Rey was released from his prison after 16 years. He had conflicting feelings about what happened in the simulation. From one side his so-called master was a real psycho. He was insane. He came from time to time to kill Rey. Rey did not like this stuff at all. On the other side he gave Rey every skill and ability he had to take care of himself and the church.
He came to the church and was met by Elena and the old lady. He was so happy. He was not a child anymore, but he looked like one. The duo asked him about what happened in those days. It was 16 days for Elena and Ammy but long 16 years for Rey. He was not sure if Ammy was alive or not. When he saw the duo, he quickly got the point. Not much time passed in the real world.
Ammy, Elena and Rey started talking and Rey understood that only 16 days passed outside the simulation. Rey told the duo about the good things that he learned and in the first time in so many years he got praised. He felt very warm from the inside. He was not a small kid from the inside and that was the main reason he did not cry. He told them about the fact that he could make money and he was going to sell a few weapons to pay his master and then he could get money for the church to help the kids, Ammy and Elena. Elena and the old lady were very excited. They praised Rey again and started to plan with him how to train the kids with inborn talent and send them in the simulation. Weapons sold for at least one gold coin could afford them to build a mini army of children at the knight apprentice level. After a short talk Rey went to the blacksmith pavilion to sell his weapons. Max told him for how much to sell the equipment because he thought that Rey was a retard. He told Rey to sell the equipment at least for a one gold coin. Rey had few weapons with enchantments and the price for them should be higher. Rey did not remember what weapons were enchanted and what were not. He was no blacksmith like Wilfred or Eden. He got to the squire outside the blacksmith pavilion and put on his weapons and armors for sale. The people around saw the prices and were dumbfounded. 1 gold for weapon or an armor? What? People could not get it.
Rey waited for a long time outside. He almost gave hope for the day before some man that looked like a blacksmith elder came over to Rey with two goons came over. The old man that came over said: "Kid. I will buy this equipment for 10 silver coins for each piece."
Rey looked at the elder and said: "Elder this equipment is high levelled. I will only sell it for 1 gold coin. If you are not interested, please go to another location."
Rey tried to be polite, but he saw those guys came to cause him trouble. He knew that his power should be sufficient to protect himself. The man looked at the goons around him with a meaningful smile. One of the two guys around the elder said out load: "Hey brat. Did you not hear what mister Kai said? If you don't sell the weapons for 10 silver coins, we make you sell them for five."
Rey was still naive but not dumb. He still was a lot older than he looked. He did not really plan to have long conversation with those guys, so he said: "Not interested. Please leave."
The burly guy got mad. He was not accustomed to the fact that people said no to him. He smiled while holding his rage and said: "Fair enough kid. I guess you will give all this equipment for free. If not, I will be glad to shape your body to a different form."
While the burly man was talking, he started to pop his knuckles. He was ready for action. He made a move to grab one of the swords, but Rey grabbed his hand. The man smiled and got ready to break the arm of the kid, but he noticed the fact that he could not move. He was not a knight apprentice. He was just a big strong guy. When he understood something was not right, he heard a frosty voice with a huge killing intent addressed towards him: "Fuck off!"
Rey said it and then rotated his body to the side with no other people that sold anything and threw to guy a long-distance crushing into a trash can at that direction. Kai and the other burly man got really angry. They were local thugs under one of the bigger noble families. No one dared to make a move on them ever. They just collected what they thought they deserve. All of the people that sold equipment and were not part of the blacksmith pavilion were just like baggers for those people. It was easy to bully them. Now when one of those sheep started to fight back, they needed retaliate really hard and show what will happen to the people that will go against them.
"Break all of his bones!" Kai roared and got ran towards Rey to kick the shit out of him. The other burly guy ran just right after him. They could not kill with so many witnesses around. They could cripple the kid and say that they were fighting in self-defence. Rey understood the same thing. When the duo was in a hitting range, they tried to hit Rey to knock him out and then just beat the shit out of him. Rey didn't do much. He just collided his fists with each of their hits. A voice of shattering bones rang out in the square and then screams and wails of the duo sounded out. The burly guy in the trash can was still unconscious duo to the strong hit he got on the back of his head while falling.
After the clash Rey just sat again in the same place while advertising his product again to the dumbfounded audience.