Sand Mage of the Burnt Desert - Chapter 172
Sand Mage Of The Burnt Desert Chapter 172
Episode 172 Everyone
went into an unknown dungeon, leaving only the rescue team led by Kelda.
The rescue team guarded the entrance to the dungeon and prepared for any unexpected situation.
Zeon and his party were the last to enter the dungeon.
The moment I entered the dungeon, my senses were disturbed and I felt tremendous pressure.
“Ugh!”
“town!”
The faces of Levin and Brielle, who had little dungeon experience, were distorted.
I felt tinnitus in my ears and couldn’t figure out my direction due to the disturbance of my senses.
The two couldn’t come to their senses as they felt sick to their stomachs and as if their whole bodies were being crushed.
On the other hand, the more experienced Xeon and Mandy maintained their composure.
After a while, the pressure that had been weighing them down disappeared as if it had never happened before.
Levin and Brielle rolled awkwardly on the floor, and Xeon and Mandy could barely keep their balance.
Levin and Brielle raised their heads, forcing their churning stomachs to calm down.
“Is this in the dungeon?”
“what?”
An ominous scene appeared in their eyes.
Although all the leaves had fallen, it was a forest full of remaining trees.
There were no weeds on the floor, and the ground was dry and crumbly.
Lightning continued to strike in the dark red sky.
Levin and Brielle swallowed their dry saliva at the bloody scene they had never seen before.
Levin got up and carefully touched the bare tree.
“Is this a tree?”
“okay! “But it’s a dead tree, so it doesn’t feel alive.”
“It feels like all vitality has been taken away.”
“You’re probably right.”
“But why can’t other people see it?”
“Oh really?”
At Levin’s words, Brielle also realized that the people who entered first were nowhere to be seen.
There was only Zeon and his group here, and no other awakened people were seen.
Then Mandy spoke.
“In dungeons, there are things that fall into different places even if you enter the same entrance. “I guess this place is one of those places.”
“So does that mean I can’t continue to meet other people?”
“If you proceed with the strategy, you will be able to meet them someday. “Of course, assuming you’re alive.”
“Ugh!”
“We need to find the core of the dungeon. “Everyone will have headed there, so when you get to the core, you’ll naturally be able to meet other people.”
“How do you know what the core of the dungeon is?”
“I just find out naturally.”
“yes?”
“You will know for sure when you see it for yourself.”
“What is that?”
Mandy gave no further answer.
It literally meant that you had to see and judge for yourself.
Then Zeon spoke.
“Let’s go. “We must hurry and find the others.”
“yes!”
Zeon started walking straight away.
Brielle asked, following behind him.
“Do you know where to go?”
“no.”
“Then are you just walking and looking?”
“Once you walk, one day you will come across a singularity. From then on, you can start to find your way in earnest.”
“okay?”
Brielle tilted her head with an expression of not understanding.
Like Mandy, Zeon did not tell Brielle any more.
If I just learned everything, my progress would be slow.
There are things that can only be known by encountering and experiencing them directly.
The two of them needed that experience right now.
Zeon thought as he looked at the forest full of dead trees.
‘It’s such a lifeless forest. ‘It won’t be easy to conquer this dungeon.’
The dungeon was a part of Kurayan, drifting through dimensions.
Certain terrain or places separated from Kurayan appear in the form of dungeons. So, it was clear that this place also embodied a certain era or place in Kurayan.
‘I think I’ve seen a place similar to this somewhere.’
Zeon frowned.
This dark, ominous air was not unfamiliar. But I still couldn’t remember where I got this feeling.
‘You’ll find out later.’
At that time, Brielle suddenly burst into alarm.
“Oh!”
“why?”
“That tree over there….”
“Why the tree?”
“I felt like it was moving.”
“The tree is moving? That makes sense…yes.”
Levin blinked.
It wasn’t an illusion.
That’s it!
A tree was really moving.
A huge tree that stands up by moving its roots and branches.
In the middle of the tree, there were eyes, nose, and mouth like a person.
It looked like a real human face, blinking as if it had just woken up.
“What is it?”
“It’s an Ent.”
“yes?”
“Just think of it as a moving tree.”
As a high elf, Brielle quickly recognized the identity of the tree monster.
Levin muttered, calming his startled heart.
“It’s no big deal if it’s a tree monster. “Can’t we just throw it away?”
Absolutely!
A purple electric current flowed from Levin’s whole body and hit the Ent directly.
The purple current burned the Ent in an instant.
Kieee!
The Ent let out a bizarre scream and turned into charcoal.
Levin shook his hands and smiled.
“It’s nothing special.”
“you idiot!”
“why?”
“What if I just kill him? “If you kill an Ent too hastily, all of your fellow Ents will wake up.”
“What is that?”
Wow!
At that moment, the roar of Ents erupted from all over the forest.
He woke up after feeling the death of his colleague.
Ents were demon beasts with a strong sense of kinship.
