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Sand Mage of the Burnt Desert - Chapter 298

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Episode 298

As expected, there was not a single survivor in the underground village that had been attacked by the scavengers.

Ten bodies were found after searching the basement.

They were all old people with obvious signs of illness.

Zeon knelt on one knee and looked at the bodies of the old men.

They looked like old men in their seventies. But Zeon knew.

The fact that they are not over fifty years old.

People living in cities that benefit from civilization, like Neo Seoul, look younger than their actual age.

On the other hand, those who live in these underground villages, where survival is the only issue, age rapidly and appear to be at least ten to twenty years older than their actual age.

It was a village that looked shabby at first glance.

They created an underground village to survive the demons, but everything was lacking.

In a situation where they couldn’t freely consume water, food, or anything else, they would have lived as frugally as possible.

A body that is not supplied with sufficient nutrients ages easily due to the ravages of time. Naturally, it also has no immunity and easily falls ill.

Just like these.

This was the reality for the people living in the survivor village.

Brielle asked in a trembling voice.

“Why didn’t they come to Neo Seoul? They could have lived in the slums.”

“To be exact, he didn’t come.”

“You can’t come?”

“You know, the desert is full of demons. It’s almost a miracle that ordinary people can escape all the demons and come to Neo Seoul.”

Even for the Awakened, crossing the desert was a life-threatening task. It goes without saying that it was even more so for ordinary people.

“A few hundred kilometers is nothing to you and me, but to them, it’s a path full of death. They would probably have fallen prey to the devil before they could even travel a few dozen kilometers.”

“I see… I guess so.”

-Beep!

Brielle bit her lip until it bled.

Her eyes were bloodshot and red, as if she was about to shed tears.

The survivor village was poor.

At best, there were only three or four houses or so, and they were filled with crude, homemade furniture.

These were tools that were closer to the primitive era than the medieval era.

When I think about how people lived together in this place with poor ventilation and no lights, I can’t help but cry.

Compared to that, his room in the slums was like heaven.

“ha!”

As she shed tears of regret, Zeon was examining the walls of the survivor village.

“This is interesting.”

Sand has no cohesion.

Of course, if you dig down, it will flow down or collapse.

Unless it’s made of sandstone, like a steel fortress.

But this was not a sandstone area.

It was a place made purely of sand.

Of course, it was impossible to create such an underground space, but they created a living space in the soft sand.

Zeon was curious about the secret.

Empty!

When I knocked on the wall, a solid resonance was felt from the sand.

It looks like sand, but it is hardened. That is why the village can withstand without collapsing.

“It seems there is a special secret to hardening the sand.”

“Why is that?”

Brielle, who had barely regained control of her emotions, asked with a puzzled expression.

“Think about it. What is the biggest problem in Neo Seoul?”

“Isn’t that too much?”

“There are many! The biggest problem is that there is a severe shortage of housing space for people. We need to build buildings so that people can live there, but there is a shortage of construction materials.”

“ah!”

“They say that the stone is mined from the existing magic stone mine, but it is not enough. There is not enough land to build on, and since there are no materials, no new buildings have been built for some time. But what if you could easily harden sand and use it to build buildings?”

“ah!”

“I don’t know about Neo Seoul, but there are enough houses to build on the outskirts of the slums. There’s only land left there. Then, when survivors come, there are enough houses to provide.”

Neo, in Seoul, they were ignored as slums, but for those who survived bare-handed in the desert, even that was embarrassing.

Once you’re in the slums, you don’t have to worry about the devil’s attacks.

Because Neo Seoul’s anti-magic power protects them. So they don’t have to dig holes in the ground and live in hiding.

“What a pity! If only someone knew the secret to hardening sand, they would have been treated well in Neo Seoul.”

“Isn’t it strange?”

“what?”

At Brielle’s sudden words, Zeon looked at her.

“If it’s a village, there should be young people and children, right? But all the corpses here are old people. Where did they go?”

“That’s right!”

Zeon felt his mind snap to life at Brielle’s question.

Since the scavengers attacked, I thought they would have killed everyone. But there was no rule that the scavengers had to kill everyone.

If they were young and young, they could have been kidnapped and sold elsewhere.

Brielle said.

“They must have taken him, right?”

“It must have been so.”

“What are you going to do?”

Brielle asked, looking at Zeon’s expression.

“I have to save him.”

“really?”

“If you didn’t know, you wouldn’t know, but now that you know the truth, you can’t just ignore it.”

The desert has its own way of surviving.

The cruel laws of survival that are unimaginable in a civilized world like Neo Seoul.

Zeon does not deny that law.

It was natural for the strong to survive by preying on the weak.

Even though it may be against humanity.

Those were the times.

A barbaric age where everything was lacking.

In this day and age, it was unfair that a highly sophisticated civilization like Neo Seoul existed.

But even such a neo-Seoul cannot exert its influence widely.

The current environment of the Earth is hostile to humanity and living things.

It was impossible to protect everyone in such a harsh environment.

No matter how great Zeon’s abilities are.

That was the reality. So, even Zeon had no intention of saving all the people who were scattered across the desert. However, his emotions were not so dry that he could ignore what was happening where he was.

Zeon, Brielle, and Gaia came out first.

In the meantime, the world had become dark.

The sun has set and night has come.

