Noah was standing on the ground with his eyes closed.
His torso was naked and, on his back, two pairs of black wings were opened wide.
Then, black smoke engulfed the wings and they began to flap at an even rhythm.
Noah’s body slowly rose in the air until it reached five ters of altitude.
Noah stayed in the air for a while before carefully alighting back on the ground.
He heaved a long breath while retracting the wings.
’This is as much as I can do for now, humans don’t seem too fit for flight.’
In this period of ti, he stopped his trip to continue testing his ability to fly.
However, even if he managed to rise in the air, his aerial control was lacking.
Humans were beings that walked on the ground, the sky wasn’t their domain.
They didn’t have the innate instincts of a flying beast so Noah could only put more training in that field to solve the issue.
’There is also the problem of the ntal energy’s consumption. Damn, if I hadn’t lost more than one year of training stuck in the inner circle now things would be smoother.’
He shook his head and returned to his position on the tree branch.
Since he could not obtain back his wasted ti he would just train more!
His ntal energy had beco his main focus since his strongest spell heavily depended on it.
Noah decided to resu his travel with an even harder training schedule.
His nights were completely devoted to the cultivation technique, while during the morning he pushed his limits on the second Kesier rune.
He would then sleep for a few hours and train his flight as he woke up.
He spent the rest of the ti marching toward Shelfan Mountain.
More weeks passed.
Noah’s escape had occurred almost two months ago by then as he arrived at the base of the mountain.
In this month and a half of strenuous training, all his centers of power except for the body had beco stronger.
He exuded a cold and sharp aura which seed denser in contrast to his previous state.
He chose to put his weapons inside the space-ring in order to prevent any resemblance with his forr figure from being displayed.
His head was covered with a black hood as he gazed at the rocky slope of the mountain.
’On the other side, there is Ebonrest city. The peak of the mountain is classified as a danger zone but its path is inhabited by small villages that live of mining precious minerals. There should be even a public market along the way, maybe I should accumulate so money before arriving at the city.’
He stood still, reviewing the knowledge he accumulated when he set his escape routes.
He possessed a lot of weapons that he had no use of and since he never had to worry about buying anything, he had no idea about the prices of this world.
He began to climb the mountain.
As Noah moved along its path, many simple houses began to appear in the environnt.
The inhabitants were mostly n with a skinny complexion, they seed to be on the verge of starving to death as they carried heavy pickaxes on their shoulders.
Noah ignored them and they did the sa with him, there wasn’t much cordiality around that place.
He encountered many of these settlents as he continued to move forward and the situation of the residents was the sa every ti.
’I guess that they are exploited by the family managing the market, I don’t sense any cultivator among them so they can only be used for manual labor. I believe that many of them won’t survive for much longer.’
The society worked in the sa way as the noble families: weak people were exploited to enrich the already powerful ones.
When he was nearing the market, he saw with his ntal energy that so of the healthier n stared at him whispering between themselves.
’Considering my luck, this will lead to trouble.’
Of course, he was right.
As soon as he moved for a few kiloters away from the last village he passed through, a group of n with so rusty weapons blocked his path.
Noah recognized one of the villagers among the group and noticed a couple of cultivators between them.
However, he felt no sense of danger at all looking at them.
The man in the middle of the group was tall and wielded a big hamr with both his hands.
He stepped forward toward Noah and spoke with an intimidating voice.
"You, leave all the valuable items in your possession and we will let you live."
Noah sighed and shook his head, he put his hand inside his clothes and materialized one of the weapons of the Lansay family.
After taking it out, he raised it in the air in front of him to show it to the thieves.
"Hey, I’ve been aning to ask, how much is this one worth?"
The n were a bit surprised by his young voice but then their eyes lit up seeing the good manufacture of the weapon.
"Haha! That’s a good blade! What else do you have?"
’Are they stupid or simply blinded by their hunger?’
How could be possible that a young man traveled alone in this part of the mountain during this period of ti?
’I thought that they would have understood sothing from my voice at least.’
He shook his head again.
"Listen, I need a guide for the market. I can promise so rewards if you do a good job so why don’t you drop this act? With your ager strength, you could at best defeat a rank 2 magical beast."
The n’s eyes widened again hearing his words.
Laughter began to spread in the group but the cultivators exchanged a concerned stare between each other.
Noah had evaluated their battle prowess quite accurately and that put the cultivators on guard of the young man.
They stared at Noah in silence trying to decide their course of action.
Noah, however, was already at the limits of his patience.
If it was a normal situation, he wouldn’t have hesitated to teach these weaklings a morable lesson but he was doing his best to avoid creating any trace of his passage.
He focused and a pressure began to radiate from his figure which silenced the thieves who raised their weapons in fear.
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