Runemaster in the Last Days

Chapter 967 969: Preparation

For this matter, Ruben was rather helpless.

It was impossible for him to check the other continent so blatantly and he only knew these because he has been helping Mr. Jones in his work from time to time.

While it was tiring, but he had to pass the realest situation of the world to Samuel when he had the chance.

So he kept on working.

Samuel nodded and then sighed. "You have worked hard, Ruben."

"It's nothing much. I'm only doing my duty." Ruben shrugged.

From the moment he agreed to be Samuel's assistant, he had to do his best to support Samuel. Besides, Ruben never thought that his rank could be so high when his talent was not in this area.

He will train, of course.

But he would not completely focus on training but also do other things that suited him. Being an architect was his dream ever since he was young and Ruben will continue to do so until the rest of his life.

Now, learning runes and become a rune master should also be added to the list.

"Good work." Samuel said solemnly.

No matter what, he knew that Ruben has been working hard to help him all these years. Having a subordinate like Ruben really puts him at ease.

Ruben chuckled and then said, "If you really want to thank me, how about if you help me to deal with your brother?"

"...What did he do?"

"He's being lazy again and always escape from training."

Samuel: "..." Sean!

Seeing Samuel ready to come back to the Jones Family Residence, Ruben silently sneak away. Mr. Jones asked him to send Sean to the training grounds a few times and that brat always made trouble for him.

Now that he had the chance to make trouble for the brat, he will do it.

Of course, before Sean realized that he was the one who made the report to Samuel, Ruben will run away first.

Reporting about Sean being lazy was definitely fun, but Ruben didn't want Sean to come looking for him and made trouble. After all, Sean was just like Samuel in terms of keeping grudges.

That brat will definitely try to get it back from Ruben.

Sean didn't know what was waiting for him.

But when he went back home and saw his brother back... he will realize that it was definitely the start of a long hell week of training for him.

"Brother! You're back!" Amelia was the happiest when she saw Samuel coming back.

Seeing that Amelia had already reached rank 6, Samuel smiled and patted his sister's head. "You're doing well, Mel."

He nodded at Arnold, who followed them back home.

"You missed a lot of thing, you know." Amelia snorted as she pushed her brother's hand away and sat down. "There are a lot of things that happened in the past year and do you see that City A Base has changed..."

Amelia chattered a lot, telling Samuel about what had happened in the past year.

He listened patiently.

Even though the important thing was only one or two points, but Samuel still listened carefully. It has been a while since he stayed together with his family and he missed this feeling.

Through Amelia and also Arnold saying a few more things, Samuel knew that there were many things that had been prepared.

Including the fact that they have prepared a lot of bunkers all over the world.

"If the passage is opened in the middle of a city base... the people will have to evacuate at the fastest speed possible, so there are a lot of training to ensure their safety," Arnold said after Amelia had gone back to rest.

He was more involved in this matter than Amelia, so he definitely knew more. But since Amelia missed her brother, then Arnold didn't bother her and instead waited until she was done before he reported everything to Samuel.

To be honest, Arnold is not exactly Samuel's subordinate, but he had been living as a mercenary for a long time that he didn't mind too much being used like this.

Besides... Arnold felt that it's better for Samuel to know more about the situation.

Even though Samuel is a returnee, he's also one of the few people who also knew how to lead the people.

Samuel nodded. "I hope it wouldn't happen that way."

The human's population on the Green Planet had decreased significantly because of the earthquake and the magic beasts' appearance back then.

If these passages also opened in the middle of a city base...

It was hard to imagine what would happen to them.

Arnold nodded and looked at the starry sky outside. "No matter what... we'll be prepared for the battle that was about to come."

Samuel nodded.

...

Later on, Sean came back and what greeted him was a kind teaching from Samuel.

Seeing that Sean's ranks was only in the early stage of rank 5, he really understood that Ruben was not lying.

Sean was really lazy.

Even though his talent was indeed not high, the resources from the Jones Family should have allowed him to advance through ranks much higher.

So Sean was granted special training.

"Ahhh, help me!! I'm going to die!"

Listening to Sean screaming on the training ground, Amelia only laughed and cheered. "You can do it, Brother~."

Arnold: "..." what a 'loving' brother and sister.

In the end, he also laughed as he watched Sean's miserable performance on the training ground.

"You're all a devil!" Sean was really annoyed.

"If you don't train, are you going to let yourself be the first to sacrifice during the grand magic beast's tide?" Samuel sneered when he saw Sean's appearance. "Get back here!"

"Ugh..."

Under Samuel's strict training, Sean was forced to train several times harder than before, making him want to vomit.

As they were training, Samuel suddenly raised his head.

He sensed the mana fluctuation and the familiar mana signature made him curl his lips.

She's back.