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.

was the one being targeted, to how

strange; let's observe a little

words faded, the two

***

sat on her desk and completed

to over the last year or so in her new position

guild, Board member -

sunlight coming from

—Knock! —Knock!

A knocking sound sounded.

"Come in."

her

"You called for me?"

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

It was Melissa.

what did you call me for,

looked around the neatly organized office. It was

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

"..."

the stack of papers down, Amanda wordlessly stared at Melissa, sitting

Melissa could no

admire my beauty? Sorry, but

is the project

comments, Amanda finally opened her mouth

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

"No."

shook her head, prompting

asked me to come here to find

grumbled as she rested her cheek on her right

know phones exist,

"It's not that."

small barrier appeared, enveloping the two

"What are you doing?"

that was slowly forming around

She knew Amanda well. She

joking about the previous comments about you

"Here."

resting on her

onto the image mid-air, the video soon

multiple

a common thing: a middle-aged man

last video, where the middle-aged

took her eyes away

perhaps looking for a partner to look

"No, look carefully."

middle-aged man playing with the girl in

"That's Ren."

"..."

a brief moment, silence enveloped the

her mouth multiple times, Melissa didn't know

dumbstruck by Amanda's

until her face suddenly

work you've

"It has not."

Amanda calmly replied.

Melissa snorted in response.

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

"I have proof."

"Proof?"

and

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

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

"Here."

"What's this?"

confused look on her face, Melissa slowly read through

alternating her

these the profiles of

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

Melissa tapped on

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

at this

slid another paper in Melissa's

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

long disappeared ten years

"..."

carefully looked through it

expression. Instead, she seemed to

of minutes had passed that Melissa finally

sure are

"Very sure."

Amanda replied.

her guild, this kind of investigation was a piece of cake for

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 protect

get a better idea of who the

to believe that the man

"I see..."

underneath

tapping her finger on the armrest of

true; why did you tell me?

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