Although it had the form of a tree, it possessed all the emotions that living creatures possess.
Among them, the strongest one was the love of compatriots.
The Ents were a race that would chase and kill anyone who killed their own people, even to the end of hell.
The Ents walked in search of the person who killed their comrade.
Although it seemed like it was walking slowly, it was so tall that it came close to Zeon and the others in an instant.
“Why are there so many?”
“It’s a forest, so of course there are a lot.”
“Seed! If we burn them all….”
“You don’t know how many more Ents there will be, but you’re going to burn them? you idiot! Do some thinking. “Is your hair a decoration?”
“Then what do you do?”
“I have to run away.”
As soon as Brielle finished speaking, she started running.
Zeon and Mandy followed her quietly.
Levin, who had been standing blankly, screamed and ran.
“Let’s go together.”
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The place where Cha Jin-cheol and the awakened people of the western district entered was a canyon.
Only a chilling wind was blowing through the dry canyon, where not a single blade of grass or a tree grew.
“It’s a bad place.”
Cha Jin-cheol frowned.
He also went into quite a few dungeons. However, like this dungeon, this was the first time I felt a strong sense of discomfort from the moment I entered.
It felt as if my mechanical body was rusting in the wind, with no sense of vitality at all.
“By the way, was everyone dispersed in the order they came in?”
It was fortunate that the awakened people in the western area were gathered in one place and not scattered.
If all his subordinates had scattered, even Cha Jin-cheol would have been in trouble.
‘Hyeonmu!’
-yes! master.
Fortunately, assistant AI Hyeonmu answered.
This was possible because Hyeonmu was downloaded into his body.
‘Can you tell what type of dungeon this is?’
―There is too little information.
‘That doesn’t help.’
-sorry.
Cha Jin-cheol looked back at his subordinates.
More than seventy awakened people were waiting for his decision.
“Split the team into two and search the dungeon. “If we find a place that is presumed to be a nucleus, we contact each other.”
“yes!”
Cha Jin-cheol instructed the West Zone awakener, who was the strongest after him, to lead another team.
Since he is a B-class awakened person, he will be able to deal with any unexpected situation.
Cha Jin-cheol set out to search the dungeon with only a small number of his men.
That’s how confident he is in his abilities.
As we came out of the canyon, a forest full of bare, leafless trees appeared.
“A forest after a canyon?”
It was then.
“Uracha!”
“Hey!”
With a cheer, a group of people came out of the forest.
They were none other than Zeon and his group.
Brielle and Levin were breathing heavily, and Xeon and Mandy also wiped the sweat from their foreheads with their sleeves.
Levin said.
“You won’t follow me now, right?”
“Because Ents don’t come out of the forest often.”
“thank god. “I almost died.”
“This is all because of you, right? “You idiot!”
“But you’re not an idiot.”
“So who wants to attack Ents in the forest?”
“That’s it…”
“That’s why you’re an idiot.”
“Mr. Lee!”
Levin pouted his lips at Brielle’s scolding. However, because of the sin I committed, I could no longer make excuses.
Cha Jin-cheol said as he approached them.
“We get along well.”
“It looks like it fell near here.”
“It just so happened to be like that.”
Cha Jin-cheol responded coldly to Jeon’s question.
His gaze was focused on Zeon’s face.
Zeon’s face was still pale. It was evidence that mana had not yet been recovered.
“It seems like mana recovery is slow.”
“It’s not easy, maybe because the dungeon is like this.”
“Well…”
Cha Jin-cheol nodded.
It is common sense that the more mana a dungeon has, the easier it is to recover mana.
In dungeons with little life like this, mana recovers slowly.
Cha Jin-cheol’s eyes glowed eerily.
‘Hyeonmu! ‘You can easily kill him now, right?’
-According to the calculation, yes.
‘Shall we run it?’
―I do not recommend it.
‘why?’
―Looking at the meager amount of mana here, it will take several days for Xeon to recover all his mana. Until then, it is much more efficient to use him.
‘As expected.’
The ferocity disappeared from Cha Jin-cheol’s eyes.
His change occurred in such a short period of time that Levin and Brielle did not notice. But Xeon and Mandy did not miss his change.
Jeon’s eyes suddenly turned to Cha Jin-cheol’s waist.
“That rope. Did it always shine like that?”
“what? huh! “Why is this?”
Cha Jin-cheol looked embarrassed.
As Zeon said, the rope attached to his waist was emitting black light.
His rope was an item purchased at an auction at White Bear Caravan.
The official name is Jade Keeper’s Poseungjul.
I kept wearing it around my waist, but due to my characteristics as a mechanized awakener, I had no use for it.
Zeon said.
“It seems like this dungeon is related to that item.”
Sometimes there are dungeons like that.
An item unearthed in another dungeon resonates….
‘It seems to have been sealed for some reason. Is there a clue to the solution here?’
As if I had returned to my hometown, the black light was radiating more intensely from the jade keeper’s rope.