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.

being gone for as long as he was, it was inevitable for news to spread about this, resulting

happen to the Demons Hunter guild,

of the Demon Hunter guild would lead to

me but for the human

father trapped in

"No."

other me shook

he lowered his body and drew a large square, and divided it into

the fact that the demon world is not squared and that this is not in any shape or form accurate, as you already know, there are seven clans in the demon

"Right..."

I nodded my head.

Greed clan, Sloth clan, Wrath clan, Gluttony clan, Pride

Ren continued.

know that the clans don't get along with each other

"Yeah."

as

weren't on friendly terms. In fact, their relationship was quite complex as there were

of them during my

King, they

show how powerful Jezebeth reign

the

sloth clan, the greed clan and the wrath clan, the pride clan and gluttony clan.

paused and

"Do you get it?"

pondered over his words. It was

the clan of

perhaps forget to mention

didn't seem to be the case as he

in an alliance for one simple

which

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

then raised the stick and pointed it toward two

over here are the clan of Wrath and Greed. As they both border the Envy clan, they have no choice

more I listened, the more everything started to

to their bordering lands. The Lust clan and the Sloth clan both bordered the Greed and Wrath clan, resulting in minor

could be said for the Pride clan and the Gluttony clan as they bordered the

only reason for their conflict, but it played a major part in it.

goal

father located there or

other me answered. But his answer was

in particular, it could've been any

"Oh?"

my brow and

could've been any other

"Yeah."

"I see..."

mind started

all the information I had just learned, an idea started to

while, I

exactly is Amanda's

in the

"I see…"

mind was starting to become clearer. It wasn't long before I

sigh escaped from

"As expected of myself…"

up and

of what you want me to do

face,

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

***

The next day.

"Finally found them."

in the distance, I stood atop a large boulder that

me. Their strength

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

their weak spots, and don't go all

voice coming

and did exactly as he said and