Runemaster in the Last Days - Chapter 129

Chapter 129: I’m not Stupid, Brother
“Father, look at them! They’re not willing to contribute to the family…”

“You don’t have to say more.” Old Master Carson raised his hand and stopped his son who was about to complain. He had a lot of children and there were also his nephew and nieces here from his siblings. The Carson Family was a big family and the matter of the family business would definitely cause a lot of internal conflicts.

Even before the apocalypse situation, Old Master Carson had already faced a lot of their quarrel because of this.

Right now, he didn’t really want to care about anything.

The world was no longer the same and if they didn’t want to be left behind, they had to get stronger and earn their right to speak.

“Focus on improving your strength,” Old Master Carson said. “For these resources… just accept what’s left.”

“But…”

“Being able to have them when we have no strength to retrieve it ourselves is already a good thing.” Old Master Carson shook his head and then added, “Learn to be content and accept that things are no longer the same.”

Everyone was silent.

Old Master Carson didn’t say anything more. He knew that they would have to adapt to the situation on their own pace. There was nothing else that he could do for his descendants aside from helping them as much as possible.

While Old Master Carson reprimanded his children and his sibling’s children, Stephen brought Sophia away from the main hall. Thankfully, this mansion was big enough for them all to live in different areas.

“Brother, you don’t have to pull me,” Sophia complained.

Stephen stopped and then looked at his sister. He took a deep breath and then said, “Don’t listen to their words. Exchanging friendship just for the sake of a little bit of resources are not worth it.”

“I know, I know.” Sophia shrugged. “I have no intention to help them either.”

Sophia knew that her relatives were all very greedy and wanted a piece of meat from her grandfather’s place. There were not many of them who truly had ability but they all wanted to have more money and resources.

Their own family was content with their situation and didn’t really expect to get anything more.

Besides, what was the use of being so greedy if they couldn’t eat it?

And in this situation, Sophia definitely didn’t want to make sacrifice for the sake of these annoying relatives. It would be better for her to stay with Amelia when it was possible and not stay with these people.

“Good.” Stephen took a deep breath.

“I’m not stupid, Brother.” Sophia shook her head and went back to her room. She wanted to pay a visit to Melly, her dog.

Stephen watched Sophia’s back and shook his head.

There were still some things that he had to do. Besides that, he had to find a work in the base to support himself and his sister. It was unlikely for their grandfather to give them too much resources from the few things that they obtained back from Samuel later.

…

After coming out of Carson Family’s mansion, Samuel lead the two of them to the research institute.

The so called research institute looked like an ordinary building from the outside and there were only a few more soldiers guarding this place. After all, the content of their research was bound to be related to the future fate of human civilization. So these soldiers would naturally exert extra effort to keep them save.

The military also placed high importance in these research. They wanted to know more about these magic beasts and the use of their meat. While it was known that their meat contained more mean, which was violent and had to use purification spell before being used, they didn’t know more about them.

It was only through this research that they would be able to figure out more things that they couldn’t understand.

Samuel himself didn’t know many details.

While he knew that the magic beasts’ meat contained more mana, he didn’t know the principle or anything like that. After all, there was no research institute in that world or anything like that.

He truly couldn’t figure out how it worked and only knew that it did exist.

So the rest would be handed over to the research institute.

“Right, what did you and my brother discuss before, Riya?” Amelia asked. She had been curious about this but hadn’t had the chance to ask about it before. When she brought Riya to her room, her attention was more on the fact that her brother will go to the Carson Family.

Otherwise, there wouldn’t be the scene where she sneaked over to eavesdrop on their conversation.

Riya looked at Amelia speechlessly.

Samuel was right in front of them and Amelia just had to ask this question.

“Why don’t you ask your brother?” Riya said while pointing at Samuel who was right in front of them.

“No, no, no, I don’t want to be punished again,” Amelia quickly refused.

What a joke.

If she asked her brother, Amelia couldn’t guarantee that her brother wouldn’t arrange another training session for her. The fact that she lost her break and had to go out with her brother alone made Amelia wanted to collapse.

She didn’t want to add more.

Riya didn’t know whether to laugh or cry at Amelia’s words. Samuel didn’t seem to be that unreasonable and would punish Amelia without any reason.

Suppressing her urge to laugh, Riya replied, “It’s about the magic core before. I have shown you the runes before, right? I’ll be working together with your brother so that these magic cores can be used.”

“Huh? But there are not many magic cores, right? I thought that all of them would be handed over for research.” Amelia scratched the back of her head in confusion.

Most of the magic beasts they faced were unranked magic beasts without any magic cores. The number of rank 1 magic beast they encountered was very few and it was usually dealt with by Samuel.