Sand Mage of the Burnt Desert - Chapter 158
Sand Mage Of The Burnt Desert Chapter 158
Episode 158
Jin Geum-ho was looking out the window with his arms crossed.
The smile that greeted Zeon had long since disappeared like a lie.
Seo Tae-ran looked at Jin Geum-ho’s back with his hands clasped together politely.
It was a while later that Jin Geum-ho opened his mouth.
“It’s so fun.”
“yes?”
“It’s the world. “A sand wizard appears out of nowhere.”
“Ah yes!”
Jin Geum-ho turned and looked at Seo Tae-ran.
“How did it look?”
“It didn’t seem easy.”
“Did it look that way to you too?”
“yes! “If you treat me carelessly, I think you will be in big trouble.”
“You think the same as me.”
Jin Geum-ho shook his head.
The Zeon he saw had a typical tendency to be strong and weak.
Be strong to the strong and kind to the weak.
It’s not because I’m reckless or have a strange personality.
You can come out like that because you are confident in your abilities.
“My Cheonan eyes don’t work on that guy.”
“Is that… really?”
Seo Tae-ran raised his head in surprise.
Cheonan (天眼).
It is one of Jin Geum-ho’s main skills.
Like Xiaorun’s Lime Eye, it was not a skill that caused harm to others. But in some ways it was more dangerous than that.
The scariest thing about Cheonan is that causality can be roughly read.
In other words, if you look at your opponent while using this skill, you can get a rough idea of how things will go next.
In other words, I can predict to some extent the future of the opponent I use Cheonan on.
The problem was me.
I didn’t know what variables would arise if I intervened with the other person.
Therefore, Jin Geum-ho does not intervene directly with the opponent if possible. It simply encourages the other person to make their own choice.
Jin Geum-ho’s policy was to achieve the desired results with minimal intervention.
“The only opponent my Heavenly Eye did not work on was Deioden. Now Xeon has been added to it.”
“So you’re saying that Xeon is a Deioden-level powerhouse?”
“I would say that’s highly likely.”
“hmm!”
“The sand mage class alone is something to be wary of, but it seems that the level is even higher.”
“Wouldn’t it be better to get rid of it now? “If we move all the execution units, we will be able to eliminate them easily.”
“If that happens, the causality that has been barely coordinated will be shaken. “It’s a little burdensome, but the current flow will be more helpful to my plans.”
“If you change your mind at any time, please tell me.”
“Sure.”
Jin Geum-ho smiled at Seo Tae-ran’s words.
It was then.
Huh!
Suddenly I felt a faint vibration.
In an instant, Jin Geum-ho and Seo Tae-ran’s expressions changed.
It was a vibration that could only be felt in the mayor’s office.
All magic circles and barriers in Neo Seoul are managed by City Hall. If there is even a slight change in the numbers, the information is immediately conveyed to the mayor’s office.
Seo Tae-ran spoke carefully.
“This is a notification that Neo Seoul’s anti-horsepower level has decreased again.”
“Let’s go down to the basement.”
“Would you like to see it for yourself?”
“I have to see it with my own eyes.”
“I will take you there.”
The two got into the elevator.
Ugh!
The elevator descended at an alarming speed.
The elevator reached the first floor in an instant and showed no sign of stopping.
Twenty floors underground.
Neo-Seoul people say that the city hall is 20 floors underground and 50 floors above ground. I knew there were 70 floors in total.
Even those residing at city hall know that.
However, there was a space in the basement of the city hall that they were not aware of.
A secret space that exists twenty floors underground.
It was a place called the excavation building among those who knew.
The elevator passed twenty floors underground and went down for a while.
It felt like it took more time than climbing 50 floors above ground, and it actually did.
Ding!
We finally reached the excavation building and the elevator door opened.
At that moment, a vast underground space appeared in front of the two.
The underground space was so large that it could fit the entire city hall.
It was hard to believe that a space like this existed underground in Neo Seoul. But what was even more surprising was the huge object lying in the underground space.
A huge monster that seemed to be over 150 meters long from head to tail was lying on its stomach.
A pair of floppy wings and helplessly closed eyes. A pair of huge horns rising from the head. And scales as white as the sand of the salt desert.
The monster was a dragon.
It’s also a pure white dragon.
A gigantic creature with such overwhelming majesty that it took one’s breath away just by looking at it existed in the underground cavity of Neo Seoul.
There were no signs of life from the white dragon. In reality, he had stopped breathing.
Jin Geum-ho looked up at the white dragon and muttered.
“One of the eight dragons that came over to Tamulas after it turned into a desert.”
A long time ago, Jin Geum-ho saw it clearly with his own eyes.
A huge dimensional door leading to Kurayan opened and eight dragons came through.
The dragons that came to Earth scattered for some reason and flew in different directions.
One of them flew to Bukhansan Mountain and built a nest.
That was the white dragon Tamulas in front of Jin Geum-ho right now.
Tamulas was a young dragon.
Naturally, it was bound to be weaker than other dragons.
Because he had exhausted most of his strength trying to pass through the dimensional gate, he was unable to fly far and settled down at the foot of Bukhansan Mountain.
“Then we joined forces with Deioden and caught him.”
Deioden lost his wife and children to the dragon and was blinded by anger, and Jin Geum-ho knew that only by capturing Tamulas through Cheonan would the future be opened to humanity.
There were no options.
I had to catch Tamulas.
Under the leadership of the two, numerous awakened people set out to hunt Tamulas.
A time when awakened people were just appearing as a side effect of terraforming.
