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

Plus.

eyes,

be the hunted when we can just as well be

"h..huh?"

if they could

supposed

***

the same time, Ashton

day's work, the sky was already

busy streets of Ashton city, Amanda calmly looked at the ever-changing scenery outside of

"Au.."

couple of times, Amanda found that her eyelids

She was tired.

the day working and working out, Amanda was utterly

her

miss, we're almost

"Mhm."

Amanda faintly nodded.

tried to wake herself up. Right now, she couldn't afford to

and looking

till we get

"We're already here."

with a

soon stopped in front of

towards Amanda's side and suavely opened the door

"Youg miss."

"Thank you."

Amanda got out of the

Holding onto a

she attracted the

the stares and walked towards the building entrance where a relatively older lady

was the care

"Good Evening."

Amanda greeted.

a familiar figure, the

It's you

"Mhm."

smiled at the

visitor, Amanda got along

talk with

bring you to

into the building, exchanging subtle

haven't seen you last week. Busy

I've only managed to fit a

be quite excited to see

visited Nola, she would instantly brighten up and throw herself in

scene had become a common occurrence

the scene of the two ladies together looked

know your exact age, you don't look older than

"...I hope so."

tired smile appeared on Amanda's

however, Amanda couldn't afford to

have

to keep those rumours in check, but she knew that she didn't have much time left

forced to push herself even

she couldn't pick up Nola last

hence why she cleared up her schedule today and decided to surprise her by showing up

"We're here."

soon arrived before a particular classroom where a

fingers at the classroom entrance and wearing a white and blue one-piece dress, the young girl looked extremely

is

instantly became brighter as she ran up to her and called

"Sister!"

"Nola."

into her arms and hooked her arms around

"Sister!"

see me,

"Um!"

Nola back, Amanda lifted her head and looked at the

has Nola been

the two with a smile,

since that gentleman came to pick her up last

"Gentleman?"

Amanda titled her head.

came to pick Nola up not too long

on that day, but she had to cancel

to say, ever since that gentleman came,

"...Is that so?"

"Yes."

The care lady replied.

Her voice filled with

who could have made Nola so much more

may ask, how did he look

"The gentleman?"

"Yes."

be in his forties or something? He seemed to be someone who worked for

"I see."

words, the edges

had no idea who the individual was, as long as Nola

her attention back to Nola, who was in her