Sand Mage of the Burnt Desert - Chapter 311



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Episode 311

Quagagagagagak!

The insects were ground into sand.

The fine sand particles, rotating at high speeds, instantly disarmed the insects’ hard shells like sandpaper.

Kew!

Unidentified insects screamed and tried to escape the sand tornado, but the wall of sand was too solid and strong to leave any gaps.

PacaKang!

Insects burst out with sparks.

Unlike the hard shell, the flesh inside was as soft as a baby’s skin. The sand particles erased the insects’ flesh from the world without a trace.

“ah!”

Borin and the Blue Leaf Special Forces, who came running late, stopped dead in their tracks when they saw a giant sand tornado spinning before their eyes.

“My… … come?”

“He’s a sand magician.”

In Neo Seoul, Zeon was the only being who could create a tornado out of sand.

Quagagagagak!

The sand tornado was getting smaller.

The number of insects trapped inside also decreased dramatically.

A sand tornado that had risen to tens of meters shrank to just three meters.

Wheeing!

But the fierce pressure never abated.

The moment they were trapped inside, Borin and the Blue Leaf Special Forces trembled as they felt as if they too would be torn apart.

Oh my!

At that moment, the sand tornado disappeared as if it were a lie.

“Hoo!”

Zeon let out a faint sigh and put the sand back into the subspace.

Borin and the Blue Leaf Special Forces flinched once again.

‘What the heck! You’re putting sand in subspace? Isn’t that a scam?’

‘How do you handle that?’

‘Just how wide is the subspace… … .’

The countless thoughts that came to their minds in a short moment complicated their feelings.

It was jarring to know that there was such a powerful being with such endless power in the space they lived in.

It was only because he was inside Neo Seoul that he could use such limited power. It was terrifying to imagine what kind of tragedy would occur if he were to use all his power in the desert.

It felt like they had brought a giant demon into their territory.

A S-class demon that can burn everything to the ground just by breathing.

To the Awakened in the Northern Sector, Zeon had that much of a presence.

Then Zeon broke the silence.

“What is this?”

“Ah! That looks… … like a chimera.”

Borin answered quickly.

“chimera?”

“This is an insect that did not exist before. It has a hard shell, as if it were made of titanium, and it is a mixture of various insects. It is a life form that could never appear in nature.”

Even magic didn’t work well on insects raised in a secret space inside the factory.

It didn’t burn even with fire magic, and even with wind magic, it retreated along the wind and wasn’t hit at all.

The only magic that could be expected to be effective was brain magic.

Because the metal shell is vulnerable to electric current.

But unfortunately, the Blue Leaf Special Forces did not have an Awakener who could use lightning magic.

There was a way to kill them one by one by stabbing or cutting them with a rapier, but it was impossible to find and kill tens of thousands of insects one by one.

Because of that, the Blue Leaf Special Forces had no choice but to struggle against insects.

There was something else that was truly scary.

It was the stingers on their teeth and tails.

The teeth, sharper than a blade, tore through the specially-made blue leaf special forces’ coats like a piece of paper, leaving wounds.

The poisonous stingers on their tails were even more terrifying.

Several elves who were hit by the poison needles lost their lives in an instant.

There was no time to even lift a hand.

Because of that, Borin and the Blue Leaf Special Forces had to helplessly watch their precious comrades die.

If Zeon had not appeared in time, many people in the Northern Sector would have lost their lives to this unidentified insect.

Suddenly, Zeon reached out his hand to the floor.

What he held in his hand was a writhing insect that had lost its wings.

Only the last one was left alive.

Kieee!

The insect screamed and tried to bite Zeon’s arm.

But the bastard’s teeth couldn’t even scratch Zeon’s coat.

Zeon took a closer look at the insect, which was flailing around frantically trying to escape from his grasp.

“How bizarre.”

It was his first impression.

Even for Zeon, who had experienced countless beasts and insects, this was a type of insect he had never seen before.

It had the characteristics of a dragonfly, a spider, a scorpion, a cicada, a bee, and all the other insects mixed together.

He had a ferocious temperament and would not stay still for even a moment, attacking Zeon.

If Zeon’s grip had been even a little weaker, he would have escaped and attacked those inside the factory.

Zeon reached out with his other hand and grabbed the stinger on its tail. The insect then started to thrash around even more crazily.

As if he had intuition about his own fate.

