Runemaster in the Last Days

Chapter 966 - 968: Samuel (2)

Samuel walked along the street and looked at City A Base.

He had to say that his father really have the talent to lead a base. Because this base that used to look rather ordinary had slowly changed.

Lamps powered with mana battery, the security cameras, and so on.

Everything seemed to change and made City A Base so advanced.

Samuel even had the feeling that if he left his father be for a few more years, he would turn City A Base into the most advanced base in the entire world.

'But that Leon really has so much free time...'

The only person who could possibly made these magic tools could only be Leon and the people he taught. Various delicate machinery that was suitable to be used with mana had appeared and without exception, Samuel was sure that it was because he was planning on using these things to increase his livelihood.

As for why not making weapons....

Samuel had the feeling that Leon had already made them, but he also designed various other things in his spare time.

After all, magic is not only used for war and battles.

First and foremost, the existence of magic was used to improve their own lives.

Samuel lips curled up slightly.

But this is good.

This meant that the Green Planet was still operating normally while preparing for the grand magic beasts' tide.

"...You've been staring at the buildings for a while. It couldn't be that my design is off now, right?" Ruben came out leisurely and looked at Samuel with suspicion.

He was the architect who designed many things in this base, including the buildings.

"I didn't expect you still have time to do this." Samuel arched his eyebrows.

"My previous work is an architect and I like drawing the building sketch," Ruben replied with a shrug. "Even if I no longer work full time, when I have ideas, I'll note it down and then designed it when I have free time."

But the free time was extremely rare.

The only good thing is that Ruben didn't have to work as Mr. Jones' assistant full time. For paperwork, he had already hired other people whom he could trust and depended to help him.

In this way, Ruben has more free time to learn runes, training, and then drawing some things in his free time.

Once he had finished his drawing, he would submit it.

If City A Base was willing to use his design, then he would be happy, but he would not force it.

After all, Ruben knew very well that there were many other talented people out there. He was just one of the many people.

"I see." Samuel nodded.

Ruben looked at Samuel and narrowed his eyes. "You look much older than us now, Sam."

They were of the same age and when Samuel returned from the four years in Afirer Kingdom, his temperament had changed slightly. Ruben, Arnold, and Stephen all noticed that something was off from him.

But since Samuel didn't say anything, they also didn't ask it and instead pay more attention to him.

Later on, he came clean about the fact that he had spent more time in a completely different world. But since his body was still in this world, it was only his soul that was four years older.

They had joked that Samuel is now the oldest of them all.

Now that Samuel came back from that world... Ruben had the faint feeling that their gap was getting bigger once again.

Samuel smiled faintly. "What did you notice?"

"The aura is different," Ruben replied without hesitation. "And my teacher taught me some identification runes. I engraved it on a contact lenses and wore it so that I won't be tricked by some people."

Engraving things on the contact lenses were not easy and Ruben failed several times. But in the end, he succeeded and had been using it for a long time. As long as he inputted enough mana, information will appear in his eyes, allowing him to see more things.

As for why he was not like Riya who only draw it when necessary...

It's because he couldn't draw runes as fast as Riya.

Only when he tried it out did Ruben realize how terrifying Riya's runes drawing speed is. It could even match the instant magic spells that many magicians have been using so far.

"...It seems that you have been working hard." Samuel was speechless.

"Drawing runes are becoming more and more fun," Ruben replied honestly. "And it seems that I do have some talent in this area."

Thinking about the fact that Ruben has been working as an architect for a long time and liked drawing, Samuel nodded.

Perhaps people who were leaning towards the artistic type were more suitable for this kind of path.

But this is good.

At least, this meant that Ruben is walking on the path that suited him better.

"Well... it's almost new year again. Do you think they will appear soon?" Ruben changed the conversation.

"There's n one who could tell for sure what date the passage will be opened," Samuel said seriously.

Because that message only said the year.

It didn't specify when exactly the passage will be opened.

"I see."

"You've reached rank 6... are there anyone who advanced to rank 7 who are not the returnees?" Samuel suddenly asked.

"Can you sense it?" Ruben was stunned.

"More or less... but I don't know who and only the general direction. There are at least 3 more returnees," Samuel replied.

"The Magic Association and Martial Arts Association each had someone who advanced to rank 7 a few weeks ago. It's said that the process is quite thrilling, but I don't know the details. As for the other one, it's someone from Continent W who's being helped by Jonas Nolan to advance to rank 7," Ruben replied.

Samuel arched his eyebrows. "They didn't go on a war?"

"The returnees are much higher in ranks than them... they speculated that these returnees have advanced to rank 8 but there's no concrete evidence," Ruben explained.