Chapter 83 – Rejection (Start)
Spring. It was a season when the sunlight was warming. Similarly, it was also a rather rainy season.
Seeming to be jealous of how sunshine enjoyed the beauty of spring, another bout of rain descended. This bout of rain fell for a very long time. The fine drizzling gently caressed the newly sprouted out grass, buds and moistened the soil.
The hanging gallows at the town entrance had long been dismantled. The faint traces on the ground had also already been longed dulled since the first day of rain.
Shifting back to the day when the divine judgement occurred. On that day, Dennis was revoked of his qualifications as a Priest, before then being encircled by a crowd and hanged at the entrance of the town. At the same time, because of the descent of divine favour, the second Miss had also out of expectations, become the main representing Priest of the Shrine.
Divine judgement. Divine favour. These two matters had both formerly caused a sensation in town for a period.
At the time, Rumont had also personally watched the scene in which Dennis was hanged. Watching this former enemy struggling against the rope, spitting out his tongue and gradually losing his breathing; ultimately swaying about in the wind.
At the same time he was at ease, for some unknown reason, Rumont had abruptly and suddenly had a really strange sensation. It was kind of bleak and desolate.
This sensation more or less affected Rumont’s mood. However, he still watched at a far away distance, as a soldier dragged away the Priest’s corpse like a dead dog.
Once the former status of glory was loss, then one would become worse than a dog or pig. Reality. It was also the truth. Watching as the corpse was being dragged into the distance, Rumont released a sigh, and also considered the recent short events as being written off.
And when he departed, he did not discover that a horse carriage had just stopped at an inconspicuous location, and that the Baron had just lifted the corner of the carriage curtains, coldly gazing towards his back.
After the events of the divine judgement, the town of Ricca had again recovered its former tranquility.
There would occasionally be people who would talk about the matters of the divine judgement at the time. However, time truly was a weapon to be able to erase any object. Regardless of whether it was the laments at that time or the former astonishments, everything would gradually and easily be erased by the passages of time. Moreover, the busy period of spring had already arrived. At this time, the residents of the small town would for the most part, place their attentions onto their bustling jobs. Even when the matters of the divine judgement that day were occasionally mentioned, with the passage of time, slowly, the people that would also mention it would be fewer and fewer. The more interesting and fresher news would occupy their attention; the matters of the spreading rumours was what the common folk loved to discuss during the normal times.
And along with the weather becoming increasingly warmer, the new missions that the Adventurers Guild issued out would also gradually increase. The Adventurers would also gradually no longer discuss about this certain topic.
Although the matter of the divine judgement had caused a sensation for a period, ultimately, it had also settled down.
The Adventurers, as usual, would frequent Briar Forest. Rumont also followed Howard’s squadron as usual, continuously carrying out his own mission; but he no longer participated in missions with the involvement of beasts.
At this time, the job of drafting a map had already made major progress, Rumont had already recorded the outer area of Briar Forest, newly appointed as “Forest Edge”; approximately semi-detailed. On one side, he had roughly drafted the map we would give to the Baron, on the other side, he had left himself a map that had detailed annotations of his own thoughts, and the former opinions given to him by others.
“Rumont, go home, have a good wash and go to sleep. We had unexpectedly chanced upon a few days of rain for this mission; man it’s really unlucky.” on this day, Howard’s squadron yet again came back from within Briar Forest. This time, they had subsequently finished the uncompleted mission from last time. Unfortunately, because in this period of time the Adventurer squad had encountered a few days of uninterrupted rain for their mission, everyone’s clothes were still damp. Once they exited the forest, they had the impulsive thoughts of immediately returning and changing into completely dry clothings
Because of the matter of last time, the favourable impressions Commander Howard had for Rumont would naturally again raise another notch. Thus, he had especially taken care of Rumont in the venture this time. And during the matter of the allocation of gold, Howard’s squadron members and Lancas’ squadron members, all had an even higher evaluation of Rumont’s character.
After the matter of the divine judgement, the ample spoils of battle that they obtained last time from the underground rooms, a portion was given to the families of the deceased squadron members. Of the remaining money from the spoils of battle, according to the customs of mercenaries, 90 percent of it was divided equally to the 30 members of the two squads. The remaining 10 percent was given to Rumont.
This was because of Rumont’s strength that had turned around a perilous situation.
Even though Rumont required even more money to ever increase his own power, but if he had completely seized all of the money for himself, he was afraid that he would have no small amount of troubles. This way, as the others saw it, being left with only about 10 percent, it would both leave behind a good name of not being greedy, which would deepen his own relationships between the Adventurers, and he would also be able to obtain some material worth that truly belonged to himself. 10 percent of the gold was also truly no small amount; being about 600 or so.
This sum of money, adding to the money he earnt from opening a store, as well as the laundered money he obtained from last them, all together was enough to reach 3000 gold coins. This was a tremendous sum of money. So long as he was able obtain a plot of land, his own Druidic base of operations would be easily established quite quickly. Each time he thought about this, Rumont’s mood would change for the better.
Hearing Commander Howard’s words, and because of sensing of his own breakthrough, Rumont, whose mood had all along been good, smiled: “you can’t say that it was unlucky. If it wasn’t for this rain, the mission wouldn’t have been completed this fast as well, right?”
