Runemaster in the Last Days - Chapter 250

Chapter 250: Rats Extermination
Despite how Ruben looked like, he had a lot of knowledge about constructions and so on. It was to the point that Riya wondered if he had some famous projects or anything like that.

After the car was stopped by the driver, the two of them came down and Ruben carried the fence with him. Thankfully, he had become a magic warrior rank 1, so his strength was much stronger.

“Miss Riya, I have another question,” Ruben said nervously after they arrived.

“Yes?” Riya replied, not understanding what happened to Ruben.

“Do you think it’s possible for me to learn runes and formation?”

Riya blinked her eyes and then asked, “Have you tried to study the formation I give to you before?”

“I have memorized it and tried it, but the mana flow is not very good,” Ruben quickly replied.

The runes in the stone that Riya gave out was not that difficult to memorize. After all, it was different from the runes that she made on the well directly, which consisted of several runes conjoined together.

The runes in the rock was relatively simple.

Ruben spent his free time memorizing the runes whenever he had time aside from working on his design. So after a few hours, he managed to memorize it and then tried it out.

Hearing this, Riya nodded.

It hadn’t been long since she gave the drawing to Ruben. Since he could remember it within a day when he still has other things to do, he should have some talent in runes. But she still has to test it.

“You can try to draw it later and I’ll take a look to see if there’s any mistake,” Riya said generously.

“Yes! Hahaha! Thank you, Boss!” Ruben laughed out loud like a child and jumped up, nearly dropping the fence in the process. He looked at the fence that he had made with difficulty and quickly exerted strength in his arm, preventing the fence from falling down.

Seeing this scene, Riya was speechless.

Should she say that Ruben was like a child?

“What are you doing here?” Samuel looked at this scene speechlessly. He saw the two of them talking and walking to the farm but then Ruben suddenly acted out and jumped around.

Because he had to prepare for Peter and the people from the magic association’s arrival, he asked Ruben to pick Riya up. But how come these two people looked like they were staging a comedy show instead.

“Hahaha! Boss, Miss Riya has already promised me that she’ll teach me runes… ouch!”

Before Ruben could finish showing off, Samuel had already kicked his *ss and shook his head. “Don’t interrupt her work. These are the farms and I don’t know the location for the fences. I’m afraid that I need you to work for it first.”

“Don’t worry, I can work on the fences first,” Riya replied as she looked at the farm and then pursed her lips. “But before that, can’t you deal with the rats?”

“Rats?”

Both Samuel and Ruben looked at each other.

They didn’t see any rats nearby, right?

Riya pointed at the farm’s direction and said, “There’s faint mana fluctuation that can only come from magic beasts. There should be some field rat that had mutated or they come from the crack itself. Right now, they’re mixed in the farm and they’ll be bad for the farm itself.”

Hearing this, both Samuel and Ruben turned solemn.

The two of them knew that the existence of pests in farms were inevitable, which was why some people used pesticides. But they didn’t expect that the pests had now evolved to become magic beasts.

Isn’t this very troublesome?

‘And there are quite a lot of them scattered around.’

Riya could sense the faint mana fluctuation because she has been working in the field for some time in that world. Of course, her work at that time was to repair the formation and not to become a farmer.

That was when she knew that they have to eliminate these pests before activating the formation.

Because the formation would also shield these rats within the field.

It would be disastrous if these rats continued to eat their food.

“Do you have to clean up the pests?” Samuel asked.

Riya nodded. “The formation can more or less shield the field from the harmful pests such as rats but they’ll leave behind the other animals. The requirement is for them to be eliminated first before the formation is set up.”

In other words, they should clean up these rats first.

“In that case, I have to join the rat catching work?” Ruben asked, his face was full of resistance.

He likes working to design and build various construction. But he didn’t like fighting at all, which was why he didn’t usually follow Samuel when the latter started to go out and hunt those magic beasts out there.

After all, there was no point for him to do it.

It would be enough to learn some spells and train to protect himself. The other time could be used for other matters.

“It doesn’t have to be you.” Riya looked at Ruben speechlessly. “If you were to go, who will help me to make the carving mark for these formation? Remember to just write the word fire, wind, earth, wood, or water.”

“That’s easy to do.” Ruben nodded and then asked Riya, “Anything else?”

“Map and help me to place the other ordinary fences first,” Riya replied. “The last ten will be added last after the others are done and then the magic cores can be put inside after the magic rats have been eliminated.”

Samuel nodded at Riya’s plan.

That was quite thorough.

As for who to call…

Samuel already had a plan.

Before that, he had to confirm something.

“What’s the rank of these magic rats?”

“Rank 1,” Riya replied. “The mana fluctuation is weak so at most rank 2. There might be many ordinary rats mixed.”

“Ok. I’ll call a few people to clean up the rats.”

“Yes?”