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

-Clank

"Wow..."

soon as the elevator doors opened a whole different world appeared

looked like a

that could accumulate over hundreds of people

of 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 and supply

screens were installed in the corner of the space with

Most likely, they were

me, I couldn't

my parent's guild,

"Ren!"

my revere, was the cheerful sound of my mom's

you're just in

who was standing next to me. The more she looked the grimmer her face

"Ren"

back at me, her eyes became cold,

in attitude, I didn't know what to do as cold sweat suddenly appeared on my

what happened? and why does it look as if a

Something wasn't right...

"What's wrong?"

me that you can't tell what

What I did wrong?

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

she so

Sigh

was, pointing towards Nola, her tone raised a

the state

"Nola?"

Nola in confusion, I didn't see 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 each hand, I didn't

kind of son did

and apart from one Ice cream, she

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

...I'm sorry.

candy, Samantha, my mother, took Nola by her hand

Follow me up to

"Ok"

follow my mother up, the whole floor

here. Everyone

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

-Clank!

the Vice-guild leader of the Galxicus guild. Martin

given off by his extraordinary appearance was similar to that of my

"…Huu."

the Vice-guild master of the Galxicus

guild is going to

hear. With a moderate arrogance and a lethargic attitude, Martin

eyes narrowed into slits as

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 guild investors to become the Vice-director of the guild. With the aid of the board of directors, he managed to convince them into overthrowing the current

"...hm?"

closely scrutinized Martin, another wave of murmurs engulfed the entire floor

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 hints of wisdom hidden

and outstanding with his skin being smooth without any imperfections. His long black-colored hair

down on everyone present in the room. Almost as if he owned

end of the hall where three

"Follow me Alex"

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

Martin

pleasure seeing you here

before it quickly disappeared as fast as it came. Smiling politely

"Hello, Martin"

been a long time since

to their conversation, one wouldn't be able to

very hard to build the

course, that was largely due to how much I was helping

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

due to how their father stole from

I saw him, I just