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.

how he was the one being targeted, to how the demon seemed to

indeed strange; let's observe

faded, the two figures

***

Amanda sat on her desk and completed

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

Hunter guild, Board

reflected the sunlight coming

—Knock! —Knock!

A knocking sound sounded.

"Come in."

opened her mouth, and the

"You called for me?"

a slim girl with long light brown hair and a pair of glasses

It was Melissa.

you

the

of Amanda, she crossed her

"..."

the stack of papers down, Amanda

Melissa could no longer take it and mouthed

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

is the

Amanda finally opened her mouth and

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

"No."

head, prompting Melissa's

you asked me to come here to find out about how the project is going,

grumbled as she rested her

do know phones

"It's not that."

small barrier appeared, enveloping the two

"What are you doing?"

looked at the barrier that was slowly forming

startled, she didn't show much of a reaction. She knew Amanda well. She wasn't one to

was joking about the previous comments about

"Here."

Melissa, tapping onto a small tablet resting on her desk, a holographic video soon popped

mid-air, the video

the video began playing, multiple different

all those scenarios, there was a common thing: a

where the

took her

looking for a partner to look at

"No, look carefully."

pointed towards the middle-aged man

"That's Ren."

"..."

moment, silence enveloped the

times, Melissa didn't know

dumbstruck by

until her face suddenly twisted

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

"It has not."

Amanda calmly replied.

Melissa snorted in response.

me that Ren has now become

"I have proof."

"Proof?"

and

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

back. After taking

"Here."

"What's this?"

the papers with a confused look on her face, Melissa slowly read

after a while, alternating her gaze between the video and

profiles of the people in

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

Melissa tapped on the

looks similar to him...but this isn't nearly enough to prove that

this

slid another paper

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

has long disappeared ten years ago.

"..."

Melissa carefully looked through

unable to read her expression. Instead, she

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

sure are

"Very sure."

Amanda replied.

this kind of investigation

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

better idea of who the

recent behaviour had given Amanda another reason to believe that the man in the

"I see..."

muttered underneath her

and tapping her finger on the armrest of

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

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