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.

being targeted, to how the demon seemed

let's

words faded,

***

sat on her desk and completed her

grown accustomed to over the

Board member

nameplate reflected the sunlight coming from the window behind

—Knock! —Knock!

A knocking sound sounded.

"Come in."

her

"You called for me?"

long light brown

It was Melissa.

did you

looked around the neatly organized office. It was

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

"..."

stack of papers down, Amanda wordlessly stared at

a couple of seconds until Melissa could no longer take it and

me here to admire my beauty? Sorry,

is the

comments, Amanda finally opened her mouth

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

"No."

shook her head, prompting Melissa's

call me? Don't tell me you asked me to come here to find out about how the project is going,

grumbled as she rested her cheek on her

do know

"It's not that."

barrier

"What are you doing?"

the barrier that was slowly forming

show much of a reaction. She knew Amanda

I was joking about the

"Here."

tapping onto a small tablet resting on her desk,

mid-air, the video

began playing, multiple different

those scenarios, there was a common thing: a middle-aged man

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

she took her eyes away from the video

this? Are you perhaps looking for a partner to look at

"No, look carefully."

man playing with the

"That's Ren."

"..."

brief moment,

times, Melissa didn't know

dumbstruck by

until her face suddenly twisted

lost it? Has all the work you've been

"It has not."

Amanda calmly replied.

Melissa snorted in response.

me that Ren has now

"I have proof."

"Proof?"

and

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

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

"Here."

"What's this?"

look on her face,

asked after a while, alternating her

profiles of

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

of her head, Melissa tapped

looks similar to him...but this isn't

at this as

another paper

detailed profile of the

years ago. This was the first time in ten years

"..."

paper, Melissa carefully looked through it without

to her, Amanda was unable to read her expression. Instead,

was only after a couple of minutes had passed that Melissa finally

are

"Very sure."

Amanda replied.

kind of investigation was a piece

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

get a better idea of who the people they

reason to believe that the man in the video was Ren

"I see..."

underneath

her finger on the armrest of

did you tell me? Aren't you a little

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