"Boss, they're ordinary people," Kitz said. "None of them is above level three. I'm afraid they won't be able to travel very fast."
"Don't worry," Bai Xiaowen said. "I'll have Rageclaw carry them."
Rageclaw: "...Awoo?"
Rageclaw was easily large enough to carry the boys. They sat cross-legged on his broad back, looking around with curiosity as they gripped the Rune Armor covering him.
Rageclaw grumbled a few times in protest.
Bai Xiaowen mapped out a route based on where the boys said their villages were. Kitz then led Rageclaw out of the cave at a trot.
Afterward, Bai Xiaowen and Cecilia thoroughly looted the Sand Terrace Mountain Branch.
They searched the bodies first.
Liu Helmsman's body was Bai Xiaowen's main target. He picked up the Golden-Backed Great Cleaver first.
"That should be Gold Equipment, right?" Cecilia couldn't see the cleaver's attributes, so she had Bai Xiaowen appraise it with the Eye of Evolution.
Bai Xiaowen glanced over it.
[Thousand-Person Slayer: Golden Quality. Sharpness: A+ Tier. Spirit Force amplification: level 2. Additional skill—Gale Wind: Passive. The wielder's normal attacks gain the effect of Cleave. When the wielder uses an area-of-effect combat skill, Spirit Force amplification increases by an additional level.]
"Combat skill" was simply shorthand for a warrior's skill, as opposed to a spell.
Now Bai Xiaowen understood why Liu Helmsman's Myriad-Flaying Blade Wheel had been so ferocious. The Gold Equipment, Thousand-Person Slayer, had amplified it.
Cecilia had no use for the weapon, so Bai Xiaowen would use it for now.
Fortunately, Evolver equipment wasn't bound to its owner and had no strict strength or agility requirements.
Under the Reality Rules, greater strength made a heavy cleaver like this easier to wield, while greater agility meant faster attacks. With his strength and agility only in the forties, Bai Xiaowen