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..."

a whole different

floor looked like

floor was extremely large, with a space that could accumulate over hundreds

main reception area 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

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

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

before me, I

was my parent's guild,

"Ren!"

out of my revere, was the

you're just

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

"Ren"

her eyes became cold, and her previous

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

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

Something wasn't right...

"What's wrong?"

you can't tell

What I did wrong?

happened today. Apart from taking Nola to the park and

was she

Sigh

how clueless I was, pointing towards Nola, her

at the state Nola is

"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

What kind of son

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

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

...I'm sorry.

all of the candy, Samantha, my mother, took Nola

me up to meet your

"Ok"

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

Everyone get

were doing, crowding towards the elevator, a

-Clank!

was the Vice-guild leader of the Galxicus

and 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 in

"…Huu."

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

going to the

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

eyes narrowed into slits as

slightly weaker than my father, and was selected

"...hm?"

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

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 deep within

skin being smooth without any imperfections. His long black-colored hair dangled to

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

towards the other end of the hall where three

"Follow me Alex"

people, Martin and the youth named Alex soon

my mother, Martin politely smiled

pleasure seeing you

it quickly disappeared as fast as it came. Smiling politely she greeted

"Hello, Martin"

been a long time since we've spoken to each other

However, if someone wasn't paying close attention to their conversation, one wouldn't be able to notice

indeed worked very hard to build

largely due to how much I was

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

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

moment I saw him,