The Author's POV

[Day 5]

"Where's everyone?"

I was taken aback to discover that the lobby of the mercenary headquarters was completely deserted. At any given time, there would typically be at least one or two of the guys lounging about on the sofas.

"Guess everyone's busy."

I eventually shrugged my shoulders.

When I thought about the upcoming event, it made perfect sense. Indeed, I had given a significant amount of work to each of them.

Without much consideration, I made my way to Ryan's room. Among all the people present, he was most likely the only one who knew where the others were.

They were probably in the building, but the place was quite big, and since I needed to check up on Ryan, I decided to just ask him since he most probably had eyes on the entire place.

Clank—!

After making my way to Ryan's room and opening the door, I discovered Ryan hunched over with his back arched and his feet crossed on the chair as he was looking at more than fifty monitors in front of him.

Displayed on the monitors were the different areas of Ashton city.

"Oh, you're back."

Ryan was quickly made aware of my presence, and after giving me a passing glance, he returned his focus to the screens.

He most likely was aware that I was heading to him long ago and was just being casual about it.

I approached him and placed my hand on the chair he was sitting on.

"How's the situation?"

"They haven't made any movements yet. Not notable ones…at least."

"This is in Ashton city?"

"Yes, same for the other cities. Still no major movement."

"Okay."

I nodded my head, struggling to keep up with Ryan, who looked at all the monitors in front of him without any trouble.

In fact, every two seconds, the screens would switch and new areas would appear on the monitors.

While this happened, Ryan would write a couple of notes on a small book that rested next to his keyboard before switching the screens again.

He kept doing this for all the fifty screens in front of him, and my head started to throb at the sight.

"I'll leave you to it."

I gave the back of the chair a light pat before turning around. When I was on the verge of leaving, I suddenly recalled the purpose of my visit here and asked.

"By the way, do you have any idea where the others are? I didn't see anyone in the lob—"

"Training room."

Ryan responded before I could even finish my sentence. I pursed my lips and nodded my head.

"Alright, good luck with your job."

It appeared as though Ryan was too preoccupied with what he was doing. It was to the point where he did not care about me at all.

It didn't really bother me, as I knew his role in the upcoming war was going to be very important.

I had a lot of things planned out for the upcoming events, and Ryan was going to play a significant part in all of them.

'Well, everyone will.'

I had not chosen my members randomly. They were all selected with this event in mind, and it was time for me to finally bear the fruit of their nurturing.

Bang—!

I got closer to the training room, the first thing that I heard was a loud crashing sound, followed by what I took to

I'm

Bang—!

'What's going on here?'

the training room, I didn't know what to

opposite Hein and who was all beaten up and full of bruises,

who had a pack of gums in his hand

Go! Beat up

to be on my

"Oh, right."

know how to respond to

girl who sat at the

has this been going

last

and staring at the numerous

were also multiple cats and

sight surprised me, and I pointed at them. She answered before

that have not been

see…and how many

mana, which are currently

raising her head and

jumped up in

"A thousand? That many?"

to a couple hundred more, but that would

lowering her head and massaging

asked me to do and set up multiple stations around the city just like you've asked. I

"Perfect."

satisfaction. Ava's progress was a lot faster than I had expected. Everything so far was flowing in accordance

eyes and

the city, as well as Ava's network of animals scattered throughout the city, I had complete control over what was going on in

were on my side,

could escape my

keep up the good

of the training room. Just before leaving,

see Liam anywhere. Do you

side to look at me, then tapped on the face of her watch and shut her

roaming Ashton city. He's currently in the Northern district,

"Okay…"

'Well, there you go.'

able to

spread across my face,

background, I

the information network has been completely set up and I've got eyes on the entirety of

domain would all of a sudden face a catastrophe that

everything in place before handing over responsibility for the rest to

from that point on, I will begin the process of developing

reach a point where I could fight toe to

"Ren."

from the training room, the first thing I noticed was Angelica making

her face, and my face changed when

wrong? Did something

"No, not really."

Angelica shook her head.

hand, at which point a dark radiance emanated from her and covered her entire arm. I was

break through to

"Correct."

her head, retrieving her hand and lowering

for quite a while

found

"No."

head, a complicated look

that the demonic energy on earth

"Right…"

was the last planet that the demons had set foot on, and the demonic energy was at a drastically lower level than that of