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

-Clank

"Wow..."

opened a whole different

like a luxurious

with a space that could accumulate over

the guild. The higher floors were office spaces for administrative management, and the lower floors were for heroes as they provided training facilities and other things heroes required like a potion station

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

wearing formal ones appeared everywhere. Most

the scenery before me, I couldn't help

this was my

"Ren!"

my revere, was

just in

mother's eyes landed on Nola who was standing next to me. The more she looked the grimmer her

"Ren"

eyes became

know what

it look as if a

Something wasn't right...

"What's wrong?"

telling me that you can't tell

What I did wrong?

Nola to the park and beating a couple

was she

Sigh

I was, pointing towards Nola, her tone raised

at the

"Nola?"

pockets were filled with candy and she was

kind of

to Nola and apart from one Ice cream,

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

...I'm sorry.

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

Follow me up to meet your

"Ok"

was about to follow my mother up, the whole floor

here. Everyone get

whatever they were doing, crowding towards the elevator,

-Clank!

exiting them was the Vice-guild leader of

he had a well-trimmed black beard that nicely fitted around his jaw. The solemnity given off by his extraordinary

"…Huu."

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

guild is going to the

him to hear. With a moderate arrogance and a lethargic attitude, Martin Lorewik

at him in the distance, my eyes narrowed into slits as I closely scrutinized

to the reports that 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

"...hm?"

the entire floor as a youth walked

a strange insignia sewn on the back of it.

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

he followed Martin from behind, with his back straight he would look down on everyone present in the room. Almost as if he

youth were walking, Martin's eyes suddenly drifted towards the other end of the hall

"Follow me Alex"

named Alex soon stopped in

mother, Martin politely

a pleasure seeing

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

"Hello, Martin"

a long time since we've spoken to

someone wasn't paying close attention to their conversation, one wouldn't be able to notice all the hidden meanings behind each

hard to build the

due to how much I was

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

the lock due to how their father

saw him, I