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

indeed strange; let's

words faded,

***

sat on her desk and

had grown accustomed to over the last year or so in her new position in

Board member

coming from the window behind

—Knock! —Knock!

A knocking sound sounded.

"Come in."

her head, Amanda opened her mouth,

"You called for me?"

light

It was Melissa.

what did you

she looked around the neatly organized office. It was

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

"..."

stack of papers down, Amanda

couple of seconds until Melissa could no longer take it

admire my beauty? Sorry,

is the

Melissa's comments, Amanda finally

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

"No."

her head, prompting Melissa's brows to

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

grumbled as she rested her cheek on

do know

"It's not that."

her hand, a small barrier appeared, enveloping

"What are you doing?"

the barrier that was slowly

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

I was joking about the previous comments about

"Here."

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

the image mid-air, the

playing, multiple

thing: a middle-aged

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

took her eyes away from the

looking for a partner to

"No, look carefully."

the middle-aged man playing with the girl in the

"That's Ren."

"..."

brief moment, silence enveloped

multiple times,

by

her face

you completely lost it? Has all the work you've been doing finally fried

"It has not."

Amanda calmly replied.

Melissa snorted in response.

that Ren has now become some weird middle-aged man

"I have proof."

"Proof?"

stopped and raised her

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

slid the drawer back. After taking out a couple

"Here."

"What's this?"

confused look on her face, Melissa slowly read

her gaze between the video

these the profiles of the

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

the side of her head, Melissa tapped on

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

at this as

slid another paper

that paper was a detailed profile of the middle-aged man

investigation, that man in the video has long disappeared ten years

"..."

carefully looked through it without

her expression. Instead,

was only after a couple of minutes

sure are you about

"Very sure."

Amanda replied.

kind of investigation

background check on them prior to when they first met and when Ren

of who the people they were protecting

behaviour had given Amanda another reason to believe

"I see..."

muttered underneath her

on the armrest of

you tell me? Aren't you a little

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