Runemaster in the Last Days novel Chapter 31

"Can’t sleep?" Samuel asked, his tone was low.

Riya smiled bitterly and nodded lightly. It was not a secret anyway. "I’m planning to drink some water. It might help me to sleep later."

Thinking about sleeping, Riya honestly hadn’t slept much ever since she came from that world. If she was not meditating, she would be busy doing something else. But sleeping seemed to have been thrown far away to the back of her mind.

Low ranked magician was fine without sleeping for a short period of time because they could replace it with meditating. While it might take a toll on their mental state, many magician was willing to pay this price in order to get stronger faster.

Because they could only get stronger through magic training.

If they didn’t meditate, they wouldn’t be able to advance.

Of course, they also needed to train their spells but because Riya was still very familiar with the spells and her control was good, she could focus on meditating and increasing the total amount of her mana.

Even a single bit of their improvement could mean a lot in the long run, so they simply forced themselves to squeeze more time to train.

Riya had been tempered in that dangerous world for a period of time. By now, she didn’t have the thought of resting but her mental state was indeed somewhat disturbed.

Coming back to this world, she was under the assumption that she would be able to relax and only meditate because she had gotten used to it. But now that the world was slowly changing, she was constantly reminded of that terrible world where killing was extremely common.

For people who had lived there in their entire life, it might be nothing.

But Riya was raised in the modern world that was safe because of law and so on. It took her a long time to adapt to that world.

Right now, she was in the state of confusion about what kind of attitude she should have towards her current life.

Continue to be so vigilant?

Relax and enjoy?

Be more cautious towards the unknown future?

She didn’t know.

’Maybe I really need a good sleep…’ Riya thought internally.

Samuel looked at Riya’s expression. Riya’s expression was not very active, but it was still easy to notice some details to know what she was thinking if they paid close attention.

"Are you worried?"

"Is it possible for me not to worry?" Riya asked back.

Samuel thought about it and sighed. He had stayed in a strange world where killing and various other crimes were so common for several years. Even if he didn’t live long there, he still retained some of his thinking from that time.

He was calmer when facing changes as he had already experienced many things.

Both here in the business world and also in that world.

It was very different from this young woman in front of him who hadn’t even graduated from university and technically hadn’t experienced the harshness of the world outside.

"Even if there’s something bad that might happen, you can be rest assured that everything will get better in the future."

Riya blinked her eyes.

"After all, a world without hope is really bleak." Samuel shrugged.

Even if they didn’t think that way in their heart, it was always better to have some positive thoughts. Because this way, they would be able to move forward and not stuck in their place, unable to move.

"Thank you for your advice, Senior Samuel." Riya smiled faintly.

She was not stupid.

Even if she frantically grew up in different world with different set of views and laws for the past few years, she didn’t want it to completely affect herself.

In that rigorous world, she managed to survive.