The Author's POV

"Wow."

Standing on top of a hill, my mouth opened in amazement. The scenery I've only seen in movies and paintings was currently presented before me.

It was a lot more mesmerizing than I had ever imagined.

I could barely take my eyes away from the sight.

The mountain range revealed nature clearer than anywhere I had ever seen before.

The slight chill in the air was enough to give me a gentle shiver but not enough to find the need to cover up.

Staring into the distance, the gentle breeze coming down from the mountains tickled the trees, making their leaves shake and sway as though they were laughing.

"Is that where we're supposed to go."

Leopold asked as he pointed at the mountain range in the distance.

"It is indeed the place."

Giving a small nod, I replied.

"That over there is Henolur, the dwarven capital, and our destination."

Traversing a thousand kilometres over these past few months, we were finally close to reaching our destination.

Just like usual, we encountered a few beasts during our journey, but in general, nothing out of the norm that would result in our trip being delayed occurred.

The only noticeable delay in our journey was the Monolith incident, but it was now over.

"Huaam, I guess we can finally have a proper night sleep."

Leopold yawned and packed up the camping equipment beside him.

Turning my head, I wryly smiled.

"...not so sure about that."

"What?"

"It'll depend on our luck."

Although Henolur was generally safe and did not block humans from entering the place, that didn't mean that it was completely safe.

It was best to stay alert at all times.

"...seriously? And here I wanted to finally rest."

"Tell me about it."

Constantly watching our backs due to the threat of beasts, apart from Ryan, almost everyone here was running low on sleep.

"Ren!"

"Yes?"

Holding onto a small tablet, Ryan suddenly ran up to me.

"I've found it. I've found the entrance of the place."

"That fast?"

Because the mountain range was massive, finding the exact location of Henolur was a lot harder than originally anticipated.

Fortunately, I had Ryan with me, who could use his drones and equipment to look for the place.

Shoving the tablet in front of my face, Ryan excitedly pinched the screen and pointed towards a specific area in the mountains.

"Yes, check over here. Doesn't this look like a statue?"

"It sure does."

Because the drone was so high up in the sky, to avoid the dwarves detection, I wasn't able to see too much.

However, from what I could make out, by the side of one of the mountain ranges in the distance, there seemed to be some sort of artificial monument.

Sort of like a statue.

eyes away from the tablet, I patted Ryan's

"Good job."

"Hehehe."

prompting a smile to appear

guess he's a child at

a genius and acted mature at times,

and he became

up; we're

we had arrived at

***

At the same time.

not so far

seeped past the thick canopy of branches, revealing the figures of

elves shared similar features, with fair skin, pointy ears, and stunning faces. However, there

Their hair.

of the elve's hair instead of being pure gold, though faint, had a mix of silver

regal aura spread from

we do? Should

golden-haired elf

can't go

of

"Correct."

starting to

between each bordered lengthened and the general

races, this was a sign that the demons

such, the two elves that had been spying on the

...at least for now.

should we do now? Should we

"Mhm."

turned around

leave sooner or later. We might meet them

***

Henolur, the massive stone gates of the city that were attached to the side of the rocky mountains soon appeared

several statues depicting dwarves holding onto massive

who standing below

was looking at the scenery from the drone, it was only now that I was close that I truly

It was massive.

gates of Henolur, an earthy and sulfur-like scent invaded my nostrils,

"Uek!"

only that didn't like the smell as

used

capital of

fact, it was also the only city that existed in the

lived on the earth's surface, dwarves

boiled down to the fact that the temperature was

tremendous heat coming from the earth's centre, the dwarves were able to smelt the ores faster and

originated from the natural gasses found in

front

tapped on my right

Turning around I reassured.

"Yup, don't worry."

I've said before, the three races prejudice against humanity had

out of the question,

ring form, there was

much the strongest of the group, and even then, I was

not like we're

as he smacked the palm

spent

"That's right."

space were multiple different ores

so that

the crazy amount of metal that they went through each day to craft an artifact, ores were definitely

as we came to trade with

I looked back and warned

me.

"Okay."

unison, prompting me to smile in

"Great."

the massive gate, I spotted a group of small burly creatures holding onto large metallic barrels standing beside the

'Are those guns?'

stared at the barrels

sure looked