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.

Amanda's father being gone for as long as he was, it was inevitable for news to spread about

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

downfall of the Demon Hunter guild would lead to

but for

father trapped

"No."

me shook

and drew a large square,

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

"Right..."

I nodded my head.

clan, Sloth clan, Wrath

Ren continued.

don't

"Yeah."

was as he

working together, the clans weren't on friendly terms. In fact, their relationship was quite complex as

a couple of them during my training in the

their fear of the Demon King, they would've long had started a

show how powerful Jezebeth reign

the other me

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

paused and looked at

"Do you get it?"

over his words. It was

the clan

perhaps forget to mention

that didn't seem to be the case as he shook his

didn't forget. The Envy clan is not in an alliance for one simple reason, and it's because they are the strongest and

the stick, he pointed it towards the biggest block which was located at the bottom right corner of the

as they have the most number of Duke-ranked demons alongside Marquiss-ranked

raised the stick and pointed it toward two smaller blocks that bordered

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

listened, the more everything started to make

and the Sloth clan both bordered the Greed and Wrath clan, resulting in minor skirmishes arising between the two, hence their

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

course, this wasn't the only reason for their conflict, but it played

the goal in targeting

located there

me answered. But

could've

"Oh?"

raised my

been any other

"Yeah."

"I see..."

started to

just learned, an idea started to formulate inside

while,

is

the Pride

"I see…"

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

long sigh escaped from my

"As expected of myself…"

stood up and gazed

what you want me to do to.

smile on his face, the other me stood

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

***

The next day.

"Finally found them."

distance, I stood atop

away from me. Their strength wasn't anything worth looking at, but that wasn't the reason why

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

for their weak spots, and

heard a voice coming from next

of pure concentration, I heeded his words and did exactly as he said and reduced the mana that I had gathered