Death... and me

Their group moved to a teleport formation not too far from the gate they entered. After queueing for a few minutes, the entire caravan began to teleport in small parts until all of them disappeared. A single teleport later, the caravan soon appeared in the center of the over 200-kilometer long Cosec City.

As they arrived at the center, Rean looked around, being left speechless as he commented through Divine Sense with Roan, Kentucky, and Celis, 'Impressive. Even in the capitals of empires, you wouldn't see stores that big. Some of them probably have several hundred floors. Even with Earth's technology, it would be a challenge to build anything like those.'

'Probably that's because they're also kept stable through formations,' Roan could not help but mention. 'Otherwise, I can't see how there are so many of them. It has to have a certain degree of ease for this place to be like this.'

[That's exactly the case.] Sister Orb's voice echoed in their minds as she explained. [I can feel many formations working below the structures, and the impressive thing is that they aren't that high level.]

'They aren't?' Rean couldn't help but ask. 'You mean they're Earth-level formations?'

[Oh! I forgot to tell you about this.]

Rean could already feel like it was something important the useless AI forgot. At least, it would be for him.

[Here in the Realm of Gods, Formations, Blacksmithing, Talismans, Alchemy, and so on...anyways, to make things short, all side-occupations have a different categorization. Instead of Earth and Heaven-level, they call it the Bronze and Silver level.]

'As I thought, you really know how to forget important things.'

[Ahem...] Sister Orb ignored Rean's words as she continued. [Naturally, Silver is the equivalent to Heaven-level. Then, you have Golden-level, which wasn't something available for the cultivators and demon beasts back in the Realm of Mortals. The World Beast Formation you activated back then was a step even higher. That was definitely something built by a person from the Realm of Gods.]

'A step even higher? Do you mean above Golden-level?'

[Yes. Each level has substages. For example, Bronze Low, Middle, High, and Peak-level. The same goes for the Silver and Golden levels. Rean, Roan, you two are at the Silver Middle-Level for Formations, Blacksmithing, and Alchemy. After you reach the peak of the Golden-level, your next step would be the Divine level. Last but not least, there's the God level. Well, there's no point in thinking about the Divine or God levels at the moment. You still have a long way to go before you even enter the Golden level.]

Rean and Roan nodded after hearing that. They took decades to reach their current positions, and it's only natural that it would take them even longer to reach higher.

Nevertheless, Rean and Roan's curiosity were piqued. 'Let's visit the Formations, Blacksmith, and Alchemy organizations of the Lukimira Sect later.'

Cynthia didn't know what they were talking about as she called their attention. "Alright, we've arrived at the Merchant Guild of Cosec City. The other guards and I are heading inside to receive our payments for this protection job. Do you want to come inside as well?"

Rean immediately nodded. After all, he had to care about money. "Sure, let's take a look."

However, just as they were about to enter, the guard in front of the guild stopped their group as he told them, "The demon beasts have to be put in the waiting area. They can't enter." Well, that was to be expected as Celis and especially Kentucky was quite big. Not to mention that those guards didn't know they had sentience. "Also, please keep someone with them as demon beasts of Stage Five or above must be accompanied by their masters. That's to prevent them from going out of control."

Kentucky's mouth twitched after hearing that. 'I don't have a master, idiot.' or so he wanted to say. Sadly, he knew he shouldn't talk in the middle of the city to avoid trouble.

Roan then separated from Rean there, telling him, "Go ahead and check out the things you need. I'll keep an eye on them."

Rean nodded and quickly followed Cynthia inside the Merchant Guild. Around an hour later, Rean came out with Cynthia, carrying a new badge in his hand. "I got to join the Merchant Guild. Later, if we decide to open a shop or something in the city, we'll need it."

Roan understood what Rean was aiming to do, so he asked through their Soul Connection, 'You're going to sell your weapons, right? Do you intend to use that Elemental Gathering ability on them?'

Rean shook his head as he replied, 'No. I've talked with the guard in the caravan for them to let me test their weapons. However, none of them had the Elemental Gathering property. I also inquired if they had something capable of gathering elements, but they told me only weapons with inscriptions had that ability.'

'Inscriptions? That's the side-branch of the formations, isn't it? I believe you've already used some on the White and Dark Stars.' Roan still remembered the time Rean forged the Dark Star with his help.

Rean nodded in response, saying, 'Yes, it's pretty much similar. It's just that they use Divine Energy instead of Spiritual Energy. I'll have to make a few modifications to our White and Dark Stars later. Anyways, my technique is a lot more advanced than theirs when it comes to Elemental Gathering. That's because the metals I forge don't need inscriptions to gather them. Simply put, my weapons can save a lot of space for inscriptions, which is definitely something huge. Of course, I'll have to pay a visit to the Blacksmith Hall in Lukimira Sect later to see if they really don't know anything as we didn't have any blacksmiths in our caravan.'

Roan understood what Rean meant. 'I remember when you explained it to me before. Inscriptions are basically formations but much smaller. Weapons are just so big, so the inscriptions to gather elements already take up a lot of space. Not to mention that the weapons themselves have a limit of how many inscriptions they can hold without breaking. If the blacksmiths here find out about your method, we might get in trouble.'

Rean smiled in response after hearing that. 'It's good that you understand. Oh well, we'll act accordingly to the situation.'