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.

targeted, to how

strange; let's observe a little

those words faded, the two

***

sat on her desk and

was a boring route that she had grown accustomed to over the last

Hunter guild, Board member -

the sunlight coming

—Knock! —Knock!

A knocking sound sounded.

"Come in."

opened her mouth, and the door

"You called for me?"

entering the room, a slim girl with long light brown hair

It was Melissa.

what did you call me

as she looked around the neatly organized

sitting on the sofa in front of Amanda, she crossed her legs

"..."

stack of papers down, Amanda wordlessly

couple of seconds until Melissa could no longer take it and

my beauty? Sorry, but I'm not

the project

finally opened her mouth and

Has something

"No."

her head, prompting Melissa's

asked me to come here to find out about how the

grumbled as she rested her cheek on

do know phones exist,

"It's not that."

hand, a small barrier appeared, enveloping the two of

"What are you doing?"

barrier that was

a reaction. She knew Amanda

about the previous comments about you being into

"Here."

onto a small tablet resting on her desk, a holographic video

the image mid-air, the

video began playing, multiple different

was a common thing: a

video, where the middle-aged man hugged

she took her eyes away

perhaps looking for a partner to look at dramas with

"No, look carefully."

middle-aged man playing with

"That's Ren."

"..."

a brief moment, silence enveloped

mouth multiple times, Melissa didn't know what to

dumbstruck by Amanda's

was until her face

Has all the work you've been doing finally fried your brain

"It has not."

Amanda calmly replied.

Melissa snorted in response.

has. So you are telling me that Ren has now become some weird middle-aged man that plays with

"I have proof."

"Proof?"

and

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

taking out a couple of files,

"Here."

"What's this?"

confused look on

a while, alternating her

of the

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

her head, Melissa tapped on the

figured from their names, and the fact that his father looks similar to him...but this

at this

paper in

the middle-aged man who visited them in the

disappeared ten years ago.

"..."

carefully looked through it

to read her expression. Instead, she seemed to be

of minutes had passed that Melissa

sure are you

"Very sure."

Amanda replied.

of her guild, this kind of investigation was

background check on them prior to when they first

a better idea of who the people they were

another reason to believe that

"I see..."

muttered underneath her

straight and tapping her finger on the armrest of the

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

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