The Author's POV

"There's nothing here."

Smallsnake shouted as he stabbed the head of one of the wolves on the ground.

"I've also got nothing."

"Nothing here too."

Disappointment flashed Ava and Hein's faces as they also found nothing on the corpses of the wolves.

"Nothing on my side as well."

Leopold also added.

"..."

Looking at them from a distance, sitting on a rock and leaning forward, I fell in thought.

With over thirty wolves dying at my hands, everyone was now trying to see if they could find a core.

The process was relatively slow and tedious; however, the rewards more than made up for it as each core was precious.

Unfortunately, lady luck was not on our side as no one found anything.

This was a given, though.

The chances of finding a core were the same as winning the lottery. Miniscule.

"Huaam."

When I struggled to hold my yawn back, someone sat down next to me and tapped on my shoulder.

"What do we do now?"

Without the need to look back, I could tell who it was by his voice.

It was Smallsnake.

Still sitting on the rock, I turned my head and looked up at smallsnake.

His expression was severe, and with his hand on his chin, he had a pensive look on his face.

"If the chip has indeed started tracking our moves, we should probably not waste time here."

Smallsnake suddenly turned his head and looked at me.

"I think we should stop wasting time over here, and we should get going. According to my estimates, if they send someone to track you, within a week or month, they'll soon catch up to us."

Listening to Smallsnake and patting my pants, I silently stood up.

Scratching the side of my neck and staring towards the direction of where Dromeda city was, my brows furrowed tightly.

"You're not necessarily wrong."

"...Yes, that's why I'm suggesting for us to immediately go right now. The more distance we cover, the harder it is for them to find us."

Closing my eyes slightly, for the next few seconds, I didn't speak.

Then, opening my mouth, I said.

"We proceed at our own pace."

"What?!"

His eyes widened. Standing up, he walked to me.

"Did you hear what I just said?"

"...I heard what you said loud and clear."

"Then why did you say that we should go at our own pace?"

"Haa.."

Without answering Smallsnake, I brushed my hair to the side and let out a troubled sigh.

What Smallsnake said wasn't necessarily wrong.

Now that the tracking device was on, the Monolith and possibly even the Union would start hunting me.

On a good note, we weren't in the human domain, which made it harder for them to track me down directly.

Even then, it would only delay their search by at most a couple of weeks to a couple of months.

Still.

Putting my sword back into my dimensional space, I turned my head and looked towards the distance.

"We're going to continue going at our own pace."

My current goal was to travel to the dwarven domain.

The road was a treacherous one. One that was riddled with dangers.

Not only did I have to watch out for dangerous beasts, but I also had to watch out for demons.

Although not exactly close, the demon domain was not that far.

situation prudently was the best way to go about

Plus.

my eyes, I

the hunted when we can just as

"h..huh?"

if they could track my

supposed to be

***

the same time, Ashton

the time Amanda had completed her day's work, the

a black car that was quietly driving through the busy streets of Ashton city, Amanda calmly looked at the

"Au.."

Amanda found that her eyelids were becoming

She was tired.

most of the day working and

ten minutes, her assistant, Maxwell, opened his mouth and

miss, we're almost

"Mhm."

Amanda faintly nodded.

Amanda tried to wake herself up. Right now, she

looking

long till

"We're already here."

with

car soon stopped in front of a familiar building that

towards Amanda's side and suavely opened

"Youg miss."

"Thank you."

Maxwell, Amanda got out

Holding onto a small black handbag in her right hand, Amanda

wherever she walked, she attracted the gazes of the

and walked towards

was the care

"Good Evening."

Amanda greeted.

a familiar figure, the

It's you

"Mhm."

smiled at the

visitor, Amanda got

small talk with each other at

bring you to

soon walked into the building, exchanging subtle pleasantries

last week.

fit a

be quite excited to

brighten up and

become a common occurrence

the scene of the two ladies together looked as though they

I don't know your exact age, you don't look older than twenty. Working so much at

"...I hope so."

smile appeared

possible, she also wanted to work less; however, Amanda couldn't afford to

about her father's absence have slowly started circulating

those rumours in check, but she knew that she didn't

was forced to push herself even harder

she couldn't pick up

cleared up her schedule today and decided to

"We're here."

care lady and Amanda soon arrived before a particular classroom where a young girl with

fingers at the classroom entrance and wearing a white and blue one-piece

someone is

head, the moment Nola spotted Amanda, her complexion instantly became brighter as she ran up

"Sister!"

"Nola."

Amanda extended her hands. Soon Nola jumped into her arms and

"Sister!"

see

"Um!"

back, Amanda lifted her head and looked

Nola

at the two with a smile,

that gentleman came to pick her up last time, she has been a lot more

"Gentleman?"

Amanda titled her head.

pick Nola up not too long ago. On the

Amanda was supposed to pick Nola up on that day, but she had to

since that gentleman came, Nola seemed to have become a

"...Is that so?"

"Yes."

The care lady replied.

Her

made Nola so

ask, how did he look

"The gentleman?"

"Yes."

his forties or something? He seemed to be someone who worked for Nola's

"I see."

the care lady's words, the

no idea who the individual was, as long as Nola was happy, so didn't

back to Nola, who was in her arms,