Runemaster in the Last Days

Crush!

With a little force, the core turned into dust.

Riya looked at the special magic core in her hand and sighed deeply. Even though she herself is a rank 6 rune master, but most of her mana was used to strengthen her physique.

This delayed her own advancement, making her need more mana compared to ordinary magicians.

If it was her disciple here, he might be able to reach rank 6 in one spot.

*sigh*

Forget it.

From the moment she chose to become a rune master, Riya knew very well that the amount of mana she needed might be outrageously high. After all, it was not so easy for her to take a 'shortcut' to increase her physique.

Riya took out a mirror and lowered her collar to look at the markings that appeared from the absorption of these special magic cores and saw that the mark has become clearer. If this continued, it was estimated that the markings might glow and it was impossible for her to hide it anymore.

'I might not be able to take too many special magic cores anymore.'

Thinking about this, Riya shook her head but didn't feel surprised.

The highest ranked special magic core only reached rank 9 and the rank 9 definitely contained some kind of power that could not be absorbed directly by humans. The limit for the special magic core that humans could take directly was rank 6.

Afterwards, the special magic core had to be treated or suppressed by people of the same ranks as the special magic core before it could be used.

'Is it because of the special characteristic of the special magic core above rank 6 that these formations are only using rank 6 special magic core at most?'

Riya speculated inside her mind for a moment.

To be honest, it would not be too surprising even if this was the case.

Is it?

Rubbing her forehead, Riya tossed the thoughts in her mind away. No matter what the person who made the formation thought, it was a foregone conclusion that the world was fused together. What she had to do was to cope up with the change and so on.

"You're done?" Samuel noticed Riya's movement and turned his head around in surprise. He thought that it would take some time, but Riya finished it very quickly.

"Yes," Riya replied and stretched her body. "It's not that difficult to absorb the special magic core after you have done so repeatedly."

"Is that so?" Samuel nodded when he heard that.

"Have you never tried to use the special magic cores?"

"No. I don't need it." Samuel thought for a moment before saying, "My family in that world had special medicine that I can use to improve my strength. There's no need for me to use the special magic core that can only increase my mana."

There were some methods that could increase one's physical strength through the use of mana. But those methods were expensive and Samuel couldn't really replicate most of them.

The best he could do was to practice normally and used various resources to temper his body.

"Right, your family is really rich." Riya had a helpless tone when she thought about that.

Samuel chuckled. "If you want to, I'll tell you some stories about my life in that world…. Not that I think it'll be interesting, though."

His life consisted of studying, practicing, and fighting. Because of his status, he never needed to worry about lack of resources. At most, his family would want to send him away to participate in some test and so on.

Those things were not very difficult and Samuel would passed it quickly.

The most remarkable thing that he had done was probably the global competition that was attended by many geniuses from various families not long before the large magic beasts' tide.

It was at that time that he became famous and many people came to look for him.

"I think that your life will be very interesting compared to me." Riya shook her head bitterly.

Compared to Samuel who had everything and has an easier starting line, Riya could remember her own suffering in that world and felt really tired when she thought about it.

Because she had to work hard for the sake of herself…

It was really tiring.

"But I think that the child Riya would be quite interesting," Samuel commented.

When they came to that world, their body was adjusted appropriately. At the very least, they were back to the time when they were teenagers. Not too young to the point that they wouldn't be able to exert their strength properly but not too old to the point that they were practicing too late.

For warriors, it would be best if they started training under 18 years old while magicians were advised to start training after 12 years old but under 20 years old.

To be honest, their age in this world had long exceeded the requirement.

But because they were basically starting over the practice that they had succeeded before, they didn't really have much problem.

"It might be because we have a completely different experience," Samuel analyzed calmly. In his opinion, to be able to experience a completely different life was a unique experience in itself.

After all, not many people would have such chance in their entire life.

"Haha, you're right." Riya chuckled.

The two of them were relaxed but the next moment, their expression changed. The atmosphere around them changed from calm to gloomy in almost an instant and the two of them moved away from their original position.

Swish!

A flash of white light passed by the place where they originally stayed and Riya's expression distorted slightly. Her hand quickly moved to form the Protective Rune Circle with both hands, her nerves were tenses and she understood that this was a moment of life and death.

Samuel saw the incoming enemy as he took out his sword and his expression changed. "Riya! Move away! It's soul attack!"

SWOOSH!