:20 A.M.

"...it should be time anyways"

Checking the time, I picked Nola from the ground and left the park. It was about time I headed to the guild.

I wonder what's it like being in a guild.

...

"It should be this one"

Arriving in front of a large skyscraper that was about 200 meters in height, and had about 80 floors, I brought Nola inside of the building with me.

From what I had been told by my parents, the whole building was used as the base for their guild Galxicus.

Although they didn't own the building, they managed to rent it out for a reasonable monthly price.

Arriving in front of the elevators at the entrance of the building, I pressed the button and called for one. As I waited for the elevator to arrive, I took a quick glance at my surroundings.

Surrounded by glass, the interior of the bottom floor was brightly lit by the sun in the sky. White marble floor covered the entire pavement, and people moving to and fro inside of the building was a constant sight.

It looked extremely busy.

-Ding!

Entering the elevator and pressing on the 25th-floor button, the elevator doors closed and a slight pushing sensation appeared beneath my feet.

-Ding!

matter of seconds, the elevator reached the 25th

-Clank

"Wow..."

soon as the elevator doors opened a whole different

twenty-fifth floor looked like a

floor was extremely large, with a space that

spaces for administrative management, and the lower floors were for heroes as they provided

large TV screens were installed in the corner of the space with constant updates on the news and which dungeons were available for

wearing formal ones appeared everywhere. Most likely, they were the members of

scenery before me,

was my parent's

"Ren!"

of my revere, was the

you're just

standing next to me. The more she looked the grimmer

"Ren"

her eyes became cold, and her previous cheerful demenour

sudden shift in attitude, I didn't know what to do as

what happened? and why does it look as if a demon had suddenly appeared

Something wasn't right...

"What's wrong?"

telling me that you can't tell what

What I did wrong?

I recalled everything that had happened today. Apart from taking Nola to the park and beating a couple of kids, I don't think there was

she so

Sigh

how clueless I was, pointing towards Nola,

look at the state Nola is

"Nola?"

wrong with her. Apart from the fact that both her pockets were filled

What kind of son did

to Nola and apart from one Ice cream, she immediately took everything

try to protest, but under our mother's seriousness, she could only turn her head in my direction to which I could only

...I'm sorry.

of the candy, Samantha, my mother, took Nola by her hand and

it. Follow me up

"Ok"

as I was about to follow my mother up, the whole floor became quiet before suddenly everyone

Everyone

they were doing, crowding towards the elevator, a bunch of

-Clank!

exiting them was the Vice-guild leader of

his extraordinary appearance was similar to that of my father as every step he would take caused all the guild

"…Huu."

the Vice-guild master of the Galxicus guild,

going to the

With a moderate arrogance and a

in the distance, my eyes narrowed into slits as I

smallsnake sent me, he was the man leading the inner conflicts within the guild. He was a ranked Hero, just slightly weaker than my father, and was selected by the guild investors to become

"...hm?"

closely scrutinized Martin, another wave of murmurs engulfed the entire floor as a youth walked

a white-colored, long-sleeved loosely fit T-shirt with a strange insignia sewn on the back of it. His black obsidian eyes which were brighter than ordinary people's had

being smooth without any imperfections. His long black-colored hair dangled to his shoulders, and his

down on everyone present in the room. Almost as if

suddenly drifted towards the other end of

"Follow me Alex"

crowd of people, Martin and the youth named Alex soon stopped in

at my mother, Martin politely smiled

seeing you here

mother's face before it quickly disappeared as fast as it came. Smiling politely

"Hello, Martin"

long time since we've spoken to

conversing with each other. However, if someone wasn't paying close attention to their conversation, one

hard to build the guild from

due

with Martin, the youth behind him walked up to me. Seizing me up, a smirk soon

due to how their father stole

saw