Going to the city

Just an another ordinary day

It was the beginning of a new morning. The sun was rising in the sky with its all ginormous shining glory, basking the pitiful creatures

Of this pitiful world with its warm orange rays of

Brilliant light.

Ren woke up slowly for hearing the distant praying sound of the villagers.

" Argh, Why do they have to wake up

So early in the morning?" Ren complained but still Woke up.

It has already been three weeks since Ren started living in the temple, In that time Ren actively helped the villagers to make their life better.

Ren taught them many things in that time. He

Taught them how use the water pump he had made. Now, the villagers don't have to go to the river to get water.

Ren taught them the art of fishing,

Painting, playing musical instruments and some other things.

The villagers learned quickly and diligently

Listening Ren's every word with rapt attention.

Ren even went to hunt with villagers a few Days ago.

He had been quite excited about

The whole hunting thing, but when the hunting

Began Ren had to swallow a bitter pill of

Terrible truth.

It turned out that,even those weak villagers were stronger than Ren. They easily killed the weak beast of the forest they were hunting in.

Meanwhile, Ren struggled even against those weak beasts, failing to kill a single one.

Although the villagers seemed to think that he was holding his strength back to give them opportunity to learn and grow.One of them even praised him for being humble.

But that wouldn't last long if Ren remained weak forever. So, in the desperation for strength Ren had gathered a lot of information about how to become strength.

That's how he had come across the most efficient way to grow strong.

According to the villagers, these are the best known ways to grow strong( Rank up)

*Enlightment :- Apperantly, people had to find some Kind of enlightment or ephineny to Rank up. Which results in shocking growth resulting

In immense growth. Although it happened mostly in extreme situations, It sometimes happens in daily life too but it isn't very reliable.

The info about achieving it was very vague.

• Training :- One could grow stronger by training, it was a basic knowledge for Everyone, Ren didn't know that one could Rank up by training too. For that too happen one has to constantly push past their limits.

• Experience :- One could also rank up by

Accumulating experience over the years. Although,It was took a long time, it was probably the easiest method.

• And the Most efficient method was to get

Help from the system. The system's way of

Ranking up was brutal. That's why many

Would not choose this method. But if one

Is willing to take the risk then the reward

Would be worth it.

Getting help from system was pretty simple.

You just have to ask it, then it will give

You a quest and if you complete the

Quest you will rank up as a reward.

The quests were sometimes simple but sometimes extremely complicated, sometimes long term and sometimes short term. But it was difficult all the same.

The higher one wants to rank up the harder the quest will be. Although, no one knew why the quests were so deadly, some speculated it was because the system was preparing them in its own way.

After learning the ways to grow stronger in both rank and skills, Ren decided to take some risk as well as have faith in his skill and choose system's path to strength.

The system usually gave quests related to the class or rather profession of the user, but sometimes it also depended on the situation itself.

For example, if the user is a hunter, then the system will give quests related to hunting, and if the user is a fighter, then the system will give quests related to fighting or vice versa.

In Ren's case, his quest was like this:

Quest title: I need followers.

Quest details: You possess a unique skill and your situation is also unique. Therefore, the path you walk will also be unique

Quest objective: Gather 300 followers.

Current followers: 201

Quest reward: Rank up from regular to awakened…

Penalty for failure: The system will abandon you.

Time limit: 8 days ~ 7 days remaining

Now,

Today Ren was going to go to the nearby city, Poria, to gather the remaining 99 followers he needed.

The villagers seemed reluctant to let their apostle go, but after Ren's exaggerated explanation and consolation, they finally agreed to let him go without following him.

On his way to the city, Ren took out the map the villagers had given him and carefully examined the map.

"At this pace it will take me at least 12 hours to reach the city… Should I just use my skill and reach there in a jiffy?" Ren thought to himself, getting more and more confused about his next course of action.

"No, no, no, I shouldn't. who knows how much sacred energy I might need to gather 99 followers. I should conserve as much as possible."

"Damn those villagers, they should have at least raised some horses, but no, they didn't even have pigs." Ren muttered while he kept walking towards his destination.

"Sometimes fate wants you to walk 12 hours"