Chapter 1181 - 1184: The Follow Up (4)

"Stephen?" Arnold repeated and then nodded. "Ok, let's call him over."

The two of them quickly found Stephen, who was still in the public training ground. Since there were many people ho have advanced through ranks, there was a public training ground that they could use for a small fee.

Of course, they were not allowed to destroy the place.

If they dared to, it was estimated that there would be a group of soldiers coming over to their door to demand compensation.

For Stephen's rank, the training ground was a bit too fragile.

Thankfully, Stephen is a magician and his own physical strength was actually not that strong. As long as he didn't use any magic, even ordinary magic warriors at rank 4 could easily defeat him.

In this way, the training ground stayed intact.

"What brings you two here?" Stephen arched his eyebrows when he saw the two people who came over.

His detection magic had long sensed these two people's arrival, but he didn't care that much.

"We're here to see you." Arnold said without hesitation.

"Speak honestly." Stephen rolled his eyes.

See him?

The two of them were so busy to help Mr. Jones in various matters, so how could they have time to see him?

Arnold would rather believe that the sky was about to fall than these two people coming over to see him.

"Hahaha." Arnold laughed unrestrainedly while Ruben chuckle.

"We're here to invite you for a spar. It has been a while since we fought against each other and there are not many people whom we could fight against, right?" Ruben said with a smile.

"Three party battle?" Stephen asked, somewhat tempted.

It was indeed true that there were not many people who had advanced to rank 7 by now and they have long sensed that the mana concentration on the Green Planet had decreased rapidly.

It was to the point that even if someone wanted to advance to rank 4 from rank 3, he would have to find a place with mana gathering formation.

This would not have happened in the past.

Because they could just pick a random place and the mana concentration would be more than enough for them to advance to the next rank.

But now…

The three of them knew that their future path to advance to rank 8 might not be very smooth and will probably take an extremely long time. Without enough resources, they would have to fight hard and make it up from other areas.

However, they were not too worried.

There were many messages that Riya and Samuel left behind inside the space storage scroll that they handed over to them. One of them was a short message that stated the grand magic beasts' tide would not happen anytime soon.

They didn't have to forced themselves to train all the time anymore.

Because even if they did come again… the one who would have to face it would be the next, next, or even further down generation.

What they needed to do is simply to live their lives as they wished.

If they still wanted to try pursuing the future paths, there were meditation technique up to rank 9 written there.

To advance to rank 10, they would need understanding of the laws, which was not something that Samuel and Riya could write down clearly. Because the laws they chose would depend on their own talents and none of them followed the same path as Samuel and Riya.

So the two of them chose not to write down the paths they have taken.

They should explore their paths and made it truly their own.

"Sure." Ruben smirked.

He was not afraid of them fighting directly against two people at once. Anyway, he might be using the magic spells, but his runes drawing speed was already very fast.

…It was still far from comparable to Riya, though.

Fighting against two people at once is still possible.

The other two were secretly on guard when they saw Ruben's expressions.

They had the feeling that he was planning something when they saw his expression so courageous like this.

Then again…

"It's not like I don't have any tricks on my own." Arnold was filled with fighting spirit as if he wanted to fight right away.

Stephen also smiled.

Many magic spells he learned was indeed a bit too troublesome to cast. They were powerful but the time to cast was a bit too long, especially since the magic spells were a bit shameful.

Oh well…

After some time having to say those embarrassing words, Stephen had slowly become immune to the embarrassment.

Anyway, those who watched him cast the magic spells were mostly the magic beasts and the magic beasts couldn't understand his words. So even if he were to act shamefully in front of them, they wouldn't know anything.

As for others…

Well, Stephen would just say that he will pretend that he did nothing.

"Then…"

"Wait, if we want to fight, let's find other place. I don't want Mr. Jones to come knocking on my door to ask for reimbursement fee." Ruben stopped these two people who looked like they were about to fight directly.

As the one who helped to manage the finance…

Ruben just wanted to say that there were so many things that Mr. Jones had to spend money on.

No matter how much money came in, the money still came out extremely quickly.

*sigh*

"Oh right."

Stephen glanced at the ground and sighed.

This training ground was still good enough for most people since not many people outside of the official organization had advanced to rank 5. There was simply not enough resources for them.

And when they finally could get more resources, the mana concentration decreased worldwide.

It was simply slowing them down and made it more difficult for them to advance to the next rank.

But they couldn't possibly voice out their complaint.

Who are they going to complain to?

The world?

People will definitely think that they were crazy if they did it.