“Let’s chase it as soon as the sun rises tomorrow.”

“Not doing it right away?”

“It’s hard to find their traces because it’s dark, so you might end up searching in the wrong places. It’s better to track them when it’s daylight.”

“Ah! I see.”

Brielle nodded.

In the desert, no one can escape Zeon’s pursuit.

Even if they are scavengers who have lived their entire lives in the desert.

Zeon and Brielle took a rest a little way from the survivor village.

Brielle, who would normally be excited and talking, remained silent as she was heartbroken by the tragedy in the survivor village.

-Beep!

Gaia comforted Brielle like that.

Brielle hugged Gaia tightly without saying a word.

***

Men wearing turbans and white robes called deshadas were gathered in the middle of the desert, eating meat.

Rain! Rain!

The men, their hands covered in oil and ravenously eating meat, were the Helbrin mercenaries.

They say they are a mercenary force, but in reality they are no different from scavengers.

They wandered the desert, raiding survivor villages or carrying out missions requested by someone.

The leader of the Helbrin mercenary force was Hassim in the center.

Hotsim was a man in his early fifties.

As expected of an Arab, his skin was dark and he had a stylish mustache.

His eyebrows were thick and bushy like a cicada’s, and his eyebrows were sunken, giving him a very strong impression.

Hotsim said, biting the bone.

“This time, the results weren’t very good. I robbed the beggars.”

Where his gaze turned, there were about a dozen people crouching, tied together by rope.

These were the survivors from the village that was attacked this time.

If they were sick and old, I would have killed them all, but they were still young and energetic, so I kidnapped them.

The oldest was in his early thirties, and the youngest appeared to be about seven years old.

They were all trembling with fear.

These people were living peacefully until this morning.

Although they lacked everything, they stuck together and survived in the desert.

I knew today would be another day like that. But somehow the Helbrin mercenaries raided, killed the elders, and kidnapped them.

There were two Awakened in the survivor village.

One of them was the oldest man in the village, and the other was a man in his early thirties.

The old man was a D-class awakened martial artist.

He was quite strong when he was young, but as he got older and sick he became weak.

The old man, who was a stalwart protector of the village, lost his life brutally to Hashim’s sword.

The captured Awakened were magical Awakened.

However, not all magical awakened people had combat abilities.

The man was an F-class alchemist.

If he had been in Neo Seoul, he would have developed his abilities somehow, but in the empty desert, his abilities were of little use.

I need to get the materials to study alchemy and improve my skills, but I’m at a standstill because I can’t get them at all.

The result of making something with no materials was sand hardener.

The survivor village survived without collapsing thanks to the sand hardener he created.

‘Then what should I do? I couldn’t protect the village.’

When the Helbrin mercenaries invaded, he was forced to sit in a corner and watch the villagers die.

Finally, after all the killing was over, he was brought here with the survivors.

“Whoa!”

“Ugh!”

The people who were captured together began to sob.

No matter how hard I tried to hold back my tears, I couldn’t stop them from bursting out.

They were people who hid underground in fear of the demons and scavengers. They chose a life below human level for safety, but the result was miserable.

Their fears could not help but grow, as they did not know how much more miserable life awaited them in the future.

Then Hashim threw down the bone he was holding and said:

“Ugh! It’s so tough I can’t eat it.”

“All devil meat is like that.”

The subordinate next to him answered with a frown.

It was because the meat in my mouth was tough and I couldn’t chew it well.

Hotsim’s gaze turned towards the people who had been caught.

It was a gaze that looked not at a human being but at a pig.

“Should I just catch one?”

“Hehehe! Is that so?”

The subordinate answered, forcibly swallowing the tough meat of the horse like a tire.

It was clear that soft human meat was tastier than tough horse meat.

They already knew the taste of human meat.

The subordinates’ eyes lit up at Hotsim’s words.

One of his men stood up and pulled out a large knife.

“I’ll catch it.”

Their conversation made the village survivors tremble.

Beep!

Suddenly, a high-frequency sound burst out from Hotsim’s necklace.

Hotsim raised his hand to stop his subordinate’s actions.

“Just wait a minute.”

“yes!”

The subordinate put the knife away with a regretful expression.

As Hotsim poured mana into the necklace, someone’s voice was heard.

-Captain! It’s Atlee.

Atlee’s voice flowed out from the necklace.

It wasn’t an ordinary necklace, but an item found in a dungeon.

The communication came from hundreds of kilometers away.

It was a one-of-a-kind, unique item that perfectly solved the communication problems that even Neo Seoul could not solve.

“Yeah! What happened to Neo entering Seoul?”

-The Spider Queen wants you to free one hundred slaves within ten days.

“The village of survivors has dried up, and there are only a hundred people? Did you accept that?”

Hotsim’s voice grew cold. Then Atli spoke urgently.

-I will pay you a sufficient price… … .

“At what price?”

-That’s the weapon made in Neo Seoul.

“Then the story changes.”

Hotsim’s eyes sparkled with madness.

Scavengers like him were sucking their fingers dry these days as the steel fortress sucked in survivors.

If you get the weapons used in Neo Seoul, you may be able to conquer the thorny steel fortress.

Hotsim cut off the communication and spoke to his subordinate.

“From now on, treat your slaves with care. They will all be turned into weapons.”

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