Chapter 125: Offending the Junior will bring the Senior, Elder, and Ancestor

After walking for a few hours, Kayn and Jude finally arrived at the Sea Spring Village.

"Next time, you give me the map," Kayn berated Jude. After leaving Charles, Jude suddenly took the map from him, saying that he would lead the way in case he doesn't know which direction to go. In the end, they got lost. Fortunately, he is very good at reading maps, so after a few detours and such, they finally saw a road that leads to the Sea Spring Village over the distance.

"I know.." Jude lowed his head down. He still felt slightly embarrassed at his actions earlier ago because he turned himself into a joke instead of his initial intention of making a good impression on Kayn.

After handing down their IDs and doing a routine check with the soldier guarding the gate of the Sea Spring Village, Kayn and Jude were finally granted entry to the territory.

They already have a clear objective in vising the Sea Spring Village, so they immediately went to ask the soldier guarding the gate for directions to the market as they then made their way toward the location.

Along the way, Kayn carefully observes the surroundings in order to get a better understanding of the Sea Spring Village.

"Isn't it strange? They use shells, corals, and other materials found in the ocean to construct their houses and buildings," Jude muttered after noticing Kayn looking around.

"That's to be expected for a territory constructed near the ocean,"

"There are plenty of woods around them, caves to gather stones and ores, yet they still decided to use such unreliable and fragile materials,"

"It adds to their tourism value,"

Jude narrowed his eyes together. "I agree. But shouldn't the first thing they make sure to pay attention to is whether their houses and buildings are resistant and sturdy enough? After all, rebuilding a territory would cost a lot of coins, not to mention manpower,"

"I understand your point. Just the same, you also have to pay attention that this is merely a Village and not a Town," Looking around at the considerable influx of people visiting the Sea Spring Village, Kayn continued, "As long as the amount of people visiting this territory remains like this, they should have more than enough funds to construct two or more Sea Spring Village if they want,"

"I see," Jude realized his mistake. He suddenly realized something, "How come you're so familiar with this?"

"Once we leave 'The Bridge', you'd be able to understand why," He obviously plans to use his status of being the son-in-law of Mayor Sebastian to explain his knowledge. Though honestly, he has simply experienced far too many things in the past that's why he could easily clarify and enlighten Jude of his narrow thinking.

"I can't wait to see that,"

Kayn and Jude continued talking about some random topics and after some time, they eventually reached the market.

"You go buy all food we need while I go take care of other matters," Jude informs Kayn.

"Wait!" Kayn called out.historical

"Why?"

"I don't have any money.."

"What?!" Jude exclaimed in disbelief.

"I lost it during the fight,"

"You didn't store it inside your Storage Ring?"

"I don't like putting my money inside my Storage Ring. It takes up space, and I also tend to forget that I've stored them inside," In truth, he already spent all coins he had in his possession in the Canyonside Town, buying all sorts of materials he would be needing in his journey — a journey alone to be exact.

Heaving a sigh of helplessness, Jude threw Kayn a pouch full of coins amounting to 500, "Make sure to spend it wisely,"

"I will," Kayn nodded. This time, he plans to save as much coin as possible so that he can keep the rest to himself.

After bidding a temporary farewell to Jude, Kayn immediately proceeded to buy different consumables that can last the three of them for a month regardless of what condition. And because they have dozens of Springwater Source Bonsai, they don't need to worry about drinkable water anymore.

As Kayn was buying different consumables from various stores, Natas suddenly informs him that some thieves are secretly following him.

"That was my goal," Kayn muttered.

"Why?"

"You'll see," Kayn smirks before handing a merchant three coins in exchange for his purchase.

"How many are there?"

"About five,"

"Should be good enough,"

"Even if there are five times their number, they'd still not be able to defeat you,"

"Put that aside. Can you go and find me an empty alley?"

"I've already found one," Natas was intending to remind Kayn to watch out for the alleys, especially the empty alleys, so that he won't get himself into trouble. Unexpectedly, it seems like Kayn intends to get into trouble instead.

