Covering the bases (3)

"You should have asked Cresta more about this," Rina said.

"She wasn't exactly a chatterbox and even I have some scintilla of pride," Luke said. "If someone clearly wants to keep their distance from me, then I will keep the distance as well. It would be better if we don't try to get along with them, if we were to meet them again."

"Rather than that, you are nagging Luke a bit too much lately," Shalia said.

"I am just trying to help prevent making the same mistakes," Rina said.

            In any case, after doing some math, Luke realized that even if he uses all the current mana of the crystal, he will recover that later without doing anything in less than two days… as long as he keeps summoning and sacrificing the monsters. He thought that it was a cheating method. Still, without doing something like that thousands of times, he probably won't find other magic planets and never will be able to Teleport his mobile fortress toward them.