I almost forgot I had a fire stone!!.

I don’t want to get burned by my own spell. Should I cast a water barrier first?

No. no. I should concentrate on how to construct a fire rune.

Zost guided fire energy out from the stone. He controlled it with the same feeling when he controlled the water rune for the first time.

The stream of fire slowly gushed out from the fire stone.

The surrounding area was getting hotter and hotter.

The flame intensity was out of Zost control.

“ar shit!!”

Zost conjured a water ball to stop the fire but the little amount of Zost’s power can’t do anything to the fire from stone.

A shadow stayed under the tree shaking his head.

“You started the fire, why not even try to construct the rune now.”

Zost calmed himself down, Zost felt the way of flame gushing out. It was not like water.

It didn’t need to control it precisely and just guide it wildly in one place.

The flame swiveled into a flame tornado. It was getting smaller and smaller to the core.

When the flame died down, what was left was the rune.

Zost’s fire rune had appeared.

“Yesss, I got my Fourth rune!!!. It’s too eas…”

Inside his body, the three water runes shaking unsteadily.

One of them collapsed on its own. blood rushed out from Zost's eyes, ear, nose, mouth.

Zost stood still shakingly while bathing in his own blood.

Swoosh, a shadow rushed out to Zost, he hurriedly cast healing rune.

Zost’s wound stopped bleeding, and color returned to his face.

“Nobody teaches you to prepare before constructing a rune? Who is this guy's mentor? WTF!”

Zost slowly opened his eyes to meet with the stranger who was not so stranger.

He opened his eyes much wider, then he jumped out from the spot.

“Why are you here?”

“Me? I’m living here”

“But but you trying to kill me in slum area”

“No, that was not me. I got processed. Thank you for trying to help”

“Now I’ve returned you a favor so we don’t own each other anymore. bye”

“W-wait. Who are you?”

“Me. Call me shadow.”

Shadow literally merged with the shadow and disappeared from the field.

“Shadow huh, cringed boy.”

Zost got punched in the face by something.

“Sorry fellow, sorry don’t hit me”

Silent returned to the training field. Zost was in no mood to train anymore.

The fourth rune almost killed me.

Master O master why didn’t you warn me when you gave me fire stone.

A fiery eyeball observed the whole situation, squinted its eye before disappearing.

Countless engraved runes shone dimmingly, Anna reading a report while drinking coffee.

The Town situation was under control.

The people seemed to accept their fate to live with ghosts.

Town lord used all of his forces without sparing any to prevent ghosts from rampaging in town.

Three major forces: monks, sword practitioner, mage producing charms to ward off those ghosts. The business was running nicely. Even though anti-charm lunatics proclaimed the ghosts were not real, The Charm was not effective.

I hoped those anti-charm idiots would die sooner. I don’t want to live in a world with too many idiots.

Those brotherhood spread their influence too much.

A blood sacrifice for a blood vial that practice needed to be shut down.

The investigation team seemed to not get any useful clues.sigh.

Do I need to crack it myself?

Knock Knock..

“Come in”

Anna placed her coffee on the tray then gazed intently at Zost's body.

“Oh. didn’t I tell you to deconstruct a rune before constructing a new one?”

“...N..”

“Nevermind, The previous task, you still have not finished it. this time go with Meiji. She will told you in the detail”

Anna waved her hand like a previous time, Zost’s body sent flying from her room. the door closed on its own.