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.

the one being targeted, to how the demon

indeed strange; let's observe a

words faded, the two figures

***

Amanda sat on her

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

Board member -

reflected the sunlight coming from the window behind

—Knock! —Knock!

A knocking sound sounded.

"Come in."

opened her mouth, and the

"You called for me?"

light brown hair and a pair of glasses entered

It was Melissa.

you

the neatly organized office. It

the sofa in front of Amanda, she crossed her

"..."

the stack of papers down, Amanda wordlessly

until Melissa could no longer

just called me here to admire my beauty? Sorry, but

the

comments, Amanda finally opened her

project? It's going well; why? Has something come up

"No."

prompting Melissa's brows

you asked me to come here to find out about how the

rested her cheek on her

know phones

"It's not that."

hand, a small barrier

"What are you doing?"

looked at the barrier that was slowly forming

of a reaction. She knew Amanda well.

joking about the previous comments about

"Here."

a small tablet resting on

onto the image mid-air, the video

video began playing, multiple different

common thing: a

last video, where

could be felt in Melissa's voice as she took her eyes away from

this? Are you perhaps looking for a partner to look

"No, look carefully."

pointed towards the middle-aged man playing with the girl

"That's Ren."

"..."

a brief moment,

her mouth multiple times, Melissa didn't know what

by

her face

Has all the work you've been doing finally

"It has not."

Amanda calmly replied.

Melissa snorted in response.

that Ren has now become some weird

"I have proof."

"Proof?"

stopped and

taking out a small key, Amanda inserted the key inside her

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

"Here."

"What's this?"

a confused look on her

her gaze between the video and the

the profiles of the people in the

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

Melissa tapped on the names of the

and the fact that his father looks similar to him...but this isn't nearly enough to

at this

another paper

a detailed profile of the middle-aged man

man in the video has long disappeared ten years ago. This was the first time in ten

"..."

the paper, Melissa carefully looked

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

of minutes had passed that

sure are

"Very sure."

Amanda replied.

this kind of investigation was a

a background check on them prior

a better idea of who the people

recent behaviour had given Amanda another reason to believe that the

"I see..."

muttered underneath

finger on the armrest of the sofa,

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

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