The Divine Scale Pavillion was located almost at the middle of this continent while currently Rein and Colinde were almost at the edge of the continent. Even by using the fastest possible methods of travel, they would at least need almost one whole year to reach that city. So Rein started the journey with almost two years in his hand.
They were not planning to rush it. In the last three years, both of them had gotten considerably stronger. But still they needed to be cautious with many things. Rein was able to somewhat understand how the large sects were able to create techniques to boost a skill.
He had also made a few techniques with that kind of effect but they were not something Rein was very proud of and was trying to find a way to improve them.
After leaving the nameless mountain range, they went to a nearby city called Green Feather city. It was a slightly bigger city than the previous one but even here there was no place to buy the demon material. After staying in the city for just a day, they left it again. This time Rein and Colinde were planning to reach the Golden Crown city directly without stopping in any other smaller cities.
The Golden Crown city was a big city with two powerful sects leading it. Even though those sects were not as strong as the Divine Scale Pavillion, they would still be counted among the powerful sects of this world. In that city not only Rein would be able to sell the demon material to secure a good amount of funds, they would also be able to get the latest information about their destination.
So reaching that place as soon as possible was very important.
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The Golden Crown city was truly impressive. Even Rein was impressed with it. The advancement of this world in many fields was not as high as his own world, but still the Golden Crown city looked quite modern to Rein. Colinde had never seen something like this and she was looking around at everything like an excited child. Actually she was still a child.
Rein was able to finally sell the demon materials and the amount he was able to earn was unexpected. He found out that the demon materials had a lot of uses and it was one of the best ingredients to make powerful weapons, potions and more. So they were quite valuable.
Not only that, but among the demons that Rein and Colinde had killed, one of them was a special individual. The special individual among the demons had powerful abilities and so their material was more valuable.
Rein knew that with his skill "Steel Scale", the Divine Scale Pavillion would not reject him even if Rein was slightly younger than their declared age. And there was also news that the Demon Slaying Division of the state had offered anyone willing to fight demons to join them whenever they wanted.
This was a great opportunity for Colinde and the sooner she took advantage of that the better it would be.
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For that reason they did not stay in the Golden Crown city for a long time. After just three days, Rein and Colinde left the city. But after about an hour of leaving they stopped in a secluded part of a forest and Rein called out to the people who were following them from behind.
Rein had noticed that these people started following them as soon as they left the city. There could be many reasons for doing that but the most probable reason was to rob them. Rein had noticed a few greedy gazes when he exchanged the demon materials for money and these people were probably after that.
Currently it was not raining so Rein was unable to fight at his full potential. At the same time, as these people were not demons, Colinde would also not get any boost from her skill. So the situation looked dire.
But Rein was still unfazed. Even though it was not his real body and he had lost his broken Eye of Truth that allowed him to judge someone's strength properly, he was still an experienced fighter. So with his intuition he was able to guess that these people were weaker than the current him and Colinde.
Rein also saw this as a good opportunity to give Colinde a very important experience of her life. And that was to kill a human being. Even though these people were attacking them and were probably going to kill them, even then it would be hard for a 13 year old kid to kill them. Colinde was actually a very kind child.
But what Rein had seen so far of this world, it was not a kind place. In the future Rein and Colinde might need to stay away from each other for various reasons. So Rein would not be satisfied without giving Colinde everything that she would need to survive this world.
With that decision from Rein, the fate of the robbers was decided.