Runemaster in the Last Days

BANG!

The power of explosion would not harm a rank 4 magic warrior so easily.

But it would still cause them some pain.

Amelia frowned and looked at the counterattack shield that perfectly blocked the explosion with relief. If she hadn't been taught this shield by her brother in the past, she might end up suffer a lot from the explosion just now.

"Amelia!" Arnold called out.

"I'm fine. You deal with them first," Amelia replied and then moved nimbly around these magic beasts. The sword in her hand quickly and accurately slashed through these magic beasts' neck and ended their lives.

The movements were neat and there was no trace of hesitation.

After all, Amelia has long gotten used to this kind of thing.

"Got it."

Bang! Bang! Bang!

"Retreat!" These people knew that they could not deal with Arnold and with more and more magic beasts attracted by the sound, they would be surrounded if they continued to stay here.

So it would be better for them to leave.

"Tsk." Arnold saw these people leaving but he couldn't stop them. He turned around and seeing that there were still many magic beasts, he simply shoot some of them before switching his weapon.

After being trained as a magic warrior, he hadn't used these firearms for a long time.

The one he used was the gun given by Riya because she made too much of them as experiments. Riya herself kept some for herself while the rest were given to them.

In her words: these were not very useful for her because the power was too weak.

Of course, if other people were to hear what she was saying, it was estimated that they would want to beat her up. Because for many of them, the power of the guns modified by Riya was extremely valuable.

"Amelia, how are you?" Arnold asked.

"I'm fine, but you need to explain to me what happened before," Amelia replied as she kicked a magic beast that was about to bite her. These magic beasts were really annoying and they looked like they were about to kill her.

"Yer is the leader of the mercenary group that has conflict with my group," Arnold replied. "We received the same missions more than once in the past and my performance is better than him… after that, this happened a few more times and the two groups are always competing with each other."

Business competition?

Amelia was stunned.

She knew that Arnold is a mercenary, but she didn't expect that there were such competition among them.

As for the fact that there were mercenaries, it was not exactly a secret. These people were usually active at the border and they would do many things for money. They basically didn't have any scruples because they only cared about money.

Arnold also became a mercenary because of money and some other matters back then.

He didn't have any other ability but to fight, so he simply left and signed himself for various missions.

For years, he didn't leave the border.

When he came back, he was no longer the same person as he used to be. He had his comrades, lost some comrades, and also killed people.

"Don't worry too much," Arnold continued and then shoot the last magic beast that was approaching. "The other mercenaries shouldn't have come to this area."

Continent Z is vast and strictly speaking, they would stay away from the capital city. The main reason was because the control over weapon in the capital city was too strict and it was too uncomfortable for these mercenaries.

For people who have gotten used to the lives at the border where they were basically facing danger all the time, not being able to hold their weapon would make their nerves tense.

Arnold had experienced it himself.

So he applied for weapon possession, but the weapons that he could bring to City A was limited.

"Haven't you quit your job as mercenary?" Amelia asked in a low voice while cleaning up the magic beasts' corpses that she had killed.

She never had any scruples from killing magic beasts because they were not human beings. They didn't have much thoughts on their own and only relied on instincts

After all, if Amelia has problems with killing animals, she wouldn't be able to eat meat with peace of mind.

But killing people was different.

Mercenaries had their own paper and so on, which to a certain degree legalized their existence. Many officials tacitly agreed of their existence and let them work for them. After all, there were some 'bounty' that was released from time to time.

For these mercenaries, the best thing that they could do was to be able to get a lot of money from finishing their tasks.

"I did quit, but some people are unreasonable," Arnold replied with a bitter smile.

There was an embarrassed look on his face as he looked at Amelia in front of him. To be honest, he didn't expect that these people would still have grudge against him after so many years.

They were no longer mercenaries.

But perhaps, the fact that he had restricted their development over the years had caused Yer's resentment.

Amelia looked at Arnold in front of her. It was rare to see this big man looked embarrassed like this. She sighed. "Don't worry too much, these weapon could no longer harm us."

It might sound arrogant, but Amelia was telling the truth.

Most firearms could no longer hurt either Amelia or Arnold because their bodies have gotten stronger over their practice. But for the sake of their safety, they would still make the counterattack shield when they were attacked.

After all, relying on the power of the flesh alone might not be enough.

"If they could modify the sniper rifle in the same way as what Riya did, it might be dangerous," Arnold said while rubbing his forehead.

He knew that he could not run from his past, but he didn't expect that his past would chase after him to this extent.