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 to be following

strange; let's observe a little

those words faded, the two figures

***

sat on her desk and completed her

route that she had grown accustomed to over the last year

Board member

coming from the window behind

—Knock! —Knock!

A knocking sound sounded.

"Come in."

Amanda opened her

"You called for me?"

long light brown hair and a pair of glasses entered the

It was Melissa.

what did you call me

as she looked around the

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

"..."

stack of papers down, Amanda wordlessly stared

continued for a couple of seconds until Melissa

me here to admire my beauty? Sorry,

the project

Melissa's comments, Amanda finally opened

project? It's going well; why? Has

"No."

her head, prompting

me to come here to find out

her cheek on her

do know phones exist,

"It's not that."

hand, a small barrier

"What are you doing?"

the barrier that was slowly forming

She knew Amanda well. She wasn't

I was joking about the previous comments about

"Here."

tablet resting on her desk, a

onto the image mid-air, the video soon began

began playing, multiple different scenarios started

there was a common thing: a middle-aged man playing with

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

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

Are you perhaps looking for a partner to look at dramas

"No, look carefully."

the middle-aged man playing with the girl

"That's Ren."

"..."

a brief moment,

her mouth multiple times, Melissa didn't know what

by

her face

work you've been doing finally fried your brain

"It has not."

Amanda calmly replied.

Melissa snorted in response.

has

"I have proof."

"Proof?"

stopped and

out a small

the drawer back. After taking out a

"Here."

"What's this?"

confused look on her face, Melissa slowly

a while, alternating her

profiles of the people in

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

the side of her head, Melissa tapped

their names, and the fact that his father looks

at this as

another paper in

profile of the middle-aged

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

"..."

carefully looked through it without

unable to read her expression. Instead, she seemed to be

a couple of minutes

sure are

"Very sure."

Amanda replied.

of investigation was a piece

due to having done a background check on them prior to when they first met and

idea of

reason to believe that the

"I see..."

muttered underneath her

straight and tapping her finger on the armrest of the

did you tell me? Aren't you a

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