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…'

the moment he

his cell, the area was far more secure, with thousands of different demons patrolling the area. They all

to be

could only shudder at

It's fine… I can do

calculations. Scanning around, his eyes paused

ripe yet and

eavesdrop on the conversations that were taking place

better idea of how the system over here worked,

knew that none of them were going to be kept there for long as he'd see

heard was rather useless, but that didn't concern him

was prepared to make

some demonic energy covering me, so I should be

the demonic energy that surrounded his body was still stable, he nodded

He was ready.

Tap.

his foot stepped into the area, he felt countless eyes

where Leopold was being held. He ignored

seems to be

there for a

on the spot. When he turned his head, he almost fell to

hard time keeping himself from passing out under

he wasn't dealing with just any regular demon but someone that seemed to be high up

"Y,yes?"

his composure

you

question. One which Ryan already

sector, and I need to meet one of the 'sources' that we've recently

Ryan picked up

he knew that the term

"Which one?"

demon, Ryan could only lower his head and point toward Leopold's

I recall, that's where a

cautiously nodded his

exactly where I need to

"Hmm, okay then."

quick to agree

you have work to do, I won't disturb you any further. When you go there, you can just tell them the reason why you're visiting, and

"Thank you."

Things would've been troublesome if

Thankfully, he didn't.

'Okay, this is good.'

Leopold resided, Ryan took a deep breath and

he moved, he touched his wrist and tapped on

***

him;

The commander said expressionlessly.

his gaze fixed on a

the moment that he appeared, he knew that he didn't belong

that the demonic energy that covered its body was rather faint was a great indicator that whoever this "demon" was, they were merely pretending to

right then and there was because

Their goal.