Chapter 29 - Journey to Kaley City. (2/2)

”Let not follow the road for now, let's get far away from the village first, Katiu Forest danger zone is enormous, it will take us a long time to arrive at Kaley City. When night time comes we go back to the main road, if everything goes okay we should arrive in Kaley City in a weeks time.”

Krune nodded, he had already got a map of the region so he knew that it wouldn't be a simple one or two days travel.

Night time came and Yusa was getting a little tired, although all cultivators can use all five elements, they usually specialize in one, Durin was a wind type, and Yusa was a water type, not very suited for speed, so she is having a hard time to keep up with Krune. As for Krune? He didn't think he had any specialty, he simple used what he thought that was convenient, it could be said that he is good at all elements.

Krune stopped and offered for them to rest, not that he is a gentleman, hell no, he is a very realistic wisp, he simply thought that if they continued like that and got into a fight in the middle of the way, Yusa would drag him down if she wasn't in her best condition.

Yusa accepted the offer, she was really tired.

They found an inconspicuous place and decided to stay there for the night, Yusa then took out a runestone and activated it.

”This is a simple concealing runestone formation, it will hide us for the time being, different from the teleportation formation, low level concealing formation are very easy to scribe, I believe even I would be able to make some on the lowest quality, so they are quite cheap and convenient.”

She put it down and then it looked like they disappeared from the surroundings, this low level formation would only work for five to six hours, but it was enough sleeping time for her. She then took a few blankets and put on the ground, just when she was about to go sleep she noticed that Krune was as awake as ever.

”Aren't you going to sleep too? You don't need to worry, this formation might be low level but unless it is someone at the late stages of the Foundation Establishment or higher, they will not be able to see through it.”

She then laughed a little

”Or could it be that you think I would do something to you during the night?”

Krune heard that but just shook his head, although they have met for a very little time he doesn't think that Yusa is this type of person.

”That's not it, I simply can't sleep, I have never slept in my life.”

That was to be expected, Krune is after all a wisp, even though he has got a human body, the body itself was created through his spiritual energy, he can now feel the feelings of a human body but somethings never change, the fact the he doesn't need to sleep is one of them. Yusa looked surprised at him, how many races are out there that never sleep, not many for sure, but she didn't pry into the issue, to ask a demon beast which race they are from is a taboo, no demon beast would show their real appearance in case some people have some ideas about their bloodlines or the materials that can be made from their bodies.

She then turned around and went to sleep, but before she could even close her eyes Krune asked her.

”Aren't you afraid that I could make something to you during the night instead?”

She then laughed.

”Nope! I have seen you battle at the Mercenary Exam, I have an intuition that that wasn't your real power. Simply put, I think I would have no chance against you in a one vs one battle, so if you really wanted, you could have done anything to me on our way out.”

Krune was amazed with her answer, he then just laughed but declined to comment if her intuition was right or wrong.

As for Yusa, although she didn't lie, she wasn't 100% sure either, so without Krune noticing, she also used a perception technique that would alarm her if he got close while she was sleeping. It was useless though, Krune isn't this type of wisp to start with, for him, all types of relationships are to be cherished, except enmity ones of course.

Night passed, Krune used this time to cultivate, he took out quite a few Rank One and Two spirit stone and put then around him, he made sure to keep his spiritual energy absorption inside the area that the spirit stones covered to not disrupt the outside or the concealing formation. The night passed without any mishaps, when Yusa woke up and saw Krune sit on the other side cultivating, she let out a sigh of relief, at least it doesn't seems like she was wrong about Krune.

Krune noticed that she woke up and then put the spirit stone that could still be used away.

”Ready?”

Yusa nodded, she didn't take the concealing formation back, every time a formation runestone is used, it will break apart after, there was no use to bring it back with her since she had quite a few more anyway, they are quite cheap.

”We should go back to the road, even if people notice now that we left it is already too late.”

She the took a hat from her spatial ring.

”Here, instead of using the hood use his hat, just put your hair back and cover with it, it should completely conceal the hair.”

Krune nodded and did as he was told, sure enough, his hair wasn't appearing anymore.

”We should go and join a group, we moved really fast yesterday so we definitely have caught up with the groups that don't know about what happened in the Mercenary Guild, as long as we show our mercenary badges they would gladly take us in.”

Krune agreed with this point of view and then they set off.

One hour later they finally found a group with three Foundation Establishment and quite a few Qi Condensation cultivators, after showing their badges the leader of the group also took his own Mercenary badge out, he was happy to bring those two together, there is safety is numbers after all.

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Back at the village beside Katiu Forest, two man were discussing in the hotel restaurant that Krune was before. One of them asked

”Have you checked already?”

The other one nodded.

”Yes, I went there and knocked several times, but he simply didn't answer, I couldn't use my Divine Sense to pry inside because of the formations blocking it, but I found a way in and there was no one inside the room, no one saw him either, he probably used a teleportation rune to leave the village.”

His partner then nodded.

”Send the signal, this Four Stars guy with a Universe Foundation is a mine of gold, we have to bring him back to the clan, as long as we force him to sign a blood contract everything will be fine, it has to be before they arrive at Kaley City.”

The other man accepted the order and went out.