Runemaster in the Last Days

The two of them knew the existence of the paper doll because some formation master would use it to help them. But they were surprised to see the jade doll because it was not that easy to make.

"Yes. That thing cost a lot of jade." Riya's face showed pain when she thought about the large amount of jade that she had to use to make each jade doll. Thankfully, she had a lot of jade collected.

Most of the time, the jade dolls would be used to take care of her farm, but Riya also specifically prepared a few more jade dolls to be used as scouts. After all, Riya didn't want to travel to dangerous places without knowing anything and using jade dolls could minimize the danger to a certain degree.

Knowing that the ant nest would be filled with many branches, Riya used more than one jade dolls without hesitation.

As for them broken midway…

Well, that was the risk that she had to take.

And this was another reason why she felt that rune master is a profession that was specifically existed to burn money.

Almost everything in their hand needed money and cost a lot of money even if it was only a one time use. It was so painful that Riya couldn't treat money as money anymore. Otherwise, she would vomit blood in heartache and anger.

After all, she was the one who wasted money.

"If you want jade, the military can exchange with you," Major General Leon said.

"Wait, the Martial Arts Association could do it too!" Peter didn't want to lose.

Riya: "…"

Samuel: "…"

The two of them looked at these two people speechlessly.

It was clear that they wanted to take advantage of Riya's need for jade to trade with other things from her. There were so many knowledge about runes and all that Riya held in her hand.

If they could get it, it would benefit them greatly.

"I still have a lot of jade," Samuel said without hesitation. "Even if Riya keep on trading with me, it won't run out at all."

The Jones Family had collected a lot of good thing, including countless jade in the past. If it was necessary, he could just give those porcelains that he had in his hand. Anyway, those things were useless aside from their historical and beauty value.

Though, Samuel was sure that his mother might want to chase him away if he dared to do that.

"Mr. Samuel, you're just one person. It's very different from us who can mobilize the entire nation's resources." Major General Leon looked at Samuel with dissatisfaction.

This black hearted businessman definitely wanted to reaped the greatest benefit from this exchange.

This wouldn't do!

He had to get more advantage!

"Yes, the Martial Arts Association also has a lot of resources!" Peter added hurriedly.

"Why are you jumping around too? I don't think that your association needs runes or magic scrolls."

"Major General Leon, there are still people who need it!" Peter protested. "And what I want is the runes that can be used for clothes! As many as possible."

The others: "…"

They all silently looked at Peter and felt that this man's hobby was really special. Looking at his dress today, they could see that he should have purposely picked this design because it does look handsome.

But… who would wear such formal clothes when they wanted to hunt magic beasts?

These returnees were really eccentric one after another.

"I have no plan to make a large amount of jade doll. Even if it's quite powerful against lower ranked magic beasts, but it's weak against rank 3 and above magic beasts. Moreover, it used up a lot of magic cores as energy source," Riya said with a shrug.

She's not that rich, alright.

These jade dolls were indeed extremely useful to be a coolie. But if they were asked to fight, then these jade dolls were actually quite fragile. It was only because of Riya's formation that they could barely fight against rank 3 magic beasts.

But if they were asked to fight against rank 4 magic beasts or even a more troublesome rank 3 magic beasts… they would shatter.

Not only that, Riya had to use a lot of magic cores to power up these jade dolls. She was not that rich to the point that she could throw up a lot of resources.

"But being able to fight against rank 3 magic beasts were still powerful enough," Major General Leon argued.

There were many people who couldn't fight against rank 3 magic beasts and even faltered when they were fighting against rank 1 or rank 2 magic beasts. So being able to fight against rank 3 magic beasts was actually quite a feat.

"It's indeed impressive, but what if I tell you that to operate the jade doll, you need several rank 3 magic core?" Riya asked back. "And it'll only last for a few hours to days depending on the size of the jade doll."

Well, to be honest, the amount of magic cores that Riya needed would depend on what kind of task that she gave to the jade doll.

If it was just to maintain her farm, she didn't need that much.

After all, the jade doll was only moving methodically as her coolie to finish easy and non energy consuming tasks.

But it was completely different if she asked these jade dolls to fight.

To put it bluntly…

It was burning money!

The kind that burned millions in just a few hours.

Even if Riya has a lot of resources, she was not that prodigal to the point that she would be willing to waste so much money to play with the jade dolls.

"That much?" Major General Leon was surprised and turned to look at Peter and Samuel. He didn't have common knowledge about this, so he had to look at these two people who were clearly more knowledgeable than him.