Chapter 218 Mankind’s Opportunity

After the Miaran scale bison had been defeated, Nial took a deep breath before storing the corpses in his large spatial ring.

This took him only a few seconds before which he and Mathias returned to the group. They were subjected to weird gazes for a few seconds but nobody spoke to them.

Usually, beasts were either as strong as an Original at the same rank or stronger. However, Mathias was able to face a dozen beasts at the same rank as him all by himself, and Nial could fight them despite being at a lower rank.

This was definitely not something one could do easily. Thus, some lower-ranked Originals looked at them in shock, while the stronger powerhouses had gained slight interest in them.

Of course, there were also more than enough envious people, who were sad to see the two young men win the fight against the dozen Prym-ranked beasts.

However, Nial and Mathias couldn't care less about these Originals because there would always be people who would like and dislike them.

Being hated for whatever reason was not something one could avoid if one stayed loyal to their beliefs without backing off just because someone else said that something was wrong.

Mathias noticed that Sam Anderson was also looking at them. But instead of doing anything, Windbreaker Sam Anderson averted his gaze after a short while.

"Is the Sacred Knights' Leader looking at us?" Nial suddenly asked, while his expression turned serious.

Earlier, Nial had been quite nonchalant. However, this had quickly changed, so Mathias was a little bit baffled for a moment.

Turning his head in all directions, Mathias was trying to find the Sacred Knights' Leader, but he couldn't find him.

Yet, instead of the Sacred Knights' Leader, Mathias noticed that a few other powerhouses were looking at them with interest.

He tried to ignore the attention they had gained all of a sudden, but that was harder than Mathias could have hoped for.

'Man, Nial….why do we always have to become the main focus everywhere we go?! Can't we just keep a low profile and become stronger that way…?'

Mathias knew that Nial was not attracting attention intentionally. He just wanted to get his hands on all kinds of ingredients to manufacture various runic armaments.

Nial's intention was good, but the final result was that he attracted lots of attention as he had annoyed quite a few people. Meanwhile, others were now more interested in their combat prowess.

After all, their strength seemed to be higher than the average prodigious Original at their rank.

"The woman from the Heaven's Gates organization is looking at us, though her expression is not that good. As for her disciple, the veiled woman is probably looking at us as well. I cannot tell that for sure.

A few other powerhouses look at us as well, including three other members, belonging to the Heaven's Gates organization."

Mathias told everything he could depict from around him. The day before and today, they had gotten to know a lot of information, including the fact that there were a total of 10 members of the Heaven's Gates organization, who had joined the conquest to reclaim Juna.

This was the highest number of Heaven's Gates members, that had ever been spotted together. For most organizations, the government and the military, this was quite interesting and it attracted their attention.

It was not normal for the Heaven's Gates organization to meddle with the affairs of the general populace and to reveal themselves to the public.

Thus, far more Originals had joined the conquest than it would usually be the case.

Everyone wanted to join the fray when the Heaven's Gates was doing something big. In most cases, their public appearance indicated a great opportunity for others to improve their social standing, and a way to possibly change their fate!

This was not something Nial or Mathias were bothered about. Their fate was already weird enough as it was. They were forced to join the conquest, which was certainly not something they had planned to do.

However, now that they were already in the wilderness, there was no going back anymore.

"Wait…quite a few of the other Sacred Knights members are looking at us as well!" Mathias suddenly exclaimed, exaggerating quite a bit.

Nial listened carefully to Mathias' words and nodded his head afterward.

"Alright, I got it. Please don't hesitate to tell me when others look at us weirdly. It might be interesting, or it might not be, but I would like to know."

In most situations, it wouldn't mean much if they received weird gazes. Nonetheless, Nial wanted to be prepared for everything.

In that way, the second day of their journey passed. In the evening, the Elite Junior Soldiers helped Nial and Mathias to dissect the bodies of the beasts.

They worked hard and were overflowing with motivation because Nila had given them their pay, the Black Iron runic weapons, in advance.

The following day, Nial and Mathias were subjected to even weirder stares. Everyone had heard that they had hired the Elite Junior Soldiers to help dissect the beasts they had collected.

It saved them lots of trouble and was a good plan, considering that Elite Junior Soldiers didn't earn a huge base salary.

Many powerhouses felt as if the two young Originals were trying to buy off the military and create a huge trading firm by exploiting the military and the conquest that had been forced upon them.

Some Originals had already heard that Nial and Mathias were Miranda's disciples. It wouldn't take long for everyone to know about this.

However, at the same time, everyone would get to know that Nial and Mathias had been drafted to join the conquest.

Like this, two more days passed without a major incident occurring.

