Runemaster in the Last Days

They didn't talk about the rank 7 Ghost Transformed Beast.

It was as if this matter had never happened and that their confusing actions during that time didn't have any other meaning.

The only difference was probably the atmosphere was a bit ambiguous.

Buzz?

Only the sword looked confused by the action of these two people.

"Do you want to go back?" Samuel asked after they had walked a distance away from the battle site against the rank 7 Ghost Transformed Beast.

"No," Riya answered calmly. She looked at Samuel. "I can't stand still and wait for my strength to recover at normal pace. The best chance to get stronger is to stay in the crack and get more resources."

Even if these resources might not be what they needed the most, but accumulating more magic beasts' corpses allowed Riya to create a lot of mana stones. In the battle against the rank 7 Ghost Transformed Beast, she had used three mana stones to recover her mana as soon as possible.

She's not an alchemist, so she couldn't make any potion to recover her mana quickly.

When facing the Ghost Transformed Beast, Riya had to use the best formation that she could make. The best way to recover her mana was to use these mana stones.

And to make the mana stones, countless magic beasts' corpses of various ranks have to be used.

Well, that battle did consume a lot of her resources.

But as long as she managed to survive, these didn't seem to mean much.

After all, her life is more valuable than these materials.

"I know," Samuel replied and smiled. "In that case, let's continue."

Riya watched as Samuel continued to walk and arched her eyebrows. "I thought that you asked me to go back because you want to leave."

"No." Samuel shook his head. "If I have to travel alone, then I naturally didn't dare to stay so deep within the crack. But since you're here, I dare to take the risk and I won't leave you alone."

Riya blinked her eyes when she heard it.

For a moment, she felt her heart skipped a beat.

Pursing her lips, Riya chuckled. "I believe other returnees have their own way to stay in the crack even if they couldn't go too deep."

Riya didn't believe the other returnee would not have any ambition. From the moment they decided to show their strength and negotiate with the higher ups for their treatment, Riya knew that all of them have their own impatience.

After all, they used to be a powerful rank 7 magician or magic warrior or warrior in that world.

After coming here, they resumed their own life.

An ordinary life without those things.

If the world was still the previous normal modern world, most of them would not make any splash and would stay hidden. Because they all knew very well that even if they were to do anything, it would not change the world too much.

The mana concentration was low and they could only be patient.

In that situation, being able to reach rank 7 within a decade was already very good and none of them were people who lacked patience.

But the earthquake changed everything.

From the moment these magic beasts appears, they were destined to be unable to live an ordinary life. They would not be so patient to wait for these resources to come to them but would seek these resources on their own.

The crack is the place where both danger and opportunity exist.

Everyone was doing things on their own pace and grabbed resources as much as they could. Without taking too much risk, they could enter the crack and found some resources and fight stronger magic beasts.

But they would not choose to enter too deep for they could not risk everything.

And when the magic beasts' tide suddenly came… all of them should realize that their time was limited. These magic beasts were also getting stronger and crawled their way out of the crack.

Time waits for no one.

If they didn't want to be washed away by the tide of time, they could only step forward and took the first step.

"Yes. There should be more sense of urgency," Samuel replied. "And I believe you have it too."

Because he himself felt it.

It was as if the world was urging them to move faster and faster…

Riya nodded and silently raised her hand to make Protective Rune Circle. "It's better to have this circle protecting me at all time."

She didn't want to be attacked by a rank 7 Ghost Transformed Beast again.

"Can that Protective Rune Circle protect you from soul attack?" Samuel asked.

"No." Riya shook her head. "The resistance is very small and I don't have enough capability to make powerful soul shield merged into the Protective Rune Circle yet."

"Yet?" Samuel caught the key point.

"After I reach rank 7, I modified the Protective Rune Circle with some additional runes that can protect me better," Riya replied calmly. "Soul shield was just one of them."

Just one of them….

For some reason, Samuel had the feeling that Riya had become a mobile fortress.

It would not be so easy for other people to attack Riya when she had reached rank 7…

"You have asked me how I died… how did you die exactly in that world?" Samuel asked curiously.

In the past, Riya had asked him how he died and Samuel could only say that he was trapped by the magic beasts during the great magic beasts' tide. Even with his strong power, he was not a match against a large number of magic beasts.

He thought that Riya might have an accident before the great magic beasts' tide.

But…

With Riya's self saving methods, how did she die?

"…I was surrounded by a few magicians and magic warriors who wants me to die," Riya replied briefly.

She was not killed by the magic beasts but by other humans.