Runemaster in the Last Days-Chapter 447: It’s Here

Mr. Jones was silent.

He would never forget that the person in front of him is a politician, a person who has been standing on the forefront and dealt with many old foxes.

For him to be able to stand on this position, how could he not understand the sophistication that belonged to this world?

He might have talked about a lot of things with Mr. Jones, but in essence, it was nothing more than the fact that the higher ups and the returnees were simply on the situation where they were using each other.

The returnees knew that they have advantage in their field and the fact that they were stronger.

And the higher ups didn't want them to be uncontrollable factor that could threaten the safety of countless people all over the continent.

The first one wanted more resources and the second one wanted their ability.

It's their 'cooperation.'

A fragile cooperation if one should say.

Because once the higher ups touched these people's bottom line, there was no doubt that what awaited them would be a huge backlash because neither of them would be willing to back down and be used by others so easily.

So far, even Samuel was the same.

Even if Samuel knew that the higher ups were allowing his father to become City A Base's head and also gave him considerable freedom, they wanted him to do many things for them.

These things were their 'request' in the 'cooperation' between the two parties.

Samuel listened to some of them but he would not be the sword that the higher ups could move as they wished. If they wanted him to do troublesome things, then he had the right to refuse.

If the higher ups forced him to do it while threatening his family…

It was estimated that their negotiation might turn very bloody.

Who would like to be threatened by others?

Samuel didn't like it and Mr. Jones also knew that. But the higher ups would definitely pay more attention to Samuel's family and when it was truly necessary, it was not impossible for them to threaten Samuel with him.

So Mr. Jones has always been trying to get stronger and made himself has more importance.

Because only in this way would it be possible for him to protect his family better.

And now…

There was another chip that the higher ups could use when facing Riya.

It would not be a pleasant thing for her.

"As expected of you, Mr. A." Mr. Jones chuckled and crossed his arms. "But I guess you should also give some sweetness for them to be willing to work for you?"

"That girl is not much better than your son when talking about trade." Mr. A shook his head. "I think that he's influencing her badly."

With how black bellied Samuel is, Mr. A felt that Riya who was getting close to Samuel would be infected by that man. Because the request she made was getting more and more greedy…

Just like a certain black hearted businessman.

"We're a businessman and a businessman will not do business without any profit," Mr. Jones said calmly.

Mr. A: "…."

Well, like father, like son.

The two of them were indeed very similar to each other and for this matter, Mr. Jones was really speechless.

"In any case, that girl's research result is quite surprising even for us. We'll not be stingy to support people who truly have talent and ability," Mr. A said calmly.

Even without Riya's existence, they would not be wiling to let someone with talent to be buried.

"You will still give more preferences just because of her existence," Mr. Jones said calmly.

Mr. A smiled. "Naturally."

The two men stopped talking after this. They understood very well that they were just cooperating with each other and this was good enough.

…

Meanwhile, Ruby didn't know anything about the conversation between these two people about her.

She was now protected as there were bodyguards around her and Ruby felt helpless.

But it was not bad.

At least, these people would not disturb her when she was busy with her own research.

In the next few days, Ruby fully understood what Mr. Jones meant. Menai and Professor Dit were reported to the higher ups and the two of them were suspended from work.

This made the two of them angry and annoyed, but there was nothing that they could do.

On the other hand, Ruby was able to get the recognition and her research request was also approved easily. The resources were given to her and with this, Ruby could do a lot more research in the future.

This made Ruby very happy.

So she spent the next few days fully absorbed in her research.

…

Riya and Samuel didn't know about the commotion that happened outside. The two of them were still exploring the crack and went deeper and deeper.

There were many magic beasts that attacked them, which slowed down their progress significantly.

Because they had to rest to recover their mana before continuing their exploration.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for the two of them to go deeper into the crack and fulfill their intention in coming here.

Thanks to these magic beasts' corpse, Samuel was advancing very quickly.

And Riya herself also got a lot of resources. She could make dozens of rank 5 formation with these and didn't have to trouble herself to make the mana essence from the rank 4 magic beasts' blood anymore.

"How long are we going to go?" Samuel asked when he saw that the terrain had changed once again.

They have experienced the ordinary area, followed by the frozen land.

The temperature kept on dropping and if it was not because of their strength, they would never be able to make it this far.

"It's not far." Riya looked at the front and then smiled faintly. "It's here."

Here?

Samuel raised his head to look in the direction Riya was looking at and then his expression froze.

What is that?