The Author's POV Chapter 475 Going Back [3]

Total people : Three.

Reward : [Demon King Ascension + 1 year.] [Minor realm rank up.] [Synchronisation + 15%]

Penalty : [Demon King Ascension - 1 year.]

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His eyes soon paused on a certain quest.

The quest was something new. It was something that had appeared at the exact moment when the crack in the sky appeared, and he got the message telling him that the Demon King was ascending over the next five years. Pa nda

Novel At first, he was shaken by the revelation, however, he was able to quickly calm down and think things through.

Since the message appeared the exact moment the crack in the sky appeared, he was fairly certain of the fact that the situation had to do with the Demon King.

Although he wasn't exactly sure about why exactly it happened, he knew that what was happening was definitely linked with the quest he got.

Perhaps, once he completed the quest he would finally know what exactly was happening to earth and come up with countermeasures for it.

Tucking his hand underneath his chin, Kevin muttered in thought.

"Hmmm, so I can bring two other people with me..."

Without needing to think much, Kevin already had an idea of who one of the people he would bring was.

It was Ren.

Who else but him? He was someone that already knew his secret. The secret about his system, and the fact that he could travel through different planets.

Furthermore, he was quite adept in these types of situations, and so, to Kevin, he was the most logical person to bring.

'But what about the other person?'

Crossing his arms, Kevin fell into thought.

However, regardless of how much he tried to think, he couldn't think of anyone else to bring.

TRIIING—! TRIIING—!

It was then that his phone suddenly rang.

Turning his head and glancing at the phone, Kevin found it to be Donna. He immediately picked it up.

"h.e.l.lo?"

***

A week later. Monday, 6 A.M.

Staring at the mirror and moving my hand across my head which was now filled with hair thanks to the aid of a potion, I let out a satisfied, almost proud smile.

"Much better."

Without constantly wearing the mask, my face felt a lot less stuffy.

Having broken through to rank the past week, my hair could grow back again, and thus I immediately took a hair growth potion before heading to the barber to cut my hair which had regrown.

"Ren are you ready? You are going to be late?"

It was at that moment that I heard my mother's voice coming from the other end of the living room.

Taking another look at myself in the mirror, and fixing my black t-s.h.i.+rt and tie, I shouted.

"Coming."

Just as I was about to leave, I grabbed onto a pair of black thin-framed gla.s.ses and put them on.

Today was the day I was finally going to go back to the Lock as a professor, and thus wanted to look presentable.

Although I wasn't wearing a suit, I thought that this was enough.

"Oh my, look at how handsome my boy became."

My mother exclaimed the moment she saw me.

Following this, she dashed in my direction and patted my body from waist to shoulders.

"Just look at how muscular you have become, mhh, oh dear, this is not good."

My mother's face suddenly became serious.

Noticing this, my brows knit, "What's wrong?"

"Well..."

Placing her hand underneath her chin, my mother had a troubled look on her face.

"What is it?"

I asked with a bit of worry.

Looking up at me, my mother sighed.

"...Ren, I'm just afraid that the girls you will be teaching will fall for you with how handsome you have become, and you are already twenty. I don't want you to become a cri—"

"Stop right there."

I immediately cut my mother off.

Placing both of my hands on her shoulders, I sighed.

"Mom, let's not go there, okay?"

"But..."

"No, buts. I'm not there to play around, I am there to do a job."

Actually, that was a bit of a lie.

Although I indeed had an important job to do, my main task was to observe people and see who to tempt into recruiting.

"Well, alright..."

"Okay."

Giving my mother a quick hug, before she could react, I immediately left the house and headed for the bottom floor.

Clank—!

Just as I managed to get out of the house, I suddenly heard the sound of the door closing next to me. Turning my head, my eyes met with Amanda's.

The moment our eyes met, Amanda's eyes looked up at me from top to bottom.

"Going somewhere?" She asked, closing the door behind her.

"Yup, I'm going to work."

I replied back.

"Work?"

With a curious look, Amanda headed my way.

Even though it was quite dark, from where I was standing I could see that she was currently wearing a nice black business outfit that matched her hair and eye color.

In her right hand was a coffee cup.

"Is it related to the mercenary group that you were talking about before?"

Amanda asked as she took a sip of her coffee. She soon walked past me.

"No."

I shook my head as I followed Amanda and walked alongside her.

"I'm going to be working at the Lock as an a.s.sistant professor for a while."

"Hm?"

Halting her footsteps, Amanda almost spilled her drink.

"Wow, watch it."

Fortunately, I was able to react in time and grabbed her cup.

Before I could ask her if she was okay, her head snapped in my direction.

"You are going back to the Lock as an a.s.sistant professor?"

Scratching the side of my neck, I slowly nodded my head.

"...Yeah."

Because of how busy Amanda was, ever since the concert, I wasn't able to see her that much. And that was despite the fact that we now lived a couple of apartments apart.

Amanda's eyes squinted.

"I see..."

Quickly recomposing herself, she wordlessly headed for the elevator. She looked to be in deep thought.

Seeing the state that she was in, I lowered my head and glanced at the cup of coffee in my hand.

I quickly took a sip before following her from behind. I kind of needed that.

Arriving next to the elevator, I took another sip of the coffee before giving it back to Amanda.

"Here."

"Thanks."

Distracted by her own thoughts, Amanda took the cup from my hand and took a sip.

Ding—!

Soon the elevator arrived and the two of us got in.

***

7 A.M.

I came in front of a familiar-looking building. I thought that it was going to be a lot more crowded since it was about this time when the students would go to cla.s.s. However, the only person I saw at the entrance was Kevin.

Wearing a more formal wear than me, Kevin rigidly stood next to the entrance of the campus.

"I should first greet everyone with a smile, then I...should tell them what...I practiced..."

Kevin stiffly mumbled to himself, and then noticed me.

His eyes instantly lit up.

"Ren."

"Hm"

I moved my head in acknowledgment.

"Why is everything so quiet today?"

"They are at an a.s.sembly. Douglas is making his first official speech ever since coming back."

"Ah."

Now everything was starting to make more sense.

Glancing around the place, I asked.

"...So, what are we supposed to do now?"

"We wait."

Kevin answered.

Turning his head and looking into the building, he followed up.

"Donna said that she will pick us up soon, so all we can do is wait for her to be done with her stuff."

"I see."

I had no problem with this arrangement.

Lifting my head up and staring at the enormous infrastructure before me, I felt a mixture of different emotions.

The emotions were mostly positive, but there were also negative ones. Especially when I recalled certain events that changed my life, such as the time at the dome when I was brought back into the Monolith and had to go through all of...that.

"Haaa..."

I let out a long braeth.

'Let's hope that nothing annoying hap... never mind, this sounds like I'm setting up a flag.'

Yeah.

Wasn't going to fall for that one.

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