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

is indeed strange; let's observe

words faded, the two figures

***

on

boring route that she had grown accustomed to over the last year or so

Hunter guild, Board

the sunlight coming from

—Knock! —Knock!

A knocking sound sounded.

"Come in."

her mouth, and the

"You called for me?"

long light brown hair and a pair of glasses entered

It was Melissa.

what did you call me

around the neatly

in front of Amanda, she crossed her

"..."

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

a couple of seconds until Melissa could

here to admire my beauty? Sorry, but

the

comments, Amanda finally opened her

well; why? Has something

"No."

shook her head, prompting Melissa's brows

asked me to come here to find out about how the

grumbled as she rested her cheek on her

do know

"It's not that."

her hand, a small barrier

"What are you doing?"

the barrier that was slowly forming around

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

about the previous comments

"Here."

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

the image mid-air, the video soon

began playing, multiple different scenarios started

all those scenarios, there was a common thing: a middle-aged man playing with a young

where the middle-aged man hugged a couple before

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

a partner

"No, look carefully."

towards the middle-aged man

"That's Ren."

"..."

a brief moment,

her mouth multiple times, Melissa

was dumbstruck by Amanda's sudden

her face suddenly

it? Has all the work you've been doing finally fried your brain

"It has not."

Amanda calmly replied.

Melissa snorted in response.

it has. So you are telling me that Ren has now

"I have proof."

"Proof?"

stopped and raised her

out a small key,

the drawer back. After taking

"Here."

"What's this?"

a confused look on her face,

while, alternating her gaze between the video

of the

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

the side of her head, Melissa tapped on the names of

I figured from their names, and the fact that his father looks similar to him...but this isn't nearly

this

paper

the

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

"..."

Melissa carefully looked

opposite to her, Amanda was unable to read her expression. Instead, she seemed to

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

sure are you about

"Very sure."

Amanda replied.

the power of her guild, this kind of investigation was

background check on them prior to

a better idea of who the people they were

Nola's recent behaviour had given Amanda another reason to believe that the man in the

"I see..."

underneath her

on

say what you said is true; why did you tell me? Aren't you

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