The Reincarnation of the Kingmaker

Chapter 113: Kayn's decision

Rattle!

Rattle!

Rattle!

At this moment, a continuous flow of spiders went and passed by below Kayn's feet as he hang on top of a tunnel that leads to a dead end. There is barely any space inside this tunnel and it also isn't sufficiently long to even be considered a tunnel in the first place, more like a long hole. Nevertheless, it is dark enough to hide his body completely using the shadow.

"Just continue hiding, I'll inform you once it's finally safe for you to come down," Natas reminded Kayn.

Contrary to Kayn who is hiding, Natas is just casually hopping from the back of one spider to another as if he is playing some sort of game.

As someone who practically exists but at the same time doesn't, Natas could basically do whatever he wants and no one could stop him.

Kayn can't help feeling slightly jealous of Natas, but when he remembered the fact that the latter is very weak right now, such thoughts instantly disappeared.

Nearly an hour passed before the area was finally cleared of any spiders.

"You can go down now,"

Hearing that, Kayn no longer hesitated to jump to the ground. He was already feeling numb as he hangs onto the wall using his dagger. If he wasn't a Hero, he wouldn't have been able to handle it for that long period of time.

"Let's go back to the way we came from,"

"I suggest you don't,"

"Is there any problem with that place?"

"Do you seriously want to go back to the Green Horn Village?"

"Why not?"

"Going back would simply hinder your growth rate,"

Over the past two days, Natas silently observed what Kayn was doing in the Green Horn Village. All this time, aside from gathering the materials on the list, the other thing he did was kill a small number of monsters. Because of that, he barely leveled up.

Considering that Kayn came from the future, to merely level up by ten times in two days is the worst achievement of all.

Back when World President Nicholas reincarnated back to the past, he leveled up by thirty times given the same span of time as Kayn.

In the previous planets he had visited in the past as well; all the people who were given a chance to reincarnate back to the past started leveling up at a very fast rate.

That's to be expected though. After all, they have knowledge of the future plus the experience to temporarily replace their lack of sufficient skill and capability. As a result of taking advantage of that, their rate of improvement has always been rated by their race as never been done before.

"You've probably adapted to life in 'The Bridge' already by now. So, there's no need for you to continue the way of 'The Bridge' that Old Chief George has made for you,"

"And if you can't help worrying about it, I have already looked through all of it and had memorized all of them in my mind," Natas pointed to his head. "If you want to complete all of them still, you can do it while at the same time, we focus on what we came here to do from the start,"

"Then how about Chief Kylo?" Kayn is worried that Chief Kylo would endanger his life.

"Chief Kylo barely saw you, and even if he recognizes your face, as an assassin, you could probably make some small modification to it to prevent him from easily recognizing you,"

He could indeed do that and he had even considered doing it all this time. However, because Old Chief George seems to want to achieve something else, he decided not to. Also, it was quite convenient for him because he doesn't have to reveal such skill to Friedrich and the others.

Honestly, his situation right now is exactly like what Natas had expected before — he is having trouble trusting people.

The way he trusts them now is no different from just temporarily trusting them.

He trusts them today, then he no longer trusts them tomorrow.

There was even one person that he previously trusted an hour ago, but the next hour, he no longer trusted that person.

And all of that, he experienced in the past two days.

"Let me think about it," Kayn can't instantly come to a conclusion. "In the meantime, let's find another way out,"

"I've already scouted a path earlier. Let's go over there!"

Following the lead of Natas, Kayn soon started seeing grass and tree roots along the way.

Eventually, he notices some holes above him where sunrays would poke. Unfortunately, because of the hardened rocks, he couldn't just simply dig his way through it.

In the next half an hour, he finally arrived at the end of the tunnel.

Right in front of him is a seemingly endless grassland that encompasses a few hills over the distance.

"That wasn't hard," Kayn felt slightly surprised at how easy it was to get out.

"You were already very close to the surface, to begin with," Natas rolled his eyes. "Anyways, have you come to a decision yet?"

"Yes," Because there were no longer any spiders chasing after him along the way, thus he had a lot of free time to think about Natas' proposition.

"Let's start our adventure,"

That was the choice that Kayn decided.

He remembered that Old Chief George told him that the goal of the way of 'The Bridge' aside from helping him adapt to this place is for him to stay in the latter's territory for as long as possible.

Since that's the case, then why bother continuing to stay, right?

Furthermore, he can still complete the way of 'The Bridge' even if he is no longer in the Green Horn Village.

Fortunately, he always carried a map of 'The Bridge' in his Storage Ring.

After observing and taking note of important locations drawn on the map, he finally embarks on his journey.

"Our first stop is the Canyonside Town,"

Canyonside Town. Just like what its name suggests, it is a Town located along a canyon. The canyon though is one of the well-known gathering spots in 'The Bridge' just like Split Mountain.

The canyon is called the Springwater Canyon. It got its name because right at the very center of the canyon is a river that came from an underground spring.

His reason for choosing Canyonside Town is because it's one of the territories that isn't an ally to the Green Horn Village and is not involved in the war currently happening right now, at least not yet.

Also, there's an important material that he has to find in the Springwater Canyon called the Spring Source Bonsai. The reason for its name is already self-explanatory — simply put, it is the source of the spring water that flows in the Springwater Canyon.

Needless to say, he was only going to borrow the Spring Source Bonsai, rather than steal it, and return it once he is done. That's because it is one of the few necessary items he needed to get to the final item they are looking for in 'The Bridge'.

To tell the truth, he was already planning back then when he was still in the Green Horn Village to go to the Canyonside Town once he was allowed the freedom to start exploring 'The Bridge' from Old Chief George.

"According to the map, the Canyonside Town isn't far from where we currently are, which is the Hills Valley," Kayn felt like talking as he started getting bored.

The Hills Valley is one of the safest places in 'The Bridge'. And because of that, there's no monster to be seen nor even a single Human being.

"Why would no one go to such a beautiful place?" Kayn wonders although he already knows the reason why. Since the Hills Valley is safe, there's no profit to get from this place. In addition to that, there are no materials to be found here, too. Hence, there is not even a single person gathering in the area to be found.

"Just continue walking,"

"We'd be able to start seeing the Springwater Canyon after ten kilometers or so,"

"More than ten thousand meters?!" Natas was surprised as he instantly turns his head to look at Kayn. "Since that's the case, instead of continuing to walk right now, we should start setting up a camp already,"

"It's still morning,"

"What do you mean morning? It's already afternoon!"

"What?!"

He nearly forgot. Because they were inside the cave, it became very difficult for them to get a clear grasp of the exact time. The serious and dire situation back then also prevented them from thinking about such a small detail like what time it is.

"It's going to be nighttime soon,"

"That's really bad!"

Even though the Hills Valley is considered one of the safest places in 'The Bridge', it isn't actually entirely safe and such a case truthfully only applies when the sun is still up.

The moment the sun goes down and it's nighttime, multiple monsters would be using the Hills Valley as somewhat like a bridge to cross to the other areas around it, like Springwater Canyon and Split Mountain.

Without wasting any time, Kayn went to look for another tunnel as they have already gone far away from the tunnel he exited from and it is going to waste a lot of time to try and find it again.

Other than a tunnel on the ground, there's practically no other hiding place to be found in such an open area.

"Over there," Natas pointed towards what seemed to look like a hobbit hole. There is no house nor was it even a living quarter though. It was simply just a hole dug into the side of a slope.