The Author's POV

Chapter 297

Khhhhh—!

The static sound of the radio sounded.

"...I guess he hung up."

A trace of pity flashed across my eyes as I put the radio transmitter away.

Standing up and putting my coat on, I nudged the others to follow me.

"Alright, let's go."

Now that I had taken care of the annoying flies swarming on my back, I could now go to my destination without too many worries.

"Ren, how long do we have left?"

Ryan asked from behind.

"We're almost there."

Our current destination was Henolur, the dwarven capital.

After travelling for the past four months, we had almost arrived at the location.

"Precise time?"

"About one more week of travel, I would say."

Originally we were supposed to take a lot less time to arrive; however, to slow down Xavier and the other's pursuit, I decided to take a slight detour and travelled near the elven border.

Fortunately, during our fight right now the elves didn't get involved, but in all likelihood, they were already aware of our presence.

"Let's go before we run into trouble."

"Are you talking about the elves?"

Smallsnake arrived by my side and followed along.

"That's right."

Playing with the dimensional spaces that he had collected from the people we had just killed, Smallsnake handed them to me.

"...Do you think they'd attack us? I heard that they don't attack humans."

"Sort of, but you can never be too safe."

With humanity's advancement these past few decades, all three races started viewing humans in a more 'favourable' light.

That being said, this didn't mean that they still fully trusted us.

This was why a conference was going to be held soon.

It was made with the purpose of talking about the potential third cataclysm that was soon going to hit the earth and the possibility of allowing humanity to join the alliance.

Well, that was well into the future.

Right now, my goal was to enter the dwarven domain and increase my strength by leaps and bounds.

"Let's hurry for now. I don't want to meet any trouble along our way."

***

A few kilometres away from where Ren and the others were, Gazing at them from a distance, were two obscured figures.

With each breath the two figures took, the mana in the air would follow their breathing rhythm. Almost as though they were in complete synch with the mana in the air.

"Should we attack?"

Looking right, one of the figures asked as a melodious voice rang out.

Judging from their subservient tone, it was evident that the figure they talked to was higher ranked.

"...no"

The other figure shook its head.

"What about the demon?"

The higher-ranked figure pointed towards the distance, revealing a delicate white hand devoid of imperfection.

"Did you sense the mana of the people they were fighting?"

"Mhm, it was tainted with demonic energy."

"Right, for that female demon to work with humans and kill multiple contracted individuals, we can assume that she is no longer on the same side as the demons."

Although most demons worked with each other, in the end, what they cared for most was their self-interest.

Just because they were from the same race didn't mean that they had to help them.

This was a natural occurrence that occurred in all races.

"...That's true. However, I've also noticed that the demon follows that human with long hair. Strange."

The whole time they observed the fight in the distance, they noticed that everything revolved around a specific human with long black hair and blue eyes.

one being targeted, to how

is indeed strange; let's observe

faded, the two figures

***

on

grown accustomed to over the

Board member -

the sunlight coming from the

—Knock! —Knock!

A knocking sound sounded.

"Come in."

her mouth, and

"You called for me?"

light brown hair and a pair of

It was Melissa.

what did you call me

as she looked around the neatly organized office.

sitting on the sofa in front of Amanda, she crossed her legs and propped her elbow on the sidearm of the

"..."

of papers down, Amanda wordlessly stared at Melissa, sitting

until Melissa could no longer

just called me here to admire my beauty? Sorry,

is the project

Melissa's comments, Amanda finally opened her

Has something come

"No."

her head, prompting Melissa's brows

Don't tell me you asked me to come here to find out about how the

she rested her cheek on her right

know phones exist,

"It's not that."

small barrier appeared, enveloping the two

"What are you doing?"

the barrier that was slowly forming around

a reaction. She

the previous comments about you being into

"Here."

tablet resting on

mid-air, the video soon began

multiple different scenarios

all those scenarios, there was a common thing: a middle-aged

last video, where the middle-aged man hugged a

took her

perhaps looking for a partner to

"No, look carefully."

towards the middle-aged man playing with the

"That's Ren."

"..."

moment, silence

and closing her mouth multiple times,

was dumbstruck by Amanda's sudden

was until her

it? Has all the work you've been doing finally fried

"It has not."

Amanda calmly replied.

Melissa snorted in response.

Ren has now

"I have proof."

"Proof?"

stopped and

small

then twisted it and slid the drawer back. After taking out a couple of files,

"Here."

"What's this?"

with a confused look on her face, Melissa

her gaze

profiles of the people

"Mhm, they're Ren's parents."

of her head, Melissa tapped on the names

from their names, and the fact that his father looks

this as

another paper in

paper was a detailed profile of the middle-aged man who

investigation, that man in the video has long disappeared ten years ago. This was the first time in ten years that he has

"..."

Melissa carefully looked through it

Amanda was unable to read her expression. Instead, she seemed to be lost

couple of minutes had

sure are you about

"Very sure."

Amanda replied.

her guild, this kind of investigation was a piece of

had information on Ren's parents due to having done a background check on them prior to

better idea of who the people

another note, Nola's recent behaviour had given Amanda another reason to believe that the man in the video

"I see..."

underneath her

up straight and tapping her finger on

you tell me? Aren't you a little too trusting

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