The Tyris Village [C24]

After 1 day of running, the trio finally reached a village, in the middle from the city of Arsia and the jungle Kemister.

"This is the Tyris Village, we will stop here for today and then tomorrow we will go towards the Jungle Kemister." Hearing the words from Ro Jonhan(Ru Seji's master), Shu Himo and Ru Seji knew they now had nothing to do for the rest of the day.

"Himo, what do you think of a rematch?" Hearing the words from Ru Seji, Shu Himo glanced at him "What are you talking about, today we need to rest a bit for going tomorrow to the Jungle Kemister." While Shu Himo loved to fight and test himself, he now was full of it, lately all he did was fight! Now that he had the chance to relax a bit he was not going to let Ru Seji ruin it! "I will go around this village and see a bit the situation."

Surprised by Shu Himo's refusal and his plan, Ru Seji decided to follow him around, while his master seemingly disappeared to go somewhere unknown to them.

The Village seemed a rich one, there is a good amount of people coming and going and hardly anyone could be seen starving in the streets. Puzzled, Shu Himo had to hope that Ru Seji had an answer for this "Seji, for what reason is this village this rich? It's almost comparable to the Capital of Arsia, every building is full of decorations and the peoples are full of life, unlike what I would expect from a village."

This question greatly surprised Ru Seji, how could Shu Himo not know of the situation in his own Kingdom? Well, he did not know either, so Shu Himo heard an "I have no idea." that bothered him for a while.

Shu Himo decided to use this chance as a way to learning how to become a spy, so the first thing he did was to go around the village and see some buildings that seemed to attract more people. He tried to follow the flow of people and then noticed he reached outside the village. He tried again to follow the flow of people, and this time he again reached outside the village. Almost screaming of rage, he had an awful look on his face and then tried again to follow the flow of the peoples.

Ru Seji that is following him is starting to think that Shu Himo is crazy, he is randomly going everywhere and ending up time after time outside the village. Especially when he noticed that angry look on his face, did he get lost? What is happening to the cunning person that defeated him by jumping everywhere? Was he lost in the arena too and that was the reason for his randomly jumping and almost smashing himself in the wall each time?

Not knowing that the guy that is following him around is starting to think that he is an idiot, Shu Himo finally reached a desirable location: The hot spring.

"So this is the reason this village is a meta of a lot of people! It seems that there is a hot spring here, but is it really enough to attract all these cultivators? Weird..." murmuring to himself, he then heard from behind him "Oh, you were trying to reach the hot spring! But why you didn't ask someone to find the way?"

Speechless by the question from Ru Seji, Shu Himo then retorted immediately "What is the point if I had to ask for the way?"

Ru Seji, not knowing Shu Himo was trying to learn the spy way, now firmly believed that Shu Himo is crazy, but still, he did not care at all as he kept following him.

Feeling a weird gaze from Ru Seji, Shu Himo immediately said: "Remember! This is training! If you are in a situation where you can't get any information you have to retort to special ways to resolve the situation, and in this case, I'm learning to follow the flow of people to find the reason this village is this prosperous! Look! We found a hot spring that may be the reason, let's check inside to see if this is why all the people visit this village!"

"I see." Somehow, his bullsh*t nonsense reason managed to make Ru Seji stop think he is crazy. If Ru Seji's master was here, he would be speechless thinking that Shu Himo could just ask the reason to a random cultivator in the road.

Entering the building, the first thing that greeted them was a counter that asked the payment to enter the hot springs. "Hi, how much is to enter?" Shu Himo's parents gave him some money from home when departing, after all, he could need them in the trip for any reason, especially since the deal with Ru Seji was to give half the value of the artifact if they found it together, he had to be ready.

"It's 25 gold." With a shocked face and restricting his urge to scream 'WHAT', Shu Himo calmed down and asked: "May I ask for what reason the price is this high?" Having brought only 35 gold with him, Shu Himo could not waste that amount, but he felt there needed to be a reason for this absurd price.

"I guess you are here for the first time? As you may know, each cultivation phase and realm possess a limit on the maximum strength someone can have, but most people don't have even a tenth of the maximum strength; This can be resolved by this hot spring that can temper your body and increase your effective physical strength a bit, this is the reason for the high price."

Surprised by the reason, Shu Himo thought about how he now had around half the maximum so he was superior to most cultivators, as they had less than a tenth of the max value!

But a hot spring this valuable would surely be aimed by anyone... thinking of this Shu Himo was about to ask how strong the backing of this place is but his gut feeling said to him that it was better not, so he ultimately decided to trust it.

Considering that this could be a special chance, he decided to pay and enter. "Here the 25 gold." Said that he immediately entered, followed by a Ru Seji that also paid and immediately went together with him.

'It seems that male and female's zone are separated...' He then went into the hot spring of the male zone and saw that a lot of peoples were here, but as he had enough space for himself he did not mind. What bothered him, was seeing a known face inside the hot spring with closed eyes cultivating: it was Ru Seji's master, Ro Jonhan!

Feeling the gaze of Shu Himo, he chuckled and said: "It's an important ability to obtain information, it seems you managed to find this place. Good job." He then proceeded to restart cultivating ignoring Shu Himo's annoyed look.

Looking around him, Shu Himo noticed that everyone here was with closed eyes and cultivating, so he followed suit and started cultivating himself to improve his body using his last BS point to buy the Legendary Myriad of Ways cultivation technique body tempering part 1.

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