Infinite Paths: The Raging Phoenix

Chapter 441: Other paths

The next day, the group began to work early in the morning. After packing their things, Rain passed his forearm and shin guards to his sisters.

"You can use them while Lotto makes the new ones, who wants to keep the spear?" Rain asked.

In the end, no one raised their hands, and while she was better with earth magic, Rain gave Dana the spear since she was the oldest.

"This division is a bit unbalanced when you don't have any weapons, are you sure that you will be fine?" Roan asked when he saw that Rain was the only one who was going to guard Branden, Esmeralda, Orcis and Lorene, he wondered if his son was getting carried away.

"If anything happens, the best soldiers are with the king and Joanis," Rain explained. "Everyone here can use magic boost now, so if anything happens, they can run before I can do anything. I find it hard to believe that at this point in time I would mess things up, though."

"Alright… just be careful," Roan said after a long sigh.

Rain and the others had to use the underground route for several reasons. The first was to gain time since they just had to use a bit of water magic to make a boat move in the direction that they wanted, they could carry a ton of stuff with them.

The other was the fact that Rain wanted to keep expanding his tunnels… they were too useful to move large groups of people and stuff without being noticed. To steal stuff from the enemies as well when necessary and to surprise them when a fight breaks out.

That being said, everyone aside from Rain felt a bit odd while moving underground since they didn't have any idea how much was the distance that they had covered. At the same time, Rain began to dig the tunnel toward their destination while they were there… the fear of everything collapsing was there. Even though Rain was using everything with magic alone.

Taking huge chunks of the walls and then reinforcing them to avoid making the whole thing collapse.

"... Just how much has your mana pool increased?" Branden furrowed his eyebrows since Rain wasn't using potions at all.

"Meditation Mastery makes part of the path unlocked when the Sage's path is mastered, so you can gain a bunch of points in wisdom when you get it," Rain explained. "It is two times better than the Sage's path… also, I got a bunch of levels in the war."

"That explains a lot," Branden shrugged.

Another path that was about to unlock a new one was the farmer's path… Rain never met anyone that had mastered that had unlocked the next path for some reason, so he was curious about it.

In any case, the trip was supposed to last ten hours, but it only lasted six and while they could have been even faster, they had to stop outside of the town and go by foot, even though the final part of the tunnel was already completed since they made it to keep contact with Julie.

When they left the tunnel, Rain quickly assembled with his magic a wagon that was essential, a combination of several golems connected to each other to carry them and the weapons and armor that they wanted to resell.

"This is one weird wagon," Branden said.

"Did you get any news from Julie?" Rain asked.

"Nothing aside that they are doing all kinds of odd jobs to repay for the money that was used to free them," Orcis declared. "She also said that some people think that the lord wants to curry favor with Joanis thanks to his accomplishments."

"So, I guess this guy doesn't have any connections with Joanis… I need to get someone for the sea emperor to relieve his stress," Rain rubbed his chin thoughtfully while they approached the town.

"Lotto mentioned that two influential families are taking care of things in the capital in the place of the king and Joanis, they are working to send supplies for the frontlines as well," Orcis explained.

"I guess they will be my targets, then," Rain thought.

The group wondered how and when Rain was planning to do that… he said that he didn't want to cause unnecessary deaths, but it was unlikely that those individuals would be unguarded.

Regardless, it didn't take long for the group to be seen by the guards of the town. They stood out like a sore thumb because they didn't have horses pulling their wagon, after all. In any case, the guards eventually got in their way… while sweating bullets.

"We have come to sell weapons and armor to the specialized shops of the town," Branden declared. "Is that possible?"

The guards looked at each other, unsure of that… They knew Rain, and they knew that he didn't need weapons, and the town was actually needing a lot of them since they were sent to the war.

"... You aren't part of the usual group of merchants that visits our town, so we will have to keep escorting you during the whole time," one of the guards said.

"That will be fine, thank you," Branden said while smiling.

Rain wondered if there were no traces not of civility inside him… because he thought that the whole exchange was a waste of time. If they didn't want to let the group enter, Rain would force them to stand down. He also thought that pretending that they had to be diplomatic with those that send soldiers to kill him was also a waste of time.

At first, the group didn't draw much attention since few people had seen famous figures like Branden and Esmeralda… still, the soldiers that surrendered in the previous battle began to spread rumors about them… despite that, the merchants who wanted armor and weapons readily bought them them thanks to the thirty percent off.

"Stop here… I want to check this building," Rain suddenly said.