The Author's POV

The internal structure of the underground cavern was massive. Ryan couldn't count the handful of times he had taken the wrong path and headed toward a dead end.

It was starting to get to him.

"Not this one either."

Staring at probably what seemed to be like the tenth dead end, Ryan sighed in frustration and glanced at his phone.

There was a single red dot displayed on the screen, and that was where Ryan was currently headed to.

That was where Leopold was being held, and while he knew the exact direction of where he was, finding him was starting to prove to be a more difficult task than he had anticipated.

In a maze, just knowing where someone was, wasn't enough.

'If only he was somewhere more open.'

The fact that he was inside a massive underground network made it hard for Ryan to find the correct path, but he wasn't completely hopeless.

When he reached a new one, his phone would trace his steps so that he could see exactly where he was going and the places he had been in the past. Although he did run into a lot of dead ends, this helped him stay on track and stopped him from going to the same places twice.

He was steadily making progress, but still...

"Ugh."

Ryan groaned out loud.

'This is so frustrating.'

Time was of the essence, and he was wasting a lot of time finding the right path.

When he looked at his body, the demonic energy that had been encircling him had practically disappeared, and he no longer felt like a demon.

If he were to meet a demon, he'd instantly be found out.

'How annoying.'

The situation was anything but pleasant.

Despite that, Ryan could only grit his teeth and take out another demon core. This one belonged to the second demon he killed.

Crack!

Crushing it in the palm of his hand, he repeated the process from before and once again trekked on.

'No point in complaining… If I don't hurry up, things might turn for the worst. I need to hurry up.'

*

'Bingo.'

Ryan didn't know for how long he had walked, but after a couple more dead ends, he finally found the correct route, and he was shortly exposed to a large opening that was filled with thousands of metallic doors.

He was still quite a distance away from it, but he was able to see everything properly with the aid of a certain device.

'Well… shit…'

moment he noticed

thousands of different demons patrolling the area. They all emitted intimidating auras, and Ryan knew that even Leopold

he were to be

only shudder at

It's fine… I can

already thought things through before, and what he was seeing was within his calculations. Scanning around, his eyes paused on a certain door in the distance, and taking

that the time was ripe yet and remained where

eavesdrop on the conversations that were taking place and to assimilate all of the information that he was learning

extremely useful as he started to get a better idea of how the system

gathering prisoners, he knew that none of them were going to be kept there for

useless, but that didn't

prepared to

demonic energy covering me, so

was still

He was ready.

Tap.

into the area, he felt countless eyes fall on him, and his entire back was

toward where Leopold was being held. He ignored

seems to be

there for

When he turned his head, he almost fell

had a hard time keeping himself from passing out

with just any regular demon but someone that seemed to be high up

"Y,yes?"

his composure almost

you doing

which Ryan already

need to meet one of the

up while

knew that the term referred to those that were

"Which one?"

scrutinizing gaze of the demon, Ryan could only lower his head

where a human resides. Is

Ryan cautiously nodded his head, trying not to seem too

where

"Hmm, okay then."

quick to agree and

further. When you go there, you can just tell them the reason why you're visiting, and they'll

"Thank you."

that things went so smoothly. Things would've been troublesome if the demon

Thankfully, he didn't.

'Okay, this is good.'

where Leopold resided, Ryan took

he moved, he touched his

***

on him; don't

The commander said expressionlessly.

his head, his gaze fixed on

appeared, he knew that he

energy that covered its body was

stopped the demon right then and

Their goal.