For the first day Rein decided to check the mountain out while he gave Colinde some sword forms to practice first. Only after mastering them would Colinde be able to learn true swordsmanship from Rein. She would not need a lot of space for this so she was going to do the practice inside the inn room.
After reaching the area close to the nameless mountain range with a rainy weather, Rein encountered rain for the first time after his awakening. And what Rein felt was hard to describe. He felt as if in his current situation he could even conquer the whole world.
Rein then started to check his current strength on some rocks by the side of the road. He already had a good idea about his current strength without any boost so he was capable of judging how much stronger the boost made him.
As soon as Rein's punch connected with the rock, it immediately broke. Rein was still a child and his passive skill gave his very hard skin with good defense but he was nowhere near strong enough to break a rock in two.
As the rock was unable to take Rein's full strength, he was unable to properly judge his current power level. So he continued his experiments on other rocks. Only after breaking over a few dozens of rocks, finally Rein was able to gain a decent idea about his boosted strength.
This Rain Gain skill of his was quite powerful. Without the restrictions of only being usable in Rain, this skill would definitely have been broken. His power had gotten stronger by about 70 times and he did not even have to pay any sacrifice to get this boost. It was truly amazing.
With this many of his plans could be brought forward and he would be able to start completing achievements soon. Today he was planning to get the achievement of hunting a great beast with his bare hands which would give his 250 points. m|vle mp _yr novel source
Great beasts were wild beasts who had also managed to awaken an ability. Almost all humans were able to awaken one ability but for the beasts it was different. Almost none among them were able to develop one and it was extremely rare.
But on the other hand, the average quality of a human's skill was very low. Most of the people awakened only useless abilities. But for the beasts it was a different story. All the skills that they awakened were powerful ones and helped them in fighting. That was the reason why great beasts were seen as a form of terror for people who had not managed to awaken a powerful ability.
But at the same time he also understood that in the rain he was truly almost invisible. He realised that after he noticed a few things. First of all, in Rein it was not only his physical strength that was getting a boost but his body's regeneration capability was also off the charts.
But most importantly he realised that in the rain, he was able to utilise his Furnace Body a lot more as the restrictions of his weak body disappeared because of Rain Gain. With this Rein would be able to be a bit reckless when investigating this area.
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As soon as he made the decision, he immediately started to investigate the whole mountain range. Obviously it was impossible to do it in just a day or two, so he built a small but sturdy house at the bottom of the mountain. He and Colinde were going to live here from now on.
That was how Rein started to live in the mountainside alongside his fiancee. They hunted the beasts and demons on the mountain and used them for their living. For the time being Rien was only selling the beast parts as this city did not have the infrastructure to buy demon materials. He was planning to sell them in a bigger city when they would start travelling toward the Divine Scale Pavillion.
There were actually quite a few demons on this mountain and all of them were hiding very well. Rein found out that Colinde's Demon Slaying Sword also allowed her to instinctively find hiding demons and that was the main reason why they were able to hunt so many demons.
The boost she gained against a demon was truly great and even though it was not as good as Rein's Rain Gain but it was still able to make her about 50 times stronger.
Colinde also had some talent with the sword as she was able to master it to a certain decent degree in just a year. Her talent was not really astonishing but it was good enough to make her a sword master. In the meantime Rein also did lots of experiments and understood his skills in a very detailed degree.
Just like that three years passed and it was time for Rein and Colinde to leave their small mountain home. They had now gotten considerably stronger than before and were looking forward to what a new bigger city had to offer.