The Author's POV

Chapter 623 Waiting [2]

Amanda sat in her office and looked through a series of documents.

Her focus was largely diverted by the significant materials in front of her. They detailed important information for her guild.

"This won't do…"

Her fine brows knit as she set one of the papers aside. She carefully took a document from her drawer, sat back in her chair, and muttered.

"This many?"

The data in front of her didn't make sense if compared to the document in her hand. The difference between the numbers she was seeing from the previous files with the ones that came from the document in her hands was staggering.

The number difference wasn't actually bad news, rather, it was fantastic news. The only problem was that she found it hard to believe.

"There's something I'm missing."

No matter how much she looked at the data, she couldn't make heads or tails of how it was possible for the numbers to differ so greatly.

In the end, she was forced to call her secretary, Maxwell.

"Maxwell, come to my office."

Within the span of a single minute of her calling him, he came knocking on her door.

Knock—!

"Come in."

"You called, young miss?"

"Yes, here."

She slid the paper across the table and asked.

"What's going on with this?"

"With what?"

Walking over to her desk, Maxwell politely smiled and looked at the paper Amanda was pointing at.

"Oh, this looks like the guild's status report. What's wrong with this?"

"Over here."

Amanda pointed toward a certain area on the paper with her finger.

"This doesn't make sense. It says that our guild has over 400 members in the rank range. How come I'm only being made aware of it now? …and if I don't remember wrongly, we only had about 100 when I was in charge."

How could the number increase so much in the span of a single year?

Her father, perhaps? He may have contributed by recently breaking through to , but Amanda didn't believe this was enough to attract over three hundred rankers.

There was definitely something suspicious about the situation.

"Can you please tell me what's going on?"

"Eh…"

Maxwell's face hardened a little.

With his eyes daring all over the figures, he lightly coughed and replied.

"…About this, you must ask your father. Not too long ago, he secured several big things which he made confidential. I'm afraid he's the only person that can answer this question. I don't think anyone else within the guild apart from a select few know."

"I see…"

Amanda's eyes narrowed for a moment. The distress on Maxwell's face was obvious to her, but she chose not to press the issue because he appeared adamant about keeping quiet.

'Something is wrong.'

"Alright, that will be all for today."

"T..thank you."

Maxwell stuttered slightly. He then bowed his head and left the room.

'There's something I'm missing.'

Amanda thought to herself as she fixed her sight on the door. The way Maxwell behaved was very suspicious. He was most likely forced to stay quiet due to her father.

But what exactly did he tell him...

"Ugh."

Suddenly groaning, Amanda hurriedly took off the chain around her neck. As soon as she did it, the mana in the space changed.

The mana only stabilized after a couple of minutes had passed, and only then was Amanda finally able to relax.

She looked at the jewelry set on the table next to her and murmured.

"That felt stuffy."

The reason why she felt so stuffy primarily had to do with the necklace which forcibly lowered her rank. On the outside, she was

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