Death... and me

Back at the Blacksmith Hall, Hura arrived in the private workstation with Rean before she reached her hair and pulled out a green hairpin. Her hair then fell down while she gave the hairpin to Rean so that he could have a look at it. “Can you tell what this is?”

“This is a Golden Initial-level needle, made in the shape of a hairpin. The tiny inscriptions in it show that it’s a very intricated one at that. Whoever did this needle is a very skilled goldsmith,” Rean said before looking back at Hura. “Do you want me to make another one similar to this?”

Hura nodded. “Yes, there’s no need for you to care about the inscriptions, though. I already have someone to do that for me. However, you can see that the needle is just so big, so not many inscriptions fit on it anyway. The only inscription that I was able to put in it is a Wind Element Gathering inscription. I want you to make another one that has no need for an Element Gathering inscription.”

Rean smiled in response. “No problem at all. Do you have the material you want to use, or should I choose it? Also, do you want the standard edition or the special edition? The former is 100 Rank Two Divine Stones while the latter is 300.”

Hura immediately passed 300 stones to Rean, followed by a spatial ring with the necessary materials. “The special edition, please. Here’s the material I wish you to use.”

Rean nodded and began to work on it straight away. He had Hura there for the initial phase while preventing her from being able to see anything. After the infusion of her own Wind Element was done with, Rean asked the girl to go wait outside the workstation.

Rean was already used to the process, so while he worked on the needle, he also took the opportunity to work on Roan’s scythe. Then again, the needle was small, so it was a lot easier to craft. ‘Hey Roan, can I just make a copy of the previous scythe?’

Roan quickly replied, ‘Yes. The previous one was very good already.’ Roan then took the opportunity to talk about the Flash Beast. ‘About the Convergence Crystal. You made the right choice to keep it a secret. We can tell Etherian about it once we decide to leave Huring Continent. As to what they do about it, that’s not our problem. We can’t help out with our strength anyway.’

However, Rean had another idea, telling Roan, ‘I’ve been thinking. That crystal had all elements on it, right? Couldn’t we use that as catalysts for breaking through the Elemental Transformation Realm?’

Roan immediately denied the thought. ‘Let alone that it also has more elements than just Dark and Light. What if breaking the crystal shell causes the beast to suddenly pop out? Do you wanna be near it when that happens?’

‘Well, it was worth a shot.’ Rean needed to go to Lanqueas Continent to get his Light Element Catalyst. If he could prevent that, it would obviously be for the best. That’s why he brought that thought forward even though he knew that Roan would most likely refuse it. Perhaps Roan would have an idea himself.

Suddenly, Sister Orb talked about it. [Well, even if you can’t do anything about the egg, just the fact that you got involved with it has already changed the destiny of a lot of people. You guys have accumulated quite a decent amount of Destiny Points after all you’ve done so far. After all, everything in the Realm of Gods’ scale is worth a lot more points.]

That made sense. For example. A single city like Cosec already had hundreds of millions of people, and the twins caught all the powers’ attention there. The Sacred Land was even more ridiculous as it was the main power of the entire continent. How much did the destiny of everything around them change after they appeared here?

‘Oh, is that so? How many Destiny Points do we have now?’ Rean asked, excited.

[You had 22728 points before that you decided not to spend. After everything that happened, you’ve already surpassed 40000. To be more precise, you have 42361 points.]

‘That’s indeed a lot. Although we did participate in some big events, it’s not like we directly influenced any of them. At most, we got two Sacred Land slots that were supposed to go to someone else. In any case, it’s quite surprising that our initial journey in the Realm of Gods gave us this much without actively trying to change things.’ Rean seemed very satisfied with that.

‘Sister Orb, let us know when we accumulate 50000. We want to buy the upgrades.’ Roan also had nothing to complain about as those points came while they were simply moving on with their lives. It wasn’t wrong to say they got them for free.

[You got it.]

‘By the way, Roan.’ Rean then jumped into another topic while he worked on Hura and Roan’s weapons. ‘During the opening of the Demising Catacombs. Do you want me to come as well, or are you going inside on your own?’

‘You better come with me,’ Roan told him. ‘I might need our Elements Exchange depending on the situation. I don’t want to spend the Glittering Crystal if I can help it.’

Rean nodded in response. ‘In that case, we better bring Kentucky along with us. We don’t know how big the place is, so it’ll be perfect if we have the Minokawa to move around at first. The place seems to be filled with Dark Element, which is also good for Kentucky’s cultivation.’

Roan pondered over it for a bit and nodded in response. ‘Indeed. The dumb bird has been stationary for too long already. Considering that Etherian knows about its ability to talk, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to bring it along. We can leave Celis there, cultivating. Celis was already a Peak Transition Realm in the first place and doesn’t need the experience. If anyone asks, we can just say that we’re also demon beast tamers.’

Rean obviously liked that. ‘Then I’ll go bring it here once I’m finished with the elders’ weapons. There are ten weapons for them, which will take me ten days. With Hura and your weapons, I’ll spend eleven days to forge them all. That gives me four days to go fetch Kentucky, which is more than enough with the Sacred Land’s free teleportation perk.’