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

Chapter 475 Going Back [3]

"Hmmm..."

Sitting crossed-legged on the ground of my room, I thought back at Donna's proposal.

'We've already asked Kevin for help, and we just need soone else to help us enroll at the Lock as an assistant professor for just a couple of months.'

If I had to be honest, that was not a bad proposal.

Not only would I be granted access to the cube, which was the Lock's special vault filled with skills and manuals, but I could also use the chance to recruit so talented people to my group.

Furthermore, since the Monolith and the Union were still under a treaty, this was the perfect chance for to consolidate my powers within the human domain.

Not only that, but the Lock did have so of the best training facilities, so that was another plus.

"Alright..."

Standing up from the ground, I stretched my body.

"Donna said that we can start as early as by next week, so I should use this chance to break through ranked core.

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 sothing new. It was sothing that had appeared at the exact mont when the crack in the sky appeared, and he got the ssage 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 ssage appeared the exact mont 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 co up with counterasures for it.

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

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

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 soone 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 imdiately picked it up.

"Hello?"

***

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 imdiately 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 mont 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-shirt and tie, I shouted.

"Coming."

Just as I was about to leave, I grabbed onto a pair of black thin-frad glasses 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 handso my boy beca."

My mother exclaid the mont she saw .

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

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

My mother's face suddenly beca 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 , my mother sighed.

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

"Stop right there."

I imdiately 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 imdiately 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 . Turning my head, my eyes t with Amanda's.

The mont our eyes t, Amanda's eyes looked up at from top to bottom.

"Going sowhere?" 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 rcenary group that you were talking about before?"

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

"No."

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

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

"Hm?"

Halting her footsteps, Amanda almost spilled her drink.

"Wow, watch it."

Fortunately, I was able to react in ti 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 assistant 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 apartnts 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 ca in front of a familiar-looking building. I thought that it was going to be a lot more crowded since it was about this ti when the students would go to class. However, the only person I saw at the entrance was Kevin.

Wearing a more formal wear than , 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 .

His eyes instantly lit up.

"Ren."

"Hm"

I moved my head in acknowledgnt.

"Why is everything so quiet today?"

"They are at an assembly. 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 arrangent.

Lifting my head up and staring at the enormous infrastructure before , 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 ti at the do 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.