Sand Mage of the Burnt Desert - Chapter 168

Sand Mage Of The Burnt Desert Chapter 168

Episode 168

“Ahh!”

Suddenly the woman screamed and fell down.

She was a woman with a much larger physique than ordinary women.

Mother of three children and wife of Urtian.

The woman’s name was Deborah.

Deborah was a tamer.

The rank insignia on his wrist indicated that his rank was C level.

Deborah curled up like a shrimp and endured the excruciating pain. I couldn’t even take a deep breath due to the pain that felt like my head was breaking and my body was going to explode.

Urtian was sitting next to Deborah.

“Are you okay?”

“ha! ha! It’s okay now…it’s okay.”

“What’s wrong?”

“All the griffins I tamed are dead.”

“That can’t be possible…”

Urtian gave an expression of disbelief.

Griffin was a high-ranking flying type demon beast.

It was so fierce and powerful that it was impossible to tame it, even if it was a high-level tamer.

Deborah was also able to tame the griffin by borrowing the power of an item called the Necklace of Subordination worn around her neck.

The Necklace of Subordination is a powerful item that allows you to tame demons of a higher rank than yourself.

The problem is that since it connects the spirit of the demonic beast and the awakened person, if either of them is harmed, the other will also suffer a huge blow.

Such was Deborah’s condition now.

As the griffins she had managed to tame using the necklace of dependence died, she also felt the pain of her whole body being torn apart.

Urtian asked again.

“Are you sure Griffin is dead?”

“yes! “Both of them died.”

“Did you get hit when you went down close to the ground?”

“I don’t know that. “I gave an order not to go down to the ground.”

“And yet he died? “It seems that the strength of the Pegasus attack team is greater than I thought.”

“I think so.”

“Then the twin-headed buffalo would have dispersed.”

“I think so.”

Without the griffin, it would not have been possible to gather the herds of twin-headed buffalo scattered throughout the desert and drive them to where the Pegasus raid was located.

With Griffin dead, it was clear that the twin-headed buffalo that had been collected so hard would have been scattered.

“An unexpected variable.”

“sorry.”

Their original plan was to use the Twin Head Buffaloes to cause great damage to the Pegasus attack force. However, since the griffins died in the middle, there would not have been as much damage as planned.

Urtian said, kissing Deborah’s forehead.

“are you okay! “It may be a little more cumbersome, but it will work out the way we want anyway.”

***

“ha! ha! “I lived.”

“Fuck! “I almost fell.”

The awakened members of the raid were lying on the floor, breathing heavily.

The area was full of twin-headed buffalo and the bodies of awakened people. Most of them were twin-headed buffalo corpses, but the number of dead awakened people was also negligible.

At least fifty awakened people lost their lives in the Twin Head Buffalo attack.

In particular, many awakened people who participated as mercenaries died.

The bigger problem was the vehicles.

Many of the vehicles were crushed or completely destroyed by the Twin Head Buffalo attack.

Lee Ji-ryeong looked around the battlefield with eyes full of anger.

Although I have been leading the Pegasus attack team for a long time, this was the first time I had suffered such great damage before conquering a dungeon.

Ji-ryeong Lee approached where Zeon was.

His gaze turned to the sand where Zeon had plowed the griffins.

The sand was stained red with the blood of the griffins.

“The griffin drives the twin-headed buffalo?”

“yes!”

“It’s definitely not natural.”

Lee Ji-ryeong’s eyes were cold.

It may be a high-ranking Demon Beast of Class A or higher, but it was absolutely impossible for a Demon Beast as vicious and with little reason as Griffin to use another Demon Beast in this way.

“Did someone use the griffin?”

“For now, that seems like the highest probability.”

“I can’t believe it. “Taming a vicious beast like a griffin wouldn’t be easy, even for a high-ranking tamer.”

“It is possible with the help of items.”

“Are such items common?”

“It’s definitely not common.”

In response to Zeon’s answer, Ji-ryeong Lee bit his lip until it bled.

“Scavenger. It was also very elite…”

The only beings capable of attacking the raiding party with tamed demons were scavengers.

Scavengers who have survived in the desert for a long time have learned many survival methods that the awakened people of the city do not know. However, this was the first time I had seen a group of scavengers who were tamed like this.

So Ji-ryeong Lee thought that the opponent was a very large group of scavengers.

“It looks like you have become the target of a fairly large group. cheeky!”

Absolutely!

A white thunderbolt occurred throughout Lee Ji-ryeong’s entire body.

This meant that his anger was great.

It was a time when Zeon looked at Ji-ryeong Lee like that in silence.

“Leader!”

Kelda hurriedly approached Lee Ji-ryeong.

“what’s the matter?”

“I don’t see two transport vehicles.”

“what?”

“It seems like they took advantage of the confusion and left.”

“These bastards…”

Lee Ji-ryeong, whose anger was so high, looked at Kelda with scary eyes.

This is because the fact that there is a defector from the attack team is the same as saying that the Pegasus attack team and its leader, Lee Ji-ryeong, cannot be trusted.

This was a matter of Lee Ji-ryeong’s prestige.

A raiding party with low prestige will later experience problems with supply and demand of manpower.

“How should we send a tracking party?”

