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!

elevator reached the 25th floor, and the doors

-Clank

"Wow..."

opened a whole different world

looked like a

space that

The higher floors were office spaces for administrative management, and

and large TV screens were installed in the corner of the space

combat suits followed by people wearing formal ones appeared everywhere. Most likely, they were the members of the guild

before me, I couldn't help

my parent's guild,

"Ren!"

of my revere, was the cheerful sound

you're just

landed on Nola who was standing next to me. The more she looked the grimmer

"Ren"

me, her eyes became cold, and

know what to do as cold sweat suddenly

look as if a

Something wasn't right...

"What's wrong?"

me that you can't tell what you've done

What I did wrong?

park and beating a couple of

she so

Sigh

how clueless I was, pointing towards

look at the state Nola

"Nola?"

with her. Apart from the fact that both her pockets were filled with candy and she was holding an ice cream cone

What kind of

to Nola and apart from one Ice

her head in my direction to which I could

...I'm sorry.

my mother, took Nola by her hand and urged

Follow me up to meet your

"Ok"

was about to follow my mother up, the whole floor became

Everyone get

towards the elevator, a bunch

-Clank!

elevator doors opened, exiting them was the Vice-guild leader of

beard that nicely fitted around his jaw. The solemnity given off by his extraordinary appearance was similar to that of my

"…Huu."

with his snake-like eyes, the Vice-guild master of

is going

him to hear. With a moderate arrogance and a lethargic attitude, Martin Lorewik pushed back the people flocking in his

him in the distance, my eyes narrowed into slits as

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 the Vice-director of the guild. With

"...hm?"

wave of murmurs engulfed the entire floor as

white-colored, long-sleeved loosely fit T-shirt with a strange insignia sewn on the back of it. His black obsidian eyes

quite handsome and outstanding with his skin being smooth without any imperfections. His long black-colored hair dangled to his shoulders, and

his back straight he would look down on everyone present in the room.

eyes suddenly drifted towards the other end of the hall where three individuals stood. A smirk soon

"Follow me Alex"

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

my mother, Martin

a pleasure seeing

it quickly disappeared as fast as it came. Smiling politely

"Hello, Martin"

a long time since we've spoken to each other

their conversation, one wouldn't be able to notice all the hidden meanings behind

my husband indeed worked very hard to build the guild from the ground

of course, that was largely due to

up to me. Seizing me up, a smirk soon appeared on his

to attend to the lock due to how their father stole from his own guild to pay for

saw him, I