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

-Clank

"Wow..."

as the elevator doors opened a whole different world appeared before

twenty-fifth floor looked like

extremely large, with a space that could accumulate

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

was covered in a red carpet, and large TV screens were installed in the corner of the space with constant updates on the

by people wearing formal ones appeared everywhere. Most

the scenery before me, I couldn't

this was my parent's

"Ren!"

out of my revere, was the cheerful sound

just in

eyes landed on Nola who was standing next to me.

"Ren"

at me, her eyes became

know what to do

it look as if a demon had suddenly appeared

Something wasn't right...

"What's wrong?"

that you can't tell what you've

What I did wrong?

Apart from taking Nola to the park and beating a couple of kids, I don't think there was anything to warrant her

she so

Sigh

I was, pointing towards Nola, her tone raised

look at the

"Nola?"

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

What kind of son did I

mom went to Nola and apart from one Ice cream,

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

...I'm sorry.

of the candy, Samantha, my mother, took Nola by her

Follow me up to meet your

"Ok"

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

Everyone

were doing, crowding towards the elevator, a

-Clank!

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

shoulder-length hair was curved up slightly, 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

"…Huu."

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

going

to hear. With a moderate arrogance

in the distance, my eyes narrowed into slits as I

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

"...hm?"

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

a white-colored, long-sleeved loosely fit T-shirt with a strange insignia sewn on the back of it. His black

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

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 where three individuals

"Follow me Alex"

the crowd of people, Martin and the youth named Alex soon stopped in front

my mother, Martin politely smiled and

a pleasure seeing

on my mother's face before it quickly disappeared

"Hello, Martin"

time since we've spoken to each other

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

hard to build the guild from the

largely due

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

was able to attend to the lock due to how their father stole from his own

I saw