Chapter 1183 - 1186: Combination Magic

Being stared at by Arnold and Ruben made Stephen's back hairy.

He took a step back and assumed a fighting stance. "Don't do anything rash. We're still inside the teleportation formation and I don't want to be fined to repair it."

Stephen knew the rules in City A Base very well and naturally didn't plan to challenge it.

He didn't want to be asked to repair the teleportation formation, especially because the one who could do the repair was only Ruben. This meant that he might end up having to pay Ruben.

Just thinking about it made Stephen dissatisfied.

Ruben chuckled and said, "They're really thinking that way."

"Uh…" Stephen paused and he looked at Ruben incredulously. "Are you serious?"

Ruben nodded.

"What did you hear?" Arnold only felt that Stephen's statement was a bit annoying to hear and didn't think too much about it. But Ruben's words made him realize that there might be more to the story.

This interest him and he turned to look at Ruben curiously.

"I'll tell you after the battle."

"Fair enough."

With this, they stopped arguing and Ruben activated the teleportation formation to go out of the city. Ruben could be said to be the only one who knew all the coordinates of the teleportation formation on the entire Green Planet.

Other people only knew a portion of it, especially those at the main bases so that they could operate the teleportation formation.

One had to say that Ruben's power was actually very big.

It was just that not many people knew about this matter or they might not be willing to let Ruben roam free like this.

Then again, they used not to dare to offend Ruben because of Riya.

Now that his own strength was also quite strong… they didn't dare to offend him mainly because of himself now.

Swish!

The three people appeared on a relatively open area far away from the city. There was a broken formation in the distance along with the terrible stench from decaying corpses that had been left behind for who knows how long.

"This is…" Arnold frowned.

He didn't remember this place being a registered place among the teleportation formation that Riya set up when she came back.

"This is the place where the crack used be," Ruben replied.

He pointed to the distance where a broken formation was located and mana was seeping out. There were countless magic beasts' corpses there, most of them no longer intact and looked like they had experienced extreme torture.

It was a brutal mutilation.

Just looking at the scene was more than enough to make them want to throw up.

"The crack is gone… uh wrong, there's still one crack, but this one is no longer here." Stephen couldn't help but cover his nose.

The smell was too bad!

He didn't know how long these corpses had rot in the wilderness.

And looking around, there were still countless traces of fighting and only a small area where the teleportation formation was located was relatively better.

At least, they didn't have to step on the corpses to be here.

"No one ever cleaned up this place?" Arnold asked.

Ruben shook his head. "Riya never told anyone that she made a teleportation formation here so that she could repair the killing formation quickly. There used to be a lot of magic beasts roaming around here, so no one dared to come close."

Even if Riya closed the crack through setting up a formation above the crack, she didn't eliminate all the magic beasts that came out.

Because at that time, she was already so tired.

Not to mention…

Ruben remembered that after having to close down this crack, Riya was called once more to the north in order to assist closing another crack.

This place was quickly forgotten.

Coupled with the large number of magic beasts roaming around, most people would not dare to come here to seek death. They were not capable enough to challenge the magic beasts that were far above their strength.

The magic beasts that roamed this area were strong.

And as time passed and no one bothered to pay attention to this place, it turned into a rotten place like this that no one would want to step in.

They were afraid that they would die because of the stench first.

Not to mention, how many bacteria and other things lingered in this place.

It had become a literal 'dead zone.'

"Let's move to another place. I don't really want to stay here any longer…" Stephen couldn't stand it.

As the former young master of the Carson Family, Stephen has always lived a rich life. While he was not as pampered as his sister, but having to stay in such a place for a long time was still a torture for him.

He might experience some hardship when he went out with Sophia to explore the world, but his own basic quality of life was not affected that much.

After all, he was not weak and he has enough resources in his hand.

Since he could, why not live a better life?

Now that he had to stay in a place worse than a garbage dump… Stephen felt that he would rather declare that he lost to these two people than to stay here even for a second longer.

Arnold and Ruben have higher tolerance, but they also didn't want to fight here.

"There should be an open area nearby. Let's go there instead."

"Good."

The three of them moved quickly, even Stephen who was silently using magic to increase his speed temporarily.

Otherwise, his physical condition wouldn't be able to catch up with the other two people.

Hmm…

Something is wrong.

Stephen looked at Ruben with suspicion. "I recall that you're also a magician, why is your physical condition far better than me?"

Ruben is following the path of a magician with rune master as his side profession, so his physique should have been similar to the magician. But why did he have to use magic while Ruben could keep up with Arnold easily?