Runemaster in the Last Days-Chapter 421: Hunting (2)

Peter was silent for a while.

"How about the others on the back?"

"Leave them be. The magic ants are not very strong and they can use it for practice," Samuel replied.

He brought these soldiers here so that they could practice anyway. But he would not lead them directly because he didn't have such capability. It would be better to leave such a tiring job to Major General Leon.

The higher ranked magic beasts were cleared up by Samuel, Peter, and Riya.

Well…

Riya basically just walked around.

The Protective Rune Circle around her was more than enough to kill any magic beasts that dared to get close to her. She didn't even bat an eyelid when watching these magic ants coming over and sent themselves to their grave.

Also, Riya didn't actively attack these magic beasts.

It was Samuel and Peter who were busy at the forefront to deal with these magic beasts.

"Does it not consume a lot of mana to maintain that Protective Rune Circle?" Peter asked when he saw Riya was walking leisurely.

"Not really," Riya replied.

Her Protective Rune Circle has been modified so that it would not consume mana at all when she used it. For Riya, there was no problem maintaining for 24 hours a day with only consumption at the beginning.

Of course, if she was under siege of magic beasts, she would have to replenish the mana and attack actively.

But if it was only in the state of standby like this, the mana absorbed by the Protective Rune Circle to maintain its form from the surrounding was more than enough to offset the consumption of the Protective Rune Circle.

Of course, Riya had no intention of telling others about this kind of thing.

"…How enviable."

Seeing how Riya was able to kill so many magic ants so easily, Peter had to say that he was envious. If it was possible, he also wanted to be able to do this.

Riya chuckled and then they stopped in another intersection. The jade doll was already waiting there and waved its hand upwards as if calling for Riya. This action looked really cute.

Another jade doll was waiting on the side.

It seemed as if the jade dolls have different personality with each other.

Bending down, Riya picked up the jade doll and listened to the report that it gave. The other one also gave report to her and Riya put one of them away. She arched her eyebrows and chuckled. "It seems that there are two routes there and both of them lead to the same place, the queen's chamber."

Hearing this, Samuel and Peter were energetic.

"How about if I leave it to you to choose as you wish? Whoever can kill the magic ant queen the fastest will win," Riya said.

"That's a great idea!" Peter was instantly energetic and he looked at Samuel provocatively.

Samuel: "…"

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But seeing that Peter was already eager to go, he rubbed his forehead and looked at Riya, who was giving a playful smile. "Alright, what's the reward?"

"Well, I'll just give a set of rank 1 magic scroll," Riya replied with a shrug.

Does he think that she want to bleed a lot for this kind of playful competition that had no meaning?

No way.

It was already kind enough for her to give this out.

"Got it."

"Just rank 1 magic scrolls." Peter waved his hand and then grinned. "You don't have to give me any reward. If I win, I want to challenge you, Samuel!"

Samuel sighed. "Alright, let's go."

Swish!

With that, Samuel immediately used his lightning mana to stimulate his legs and ran at the fastest speed to one of the tunnel. In just one second, only afterimages were left from where he stood.

Peter was stunned and then he yelled, "You cheater! Wait for me!"

Swoosh!

Peter also urged his aura and charged to the other tunnel, rushing over as fast as possible.

Riya saw these two's action and was amused.

"Shall we go over slowly?"

She rubbed the jade doll's head and then sighed. If she knew that she treated this jade doll as a real doll, she should have designed hair on the surface. It would be softer and felt much better to touch.

Well, forget it.

Mo was staying with Sophia and the others.

Even though Mo belonged to Riya, but she couldn't really understand Mo's speech. Moreover, she only took him in because she wanted a mount in the first place and was not really interested to take care of an animal.

So for the time being, she left Mo in Sophia's care.

Riya walked along the path that Samuel treaded. Along the way, she saw countless magic ant's corpse that had been dismembered.

It should have been cut down by Samuel with his sword.

Her pace was not that slow but it couldn't be said to be fast either. After a few minutes, Riya reached the end of the path and saw Samuel and Peter were fighting against a large magic ant.

She arched her eyebrows.

"Rank 4 magic ant queen?"

This queen advanced so quickly?

Based on the size of the tunnels, this queen ant should have started to build this place for a long time. This meant that either the queen ant had been advancing quickly or it was actually already a high ranked magic beast.

This was a bit strange in Riya's opinion.

Because she was sure that the strong magic beasts shouldn't have come out of the crack just yet. Or did she make some misjudgment about the cracks?

While Riya was pondering in her mind, Samuel had already answered her doubts.

"This ant queen devoured the other ants to quickly advanced just now. It should feel threatened by us," Samuel explained and jumped back. "Well, Peter is enough to deal with it now."

Riya saw Samuel keeping his distance and arched her eyebrows.

Why did he come here then?