Runemaster in the Last Days

The explosion caused earthquake within the crack.

From the very beginning, countless magic beasts have stayed far away from this place in fear that they would be implicated.

And now, the ceiling was half broken with countless rocks falling down.

*cough* *cough*

Riya clutched her chest and felt a faint burning pain. It seemed that a rank 7 Ghost Transformed Beast was still not something that she could deal with in a short term.

There were many types of rank 7 magic beasts.

The previous Giant Rock Golem was the type that could still be dealt with as long as their attack power was strong enough. With Samuel present, the returnees were not too worried and simply pushed him forward.

And they themselves knew that the Giant Rock Golem would not come towards them.

But this rank 7 Ghost Transformed Beast was different.

The soul attack.

Ah, unless they were soul magician at the same ranks, it was almost impossible for them to be unscathed when facing an all out mutual destruction from the rank 7 Ghost Transformed Beast.

Riya gritted her teeth and communicated with her world before warm light soothed her soul.

Thanks to the soul shield, the damage to her soul was not that much. The world was also connected to her soul, so it helped her to soothe the soul that was shocked by the rank 7 Ghost Transformed Beast's last attack.

Estimating the injury, Riya was relieved that there was almost no injury.

After a few days, she should recover as before.

Now..

"Samuel! Samuel! How are you?" Riya asked, her tone was somewhat urgent.

When the rank 7 Ghost Transformed Beast suddenly decided to explode, the person closest to it was Samuel. The explosion power was basically another type of violent soul attack.

It was so powerful that it could even affect the areas where they were located, so Samuel, who was the closest to the Ghost Transformed Beast might be heavily injured.

*cough* *cough*

"I'm fine." Samuel was half crouching on the ground, using his own sword as a leverage to make sure he would not fall to the ground.

The last attack almost caught him off guard, but he still used his reaction ability to push himself as far away as possible and put the sword in front of him to block. Well, the sword was now complaining, though.

Samuel looked at his own sword that had faint cracks and felt a bit distressed.

His sword was connected to his soul and in a way, the sword is also his soul's protector. The soul shield that Riya gave to him was broken after bearing the maximum damage from the Ghost Transformed Beast's attack.

What left was damage that was born by the sword.

His own soul was fine, but he could guess that his journey of recovering his sword would definitely take a long time. In the past few months, he had already collected a large number of ore and let his sword swallowed it.

But it was far from enough.

These treasures were too low ranked in his swords opinion.

"Are you sure?" Riya asked carefully.

"Rather than me, why don't you care about yourself more?" Samuel narrowed his eyes. "My reaction speed is faster than you and I can still avoid the Ghost Transformed Beast's attack. But if you're not careful enough, you will be caught in a moment. The soul shield would have been more useful to you than me."

Samuel looked at Riya's pale face and felt really distressed. If only it was possible, he hoped that she could put her life first rather than worrying about him.

He's powerful enough to deal with the Ghost Transformed Beast's attack on his own.

"Because if I put the soul shield on myself, I would not have enough time to put it on you," Riya answered seriously.

"You…" Samuel looked at Riya and sighed. "Forget it. How's your soul? The last attack definitely still cover you even if you're far away."

The formation that restricted the Ghost Transformed Beast was a large formation, but Riya still has to be within a certain distance. Otherwise, the formation wouldn't work well.

Because of this, Samuel was sure that Riya was also hit by the Ghost Transformed Beasts attack.

"I just need to rest a few days," Riya replied.

Before the world was destroyed, her soul would be fine.

This might be one of the few advantages of having a soul treasure… and it might be their benefit from coming to that world.

Samuel's expressions changed when he heard that. "You stay and meditate. I'll guard first."

"You have to recover your mana too." Riya frowned.

"Then I'll let my sword guard."

Buzz!

The sword moved as if complaining. It had already ore the attack towards Samuel and now he wanted to squeeze its labor again?

The sword refused!

Samuel saw the sword's protest and silently suppressed it.

Riya saw their action and didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Samuel's sword has its own consciousness and always acted like a child.

Though, it did look like Samuel was squeezing child's labor force.

Riya chuckled when the thoughts crossed her mind and took out a formation plate. "Just use this. It can create a shield to protect us and unless another rank 7 Ghost Transformed Beast come, it would not be broken so easily."

"Alright." Samuel accepted it and then pushed Riya to the relatively intact area. "Go and meditate."

With the formation, they didn't have to worry so much and the impact of the battle would make the other magic beasts stay away. After all, the aura of a rank 7 magic beast was still very prominent.

Riya smiled and sat down.

But as she sat down, she was actually thinking about the battle just now.

'Samuel is right that I should have cared for myself more…' In that moment, she decisively put the soul shield on Samuel, completely forgetting that she herself is also very weak in terms of soul defense.

Why?

'Do I care for him because he's my friend or it's something more?'