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…'

face fell the moment he noticed

the area. They

he were to be caught by

shudder at

fine… It's fine… I can do

Scanning around, his eyes paused on a certain door in the distance,

the time was ripe yet and remained where he was

the conversations that were taking place and to assimilate all of the information that he was learning from those around

started to get a better idea of

knew that none of them were going to

rest of what he heard was rather useless, but that didn't

prepared to make

covering me, so I should be

was still stable,

He was ready.

Tap.

moment his foot stepped into the area, he felt countless eyes fall

to move toward where Leopold

to

there for a

thoughts, and Ryan's body froze on the spot. When he turned his head, he almost fell to his knees. Towering over him was a large demon with a bulky build and a

Ryan had a hard time keeping himself from passing out under his

that moment that he wasn't dealing with just any regular demon but someone that seemed to

"Y,yes?"

his composure almost

you doing over

One which Ryan already had an

I need to meet

was one of the terminologies that Ryan picked up while listening in

the term referred to those

"Which one?"

of the demon, Ryan could only

that's where a human resides. Is that

his head,

that's exactly where I need to

"Hmm, okay then."

the demon was quick to agree and stepped to the

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

"Thank you."

relieved that things went so smoothly. Things would've

Thankfully, he didn't.

'Okay, this is good.'

his gaze over the door where Leopold resided, Ryan took a

same time he moved, he touched his wrist and tapped on it

***

an eye on him;

The commander said expressionlessly.

he turned his head, his gaze fixed on a 'demon' moving

moment that he appeared, he knew

fact that the demonic energy that covered its body was rather faint was a great indicator

and there was because he wanted

Their goal.