Runemaster in the Last Days

Chapter 1129 1132: Ruth (3)

"But you're still alive, right?" Jonas Nolan looked at Ruth with hopeful look.

Since Ruth had woken up, doesn't it mean that she would get better and better? Even if the current Ruth is still weak, but she could easily get stronger again.

"I'm alive for now," Ruth replied slowly.

She could sense that her current condition was actually extremely bad. To be honest, Ruth didn't know what kind of medicine that Jonas Nolan used in order to prolong her life because Ruth had no knowledge in this area.

Even if she was living in the village for a long time, her knowledge of herbs were only limited to those that were useful for first aid.

Others?

Her brain was not good enough to remember it all.

"What do you mean for now?" Jonas Nolan had a bad feeling when he heard Ruth's words as if something bad was looming over them.

But he had checked Ruth's condition and didn't seem to see anything wrong with the other party aside from the weakness and backlash from the forbidden magic....

Wait, forbidden magic.

There were many types of forbidden magic in Afirer Kingdom.

While Jonas Nolan himself would not practice those forbidden magics because they were harmful, he still knew some of them more or less. After all, his own parents told him that he had to be prepared to face any opponent.

Who knows whether there would be desperate people among his opponents?

So Jonas Nolan learned many things about the forbidden magic.

This also allowed him to know that there were a few types of forbidden magic. One that was traded with lifespan, blood or other resources, and their own life.

The power that they could gain was also different.

In the case of forbidden magic that traded a certain amount of resources, the power would be smaller than others. At most, it could only double their strength and after that, they had to recuperate for a certain period of time.

If it was the lifespan, the power would be greater but could not exceed their own body limitation. How much the body limitation is, it would depend on the person themselves and Jonas Nolan himself was not sure about it.

As for the last one...

It was basically reaching the power far above their own strength, but the cost was that they will absolutely die after using it.

Either dying directly or they would have to wait for some time before meeting their end.

But they could not change this ending.

"I'm sorry," Ruth whispered in a low voice.

She could see her own soul and there she found her shattered weapons.

That attack she used at the last moment had long far surpassed her own body's limit, pushing her to reach the realm that she should not be able to achieve in her entire life.

The end result was that she was severely overloaded.

Her weapon had accompanied her for a long time, even when she was still weak and needed a lot of help from other people.

But this time, because of her decision, this weapon might finally met its end.

*sigh*

And Ruth could sense that her soul was dissipating, slowly but surely.

This is the cost of that forbidden magic.

"What are you talking about?" Jonas Nolan's voice trembled when he heard Ruth's apology. "I'll find other potion and then..."

"Forbidden magic: Wind of life, arrow of destruction." Ruth glanced at Jonas Nolan. "It's useless. There's no potion that could reverse one's life after using the forbidden magic below rank 10."

Unless Jonas Nolan could reach rank 10 and found the materials, then it would be impossible for Jonas Nolan to save Ruth.

Not that Ruth herself had any expectation for this.

Because from the moment she chose to use that forbidden magic, Ruth had long known that she wouldn't be able to survive.

So she remained calm and composed.

"How could you be so calm?" Jonas Nolan looked at Ruth's nonchalant look and raised his voice. "You did everything for them but in the end, you can't even enjoy what you brought to them just because...."

He couldn't continue.

Jonas Nolan's voice cracked and hoarse.

At this moment, he didn't look like the dependable returnee who once commanded the people from the back.

But he looked more like a teenager who had lost his treasure and were confused.

"I didn't do it for them," Ruth said calmly.

She's not a genuine soldier and Ruth had never thought of herself as someone who was so noble and great.

What she decided when she used the forbidden magic was nothing more than the fact that she could finally rest.

It's tiring.

Fighting all day long.

Training all day long.

Killing all day long.

Even the battle hardened people would feel suffocated and tired if they had to face these three things all the time for such a long time.

To be honest, Ruth knew very well that she really needed to relax one way or another.

Because she was basically forcing herself to train, fighting, and killing for three full years before she came back to the Green Planet.

But...

Just looking around her where everyone had their family members or someone whom they cared for while she has no one, Ruth felt inexplicably lonely.

She never felt it so deeply before.

Because she still has friends whom she could talk with from time to time.

But later on...

She's completely alone.

There were indeed other returnee such as Jonas Nolan whom she could talk with, but it was absolutely impossible for Ruth to trust them from the bottom of her heart.

They have their own reservation.

And it was a normal thing.

Time passed quietly and Ruth slowly lost her original goal.

When she first returned to the Green Planet, she only thought that it was a good thing for her to be given the chance to continue living here.

And with the change of the world, Ruth naturally also wanted to get stronger again.

But after seeing Afirer Kingdom, some thoughts gradually began to change in her mind.