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.

from the tablet, I patted

"Good job."

"Hehehe."

compliment, prompting a smile to appear on

a child

Ryan was a genius and acted mature at times, he was

praise and he became so

pack up;

arrived at the

***

At the same time.

not so far from

past the thick canopy of branches,

skin, pointy ears, and stunning faces. However, there

Their hair.

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

almost regal aura spread from that elve's

should we do?

golden-haired

can't go

because of

"Correct."

demons were starting to make their

bordered lengthened and the general rank of each force

the three races, this was a sign that the demons were preparing

that had been spying on the humans for the past week could no longer continue their

...at least for now.

what should we do now?

"Mhm."

elf turned

bound to leave sooner or later. We might meet them again

***

that were attached to the side of the rocky mountains soon

at least several statues

made me, who standing below them,

to when I was looking at the scenery from the drone, it was only now

It was massive.

scent invaded my nostrils, prompting my brows to

"Uek!"

seems like I wasn't the only that didn't like the smell as Ryan grimaced and pinched his

get used to

was the capital of the dwarven

also the only

other races that lived on the earth's surface, dwarves lived

end, it all boiled down to the fact that the temperature

the earth's centre, the dwarves were able to smelt the ores faster

smell probably originated from the natural gasses

going through the front is the best way to get

tapped

Turning around I reassured.

"Yup, don't worry."

before, the three races prejudice against humanity

the question, plus, we weren't

in her ring form, there was no real need for them to

mean, I was pretty much the strongest of the group, and even

it's not like we're

look of realization dawned on Smallsnake as he smacked the

why you spent

"That's right."

multiple different ores that I had repurchased in the

I bought them was so that I could trade them

crazy amount of metal that they went through each day to craft an artifact,

long as we came to trade with them, we

I looked back

me.

"Okay."

nodded their heads in unison, prompting me to smile in

"Great."

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

'Are those guns?'

stared at

sure looked like