Runemaster in the Last Days

Chapter 970 972: Riya

Riya opened her eyes and scanned her surroundings.

It has been a while since she came to the Green Planet.

She really wanted to stay in that world for a while longer, though.

At this moment, she was still rank 8 peak and failed to advance to rank 9, which puzzled her. Riya tried a few times to advance to rank 9, but it seemed something was preventing her from advancing.

When she advanced from rank 7 to rank 8, it was very smooth.

There was basically no blockade at all.

Everything was as natural as drinking water and Riya didn't have much worry.

But when she wanted to advance to rank 9, Riya felt that something was wrong and she couldn't grasp it. There was no complicated ceremony or anything like that to advance to rank 9, yet she failed to advance.

Riya didn't understand.

She tried to look at her master's record, but he's not an extreme rune master and naturally didn't have much record about this.

For this matter, Riya could only sigh.

Well, forget it.

It was indeed impossible for her to figure out everything without a proper connection or something like that.

She had to search bit by bit, trying to figure out what was wrong.

But before she could find it, the destruction had arrived, forcing her to leave the world in advance and returned to the Green Planet.

"Miss Riya." The soldiers who were waiting were relieved when they saw Riya coming out. There were only 6 returnees who were going to the different world, but the soldiers were here to watch over them.

Or rather, they were ordered to keep watch and helped to escort them back.

Even though these returnees were quite powerful, but just in case someone wanted to trick them, it would be better to be cautious.

"Thank you for your hard work." Riya gave a polite smile to the soldiers, feeling that Continent Z really put them in high position.

She felt somewhat uncomfortable for a moment before pushing the thoughts away. After all, Riya knew very well that it would be impossible for her not to be treated carefully by Continent Z after she showed her abilities.

Even though she didn't particularly like it or anything like that, Riya knew that she had to accept it.

Because her status had changed.

'Now they even sent soldiers to wait for me...'

Riya looked around, sensing the presence of other powerful magicians. After reaching rank 8, especially because her main study was in the law of space, RIya was exceptionally sensitive to other people's mana fluctuation.

Not only that, she should have long advanced to rank 9 but since she failed to advance and remained at rank 8, her strength was far above ordinary peak rank 8 rune masters. This also pushed her sensitivity and capabilities far higher than most people.

So when Riya wanted to use her senses, other people might not be able to sense her in the slightest bit.

She targeted those who were exceptionally powerful.

Because they were either rank 8 or rank 7 magician, magic warriors, or even warriors.

The warriors would leak out unique aura that looked different in her eyes. Even though they looked normal on the surface, but Riya could sense their differences well.

Sensing that there were more people at rank 7, Riya blinked her eyes.

It seemed that the continent were pouring out a large amount of resources in order to allow some people to advance to rank 7 within three years.

Otherwise, it would have been impossible for these people to advance so quickly in such a short period of time.

Even the returnees spent 4 years...

Then again, they were not in a hurry to advance and focused more on their foundation.

The mana fluctuation of these rank 7 were not as strong as the returnees, proving that their foundation was not as stable as them.

Aside from them, Riya found out that the number of magicians, warriors, and magic warriors had increased considerably all over the Green Planet. Almost whenever she looked there would be a large number of people with mana fluctuation.

'I see, to use number in order to match up against those magic beasts.'

Even though this might not be that effective, but in order to increase their survival capabilities, the continents could only increase the number of the lower ranked magicians, magic warriors, and warriors.

This would increase the survival capabilities of ordinary people.

Even if this increase might not be much, but they also understood that as long as these people were able to cooperate together with each other, it would not be impossible for them to survive.

What awaited them would be a battle ridden world.

But this is also their world.

Everyone wanted to live.

So they were wiling to work hard and listened to the continent's instruction in order to increase their strength little by little.

As for how it would be when the grand magic beasts' tide finally arrived...

Riya had no idea.

But she believed that other returnees who have experienced the grand magic beasts tide would be able to offer valuable advices for this.

Their preparation...

She hoped that it would be enough.

Riya's eyes flickered slightly.

"Have everyone else returned?" Riya asked.

The death of that rank 8 magic beast could only prove that at least one of the other returnees should have returned.

And the markings from around the gate...

Even though Riya believed that when they left such markings it meant they have left Afirer Kingdom and returned to the Green Planet, she wanted to ask for confirmation.

"Yes, everyone but Murin has returned, Miss Riya," the captain replied loudly.

"How long has it been since their return?" Riya asked carefully. She could guess that some time has passed because the rank 8 magic beast had rotted considerably. Moreover, the magic cores that was left behind on that dark land has been half buried.

This meant that these two people should have returned for quite a long time.

The markings that Samuel and Peter left behind was harder to calculate.

"Yes, Ms. Ruth have returned three months ago, Ms. Dina returned..."