The Author's POV

Standing at the top of a small cliff, I looked at the pale red sky.

A pungent and chemical-like smell lingered in the air, prompting my nose to momentarily close up.

"Two more months, huh?"

With four months gone, there were only two months left for me in this place.

Actually, if possible, I preferred to go back earlier.

Surprisingly the Demon realm wasn't that much different compared to earth. Aside from the terrible smell, and the fact that the place was filled with demonic energy which made it harder for me to recover my mana, everything else was pretty much normal.

The landscapes, the time difference, and the gravity. It was pretty much the same as that of earth which surprised me quite a bit.

Ah, right, this place also had only one sun.

Lowering my head, I covered my mouth.

"Huaam, I'm tired."

During these four months, I didn't only just train, but I also spent the time sorting out the thoughts inside of my head.

It took me quite a bit, but I had pretty much come to terms with everything that had happened.

Despite the fact that I wanted to reject everything that I had learned with all my heart, I knew that it wouldn't do me any good.

And thus.

I decided to stop caring. Or should I say, I decided to move on and focus everything on getting stronger.

If the figure inside of my head was none other than my future self, then I decided to stop at nothing to stop that future.

That said.

Squatting down a little, I squinted my eyes and gazed into the distance.

"Looks like they've finally made their move…"

"Indeed."

Before I knew it, my other self had appeared next to me as he similarly looked into the distance.

"The greed clan have finally started to make their move against you."

"Figured as much."

With everything that I had done over the past couple of days, I wasn't surprised by this development.

Rather, I was in fact more shocked by how slow they were.

Sitting back down on the ground, I looked up at the sky.

"Hey, what exactly were you planning when you had me provoke the greed clan."

Knowing myself well, I knew that my other self had other plans in mind when telling me to destroy a series of sub-branches.

The real question was why would he want to do that?

"Weren't you looking for a way to save Amanda's father?"

Unexpectedly, I received an answer to my question. What surprised me the most was the contents of his words.

I instantly sat up straight.

"Wait, do you have an idea of where he is?"

There were three goals I had in mind when entering the demon realm.

Of those three goals, one of them was finding Amanda's father.

Over the last few months, although Amanda had tried to hide it as much as possible, I could tell that she was incredibly exhausted.

And not only that, the guild didn't seem to be faring well lately.

It had gotten to the point where Natasha had decided to come back and take the reigns of the situation. Not that she was of much help, but it still did relieve Amanda of her stress.

That said.

he was, it was inevitable for news to spread about

this, I was afraid that something terrible would happen to the Demons Hunter guild, and I simply couldn't allow for that to

the Demon Hunter guild

for me but for the human

trapped in the

"No."

other me

drew a large square, and divided it into seven

not in any shape or form accurate, as you already know,

"Right..."

I nodded my head.

Greed clan, Sloth clan, Wrath clan, Gluttony

Ren continued.

should also know that the clans don't

"Yeah."

was as

friendly terms. In fact, their relationship was quite complex as there were a lot of hidden

couple of them during my training in the demon

for their fear of the Demon King, they

to show how powerful Jezebeth reign

the meantime, the other me

the clans. The lust clan and the sloth clan, the greed clan and the wrath clan, the pride clan and gluttony clan.

and looked at

"Do you get it?"

chin, I pondered over his words. It was then that

the clan

perhaps forget to mention

be the case as he

in an alliance for one simple reason, and

biggest block which was located at the bottom right

clans, they are the strongest and scariest as they have the most number of Duke-ranked demons alongside Marquiss-ranked

and pointed it toward two

are the clan of Wrath and Greed. As they both border the Envy clan,

I listened, the more everything started to make sense

The Lust clan and the Sloth clan both bordered the Greed and Wrath clan, resulting in minor skirmishes arising between

same could be said for the Pride clan and the Gluttony clan as

conflict, but it played a major

so what's the goal in targeting

father located there or

stick down, the other me answered. But his

particular, it could've been any

"Oh?"

raised my brow and

could've been any

"Yeah."

"I see..."

started

the information I had just learned, an idea started to

while, I

is

in the Pride

"I see…"

to become clearer. It wasn't long before I finally understood what the other

sigh escaped

"As expected of myself…"

and gazed into the

of what you want

a smile on his face, the

like you've caught on. You have four days, better

***

The next day.

"Finally found them."

demons in the distance, I stood atop a large boulder that was the size

hundred meters away from me. Their strength wasn't anything worth looking

sure they were indeed the demons I was looking for, I stood up, and channeled the mana inside

their weak spots,

heard a voice coming from next

and did exactly as he said and reduced the mana that I