“How many defectors are there?”

“It is estimated that there are about 30 people in total.”

“You mean 30 people got away? “I hope you look at me so ridiculously… Form a tracking team right now and catch those guys.”

“All right.”

Kelda stepped back with an answer.

She had already organized a tracking party.

The three buggies carrying the tracking team left the Pegasus raiding party.

Levin, who was watching the tracking team leave with Zeon, opened his mouth.

“I can’t believe there were so many defectors from the beginning.”

“The area around Neo Seoul hunts demonic beasts periodically, so there aren’t many opportunities to encounter even awakened ones.”

“It’s a matter of experience.”

“okay! “If you hadn’t experienced the dungeon, you would have been distracted by their attacks.”

“no way! “But I’m not that good.”

Zeon smiled slightly at Levin, who vehemently denied it.

His eyes turned to Ji-ryeong Lee.

Lee Ji-ryeong was unable to hide his anger and was giving off a dark atmosphere.

That’s because many people died and deserted before they even arrived at the dungeon.

Even though most of them were awakened mercenaries brought in to supplement their numbers, they couldn’t help but feel bad.

‘I can only hope that this doesn’t have a big impact on my ability to conquer the dungeon…’

Anyway, I didn’t want to leave this place today.

This is because bodies had to be recovered and broken vehicles had to be repaired.

The awakened members of the Pegasus raid team were shouting and moving around busily.

Zeon turned his head and looked at the sand dunes.

This was where Griffin’s body, which he had just ground up, was buried.

When Zeon waved his hand, the sand was pushed to both sides, revealing Griffin’s body.

Griffin’s condition was miserable.

All the feathers had been torn off and reduced to flesh, leaving only the bones and beak. But there was a shining stone between the bones.

It was a B-class magical stone.

The mana it contained was so great that there was quite a lot of demand for it.

“But this one seems special.”

Zeon picked up Griffin’s magic stone and examined it closely.

Among the magic stones, special ones sometimes appear.

The purity of mana itself in such magic stones is different.

Zeon illuminated the magic gem in the sunlight. Then, a red energy can be seen stirring inside the magic stone.

The red energy wriggled like a living creature and tried to escape from the magic gemstone.

“You have skills.”

There were times when magic stones containing skills would appear from B-class or higher magical beasts.

To be precise, the magical beast’s mana condensed in the magic stone awakens its potential and its skills blossom.

These magic stones were so rare that awakened people searched for them desperately.

This is because once you take just one, you can increase your natural abilities without difficulty.

The problem is that you don’t know what skills will come out of these magic stones.

If you make a mistake, there is a possibility that you will end up with a skill that does not match the skills you already have.

Because of this, Xeon has only absorbed one magic stone containing the skill so far.

Fortunately, the super regeneration he obtained did not have any negative effects on the power of sand, and the compatibility was very good.

After that, I did not absorb any magic stones containing any skills.

Then I heard Brielle’s voice.

“Is that a magic stone with skills?”

“uh?”

“Right?”

“okay! that’s right.”

Since it wasn’t something to hide anyway, Zeon answered obediently.

“Can I see it?”

“okay!”

Zeon handed over the magic stone to Brielle.

Brielle closed her eyes while holding the magic stone in her hand.

Zeon looked at Brielle quietly.

It was impossible for me as a human, but Brielle, a high elf, might have figured out the skill.

After a while, Zeon asked Brielle, who opened her eyes.

“Did you find out what kind of skill it has?”

“I’m not sure, but I can roughly guess what type of skill it is.”

“So what skills do you have?”

“It seems like a skill related to Griffin’s peer.”

“Griffin’s skill in controlling the twin-headed buffalo?”

“But I can guarantee that if you absorb this magic stone, you will get the same skill. “The Magic Stone’s skill literally stimulates potential and makes it bloom.”

Even if the same magic stone is absorbed, the skills created will vary depending on the awakened person’s existing skills and growth potential. That’s why it’s difficult.

Brielle spoke carefully.

“I think it would be better to use it as a material rather than having someone absorb it directly.”

“okay?”

“huh! “If you use it for alchemy, I think it will have related effects.”

Brielle’s eyes looking at Zeon were full of earnestness.

Xeon was not insensitive enough to not know what that meant.

Zeon said with a grin.

“Then you use it.”

“Is that okay?”

“It would be much better for you to use it than for someone else to use it. Do whatever you feel like.”

“thank you! Xeon. I’ll make a really cool guy. Please look forward to it!”

“okay!”

Brielle stuffed the magic stone into her conical hat so that no one would see it.

Although she hadn’t told Levin yet, her cone hat had subspace enchanted on it.

Although it was smaller than the subspace backpack Levin was carrying, it still had enough space to hold all of the tools Brielle used.

“Hi-Hi!”

Brielle got excited and went back to the buggy.

Xeon, who was left alone, moved the sand and buried Griffin’s body deep in the sand.

This is because if they find out that the magic stone came from the griffin, the awakened people may target him.

It’s not a Xeon that can be defeated, but it would be better to minimize variables.

Crash!

Griffin’s body was lowered dozens of meters underground as if it had been loaded into an elevator.

After completely hiding his traces, Zeon naturally returned to his companions.