After leaving Rikarisu Town, Shirou and the others started a new journey.
Their goal was Wien Port, located on the southernmost tip of the Demon Continent. From there, they would take a ship across the sea to the Millis Continent, located south of the Demon Continent.
Because the trip would almost cross the entire Demon Continent, Shirou and the others had prepared for the worst, expecting to encounter conflicts similar to those in Rikarisu Town.
But, surprisingly, nothing happened.
The bad events in Rikarisu Town were not that common.
One reason was that Ruijerd had shaved his head. As long as he didn't use his trident, almost no one recognized Ruijerd as a Superd.
Ruijerd's face wasn't exactly friendly, but in the Demon Continent, full of all sorts of odd people, most people didn't care about his looks at all.
Ruijerd was very happy about this. He even completely forgot about improving the Superd's reputation and often chatted happily with passing adventurers.
He was enjoying being treated normally, with normal communication between people.
This was clearly what Ruijerd wanted.
Shirou was happy about Ruijerd's choice, but he also knew that Ruijerd was only doing it because he had to. If possible, it would be best to change most people's overall view of the Superd race.
But that would be very hard. Only a very good chance might make it possible.
Besides Ruijerd, Eris also changed a lot.
First, Eris learned to take care of herself.
Unlike before, when she was a young lady in the Boreas family and was always taken care of, no one would take care of Eris's daily life on the journey through the Demon Continent.
Shirou would sometimes help Eris comb her hair and wash her clothes, but that was all he could do.
Sometimes, when he was busy, he didn't even have time to take care of his own daily life. Instead, he needed Eris to do things like cooking and washing clothes.
Eris even tried to start doing these things.
Shirou was very happy to see this.
The only problem was that Eris would sometimes secretly smell Shirou's underwear when she was washing clothes. When Shirou saw her, she would blush and make excuses, but she would still do it again later. This really gave Shirou a headache.
But, Shirou had always thought of Eris as a sister.
It should be normal for a sister to smell her brother's clothes, right?
He could only think of it as normal…
As for Shirou himself, he naturally couldn't have been doing nothing during this time.
During the journey, he would often leave the group to do his own thing. Usually, what he did was go to blacksmith workshops all over the Demon Continent.
Although the Demon Continent's quality of life and economy were far behind those of the human race on the Central Continent, the Demon Continent could still compete with the humans in terms of weapon forging.
In fact, Yurian Halisko, the god-level blacksmith from 500 years ago, was a member of the demon race.
Shirou met many skilled blacksmiths on the Demon Continent, some of whom he even admired.
Of course, while the Demon Continent's blacksmiths were indeed unique, the weapons they made were still just mortal weapons. They were far from god-level, and even had a long way to go compared to Shirou now.
So, Shirou only needed to show off some of his forging skills to quickly cause a stir on the Demon Continent.
Of course, Shirou wouldn't forge weapons using his own name. Every time he showed off his forging skills, he would change his appearance and do everything under the name of Muramasa.
Muramasa's name was already known throughout the world, and the Demon Continent was full of legends about him.
So, when it seemed that Muramasa had appeared on the Demon Continent, the news spread like wildfire. It even caught the attention of many demon lords on the Demon Continent.
Shirou didn't dare to take the chance with these potentially good or bad developments.
When things started to look bad, he would try to stop while he was ahead and immediately go back to his original identity. He didn't want Muramasa's influence to spread any further.
But even so, Shirou earned a lot of money from his forging skills, and he also found out about some useful materials.
The most important was undoubtedly Anti-Magic Stone, the rarest material on the Demon Continent.
After hearing about Anti-Magic Stone, Shirou finally felt confident that he could make the Demon-Piercing Spear. But this material was very rare, and it couldn't be found in small cities.
Shirou could only wait until he got to Wien Port, the largest port city on the Demon Continent, to see if he could find some.
In short, without realizing it, Shirou and the others had been traveling south across the Demon Continent.
One month, two months passed…
During this time, Eris even learned some of the demon language and could have simple conversations with demons. This was also because Shirou and Ruijerd had worked hard to teach her.
Thinking back to when they were in the Asura Kingdom, Eris couldn't even learn to read or write.
It seemed that the environment could change a person.
After all, if you lived in a strange place but couldn't understand the local language or talk to strangers, it wouldn't be easy for anyone to accept.
Besides language, Eris's swordsmanship also improved rapidly over time.
It might have been because the news of Emiya defeating the demon lord and becoming a hero had motivated her. She had realized how much time she had wasted over the years.
After that, Eris practiced swordsmanship almost a hundred times more intensely than before. She also received combat instruction from Ruijerd.
With Shirou, a Sword Saint, and Ruijerd, a near-Emperor-level fighter, guiding her, Eris, even though her talent wasn't the best, finally broke through to the advanced level of Sword God Style and mastered Soundless Sword.