Natas pointed to an alley not far from their front.

Following the direction, Kayn soon got inside the alley.

As expected, the five thieves immediately followed after him.

Soon after, Kayn heard one of the thieves talking to him.

"My, my, my, I didn't expect that our prey would send himself to us,"

Kayn immediately turned around. In front of him, he saw the five thieves each carrying an iron sword in their hands.

"If you don't want to die, kindly hand all the consumables you've bought and hand us the rest of your coins,"

"Before I do that, can I ask for your name?"

"People in our line of work call me Fast Hand,"

"Fast Hand? Is it because your hand moves fast?"

"That's right,"

"No wonder you choose to become a thief,"

"Enough about that! Hand me what I asked! Otherwise, you will die!"

"Last question," Kayn didn't wait for Fast Hand's response as he continued, "How many coins have you earned today?"

With a proud look on his face, Fast Hand's responded, "I earn enough to keep me alive for a week,"

"That's good,"

As soon as Kayn finished talking, he instantly arrived in front of Fast Hand with a dagger pointing at the latter's neck. "I also want to keep myself alive for a week. So, why don't you hand me your coins instead?"

Seeing Kayn in front of their leader, the other members can't help stepping back.

"That includes the four of you as well," Kayn pointed another dagger in their direction.

Despite giving them a warning, the four still continued retreating away from him.

With a wave of his hand, the dagger hit the shoulder of one of the retreating thieves which instantly cut it away from his shoulder.

The unlucky thief couldn't help himself kneeling on the ground in pain. Nevertheless, he didn't scream in fear that it would alert the soldiers patrolling the market. Even though he is the one who got injured, it still isn't that difficult to conclude that they are trying to rob Kayn.

"That's my second warning. If you don't return to your place this instant, I assure you that the second dagger would no longer hit your arm,"

Upon seeing the unlucky thief, the three other thieves hastily returned to their initial position. The former also tried his best to return.

"Now, hand me all your coins,"

....

After a few minutes, Kayn walked out of the alley with five leather pouches full of coins. He didn't count how much exactly was inside, but he is certain that it is more than a thousand coins.

"Did you plan that from the start?" Natas can't help asking.

"This is something I've learned back in the days of being an assassin,"

In the past, whenever he runs out of funds, he would immediately go to a public market and start buying as many random materials. Such action would instantly attract thieves nearby because they would instantly assume that he has a lot of money within him.

"Sure is helpful,"

Natas immediately remembered the meme he had seen back on Earth about a guy muttering 'Stonks' with a blue background and an arrow going high behind him.

He couldn't help imagining Kayn replacing that person in the image.

With more funds in his possession, Kayn could now buy even more materials to prepare for their journey.

However, there's still more to his plan than just stealing the money from those thieves.

"Just wait a bit more,"

Instead of going away, Kayn stayed right beside the alley.

After half an hour of waiting, sure enough, those five thieves returned. This time, they brought someone slightly older than them.

"He's the one!" The leader of the thieves pointed at Kayn.

"How dare.."

Without waiting for that slightly older person to finish speaking, Kayn approaches him before starting to beat him up. Of course, he also beat up once again the five thieves.

Kayn walked out of the alley once again with three more leather pouches full of coins.

"There's probably more than two thousand coins in these three,"

Instead of walking away, Kayn stayed at the entrance of the alley again.

Similar to the last time, the six thieves returned, bringing with them an even older person.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

Kayn repeated such a method a few more times, earning him tens of thousands of coins in the process before it finally came to an end.

Evidently, the fives thieves, and probably their small group of thieves, have now realized that they cannot defeat Kayn no matter how many of them come and fight against him. Instead, it seemed like they were only bringing Kayn more and more money.

"I guess it's time for us to leave," Kayn said with a wave of his hand, immediately storing all pouches full of coins inside a separate Storage Ring.

With that being said, Kayn left to find Jude.