Sand Mage of the Burnt Desert - Chapter 309



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Episode 309

“Haha! What the hell.”

Hotshim chuckled, his hand on the wall.

The turban he had worn around his head had long since disappeared, and his deshada was torn to shreds like a rag.

The skin was washed away by the sand and was bleeding.

It was fortunate that it ended at this level.

If there had been even a little delay in escaping, his entire body would have disintegrated into sand.

It was thanks to the belt he was wearing that he was able to escape safely.

In the center of the belt, which was engraved with an antique pattern, was a round and smooth circular plate like a mirror.

The belt, which had a completely different style from that of Earth, was an item brought from the dungeon.

Musura’s Mirror.

This item, which is clearly a belt but is named ‘Mirror’, allows for short-distance teleportation.

I didn’t know how surprised I was when I first learned of the capabilities of this belt. I had never even heard of an item that had a teleportation option.

Even Hotsim never expected to get an item like this.

I thought that if I could teleport, I would be able to go wherever I wanted with ease.

For example, a secret warehouse in Neo Seoul.

It was clear that no one would notice if I sneaked items out of the secret storage.

But it didn’t take long to realize what a pipe dream that was.

Musura’s Mirror was not an item that allowed for spatial movement by specifying precise coordinates.

The coordinates of the spatial movement are random.

In other words, even if it was activated, the wearer could not know where it would move.

Moreover, the distance traveled was not that long.

The maximum distance traveled was a radius of one kilometer.

If you were lucky, you might be able to move to flat ground without any obstacles, but if you made a mistake and moved into a wall or empty space, you could lose your life.

Because of that, Hashim only used Musura’s mirror as a belt.

If you sold these items to Neo Seoul, you could get a high price. Items related to space travel are extremely rare, and most of them were found broken, so their proper mechanism could not be determined.

It was expensive to call for such a perfectly good space travel item.

But Hotsim didn’t sell.

It was intended to be used for life-saving purposes when life was at stake.

His caution saved his life.

“Khuuuuk!”

Akashi was vomiting next to Hashim.

It was a side effect of space travel.

Musura’s Mirror allows up to one additional person to be teleported in addition to the wearer.

When Zeon opened the sand mixer, Hotsim grabbed Akashi’s hand without hesitation.

Because Akashi was the core of the Helbrin mercenary force.

Even if all the others died, as long as he and Akashi were there, he could create a mercenary army.

‘I wish I could have brought Alton with me too.’

I lost a lot of power, but it couldn’t be recovered.

Rather than regretting the past, we should move forward.

Even though he lost all of his subordinates except Akashi, Hashim remained calm.

‘I still have Atlee and Bucksher left.’

The dwarf Atli and the lycanthrope Bucksher were still staying in the slums.

If you can contact them, you will definitely be able to open up new avenues.

Hotsim said to Akashi.

“let’s go.”

“Where are you talking about?”

“First, we need to join up with Atli and Bucksher. Then, we can go back to hunting slaves.”

“Are you talking about the slums?”

Akashi opened his eyes wide in surprise.

Hotsim tilted his head.

“What, is there a problem?”

“If we hunt humans in the slums, our activities will definitely be discovered.”

“Akashi.”

“yes?”

“Do we have a choice?”

“that…….”

“We lost everything. We have to start over.”

Hashim’s eyes looking at Akashi were filled with madness.

He had no intention of giving up just like that.

The slaves captured while wandering around the survivor village were locked up in a separate space.

It was a precaution against an unexpected eventuality, but it turned out to be a stroke of genius.

His idea was to supplement the shortage of slaves by hunting them in the slums.

“If I had just one hundred people, I could negotiate on equal footing with the Spider Queen. I couldn’t give up that opportunity.”

“Hmm!”

“Are you scared?”

“No, Captain.”

“Hehehe! Of course it should be like that.”

Hotshim tapped Akashi’s cheek.

Akashi looked at that hot feeling with his lips tightly closed.

He felt like running away to the desert at any moment.

That’s because I was so scared and hated being in Neo Seoul.

‘Against the Sand Wizard?’

A chill ran down my spine as I thought about the man who had instantly turned the Helbrin mercenary corps into sand.

There has been a rumor floating around the desert for some time now.

It was a rumor about a sand wizard.

It was said that there existed a sand wizard who used desert sand as a weapon.

When I first heard the rumor, I dismissed it as a rumor.

Because it was that absurd.

But the rumors became more concrete and spread quickly by word of mouth.

It was the appearance of the steel fortress that made me believe the rumor.

It was said that Urtian, who was a scavenger like them, became the owner of a new colony called the Iron Fortress, and that it was with the help of the Sandmage.

If it had been a false rumor, Urtian would have been the first to deny it. However, Urtian remained silent, and thanks to that, the rumor became an established fact.

Until then, Akashi hadn’t paid much attention to the sand magician.

The desert is so incredibly vast that you would have a very low chance of encountering it in your lifetime.

No matter how divine the Sand Wizard’s powers were in the desert, there was no reason to fear him if you never encountered him.

But then I encountered the sand magician in his worst form.

In the form of an enemy.

No, the word enemy is a contradiction in terms.

If the sand magicians were hunters, they were merely the prey.

It was the complete opposite of the situation where they were hunting for survivors in the desert.

Shiver!

My shoulders shook without me knowing it.

Just thinking about Zeon makes my body react.

“Shit!”

