Runemaster in the Last Days

"Rank 5?"

When everyone heard the rank of the special magic core, they were stunned and greed appeared in their eyes.

They all knew that Samuel and the others were already above rank 3, but they didn't know the specific rank. Now that there was a chance for them to reach rank 4 directly, who didn't want it?

"How do you know it's rank 5?"

"The mana fluctuation is quite obvious." Peter rubbed his nose.

Samuel nodded.

He also knew it was rank 5.

"Is there any drawback from using the special magic core?" The leader asked again.

"No, there's no drawback aside from having special petal mark somewhere on your body," Peter replied. "There might be consequences for people at higher level, but I don't know for sure since I'm not a magician."

"I haven't heard of anything like that." Samuel rubbed his chin.

Since he has a very powerful family in that world, Samuel could know more information than ordinary people. Naturally, he also knew that there were many people who often used the special magic core to raise their mana.

Even magic warriors could use it, so it was also very attractive to them.

When he was there, his family members also said that if he could find any special magic core, he could absorb it into his body. The special petal marks doesn't really mean anything aside from letting others know that you have once taken it.

As for where it appear, everyone is usually different.

Some appear in the arm, some appear on their chest, some appear on their back.

The most miserable would be someone who had it on their face because it would be harder to hide it unless they cover up their face forever.

"In that case, we need to think of a way to take it," the leader said quietly.

Samuel frowned. "I don't think that it's possible for you to do so… unless you want to trigger the formation and might die on the spot."

Considering a large number of magic beasts would come because of it, Samuel didn't really think that it would be a good idea for them to take it. Even if they wanted to be greedy for resources, they needed to have life to enjoy it.

Otherwise, it would be useless.

"Oh?" The leader looked at Samuel suspiciously.

Samuel didn't bother to look at the other party and walked away.

He had told his family members about his trip to the crack and also his finding about the pillar to his father, but he didn't have any plan to tell others about this because Samuel felt that it was unnecessary. The more people who knew about this, the more they would want to ask him about the rune master and so on.

Samuel had more than enough trouble as it is.

He didn't want more people to pester him.

"Well, most special magic cores exist in dangerous place," Peter said to the leader beside him. "So even if you want to take it, I don't think it'll be that easy."

He never dared to take those special magic cores when he was in that world.

Too dangerous!

The leader nodded in understanding after hearing Peter's words. "I see."

It seemed that even if they wanted to take that special magic core, they would need to consider a lot of things. First thing first, what formation are being set up in that room and why does it being dyed red?

Samuel didn't bother with the leader and walked to Riya. "Do you know what caused the formation to change?"

He had never heard of formation changing colors.

Unless it was another formation that was activated and caused this change.

Riya peeked at the leader who was busy talking with Peter in the distance and then she said, "I don't know why the color changes, but I do know that the requirement to activate the killing formation has bene reached. As long as there's anyone who tried to take the special magic core, no matter whether it's humans or magic beasts, you will be trapped and die a miserable death."

"Killing formation?" Samuel repeated, chills spread out on his back.

Riya nodded solemnly. "The formation is set to lock down the area within the formation and then the killing… I think torture would be more appropriate in this case, formation would be activated."

"Wait, can you elaborate?"

There were too many formations variation in the entire world. Samuel could not guarantee that he knew which one Riya was talking about.

"108 Killing Formation," Riya said slowly.

Samuel was silent.

Now, he really didn't need Riya to explain to him.

The 108 Killing Formation was a special formation that was designed to kill a person 108 times. Rather than killing formation, this was actually more appropriate to be said to be torture formation.

But because the ending of the person within the formation is still death, this was still categorized as killing formation.

As for what would happen after the formation was activated…

The person would be stabbed, skinned alive, burned, and then cut into pieces.

It could be said that the person who designed this formation in the first place wanted to make sure that the person whom she designed it for would die in the most miserable way.

Yes, she.

The person who designed this famous killing formation was a woman.

She's a very ruthless magician who's also a rune master.

"Do you have any countermeasure."

"Not for the time being…"

"What are you doing?!"

When the two of them were talking, they heard shouts from the back and saw that Pall has already entered the room and tried to take the special magic core.

The other researchers were stunned by his reckless move.

They have just agreed that it would be too dangerous to take it directly, but he actually tried to take it?

"You…"

DING!

The moment Pall's hand touched the special magic core, a loud sound rang in everyone's ears.