"Is there?" Samuel touched his face and chuckled. "Perhaps I'm happy that I don't have to be chased around by those magic beasts anymore?"

Riya looked at Samuel subtly.

It sounded as if he was thinking of relying on her when dealing with those magic beasts. While it was not impossible, but this seemed to be completely different from what she knew of Samuel's personality.

"Don't think too much. I'll go there only after I have advanced to rank 7. Otherwise, we're simply seeking death," Samuel said calmly. "Not all of them are at the early stage of rank 7."

"I know." Riya chuckled. "Do you still need to gather more materials for your advancement ceremony?"

"No, I have everything I need and only need to wait and prepare myself first," Samuel replied calmly. "It's not the time yet for me."

Riya nodded at Samuel's answer.

Samuel looked at Riya's profile for a moment before looking away. He wanted to ask that question to her, but… it didn't seem to be appropriate to ask now. It would be better to wait until they were in City I Base before he asked it.

…

Murin's side

*cough* *cough*

In the air, Murin was coughing badly. He felt that it was truly a mistake for him to come here.

None of the returnees were easy to deal with and upon reaching rank 7, it was clear that the offensive power of the rune master had increased significantly. Even if he had been keeping his distance, he could still get hit.

"But I'm sure she used a lot of mana for that one attack." Murin patted his magic beast and then checked the other magic beast.

Upon being hit by Riya's attack, he immediately called the magic beast back to the pet space. He knew very well that it would be impossible for him to defeat Riya when she had advanced to rank 7 while he was still rank 6.

It was nothing more than a pipe dream.

'Well, she still restrain herself.'

Looking at the injury of his flying magic beasts, Murin could tell that Riya aimed at specific part on purpose. He didn't know how she managed to do it and didn't care too much.

After all, upon reaching rank 7, there would be a qualitative improvement.

Unfortunately for him…

He's a beast master.

This meant that his body was weak and the mana he has could only be used to make some low level spell to protect himself and the rest would be used by his magic beasts.

He basically relied on his magic beasts to contend against other people.

Without his magic beasts, he was nothing.

But this kind of thing was not necessarily a bad thing in Murin's opinion. After all, it still allowed him to reach the height that he might not be able to reach if he had followed other paths.

"Let's go back."

Murin looked at his phone and saw that the Magic Association had already started calling him again. Thinking about those annoying people, Murin felt his mood turned worse.

He knew very well that those people thought that they were the most powerful and wanted to control the returnees.

But because they all picked different paths, it was impossible to get them all together.

After all, each and every single one of them would not follow what other people said so easily. They have their own thoughts and they were unwilling to be used by other people.

With ambition as high as the sky…

'I lost this time but it doesn't mean I'll lose next time.'

Murin's eyes flashed with determination.

He will make sure to succeed as soon as possible. No matter what awaited him in the future, Murin will defining win.

There was no way he would be wiling to suffer defeat under the hands of those people again.

The bitter battles that he had experienced in that world was still fresh in his mind. Each and every single one of them should not be his match if they were to go on separately. But because they attacked him together, his magic beasts couldn't handle them on their own.

What awaited them was bitter defeat.

Right now, he couldn't gather those extremely powerful magic beasts like before. After all, many of them were rare and hard to get. Without the pampering of those people from the beast master's association, it was hard for him to even get the slightly better ones.

He had to work hard to make his team.

Now, he had the confidence to say that his team was definitely one of the best team in the world!

Because of this, he will never lose so easily again.

…

City I Base

The commotion in the distance had stopped and the people didn't have any thoughts about it.

Having faced the strangeness of the world several times, they had started to get used to it and didn't think that it was anything weird. The hot and cold temperature, the magic beasts that appeared, and now strange weather…

It seemed that they have become a bit immune.

It could also be said that they had completely let go and simply let nature took its course without doing anything.

Because it was the truth that many of them couldn't change anything.

Even if they wanted to do something, it would not affect the overall situation.

Now that they didn't know anything and the things seemed to have been resolved, these people chose not to do anything.

Of course, if they knew that they were about to experience the strange weather again in the future, they might want to start investigating about it.

Only some people tried to investigate this matter.

"Ruben, did you see anything?" Amelia saw that Ruben was staring at his phone intently. The six of them gathered in their residence, waiting for the atmosphere to return to normal before going out.

"Ah?" Ruben raised his head, his expression was a bit strange. "Master has reached rank 7."