Runemaster in the Last Days

As the one standing by the door, Samuel naturally watched all of this.

But he didn't have much thoughts about it.

He only looked at Riya who had quickly compressed her mana heart and arched his eyebrows. As expected from someone who had experience before. There was no way other people would be able to do it as fast as her.

Samuel saw that the runes drawing had reached Riya's neck and it was slowly forming silver and gold colored rune lines on her face. The movements seemed to be getting faster, which meant that Riya was about to enter the second stage of her advancement.

But before that…

'Those people should notice this disturbance.'

The changes in the sky outside were getting bigger and bigger. Due to the lack of mana, the formation had to pull mana from even further away to make up for the gap, so the disturbance would be even bigger.

And this will directly affect other people.

…

As Samuel had expected, many people noticed the changes in the sky.

But ordinary people would not associate this with the advancement ceremony of rank 7. Because no one knew that they had to experience a ceremony when advancing from rank 6 to rank 7 aside from the returnees.

After all, there were only a small handful of people who finally reached rank 5 after exhausting a large amount of resources. Or perhaps, they hadn't even reached rank 5 and still at the peak of rank 4 since neither Riya or Samuel paid attention to this matter.

There was no need to say anything about it, they definitely used up a large amount of resources in order to advance to rank 5.

But after reaching rank 5…

They would realize that their training was simply a bottomless hole and it would take much more resources for them to advance from rank 5 to rank 6.

And from rank 6 to rank 7?

It was simply impossible for anyone to take that step aside from the returnees for the time being.

So they didn't know.

Added with the fact that the seasons hadn't been very peaceful lately, what they thought was that there were more odd phenomenons nearby. The temperature had changed from extreme hot to cold.

There was no snow, but people could sense that the temperature was getting colder and colder.

At this moment, many people had already started to wear thicker clothes.

Especially those who didn't succeed in their practice.

They could only rely on various clothings and so on to protect themselves.

"Is it a storm?"

"I don't know, but the atmosphere is really strange."

"Yeah, yeah…"

People in City I Base

"Hmm, the weather today is really strange…" Amelia looked outside with a strange expression. She was thinking of going out and hunt more magic beasts with Arnold.

But at this moment, she felt that she should change her decision.

"The mana in the air is distorted," Arnold said with a frown.

Being at the peak of rank 4, their sensitivity towards the mana's movement and concentration in the air was higher. Coupled with the fact that the mana distortion was visible to the naked eyes, it was only obvious that these two people noticed it.

The current situation didn't seem to be very good.

"Will there be another catastrophe?" Amelia asked, her tone clearly reflected her worry.

If there were another earthquake like before, it was estimated that the people wouldn't be able to survive.

Because there might be more powerful magic beasts coming out to greet them.

How many of them could possibly deal with powerful magic beasts without the returnees?

If it was only rank 4 to rank 5, the elites cultivated by various forces could still have a chance to deal with these magic beasts.

But if it was higher?

Other than the returnees, the others simply didn't have any hope of dealing with them in the slightest bit.

"I don't know," Arnold said and then pushed Amelia back to the room. "We better stay inside and stay with each other. If something bad really happened, we'll be ready to deal with it."

"Um."

The six of them quickly gathered in one of their temporary residences. The two residence were connected either way and it didn't feel good to stay in two places when such an incident happened.

Ruben was looking outside and watched the sky above him.

"There are runes in the sky," Ruben muttered in a low voice.

Even though it was faint, Ruben could see the runes in the air. Countless runes, some he knew and some he didn't know, seemed to be filling the sky. And these runes were not staying in one place but moving in one direction.

"Runes?" Arnold heard this and thought about something. "Is it Riya?"

The only person who could possibly cause such a phenomenon and related to runes seemed to be Riya.

"Huh? Can Riya create such a big scene?" Sean was confused.

They all knew that Riya is very powerful, but the greatest incident that she made seemed to be the great formation that could cover up the entire city, right?

They have never heard of anything more than that.

"I don't know…"

"Well, let's just wait."

At this moment, everyone could only wait.

…

City J Base

The other base that was close to the disturbance was naturally City J Base. The two returnees who were busy there seemed to sense something as they looked at the distance. Upon seeing this scene, their expression changed slightly.

"It's rank 7 advancement ceremony," Dina muttered in a low voice, her expression was a bit strange. "Who is it that advanced so quickly through ranks? Samuel? The rune master? Or it's Peter?"

As for why Dina didn't think of the others, it was because she knew their situation more or less.

Murin was still at rank 5 the last time they met and it was impossible for him to advance quickly when all of his magic beasts were bottomless pit.