“Haha! That’s true. If it wasn’t because of this rain, the footprints of the Scarlet Fox wouldn’t have been found this quickly by us. It’s fighting strength wouldn’t have been weakened either. Saying it like this, we really need to thank this bout of rain eh.” Howard haha laughed, hearing the end of Rumont’s words.
The party of people talked and laughed as they went towards the town. At the intersection to the town, because of wanting to hurry to the Adventurers Guild to turn in their mission, Howard and the others took the chance here to split up with Rumont.
After Rumont returned to the drugstore, he first took a nice hot bath, before just changing his body into completely dry clothings and laid in bed; reviewing each trickling event in his mind that had occurred to himself in the forest this time.
The areas he needed to improve on. The areas he did inadequately. Rumont recalled each moment. Afterwards, he closed his eyes and submerged his consciousness into the spatial region of the Shennong Horn.
The area within the spatial region at this time was already 5 mu. Within this short period of time, the 30 fruit trees had also grown taller by no small amount, furthermore, it also began to bear the smallest of fruits. Presumably not too long after, he would be able to eat non-seasonal fruits again.
And last time he came, there were still separated rows of green budding herbs. At this moment, they were already so high. Casting his gaze over, it was a field of verdant green; this growing potential was utterly joyful.
The light globe within the spatial region was still hanging high above. Because in this short period, the outside of the spatial region was also usually cloudy and rainy without end, thus the light globe was also beginning to darken; but it still performed its function, spilling its light over each corner of the spatial region, warming all the living things.
A zephyr blew over, rippling the waters in the streamlet. Several honey bees were bustling and flying about the surface of the water. On the bank of the streamlet was a row of mesmerizing florets, their beauty were just blossoming. The atmosphere of the spatial region was suffused with the fragrance of flowers.
Every time that Rumont entered this place, he would always have an extraordinarily unrestrained feeling like the kind of returning to home. He strolled on the small pathway on the edge of the streamlet, continuously examining the growing situation of the plants. Habitually staying within the spatial region for long durations, a dull exhausting feeling would then be set upon the mind. But this time, for some unknown reason when he extracted his mind from the spatial region, he nevertheless still felt that his own mental strength was still as vigorous.
Merely this time, Rumont still worried about a certain matter. He beckoned with his mind. A dull flickering light mote soon appeared in the front of him and rapidly enlarged, transforming into a semi-translucent data screen. The data screen brought with it a dull light as it floated within his field of view, a large amount of figures appeared in front of him.
Name: Qian Pinji (Rumont)
Biological Race: Human (Rank 2 Unknown blood meridian activated)
Occupation: Highest Authoritative Spatial Overlord, Rank 3 Druid
Attributes: Strength 12 (10), Agility 16 (10), Constitution 12 (10), Intelligence 14 (10), Wisdom 16 (10), Charisma 15 (10)
“I’ve really broken through to a Rank 3 Druid as expected. Not only that, but every value has also substantially increased?” Rumont murmured as he read the information. His face showed at once a pleasantly surprised and understanding expression.
In fact, the increase of Strength and Constitution had already been sensed after the last matter with Lancas. When he returned, he had sensed that his speed had increased by a lot and furthermore, during the time he was travelling in Briar Forest he had sensed it had be comparatively easier by many times. During times of battling beasts while holding onto his sword, in terms of strength, it had also increased by good deal.
However at the time, Rumont did not have the time to carefully inspect what had occurred within his own body. Not until recently, when he suddenly sensed he had broken through.
With the current leisure time and a careful assumption, the all around numerical increase was quite possibly related to the matter of last times’ venture. It was possibly largely related to having experienced a life or death situation once, and thus, each category had a breakthrough.
However, the bigger possibility was the power within the icon that bubbled throughout his body and had at the same time it treated his body, it had also altered his physique; making each of his values have such a large leap this time.
Speaking of that small wooden idol, ever since Rumont had nearly died last time, after that sharing of power that had bubbled through and healed him, he had always felt that the power had not been a one time use, but instead it had only used a small portion of itself, that the vast majority of the power from the idol was completely concealed within his body and hidden away. He had a rather strange feeling thinking about this, but since Rumont couldn’t do anything about it, he could only let things take their own course.
Regardless of how it was, each of his values had been increased, in addition, he had also accidentally advanced to a Rank 3 Druid; this was honestly a pleasantly surprising affair.
It must be understood that advancing to Rank 3 from Rank 2 as a Druid, was no longer as easy as when advancing to Rank 2 from Rank 1. Being able to advance this fast to a Rank 3 Druid, regardless if it was taking another step forward in cultivation, his status would also be raise in real life.
Druid Rank 2 Spells.
Barkskin1, Brute Force2, Agility3, Gust of Wind4, Comfort Animal5, Lesser Dispel6, Lesser Restoration7, Mass Camouflage8, Elemental Resistance9, Rank 2 Creature Summoning10, Entanglement.
After a while of observing his Nature ability again, Rumont’s face also displayed an excited smile. All in all, his Nature ability had been increased by roughly 60 percent.
Without doubt, even more worth noting was the phrase “Rank 2 Unknown blood meridian activated”. Thus so far, he was still unclear of the differences his body showed!
1. [樹膚術]↩
2. [蠻力術]↩
3. [輕靈術]↩
4. [造風術]↩
5. [動物定身術]↩
6. [次級解除魔法]↩
7. [次級複原術]↩
8. [群體偽裝術]↩
9. [抵抗元素傷害]↩
10. [二級怪物召喚術]↩
Bo~ 
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