The Dungeon Conquerors: Journey to the Peak

Chapter 157: Ch 157: Preparations Done

For the first day Rein decided to check the mountain out while he gave Colinde some sword forms to practice first. Only after mastering them would Colinde be able to learn true swordsmanship from Rein. She would not need a lot of space for this so she was going to do the practice inside the inn room.

After reaching the area close to the nameless mountain range with a rainy weather, Rein encountered rain for the first time after his awakening. And what Rein felt was hard to describe. He felt as if in his current situation he could even conquer the whole world.

Rein then started to check his current strength on some rocks by the side of the road. He already had a good idea about his current strength without any boost so he was capable of judging how much stronger the boost made him.

As soon as Rein's punch connected with the rock, it immediately broke. Rein was still a child and his passive skill gave his very hard skin with good defense but he was nowhere near strong enough to break a rock in two.

As the rock was unable to take Rein's full strength, he was unable to properly judge his current power level. So he continued his experiments on other rocks. Only after breaking over a few dozens of rocks, finally Rein was able to gain a decent idea about his boosted strength.

This Rain Gain skill of his was quite powerful. Without the restrictions of only being usable in Rain, this skill would definitely have been broken. His power had gotten stronger by about 70 times and he did not even have to pay any sacrifice to get this boost. It was truly amazing.

With this many of his plans could be brought forward and he would be able to start completing achievements soon. Today he was planning to get the achievement of hunting a great beast with his bare hands which would give his 250 points. m|vle mp _yr novel source

Great beasts were wild beasts who had also managed to awaken an ability. Almost all humans were able to awaken one ability but for the beasts it was different. Almost none among them were able to develop one and it was extremely rare.

But on the other hand, the average quality of a human's skill was very low. Most of the people awakened only useless abilities. But for the beasts it was a different story. All the skills that they awakened were powerful ones and helped them in fighting. That was the reason why great beasts were seen as a form of terror for people who had not managed to awaken a powerful ability.

He had already collected some information about the great beasts living in this mountain. No one had a good idea about it but they were at least able to tell Rein about the location of one of the beasts and that Beast was going to be Rein's first major opponent in this world.

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The beast Rein was going to fight was a bull. It had awakened a water elemental skill and was able to shoot out powerful water blades that could even cut a person in half. One of the rich merchants of the city had once encountered it in this mountain range and that was how Rein knew about it.

There was a lake at the top of the maintain and a rare kind of grass grew in that place. That grass did not have any special value to humans but some of the people said that herbivorous animals really liked the taste of this grass. That was also the reason why this bull was living in that mountain.

Rein went up the mountain and soon was able to find the bull. With its large size, it was actually hard to not find it easily. First Rein wanted to judge the power of the bull so he did not use his full boosted strength and punched the bull.

Even that weakened punch was not easy to take and the bull was pushed back. But that was all, it was not hurt and soon started to fight back. With a roar from the bull, the water of the lake rose up and took the shape of a blade. Then they were thrown at Rein with great speed.

Rein dodged them and while doing so allowed some of the blades to slightly graze his body. He did this to check both the power of the blade and the defence of his body. Those blades were not able to only leave scratches on his body so his defence was still a bit superior. But Rein was also sure that if he took a direct hit then his skin would definitely be pierced.

So he closed the distance between them and baited the bull to attack him physically. With his large body, that bull was quite confident in its physical prowess and attacked Rein immediately. Rein took this chance to parry the bull's charge and threw it on the ground. He followed that with a few hard full forced punches on the bull's skull to finish it off.

Even though Rein won the battle and got his first few achievement points, he was not very happy about it. After fighting the bull he understood that he would not have been able to defeat the bull without the boost from his Rain Gain skill. Which was a problem as it would be impossible for him to get the chance to always fight in rainy weather.

But at the same time he also understood that in the rain he was truly almost invisible. He realised that after he noticed a few things. First of all, in Rein it was not only his physical strength that was getting a boost but his body's regeneration capability was also off the charts.

But most importantly he realised that in the rain, he was able to utilise his Furnace Body a lot more as the restrictions of his weak body disappeared because of Rain Gain. With this Rein would be able to be a bit reckless when investigating this area.

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As soon as he made the decision, he immediately started to investigate the whole mountain range. Obviously it was impossible to do it in just a day or two, so he built a small but sturdy house at the bottom of the mountain. He and Colinde were going to live here from now on.

That was how Rein started to live in the mountainside alongside his fiancee. They hunted the beasts and demons on the mountain and used them for their living. For the time being Rien was only selling the beast parts as this city did not have the infrastructure to buy demon materials. He was planning to sell them in a bigger city when they would start travelling toward the Divine Scale Pavillion.

There were actually quite a few demons on this mountain and all of them were hiding very well. Rein found out that Colinde's Demon Slaying Sword also allowed her to instinctively find hiding demons and that was the main reason why they were able to hunt so many demons.

The boost she gained against a demon was truly great and even though it was not as good as Rein's Rain Gain but it was still able to make her about 50 times stronger.

Colinde also had some talent with the sword as she was able to master it to a certain decent degree in just a year. Her talent was not really astonishing but it was good enough to make her a sword master. In the meantime Rein also did lots of experiments and understood his skills in a very detailed degree.

Just like that three years passed and it was time for Rein and Colinde to leave their small mountain home. They had now gotten considerably stronger than before and were looking forward to what a new bigger city had to offer.