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.

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***

the same time, Ashton

day's work, the sky

inside of a black car that was quietly driving through the busy streets of Ashton city, Amanda calmly looked at the ever-changing scenery outside of the

"Au.."

of times, Amanda found that her eyelids were becoming heavier

She was tired.

working

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

miss, we're

"Mhm."

Amanda faintly nodded.

onto her right cheek, Amanda tried to wake herself up.

her head and looking at Maxwell,

till

"We're already here."

with a

front of a familiar

out of the car's driver seat, Maxwell moved towards Amanda's

"Youg miss."

"Thank you."

Amanda got out of

Amanda looked stunning. Holding onto a small black handbag in her right hand, Amanda walked

she attracted the gazes of the nearby

towards the building entrance where a relatively

the care

"Good Evening."

Amanda greeted.

the

It's you

"Mhm."

smiled at

visitor, Amanda got along with her quite

were both comfortable making small talk with

you

into the building, exchanging

seen you last week. Busy with

only managed to fit

wonderful. Nola will be quite excited to see

would instantly brighten up and throw herself in her

become a common occurrence at the

two ladies together looked

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

"...I hope so."

tired smile appeared

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

have slowly started

those rumours in check, but she knew that

push

was also why she couldn't pick up Nola last

cleared up her schedule today and decided to surprise her

"We're here."

Amanda soon arrived before a particular classroom where a

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

is

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

"Sister!"

"Nola."

her hands. Soon Nola jumped into her arms and hooked her arms around

"Sister!"

see me,

"Um!"

her head and looked at the

Nola been

a smile, the

gentleman came to pick her

"Gentleman?"

Amanda titled her head.

too long ago. On the

Nola up on that day, but she had to cancel a week prior due

to say, ever since that gentleman came, Nola seemed to have become a lot

"...Is that so?"

"Yes."

The care lady replied.

asked. Her

could have made

I may ask, how did he look

"The gentleman?"

"Yes."

he looked to be in his forties or something? He seemed to be someone who worked for Nola's parents. So I'm guessing he

"I see."

to the care lady's words, the edges of Amanda's lips curled

idea who the individual was, as long as Nola was happy, so

to Nola, who was in her arms, Amanda patted