As soon as Rein's group reached that area, quite a few demons suddenly attacked them. But all those demons were super weak and the true gods didn't even have to make a move. The accompanying cultivators were easily able to take care of them.
After checking that location, everyone nodded their heads in disappointment. There were definitely nodes present here but it was not a two way node. Actually there were three nodes here, two for going in and one for coming out.
So the first location turned out to be a miss. This was kinda expected so no one was too disappointed with this outcome. So after taking care of all the demons present there, they went toward another location.
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The second location was also a miss. There was only one node present here and it was a node to come out. The number of demons present here was smaller but all the demons here were more powerful on average if compared to the previous location.
But still, the humans were still able to get rid of all the demons without any problem. There were actually two Spiritual awakening realm demons hiding there who tried to sneak attack a group of humans, but were immediately killed by the hands of a true god.
Just like that, this human team continued searching and was able to find a proper two way node in the fifth location. This made the humans very happy and they immediately started to decipher the spatial coordinate from the node so that they would be able to enter it.
The reason why the humans were unable to do this same thing with the one way nodes was because for a one way node, all the control of the space was perfectly under the spatial rifts control. So the person who was inside the spatial was capable of restricting certain people from accessing the nodes.
This way both sides fell into a stalemate. Whenever a proper two way node was found, the demons immediately blew that up and made that space turbulent. This way they were also losing precious locations as a two way node had various usefulness if compared to a simple one way node. But the demons were determined to earn more time for them to grow in power and nothing else mattered to them.
In one of the locations, even the demon sovereign himself sneak attacked the humans. He was extremely powerful and almost killed seven human true gods in seconds. Fortunately Rein was able to stop him before he completely killed them.
The strength of the demon sovereign surprised even Rein. His strength was actually slightly higher than even a regular Rein without using any of this skills. So in terms of pure cultivation, this demon sovereign was actually slightly superior to the current Rein.
While fighting the demon sovereign, Rein also became sure that this demon had two skills. In the use of one of the skills, he was extremely proficient. But for the other one that was not the case. This kind of disparity could only appeared if this demon had gained one of the skills very recently.
Suzu also had two skills among which one she regularly practiced and the other one she completely neglected. But still with time, her second mind reading skill also improved alongside the rise of her cultivation. So Rein was very sure that one of the skills that this demon had was not inherent but acquired.
This was an unheard of thing for the inhabitants of this world but Rein was not surprised. If the world was trying to create an opponent for Rein, giving that person many skills was necessary. Rein was actually surprised that this person only had one extra skill as Rein had genuinely thought that the demon sovereign might have dozens of these skills.
It looked like there was some kind of restriction on how many skills a resident of this world could learn. Rein had also observed the other demons and demon gods but no one among them had the same abnormality as this person. So it looked like for the time being only the demon sovereign had managed to get an extra skill.
While Rein thought about these various things, the life and death struggle between the humans and the demons continued.