Runemaster in the Last Days

Chapter 987 989: Advancing to Rank 9

Samuel looked around and saw that this was the place where they hunted those corpse eater flying magic beasts.

They never finished hunting those magic beasts and leave it to the other magicians, magic warriors, and warriors of the Green Planet.

After all, the two of them were not so idle to hunt the scattered magic beasts.

It's better to hand them over to others.

"Why did you choose this place?" Samuel asked after looking around once.

"Advancement to rank 9 will definitely cause mana fluctuation and I think this place will be the best place to do it," Riya replied without hesitation.

If she were to advance to rank 9 in City A Base, Riya was absolutely sure that she might end up using up the entire mana in that area. She didn't want to cause trouble to other people just because of her advancement to rank 9.

Samuel heard Riya's words and nodded thoughtfully.

They didn't pay that much attention about this matter when they were in Afirer Kingdom back then.

After all, who could they affect with their advancement?

There were no other living person aside from themselves.

It was not like they still have some unreasonable hope in the beginning of their arrival. But three years were enough to let them understand that their hope was nothing more than a pipe dream.

The grand magic beasts' tide basically wiped up the entire human civilization.

He didn't know about what the highest ranked professionals had been planning and whether it was successful, so they could only hope for it.

"The mana concentration..."

"Don't worry, it wouldn't cause such a big commotion." Riya looked at Samuel strangely. "Haven't you advanced to rank 9 yourself?"

Samuel looked at Riya helplessly and said, "I was half in a trance when I advanced and didn't pay attention to my surroundings. When I opened my eyes, everything seems normal and there's nothing strange."

Unlike Riya who experienced sudden block for her advancement to rank 9, Samuel faced none of these.

So for him, his advancement was so smooth.

Because he was focused on his own condition, Samuel had no time to pay attention whether his advancement affected the environments around him.

The sword also said nothing.

And since he couldn't find anything strange, Samuel never thought about it.

"Ah... The mana concentration in a certain radius will decrease but there's no other big movement," Riya replied.

Samuel nodded. "You can focus on your advancement and I'll wait for you here."

"Yes."

He watched as Riya set up formation to protect herself and smiled faintly. No matter what, it was good to see Riya still being careful.

Because even if he said that he will protect her, his strongest point has never been protection but attacking. So seeing Riya still set up more protection for herself, Samuel felt relieved instead.

He stood there and then tapped his sword.

"Did I make a lot of noises during my advancement to rank 9?" Samuel asked directly.

Buzz!

The sword buzzed and then fell into silence.

Even though the words were intermittent and only passed in his mind, Samuel heard his sword's complain. The mana did decrease for a period of time, but it happened for such a short period of time that it was almost unnoticeable.

But the laws of the world was distorted for a moment that the sword actually felt that the space was about to tear apart.

Something stopped it, though.

"The space is about to be torn apart?" Samuel muttered and frowned.

He didn't learn the law of space because he didn't have any talent in this area. Instead, his lightning and fire elements were extremely strong that he could basically create them with just a little bit of mana.

His control over his elements also increased sharply.

It was astonishing how even the slight increase in understanding of the laws could create a large difference in their fighting abilities.

This is why rank 7 was different from the rank below it.

And the magic beasts that were stronger could also influence the laws unconsciously, which allowed their attack to be stronger.

He turned to the back as he sensed the mana decreased.

Riya was sitting cross legged in the middle, clearly meditating. At the same time, mana was surging towards her in gentle yet fast pace. It was not as obvious as when one advanced to rank 7, but it was still causing disturbance to the surroundings.

Samuel looked in Riya's direction for a moment before turning his eyes away.

There was no need to watch over her all the time.

He's confident that Riya would be able to advance smoothly to rank 9 and then they would have more confidence when dealing with the grand magic beasts' tide later.

'It's coming soon.'

Even though Samuel didn't know when, but his instinct was telling him that the grand magic beasts' tide will happen soon.

When it happened...

His eyes flashed with ruthlessness and determination.

What he had failed to do when he was in Afirer Kingdom because of his weakness, he will make sure to achieve it in this world!

He had failed once and he didn't want to fail again.

Swish!

As the mana surged, Samuel was waiting patiently. He received some messages from his other friends, but he couldn't tell them that the two of them were outside because Riya wanted to advance to rank 9, right?

As for why she picked night time instead of any other time...

Samuel had no idea.

He looked at the night sky.

Since this place was far away from the city bases and there were still ruins from the previous cities along with countless decomposed corpses of magic beasts, there was barely any electricity here.

There was not much air pollution, allowing him to see the stars in the sky clearly.

It was beautiful.

If there were still members of his family in Afirer Kingdom, would they be looking at the same sky?

Samuel's mind wandered around for a moment.

"Sam?"