Runemaster in the Last Days novel Chapter 94

Samuel looked at his father and nodded.

"I have said before that these beasts are called magic beasts. While their appearance might be similar to various animals here, but their size and colors are very different. These beasts have mana mixed into their body, which caused this change."

As Samuel spoke, he turned to look at Amelia.

Among the people in his family, Amelia was the only one who had never heard his explanation before because she was not in his family’s house. He would have to explain everything over or simply handed the task over to his younger brother.

But he definitely wouldn’t go over and explain everything from the start again right now.

Amelia nodded at Samuel’s words. She had already heard about the term magic beasts from Riya. Though, Riya didn’t explain about the magic beasts itself and Amelia made her own inference after seeing these magic beasts and fought against them.

"The magic beasts you have seen so far are all unranked magic beasts." Samuel’s expression turned solemn when he mentioned this. "Unranked magic beasts only become slightly stronger compared to ordinary animals and their size become a bit bigger or have some changes depending on their races and the mutation caused by mana."

Hearing this, the others frowned.

Unranked?

For some reasons, they had a bad feeling when they heard Samuel’s words.

"You’re all already reached rank 1 in your training, so you can technically fight against these unranked magic beasts," Samuel said slowly.

Thanks to him asking them to practice in the past few months, his family had reached rank 1 and the most talented one among them, had reached mid rank 1. For him personally, this speed was very slow. But in the environment in this Green Planet, there was basically not much that Samuel could hope for.

"I have a feeling you’ll say but, Brother," Sean said with pained expression.

Samuel rolled his eyes at his brother’s words and continued, "But the ranked magic beasts have already started to appear. The one magic beast that look far bigger is the ranked magic beast. Based on the strength and the mana energy, which can also be seen through the magic core, this is a rank 1 magic beast."

"Wait, what is magic core?"

"Magic core is the core of mana inside a magic beasts," Samuel replied. "Humans have mana heart, where we accumulate mana and used it to store our mana. Magic beasts store theirs in their magic core. The terms are different but the function is quite similar."

There were actually a few differences between them, but Samuel had no interest to go deep into biology lessons to explain about this. Besides, he was sure that most of them would have long forgotten about their lesson from many years ago.

Rather than burdening them with these complicated terms and explanation, it would be better to let them think that the function was quite similar.

When thing stabilized and the knowledge about the magic cores and so on started to spread, it was not too late for him to tell them the details.

"So unranked magic beasts didn’t have any magic core?" Amelia asked again just to make sure.

"Yes."

"How much powerful is a rank 1 magic beast compared to an unranked magic beast?"

"At least twice as strong," Samuel replied. "How strong these rank 1 magic beasts would depend on their own specific ranking, which can be categorized to low, middle, and high. After that, it would enter rank 2. In order to determine their strength, I have asked the martial arts’ association to hasten making the identification device."

Identification device?

"Something like a scanner?" Amelia asked, trying to imagine how that identification device would look like.