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.

he was the one being targeted, to how the demon

indeed strange; let's observe a

words faded, the two figures

***

Amanda sat on her desk and

boring route that she had grown accustomed to over the last year or so in her new position in the

Hunter guild, Board member -

sunlight coming from

—Knock! —Knock!

A knocking sound sounded.

"Come in."

opened her

"You called for me?"

girl with long light brown hair and

It was Melissa.

did you call me for,

asked as she looked around the neatly organized office.

crossed her legs and

"..."

of papers down, Amanda wordlessly stared

seconds until Melissa could no longer take it and mouthed in

here to admire my beauty? Sorry, but I'm not really

the

Amanda finally opened

Has

"No."

prompting Melissa's brows

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

she rested her

do know phones exist,

"It's not that."

barrier appeared, enveloping

"What are you doing?"

at the barrier that was slowly

a reaction. She

I was joking about the previous comments about

"Here."

Melissa, tapping onto a small tablet resting on her

mid-air, the video soon

the video began playing, multiple different

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

the last video, where the middle-aged man

took her eyes away

a partner

"No, look carefully."

middle-aged man playing with the girl in

"That's Ren."

"..."

brief moment, silence

closing her mouth multiple times, Melissa didn't know

by Amanda's

was until her face

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

"It has not."

Amanda calmly replied.

Melissa snorted in response.

that Ren has now become some weird

"I have proof."

"Proof?"

and raised

her head and taking out a small

drawer back. After taking

"Here."

"What's this?"

look on her

alternating her gaze between the

of the people

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

head, Melissa tapped on the names of the

that his father looks similar

this as

slid another paper in

was a detailed profile of the middle-aged man who visited them in the

ten years ago. This was the first time

"..."

paper, Melissa carefully looked through it

unable to read her expression. Instead, she seemed to

after a couple of minutes had passed that Melissa finally opened her

are

"Very sure."

Amanda replied.

this kind of investigation was a piece of

on them prior to when they first

a better idea of who the people they were protecting

note, Nola's recent behaviour had given Amanda another reason to

"I see..."

muttered underneath

her finger on the armrest

what you said is true; why did you tell me? Aren't you a little too

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255