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!

reached the 25th floor, and

-Clank

"Wow..."

elevator doors opened a whole different world appeared

looked like

with a space that could accumulate over hundreds

The higher floors were office spaces for administrative management, and the lower floors were

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

suits followed by people wearing formal ones appeared everywhere. Most likely,

at the scenery before me, I couldn't help

was my parent's guild,

"Ren!"

my revere, was the cheerful sound of

you're just

freezing mid-sentence, my mother's eyes landed on Nola who was standing next to me. The more she looked the

"Ren"

eyes became cold, and her previous

shift in attitude, I didn't know what

happened? and why does it look as if

Something wasn't right...

"What's wrong?"

you telling me that you can't tell

What I did wrong?

taking Nola to the park and beating a couple of kids, I don't think there was

she so

Sigh

was, pointing towards

at the state Nola is

"Nola?"

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

What kind of son

head, my mom went to Nola and apart from one Ice cream, she

our mother's seriousness, she could only turn her head in my direction to which I could only avoid and pretend to

...I'm sorry.

candy, Samantha, my mother, took Nola by her hand and urged me to

Follow me up to meet your

"Ok"

follow my mother up, the whole floor

here. Everyone get

were doing, crowding towards the elevator, a

-Clank!

opened, exiting them was the Vice-guild leader

he had a well-trimmed black beard that nicely fitted around his jaw. The solemnity given off by his extraordinary appearance was similar to that of my father as every step he would take caused all the guild members near him to shake

"…Huu."

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

is going to the

deep, was loud enough for most people around him to hear. With a moderate arrogance and a lethargic

at him in the distance, my eyes narrowed

was selected by the guild investors to become the Vice-director of

"...hm?"

murmurs engulfed the entire floor as a

wearing 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

imperfections. His long black-colored

would look down on everyone present in

suddenly drifted towards the other end of the hall

"Follow me Alex"

through the crowd of people, Martin and the youth named Alex

at my mother, Martin politely smiled and

pleasure seeing you here

of disgust appeared on my mother's face before it quickly

"Hello, Martin"

long time since

with each other. However, if someone wasn't paying close attention to their conversation, one wouldn't be able to notice all the hidden

hard to build the guild from the ground

course, that was largely due to how much I was

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

the lock due to how their father stole from

I saw him, I