Although Shirou had reached this level a long time ago, Eris was only thirteen years old now. Her achievement could be said to be very high-level.
Not everyone in this world is a genius.
If your talent is even slightly worse, there will often be an uncrossable gap.
Even Shirou, who had reached the advanced level of Sword God Style, wouldn't have been able to reach his current level if he hadn't used the experience of Heroic Spirit Emiya and pushed himself to the limit.
Talent is always the most uncrossable gap in this world.
The difference between ordinary people and geniuses can always cross the boundaries between races. It's even greater than the difference between different races.
In addition, Shirou hadn't made any progress in swordsmanship since breaking through to Sword Saint.
The reason was that he hadn't learned any new skills after learning Longsword of Light. He couldn't improve his swordsmanship on his own.
He would probably have to go to the Holy Land of Swords and pass the Sword Saint test before he could take his Sword God Style to the next level.
Because of this, Shirou started to become like Paul in the past. When one road comes to an end, you might as well change your thinking and study other roads.
For example, North God Style.
Shirou still clearly remembered the strike that Undead Demon Lord Atofe had unleashed in desperation.
Secret technique, Decapitation North God Style.
The power of that strike almost allowed Shirou to see the edge of god-level.
And Atofe wasn't even the North God.
If the real North God used Decapitation North God Style, he would probably instantly kill Shirou like Reida, the Water God, did, without giving him time to react.
Shirou had that feeling.
So, he realized that Sword God Style wasn't the only strongest technique in the world.
If other styles reached their peak, they could also create ultimate martial arts.
So, from that day on, Shirou began to recall the skills that Paul had taught him. He started learning from the basics of North God Style and mastering the skills of North God Style.
He even tried to project Atofe's weapons, hoping to learn Decapitation North God Style by using projection and loading.
However, Atofe 's skills weren't tied to weapons.
Unless it was a Heroic Spirit, martial arts wouldn't become Noble Phantasms.
Because of this, there was a limit to the experience and skills that Shirou could gain by projecting. At most, he could only project identical weapons.
So, Shirou gave up on the cheating technique of using projection to directly learn North God Style's secret move. Instead, he started to study the real North God Style step by step.
Fortunately, Ruijerd had some knowledge of North God Style.
He even knew some of the skills of North God Style, so he taught Shirou a lot of things.
With Ruijerd's help, Shirou successfully learned the basic secret technique of North God Style: Twenty Slashes.
This was the most basic skill in North God Style, but not everyone could master it. After all, it required a lot of talent in swordsmanship.
And North God Style has never focused on swordsmanship. In fact, many members of North God Style don't even use swords as weapons.
So, as a secret technique of North God Style, Twenty Slashes has always been in a situation where not many people want to learn it.
Shirou, as a non-traditional North God Style user, learned Twenty Slashes very easily because he had a solid foundation in swordsmanship. He gained the title of advanced North God Style.
"Shirou, you are very strong. It is hard to imagine how wide your future will be,"
Ruijerd said this after Shirou mastered Twenty Slashes.
"No, I'm not a talented person,"
Shirou shook his head and denied Ruijerd's words. He always thought poorly of himself. Only Shirou knew how foolish he was.
Everything he had gained so far was only obtained through the most foolish repetitive practice and countless persistent repetitions.
"No, that's not true. Shirou, you are very talented. It's not talent in ability, but talent in spirit. Your will is firm enough, and you won't be shaken by anything. This is very important, because often, an unshakable heart is the key to becoming a truly strong person."
Ruijerd said this and patted Shirou's head.
Even though Shirou had been growing taller as he got older, and had almost completely returned to his appearance before he was transported, Ruijerd still sometimes did this childish action.
Shirou wasn't used to it, but he wouldn't resist it.
After that, Shirou and the others continued to move south.
They arrived at towns, accepted quests, spread their fame, earned money, and did their own things along the way, before heading to the next town.
They repeated this process.
The only side story that happened along the way was that they met a man named Rodriguez.
He claimed to be the third disciple of Peacock Sword Orsted, a direct disciple of North God Kalman. After seeing Ruijerd, he felt that Ruijerd was very strong and wanted to challenge him.
Ruijerd naturally wouldn't accept such a strange person.
But Shirou was very interested in North God Style's swordsmanship, so he accepted the fight.
During the fight, Shirou first used his half-baked advanced North God Style to fight his opponent. He also used Twenty Slashes, which he had just finished developing.
To recreate this sword technique, he even carried two scabbards with him.
He thought that someone from North God Style would definitely be able to block this sword.
He didn't expect the fight to end so quickly. He actually defeated his opponent with just Twenty Slashes. He didn't even have time to use Longsword of Light from Sword God Style before he won the victory.
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