Runemaster in the Last Days - Chapter 78

Chapter 78: Cruelty
Bang! Bang! Bang!

The sound of gunshots could still be heard.

Amelia and Ruby had already rushed inside the university’s gate again, wanting to use the wall to block the bullet’s path.

Riya turned her head around and saw the scene of the magic beast pouncing on the man beside Hansel. At the same time, Hansel ran to the storage room of the convenience store to hide with the last person.

They abandoned their friends.

‘What a loyalty.’

Riya mocked in her heart and then turned her head away.

No matter what happened to these people, it was not their business. Besides, Riya was looking at the magic beast and found that it was already injured. The shooting skill of Hansel was really bad and it barely injured the magic beast.

But because it was injured, it couldn’t chase after Hansel.

It focused its attention on the man who was being left behind and killed it quickly.

Riya turned around, not paying attention to this.

She didn’t feel anything.

If Riya had to be honest, she had seen this kind of scenes countless times in that world. That was not a peaceful world and there were many magic beasts roaming around. In order for them to survive, they had to fight against the magic beasts and trained to become stronger.

Because everyone knew that if they were not strong enough, they would not be able to survive.

There were some cities where the situation was relatively stable. Powerful magic warriors, magicians, warriors, barbarians, and many others were protecting the city for the sake of their families and the continuation of lives there.

But those cities were limited in number.

Many other places were left unguarded with many magic beasts coming and going from time to time.

These magic beasts had brought countless despair to who know how many people.

And in the critical moment between life and death, there were many people who didn’t care about their friends and others. They would throw them to the mouth of these magic beasts for the sake of survival. Some of them even used their own ‘comrades’ to become the bait.

It was cruel.

And everything was simply for survival of the fittest.

So when Riya saw these scenes, her heart was extremely calm and there was not even the slightest bit of discomfort.

She was already numb.

And Riya also knew that this was only the beginning. When facing the threats between life and death, a person’s real character will come out. Whether they would stay loyal or not and whether they would be more selfish or even cross the bottom lines.

The ugliness will definitely come out.

And Riya knew very well that few people could retain their bottom lines when facing this thing.

How much the magic beasts will affect their future, Riya didn’t know.

What she knew for sure was that many people were definitely going to suffer. As long as these magic beasts increased in number, there wouldn’t be any peace.

“Did we get away?” Ruby asked and pulled her hands back. Being dragged by Amelia made Ruby nearly stumble a few times. Her physical fitness was clearly far below Amelia and she couldn’t stand such a tossing.

“It seems so.” Amelia was not sure and turned to look at Riya.

For some reasons, she felt that Riya was a bit more reliable and mysterious. They were facing these magic beasts but there was no fear or worry in Riya’s eyes at all. At most, she seemed to be thinking how to deal with these magic beasts.

“Don’t worry, these magic beasts are mostly attracted by noise, so they wouldn’t come here,” Riya replied.

Unranked magic beasts had low sensitivity. If it was rank 1 magic beast, then it could have either strong vision, smell, hearing, or even vibration. But since these magic beasts were only the unranked magic beasts, they usually relied on their vision and hearing.

And their vision and hearing were extremely limited.

Unless they were close to their ‘prey,’ they would not make a move at all and would instead roam around like a lost puppy.

“…Is this really your first time seeing these magic beast?” Ruby asked in doubt.

She had been doubtful of Riya’s performance for some time by now and at this moment, Ruby felt that her suspicions were not unfounded. Riya seemed to know more about these magic beasts than anyone else, which made her wonder if Riya had seen them before.

But there was no cases of these magic beasts appearing before.

“Well, I know some skills,” Riya could only say this when she saw these two girls looked doubtful.

At this moment, Riya wondered whether she should tell them that she has some skills that was a bit unordinary. But at the same time, Riya also knew that she didn’t want to make them worry about it.

She figured out that she should make a story some time in the future.

“Forget it, let’s check the canteen and find some food and other supplies,” Amelia said. “After that, let’s bring it to my car.”

Amelia had her own car and she had seen it in the parking lot. It seemed to be intact and they could stay in the car instead of the dormitory in case it was unsafe.

“Let’s find other place to stay too. The dormitory wouldn’t last long,” Riya said.

She had seen the dormitory’s building was partially in shambles. Without her formation, these structures wouldn’t hold on at all.

“Well, right. How about if we just stay in the car? At the very least if there’s a second earthquake, we’ll be able to run away,” Amelia suggested.

Thinking about it now, staying in their dormitory seemed to be too dangerous. But because they were afraid of these magic beasts, they didn’t dare to come out before.

“Ok.”

The three of them chose to forget about Hansel and the others.

These people were not important at all and it was more important for them to gather some resources and put them in Amelia’s car.

As for Riya and Ruby?

The two of them didn’t have any car…