Jonas Nolan knew himself well.
His ability to survive in Afirer Kingdom before was all thanks to the family members who cared and take care of him well.
He was used to live a pampered life.
Perhaps it was not impossible for him to struggle hard to live if he was forced to.
But why?
Why should he lived that way?
His birth had already given him a much higher starting point than others.
Why should he compare with those who had much lower starting points than him and tried to lower his own standard?
Jonas Nolan didn't want to.
The other world sound like a brand new world and also a brand new chance for the returnees to get stronger quickly. With the threat of the grand magic beasts' tide looming over their heads, all of them wanted to get stronger with their own way.
Jonas Nolan was not an exception.
He also wished to get stronger as fast as possible.
Even if he couldn't really fight as a magician on the field, Jonas Nolan hoped that he could also helped to protect others.
In this way, he would not always be protected by other people.
Unfortunately…
This chance was just not for him.
Jonas Nolan knew very well that with his limited ability, going there would be nothing more than seeking death. He had no ability to protect himself well without the protection of others and no other returnees would be wiling to sacrifice their practice to help him.
After all, each and every single one of them had their own goal and aspiration.
If Jonas Nolan had to say, her actually admired the other returnees greatly because he could tell that they were people with great determination.
What prompted people to be successful were not only their talent, ability, and resources, but also their own will and perseverance.
Because the road of success will be fraught with failure.
If one couldn't accept and learn from their failures, then they would never be able to move forward.
Jonas Nolan had been taught these from youth.
Unfortunately, he was definitely not the best in terms of implementing these advices that were given to him.
So seeing Ruth was already determined to go….
He chose not to say anything.
At the same time, Jonas Nolan was thinking about his own path and what he planned to do in the one year's time before the grand magic beasts' tide.
The answer?
It was nothing more than practice and practice.
Jonas Nolan created a few more useful herbs and also meditated longer than usual. Even though he hated meditating, he knew that if he wanted to make more potions, he needed to reach higher ranks.
So he could only repeat the boring life of training, making alchemy, meditating, and so on.
The four continents were also very quiet during this period of time, which made Jonas Nolan somewhat amazed.
Oh well, Jonas Nolan simply treated it as the leisure time outside of his laboratory's matter and it was not that bad.
At the very least, Jonas Nolan thought that knowing these things would allow him to follow the world's development outside.
And Ruth's return didn't change many things too much.
But Jonas Nolan noticed that Ruth was much colder after her return from the other world. She was often alone and seemed to be unapproachable.
He tried to talk a few times, but Ruth always avoided his questions.
It was obvious that she didn't want to talk about these things and Jonas Nolan didn't think it would be a good idea for him to force her either.
In this way, their relationship became more delicate.
What followed afterwards was the deployment for the grand magic beasts' tide.
As more and more returnees were coming back, they also realized that it was time for the grand magic beasts' tide.
None of them knew when exactly it would appear and where the magic beasts would come.
So they had to be prepared to be attacked from any location.
It was terrifying.
There were a lot of arrangements to be made and Jonas Nolan didn't understand any of them. After all, he was not exactly someone who learned these things.
What he cared for was about his own arrangement.
But it was obvious that he was put on the backside and his task was simply to replenish the recovery potions as much as possible.

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