Guess?

Tyler was indeed unable to awaken Spiritual Root and Dantian. He had no talent for anything. He was so talentless that despite awakening seven stars of Lightning Spiritual Root, he was unable to comprehend the Lightning Elemental Arts and Cultivation Technique.

His talent was truly at the bottom. So, he never researched anything related to cultivation or the world itself. He basically created a boundary between the world and himself.

Though he did manage to learn something during his time with Dan. For forging weapons, he had to keep a record of several aspects of the forging such as the levels of a cultivator, the strength of their spiritual energy, and even the effect of the elements.

These were some little things that he had to learn. So, he never focused on the world. The power of Three Families, Four Clans, and One Guild. He never truly looked up to these forces.

Thus, he had no knowledge about them. Although he was sad about it, he never considered it bad. Because his ignorance wasn't his fault.

"It doesn't matter anymore. Although I am thankful to you." Tyler spoke with no emotion in his eyes but his tone was really gentle.

"You truly sound like a good person but your eyes don't say the same. Anyway, it doesn't matter much to me. I just want to reach Ember Hall as well. Of course, after killing more of these Gamma Creatures." Joseph chuckled as he spoke.

"Hey, how strong do you think they truly are?" Tyler looked at the gate and asked.

He could see the sky turning dark red soon enough. He was sure that the monsters would mutate any time soon.

Joseph turned his head and a smirk appeared on his face.

"Wanna find out?"

"Can we?" Tyler asked.

"But, you have to answer one thing to me. Just how powerful you truly are." Joseph asked with a serious expression on his face. His goal was to kill as many creatures as he could.

So, he wanted to take some risks. But he wasn't planning on taking random risks. After all, that's not something he could afford. He wanted to make sure that Tyler possess enough strength.

"Tell me your best guess. I will answer in high and low." Tyler wasn't going to reveal his true strength. But, he was going to create trust with Joseph. If you can't take a step forward to create trust, you can never truly make an ally.

Joseph stared at him for a moment and his eyes fell to his right hand.

"I can't judge your cultivation but from what you have told me, I assume your real cultivation is one or two stages higher. Although this is just a guess, you don't have the right arm."

"Your control over the sword was off. I know this because I use a blade and when I use it, even if my move isn't strong, my hand moves steadily. That doesn't happen to you."

"It's like you have the destination but you don't have a proper ride. But, then again, your physical strength seemed to be overwhelmingly strong. So, I guess you have a lot more physical strength than normal cultivators."

"Let me guess…. Innate Strength perhaps. Well, I don't have that many guesses so that is my guess or maybe your cultivation is even higher so that it actually matches your physical strength. It is one of two."

"And, finally your element and elemental art. I would say you have quite a powerful mastery over them including your sword art. So, I am pretty sure your strength is around the Sixth Stage of Energy Refinement Realm."

Hearing his words, Tyler froze for a moment and asked "I won't answer you twice. Are you sure that's your guess?"

"Yep!" Joseph nodded.

"High!" Tyler replied without any hesitation.

At this moment, a big smile appeared on Joseph's face.

'Originally, I thought his strength would be around that range. And, even if it was lower, I would've tagged along. But, I never expected it to be higher. Now, I am pretty sure that my guesses were correct.'

'Either his cultivation is higher or he truly possesses Innate Strength. Either way, this is going to be a blast. We can definitely reach the Ember Hall without a massive group.'

'I really need to reach higher in that trial. I must get 'that thing'.'

"So, can we?" Tyler asked when he saw Joseph falling into deep thoughts.

Joseph snapped out of his imagination and chuckled.

"Are you truly crazy or what? Follow me!"

Joseph ran toward the front and Tyler followed. They went to stairs that led them to the top of the walls. Both of them reached there and watched outside.

The bridge was detached and up. It was to make sure that the creatures don't come inside.

"Let's wait and watch for a while."

Joseph said.

They stood there for over twenty minutes until finally, Tyler saw something. At this moment, a massive number of Gamma Creatures were running toward the city.

Their size was twice as big, almost the size of a bus. And, that wasn't all. Their bodies were crimson-like blood. Although when he came here for the first time, he saw nearly hundreds of them but now around thousands of them were gathering at this place.

"We can't go outside. It's not about whether we are weak or they are strong. It's because of numbers. They gather around humans when their strength increases."

"So, if you jump out of this city, you will face over a thousand mutated Gamma creatures. So, even if you are strong, you will eventually run out of spiritual energy and die."

"That's why the river and the city walls were built. If we go out, we will die for certain." Joseph spoke.

Hearing his words, Tyler clenched his left fist. He was quite excited to fight them but he wasn't foolish. He took a deep breath and nodded.

"Let's return back. Once the sun sets, we will leave the city to go to the Ember Hall as early as tomorrow morning."