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

is indeed strange; let's

those words faded, the

***

like usual, Amanda sat on her

accustomed to over the last year or so in her

guild, Board

nameplate reflected the sunlight coming from the

—Knock! —Knock!

A knocking sound sounded.

"Come in."

her

"You called for me?"

light brown hair and a pair of glasses entered the

It was Melissa.

you call

asked as she looked around the neatly organized

of Amanda, she crossed her legs and propped her elbow on

"..."

papers down, Amanda wordlessly stared

until Melissa could no longer take

called me here to admire my beauty? Sorry,

is the

finally opened her

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

"No."

prompting Melissa's

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

her cheek on her right

know phones exist,

"It's not that."

a small barrier appeared, enveloping

"What are you doing?"

that

show much of a reaction. She knew Amanda well.

joking about the previous comments about you being into

"Here."

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

the image mid-air,

video began playing, multiple different

common thing: a

video, where the middle-aged man

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

this? Are you perhaps looking for a partner

"No, look carefully."

towards the middle-aged man playing with the girl in the

"That's Ren."

"..."

a brief moment, silence enveloped

and closing her mouth multiple times, Melissa didn't

dumbstruck by Amanda's sudden

her

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 some weird middle-aged man

"I have proof."

"Proof?"

and raised her

head and taking out a small key,

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

"Here."

"What's this?"

on her face, Melissa

while, alternating her gaze between the video and the

these the profiles of the

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

head, Melissa tapped on the

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

this

paper

the middle-aged man who visited them in

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

"..."

paper, Melissa carefully looked through

was unable to read her expression. Instead, she seemed

only after a couple of minutes had passed that

sure are

"Very sure."

Amanda replied.

guild, this kind of investigation

had information on Ren's parents due to having done a background check on them prior to when they first met and when Ren had

of who the people they were protecting

had given Amanda another reason to believe

"I see..."

muttered underneath

on the armrest of the sofa, she

say what you said is true; why did you tell me?

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