Chapter 29 - Journey to Kaley City. (1/2)
After spending a long time trying to convince Krune to never do that again, Yusa went back to her room. Although she was successful in stopping Krune right when he was about to take his underpants completely, for a second, she still got a glimpse of that rainbow colored hidden dragon inside, that image would follow her for life.
Back at Krune's room, he was considering his next step, the Mercenary Rank Team seemed very good, it would bring him combat experience and resources, another thing he was thinking was if he should join a sect, a clan or some other organization. The Mercenary Guild is very broad in this aspect, it isn't a sect or clan, much less a government attached organization, the mercenaries are together for one sole purpose, mutual benefits! Because of this, the guild doesn't care if you join any other organization, sect or clan, as long as you don't forget that you are a mercenary, of course.
But then he decided that there was no point in thinking about it now, he is still at the village beside Katiu forest, before leaving the danger zone he won't be able to acquire much information, even if he asks for it at the mercenary guild, it would be better to see it by himself when he arrives at Kaley City, not to mention that his two 'good friends' are there too.
He decided to simply spend the rest of the day cultivating, he has to reinforce his planet foundation for the breakthrough, time is limited, the faster, the better.
Next day, Krune left his room with his hood up, he tried to hide from others while waiting Yusa to come, too bad though, everyone had already taken notice of his robe with a hood and it's color, not to mention that the hood can't completely hide his hair, so it didn't take long for a bunch of people to come at him, Krune then used his wind movement to get away as fast as possible, he went straight to the mercenary guild, although people there also know him, it's forbidden to cause ruckus inside.
Some time later, Yusa also arrived, she spotted Krune easily, she just had to look in the direction that the majority was looking too, she couldn't help but laugh, Krune had an ugly face while looked around, it was obvious that he wanted people to look somewhere else. She then approached him.
”Well, well, seems like you are really famous, I'm sorry to stop your joyous time in the limelight, but we need to go.”
Krune heard that and felt even more helpless, he can see already that this Yusa girl loves to put salt on ones injuries, so he simply decided that he will ignore those comments from now on.
”So, should we join a group here in the mercenary guild and leave? I don't think it will be very difficult considering our fighting power.”
Yusa then shook her head.
”On the opposite, it will be hard to find a group to join here, you are too famous, you will definitely become a target as soon as you leave the village, I was thinking and I believe it will be better for us to go alone, that way we can leave the city without anyone notice and then join a group on the way, as long as people don't know that we left we shouldn't have a problem.”
Krune looked around and couldn't help but ask
”How exactly do you expect me to leave without anyone noticing? Look around...”
Yusa just giggled a little and brought him to the sales room, the building has quite a few of those rooms, this way people and demon beasts could buy and sell things without anyone noticing, she then accessed the list of items and pointed at one of the items in the list, the item she pointed at cost 150 Rank Two low quality spirit stones.
”Buy this one, its a Runestone inscribed with a very simple teleportation formation, it's quality is very bad but it's just what we need at moment, make sure to don't let people see that you bought it.”
Krune was impressed, to think that things that allow one to teleport are sold this easily, isn't this minor teleportation formation as good as a second life? Yusa knew what he was thinking and crushed his fantasies straight away.
”Don't think to use it as a way to escape from others, this runestone needs a long time to charge, it has nothing to do with your cultivation level, it's just that the amount of spiritual energy that it can receive at once is very small, if you try to infuse more than what it can takes at once, it will break apart, also, you need at least thirty minutes to completely charge it for use, during that time you can't move either, that's because the formation needs a starting point from where to initiate the teleportation from, if you keep moving around, it won't be able to fix a place.”
”Simply put, if you think about using it to flee, then you might as well run faster.”
Krune's dreams were crushed just like that, he then asked if there wasn't any better one that would allow one to teleport away earlier or maybe even instantly. Yusa nodded.
”There is, but it will need a higher level runestone, the problem is that the higher the level of the rune, the harder it is to inscribe a formation inside, which means the price sky rockets with each level, this teleportation rune is nothing but the lowest grade, a One Star teleportation formation rune, you can already guess how expensive the higher levels are, just this one already costs 150 Rank Two spirit stone of low quality, it's very expensive already.”
She then moved the list of items for sale and pointed at the Rank Two teleportation formation rune, this rune could be charged 10 minutes earlier than the previous one and could teleport a little further away, still not very suitable for fleeing though. 1150 Rank Three High Quality spirit stones. Krune saw that and his jaw dropped!
”This is day light robbery!”
Yusa laughed but disagreed.
”That's because you have no idea how hard it is to inscribe those runes, the quality of the formation inside is also higher, I would show you the higher rank ones, unfortunately, this outer branch doesn't have them, people and demon beasts that stay here wouldn't have the necessary spirit stones to buy those anyway.”
Krune nodded, maybe in the future he could try to make those runes for sell, who knows?
After getting a 25% discount from the guild, Krune acquired the teleportation runestone, he couldn't help but think that being famous really wasn't good at all, low key is the way to go.
”Wouldn't it work if I had put on a mask or painted my hair black or something?”
Yusa shook hear head
”Everyone has already marked your presence, you should know already that every person or demon beast have a very distinctive auras that belongs only to them, they just need to pay attention to that.”
Krune only sighed after that. Yusa then said.
”When we go out of the room just pretend that you helped me buying something, otherwise people might guess that we are together.”
Krune just nodded.
Laving the room, Yusa grabbed Krune's arm and looked at him as if he was her lover.
”Borther Krune, thank you very much for helping me buying it, my rank wasn't big enough to have access to it.”
Krune wasn't expecting her to act like 'that', he immediately turned as red as potato and kept nodding his head, fortunately, it made the act even more realistic, some people around even commented.
”Seems like he has already fallen for the old trick.”
”No helping it, did you forget that this is his first time leaving the forest, he still doesn't know how big the world is, that Four Stars Badge... sigh”
Yusa heard the comments around and was very satisfied, after acting a little more she parted ways with him. Krune then had went to take breakfast in the hotel restaurant and then went back to his room, Yusa was the one who asked him to go take breakfast in the hotel restaurant first for people to see that he was back, Krune, of course, was very happy to do that, he didn't even need to act when food was involved.
Back on his room, Krune waited one hour, they had decide to leave during the day instead of the night because no one would think that they would do that, they already had agreed to a meeting point, the runestone can at most teleport one to a 20 kilometers distance, but the further one teleported, the less accurate it would be, so they decided to meet 10 kilometers away from the village to be safe.
Sure enough, one hour later he teleported very close to the meeting point, a minute later, Yusa also appeared nearby. Their teleportation runestones broke after that.