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!

seconds, the elevator reached the 25th floor, and the doors

-Clank

"Wow..."

the elevator doors opened a whole different world appeared before

twenty-fifth floor looked like a luxurious

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

office spaces for administrative management, and the lower floors were for heroes as they provided training

the corner of

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

scenery before me, I couldn't

my

"Ren!"

out me out of my revere, was the cheerful sound of my

you're just in

eyes landed on Nola who was standing next to me. The more she

"Ren"

me, her eyes became cold, and her previous cheerful demenour

shift in attitude, I didn't know what

it look as if a demon had suddenly appeared behind

Something wasn't right...

"What's wrong?"

you telling me that you

What I did wrong?

happened today. Apart from taking Nola to the park and beating a couple of kids,

was she

Sigh

how clueless I was, pointing towards Nola, her tone raised a few

look at the state Nola

"Nola?"

the fact that both her pockets were filled with candy and she was holding an ice cream cone in each

kind

and apart from one Ice

her head in my direction to which I could only avoid

...I'm sorry.

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

me up

"Ok"

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

Everyone get

the elevator,

-Clank!

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

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 their

"…Huu."

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

is going to the

for most people around him to hear. With a moderate arrogance and a lethargic attitude, Martin Lorewik

him in the distance, my eyes

just slightly weaker than my father, and was selected by

"...hm?"

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

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 people's had hints of wisdom

without any imperfections. His long black-colored hair dangled to his shoulders, and his

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

Martin's eyes suddenly drifted towards the other end of the hall where three

"Follow me Alex"

named Alex soon stopped in front of me and

my mother, Martin politely

a pleasure seeing you here

on my mother's face before it quickly disappeared

"Hello, Martin"

been a long time since

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

very hard to build the

was largely due to how much

behind him walked up

who was able to attend to the lock due to how their father stole from his own guild to pay for his son's

I saw him,