Akashi bit his lip in frustration at the overwhelming sense of defeat. But now he couldn’t go back to the desert.

Whether I live or die, I have to follow my passion.

He tried to speak confidently.

“Let’s go, Captain!”

“Hehehe! Okay.”

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Zeon and Brielle returned home.

Brielle ran straight into the bathroom.

Because I wanted to wash away the stench that had clung to my whole body.

“I’ll wash first.”

“okay!”

thud!

The bathroom door was closed.

-Beep!

Then, subspace opened and Gaia emerged.

Zeon said, stroking Gaia’s head.

“You had a hard time staying inside. Was it stuffy?”

-Beep!

“Yeah! I think it would have been better to stay in there. The smell was no joke.”

Zeon opened the window wide to get rid of the body odor.

At that moment, a gust of wind blew through the room and enveloped Zeon’s body.

“It’s you.”

Zeon looked at Gaia with a smile.

The wind that enveloped Zeon’s body was caused by Gaia.

The fresh breeze blew the stench from Geo’s body out of the house.

“thank you!”

-Beep!

Gaia circled around Zeon as if it was nothing and wagged her tail.

Although she loved playing with Brielle, Gaia’s favorite person was still Zeon, with whom she had a soul connection.

Gaia teased Zeon by gently bumping her body into him.

Thanks to Gaia, my uneasy feeling has improved a little.

The state of the sewers confirmed by Jetoya was so bad that it was beyond imagination.

So much so that I thought that life in the desert, where I was directly exposed to the threats of demons, would be better.

Having lived in dirty places without seeing sunlight for a long time, people’s senses were deteriorating and they were mutating.

After all, Jetoya was a nobleman.

Some people’s skin changed to resemble that of a real crocodile, and some even developed gills.

Even Jeon couldn’t tell where the mutation would end.

There were more people living in the underground sewers than Zeon had expected.

If I hadn’t seen it, I wouldn’t have cared, but once I did, it kept bothering me.

“It’s a magic generator.”

Zeon’s gaze turned to the magic generator equipped with a watching eye.

It was the thing that Croker, who was leading the scavengers in the underground sewers, had been wanting so badly.

Thanks to this generator, Zeon and Brielle could use it freely without worrying about electricity.

No one living in the slums had access to electricity like Zeon.

Even if you had a small magic generator, you couldn’t use it without a magic stone.

“I can’t even save the magic stone.”

It was their job to find the magic stone.

Zeon couldn’t help there.

Survival was a gift for those who tried.

If they wanted to live like humans, the residents of the sewers had to work just as hard.

Zeon sat on the sofa and thought about what to do next.

As my thoughts began to gather, Brielle came out into the living room.

“Haa! Now I feel like I can live.”

There was still a lot of moisture left on her head.

Gaia moved the wind for Brielle.

A gentle breeze blew gently through Brielle’s hair, completely blowing away the moisture.

“Thank you, Gaia.”

-Beep!

Brielle smiled and kissed Gaia on the cheek.

This time, Gaia swam around Brielle’s body.

Brielle spread her arms wide and enjoyed Gaia’s smooth skin with her whole body.

“Hehehe!”

After a while, Brielle sat down on the sofa with a satisfied smile.

Zeon asked Brielle.

“What do you need to make a magic generator?”

“I think most of the ingredients can be found at the Goblin Market.”

“mostly?”

“So you’re saying there are things that can’t be found?”

“I need a special metal that can only be found in dungeons. The process of converting the magic power of the magic stone into electricity generates a high temperature, but normal metals cannot withstand this high temperature. I will carve a mana circuit diagram into the metal to disperse the heat… … .”

“So you need dungeon metal? And one that’s resistant to high heat… … .”

“huh!”

“If you want to draw a mana circuit diagram, you need to have good conductivity, right?”

“That’s right! That kind of metal is rarely available on the market. As soon as you get it, you can get it from the city hall.”

Brielle looked embarrassed.

If Mandy were in town, I could have asked her, but right now she was out exploring new magic stone mines.

Zeon muttered, stroking his chin with his hand for a moment.

“It’s a dungeon-made metal with good mana conductivity… … .”

“It will be hard to get it right now.”

“No, there is.”

“Where is that?”

“In my subspace… … . Just a moment… … .”

Zeon examined the objects within the subspace.

A moment later, he was holding a black lump of iron in his hand.

“what?”

“Take this. It was the core of the dungeon. Now, it has lost all its mana and has become ordinary.”

“Really? This was a nuclear attack?”

Brielle was startled and received a lump of metal.

This was the second time I had seen the dungeon’s core intact.

The first was the ‘Watching Eye’ mounted on the magic generator in Zeon’s house.

Even though it had lost all of its mana and lost its function, it was clearly an incredible item if it had become the core of the dungeon.

Brielle spent a long time testing the metal, tapping it and infusing it with mana.

Zeon waited for her to finish all her actions before asking.

“Would that be okay?”

“Yeah! I think it’ll work. I’m going to be super busy from now on, so don’t bother me.”

Zeon stood up, looking at Brielle’s face full of enthusiasm.

“Yeah! I think I’ll be busy too, so I don’t think I’ll be able to come back for a while.”

“Huh? Why is Jeon busy?”

“Once you start hunting, you have to see it through to the end.”

Just because Hotsim escaped from the underground sewers doesn’t mean he’s completely out of Zeon’s reach.