The biggest problem their group faced had been the existence of a Tritan-ranked beast group.

With only a few dozen beasts in the group, they had attacked more than 5000 Originals.

Under normal circumstances, this would have been more than enough beasts because they possessed, at least, seven Origin rings.

Unfortunately, there were more than 20 true powerhouses in the group of 5000 Originals. They didn't dare to hold back and used their fully empowered abilities.

This particular fight had been different from any of the fights beforehand. The powerhouses couldn't simply flick their finger, kill the hundreds of beasts at once and keep going.

This was not possible as they were forced to fight with all their might. But this was something they liked because it allowed them to feel a little bit of excitement.

The days before had been quite boring, and the only impressive thing had been a young blind boy, who collected all the bodies of the beasts they had killed before buying off the military's Elite Junior Soldiers so that they would work for him.

It was an interesting sight but actually not something that allowed the powerhouses to be entertained for several hours.

That was also why more powerhouses didn't hesitate to leave their allocated position when the few dozen Tritan-ranked beasts had attacked.

Everyone wanted to face opponents on their own, and have some fun, even if it was only for a few minutes.

Unfortunately, there was no fun, not for longer than 10 minutes, because the Originals quickly noticed that the Tritan-ranked beasts had only Basic and Intermediate Origin rings.

There had only been one Tritan-ranked beast with Advanced Origin rings. And, it didn't have one or two but eight Advanced Origin rings.

However, the Sacred Knights' Leader, Kirlia, and Sam Anderson bombarded that beast with all their might.

They obliterated it much faster than the others killed their prey.

In the end, the fight was over quite easily, and everyone returned back to their designated position.

But contrary to before, everyone's mood dipped further, simply because they had tasted the excitement of being able to go all out for a short period of time, only to be faced with reality.

They couldn't let themselves lose and wander through the wilderness to search for stronger opponents. Instead, they had to protect the other Originals and make sure that they arrived in Juna without any issues.

Only then would the lower ranked Originals be able to show why they were even allowed to join the conquest; to enter the dungeons that the true powerhouses were denied entry.

Most true powerhouses weren't restricted in doing whatever they wanted to. They could do whatever they wanted to, as long as they didn't endanger the shelters.

Thus, many were searching for ways to become stronger, which was why they entered the wilderness and were on their way to find new and stronger dungeons.

To the true powerhouses who were extremely scarce in number, Abyssal dungeons were not impossible to clear. That was also why they could journey through the wilderness.

It might still be dangerous for them, but the number of dangers was tightly restricted. There were only a few beasts that were truly dangerous.

They had to be avoided but that was all.

This was something Nial understood as well, the longer they remained in the wilderness.

'It is kind of obvious why ordinary humans are not allowed to leave the shelter, and the same goes for Origin rank Originals, Originals with weak talent, or anyone below the Tritan rank to be precise.

However, the moment you create your seventh or eighth Advanced Origin ring, surviving in the wilderness shouldn't be considered a problem. Interesting.'

Nial's spatial ring was filled with all kinds of precious beast ingredients, and he was quite satisfied with everything that had happened during the last few days.

This didn't mean that he was happy about the situation that awaited him or the things that were about to unfold themselves in front of him in the near future but got a good grasp of mankind's true stance against dungeons.

'We are not even doing that bad…for now.'

It might look bad because mankind was always losing some of its territories.

They had yet to gain the strength to build new shelters, protect them, and keep expanding.

In fact, one could clearly perceive that mankind had problems protecting a total of 9 shelters with their current strength, or that was what it looked like.

There may not be many true powerhouses but there were enough to protect many human shelters if a few true powerhouses would decide to stay at each shelter with the desire to protect it.

But that was not something they wanted to do which was owed to the fact that not every shelter was the same.

It was simply not worth it for true powerhouses to stay in shelters such as Katu, Juna, and so on. Their progress would stagnate and others would be able to keep growing the moment they would decide to stay in these weaker shelters.

Protecting the shelters would become different in the future, soon enough, at that.

The moment enough runic armaments would appear in various shelters, more Originals would become stronger, many humans would awaken their Origin because of the surplus of mana created through the existence of the runic armaments, and stronger dungeons would appear everywhere.

All shelters would face the appearance of numerous dangerous dungeons, but that would also mean that the true powerhouses would split up to get their hands on their very own dangerous dungeon to conquer.

Mankind's situation was bound to change, and the reclaiming procedure of Juna was just the beginning of humanity's rise to power.

Nial was quite excited about the future and his initial opinion about the dangers revolving around the runic armaments was slowly changing.

'Maybe it's an opportunity for us to stay alive and to grow, rather than a trip to hell?'

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