Naturally, the awakened people were immature in struggle.
The good news is that Tamulas was a young dragon.
Tamulas also had little experience and could not handle his powers perfectly.
That’s why they made the mistake of building a nest near old Seoul, where a lot of humans survived.
Maybe it was because he looked down on humans that much.
In any case, Tamulas and the human awakeners led by Deioden Jin Geum-ho fought a fierce battle.
In the fierce battle that lasted for three days, most of the human awakened people lost their lives.
The only ones who survived were a few awakened people, including Deioden and Jin Geum-ho.
But they were eventually able to defeat Tamulas.
It was the first victory given to mankind.
Jin Geum-ho knew that he had to take advantage of this opportunity.
He raised a huge building over Tamulas’ body.
They hid Tamulas’ body in the city hall building and erected buildings one by one.
That was the beginning of Neo Seoul.
Tamulas is a dragon.
He was a noble being who stood at the top of all the demonic beasts that came from Kurayan.
Even though he had stopped breathing, his presence was still there.
The demon beasts were afraid of approaching the place where Tamulas was. Even if it is a corpse.
Thanks to this, Neo Seoul was able to be safe from attacks by demonic beasts.
When it became known that this was an area that demonic beasts would not approach, survivors flocked from all over.
As people flocked, the city grew bigger and the civilization that had fallen until the Middle Ages was restored.
It was a secret story that only a very few people knew about.
However, a workbench was set up around Tamulas’ body.
Many people were working at the workbench.
“Be a little more strong.”
“Almost done.”
Workers were removing the scales of Tamulas.
Tamulas’ scales were lighter than aluminum of the same size, but were much stronger than diamonds.
Removing it from the dragon’s body was not an ordinary task.
It took a wizard, alchemist, engineer, and miner to work for more than a month to remove a single scale.
Because of this, if one of the dragon’s scales was removed, everyone would become exhausted.
It wasn’t just the scales.
Harvesting the dragon’s flesh, blood, bones, and bone marrow was taking place everywhere.
Tamulas’ body was truly a treasure.
There was nothing to throw away.
The scales are used as materials for armor and weapons, and the blood is processed into raw materials for medicine. The bone marrow collected little by little became the material for exploring immortality.
The reason Neo Seoul was able to develop so quickly was because of the materials collected from the dragon’s corpse.
The alchemist wizards working at the city hall studied the dragon’s corpse and developed Neo Seoul based on the data they obtained.
That was the real secret that allowed Neo Seoul to develop at a rapid pace, unlike other colonies.
“The problem is that anti-magic power is depleted as quickly as materials are mined from the dragon’s corpse…”
The moment the materials collected from Tamulas’ corpse are processed, anti-magic power disappears.
This is why Neo Seoul’s resistance has weakened recently.
For over a hundred years, humans have been steadily mining Tamulas’ body, and as a result, only about a third of it is now intact.
Once the remaining third is mined, all of Neo Seoul’s anti-aging power will disappear.
At that time, Neo Seoul will also suffer from attacks by demonic beasts.
“how long will it take?”
“According to predictions, it appears that it will all be used up in about 30 years.”
“It’s faster than I thought.”
“Technology is also advancing at a rapid pace.”
Technology was advancing as the dragon’s body was excavated, but Neo Seoul was also exposed to the threat of demonic beasts, which was a dilemma.
Seo Tae-ran spoke carefully.
“Why not just slow down the excavation?”
“late.”
“….”
“Since we have already gone with the flow, we must continue like this. “If you stop hastily, it will only lead to bigger problems.”
“Can Xeon save the heart of Moby Dick? Without it, heavenly punishment is not complete.”
“The heavenly punishment will be complete. “Whether Zeon wants it or not, I have no choice but to follow the trend I created.”
Jin Geum-ho’s confident voice spread throughout the huge underground space.
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“Jin Geum-ho!”
Zeon suddenly stopped and looked back.
A huge city hall was visible in the distance.
I could no longer feel Jin Geum-ho’s gaze. Still, it was not easy to escape his reverberations.
The impression Jin Geum-ho left on him was that strong.
You don’t have to be equipped with heavy armor and armed with a spear sword to be scary.
Even without such things, there are beings who can put pressure on their opponents with just their natural strength.
Jin Geum-ho was that kind of person.
The entire Neo Seoul was under his control.
There was no reason to be armed in one’s own territory.
The moment he snaps his fingers, all the awakened people in Neo Seoul will be dispatched.
“Please save Moby Dick’s heart. “What on earth are you planning?”
Moby Dick is 1120 meters long.
It is a gigantic beast as big as a dragon or Leviathan.
Naturally, a gigantic beast had no choice but to possess powerful mana. This is because a huge amount of mana is needed to maintain such a huge body.
The heart of the demon beast was like a storehouse of mana.
Naturally, the larger the magical beast, the greater the amount of mana it held in its heart.
Asking to save Moby Dick’s heart meant that a huge amount of mana was needed.
Zeon did not refuse Jin Geum-ho’s request.
It was not because of the benefits Jin Geum-ho mentioned.
It was because of what Deioden said in passing.
―If you ever meet Jin Geum-ho, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to help him at least once. Although his methods are radical, everything he does is for the sake of the surviving humans.
Those were the words of Deioden, not anyone else.
The person who had the greatest influence on Zeon’s life was Deioden.
I couldn’t ignore what he said.
That was the biggest reason why Zeon accepted Jin Geum-ho’s proposal.
“I don’t know when I’ll be able to meet Moby Dick in this wide desert.”