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 seemed to be following his

strange; let's observe a

faded, the two

***

like usual, Amanda sat on her desk and completed her

boring route that she had grown accustomed to over the last

guild, Board member

nameplate reflected the sunlight coming from the

—Knock! —Knock!

A knocking sound sounded.

"Come in."

her head, Amanda opened her mouth,

"You called for me?"

room, a slim girl with long light

It was Melissa.

what did you call me for,

around the neatly organized office. It was

crossed her legs and propped her elbow on the sidearm

"..."

papers down, Amanda wordlessly stared at Melissa, sitting opposite

seconds until Melissa could no longer take

just called me here to admire my beauty? Sorry, but I'm not really into

the

Melissa's comments, Amanda finally opened

It's going well; why? Has something

"No."

prompting Melissa's brows to

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

as she rested her

do know

"It's not that."

small barrier appeared, enveloping

"What are you doing?"

that was slowly forming

she didn't show much of a reaction. She knew

joking about the

"Here."

a small tablet resting on her desk, a holographic

image mid-air, the video soon began

video began playing, multiple different scenarios

a common thing: a middle-aged man playing with a young

the last video, where the middle-aged man hugged a

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

perhaps looking for a

"No, look carefully."

towards the middle-aged man playing with the

"That's Ren."

"..."

moment, silence enveloped

multiple times, Melissa didn't know what to

by

until her

Has all the work you've been

"It has not."

Amanda calmly replied.

Melissa snorted in response.

me that Ren has now become some weird middle-aged man that

"I have proof."

"Proof?"

and raised her

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

drawer back. After taking out a couple of files, she

"Here."

"What's this?"

papers with a confused look on her face,

alternating her

profiles of the people in the

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

head, Melissa tapped on the names

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

this as

paper

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

that man in the video has long disappeared ten years ago. This

"..."

paper, Melissa carefully

her expression. Instead, she seemed

after a couple of minutes had passed that Melissa finally opened

are you about

"Very sure."

Amanda replied.

her guild, this kind of investigation

check on them prior to when they first

idea of

to believe that

"I see..."

muttered underneath

on the

you said is true; why did you tell me?

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