Thud!

At that moment, Zeon pulled out the insect’s stinger.

Flesh, blood vessels, and internal organs came off along with the stinger.

Even though the stinger was removed, the insect did not die and held on tenaciously.

Zeon looked at the internal organs that had been attached to the stinger.

Borin asked cautiously.

“Why the intestines?”

“It has all the internal organs of spiders, bees, and scorpions mixed in. It’s natural, without any discomfort.”

“Why is that?”

“This is Go.”

“What? What is that?”

“We dig a huge hole that they can never get out of and put a lot of insects in it. We don’t feed them, of course. Then they start to eat each other out of hunger.”

“Why are you like that… … .”

“The strong eat the weak, and the stronger eat the weak. If you continue to instill stress and a sense of crisis like that, at some point, the survivors will undergo a rapid evolution. They will absorb the characteristics of those they have eaten and become stronger.”

“Are you saying that chimeras are created naturally?”

Borin’s expression turned serious.

As a smart woman, she figured out the important information contained in Jeon’s words.

Zeon said, still looking at the fluttering insect.

“Yes! Artificially created chimeras are imperfect in many ways. It’s not easy to fuse traits and living tissues. Above all, problems arise in many areas because the creator tries to manipulate traits to his liking. However, naturally occurring Go are different. They literally occurred naturally, so they don’t have the problems that imperfect chimeras have. The Go here evolved into a form that is optimal for killing elves. They deliberately chose only those with such traits and threw them into the pit.”

“oh my god!”

Borin covered his mouth.

If what Zeon said was true, these insects were virtually the natural enemies of the elves.

Not all elves living in the northern sector were as strong as Borin or the Blue Leaf Special Forces.

If these insects had been released into the Northern Sector, countless elves would have surely lost their lives.

Borin asked Zeon.

“Why on earth are these horrible creatures in the North sector?”

“I think I should be asking that. This is the North District, right?”

“Haa! I think it must be Eli-nim’s doing.”

Borin closed his eyes tightly at the worst possible outcome.

Although she was called the Spider Queen, Eli was also an elf.

I never understood why the elves created the worst creatures for elves.

Hurrruk!

At that moment, a pure white flame rose from Zeon’s hand.

The flames engulfed the insects in an instant.

Kieee!

Insects fluttered about in the burning pain all over my body, but soon turned into a handful of ash.

Zeon said, tapping his palms.

“It seems like the Five Poisons have entered Neo Seoul.”

“The Odok clan?”

“They are a clan that has survived since ancient times. They have lived for over a thousand years, thousands of kilometers southwest of Neo-Seoul.”

Borin and the Blue Leaves Special Forces listened intently to the story they had heard for the first time in their lives.

“The place they lived was originally a place with a dense primeval forest, and it is said that there were many poisonous insects. The Odok clan studied poisonous insects in order to survive, and as a result, they learned how to freely control them. They passed down their secrets to their descendants for a long time. For a thousand years. They survived the great destruction and continued their lineage.”

The world was destroyed and ruled by demons, but the Odog clan did not decline, but rather prospered.

The insect-like demons that appeared in the desert world were the perfect lifeforms to test the secret skills of the Odok clan.

The Odok clan collected the insectoid demons and drove them into a huge pit.

The insectoid demons evolved by eating each other, and the last surviving winners were bred and used as servants.

When the colony where the Odok clan lived was at its peak of prosperity, all nearby life forms were nearly extinct.

The insect that the Odok clan had been using at the time was similar to the one that had just been annihilated by Zeon. That was why Zeon recognized it at a glance.

Borin was shocked when he heard Zeon’s explanation.

“There is such a clan in the world. If they enter Neo Seoul, there will definitely be a bigger disaster. We need to come up with a plan quickly.”

“There’s no need to rush.”

“No, why? You were the one who said they were dangerous, right? So we need to come up with a plan quickly.”

“They are destroyed.”

“yes?”

“They clearly killed them all, but it looks like someone survived.”

Borin felt goosebumps appear all over his body at Jeon’s humming.

This is because he realized that it was Jeon who destroyed the Odok clan, which had persisted for a thousand years.

I don’t know the circumstances inside.

I wasn’t even curious.

The important thing was that the one who erased the Odok clan from the world was Zeon.

If the creators of this bizarre insect were indeed the Odok clan, then the one who knew about it better than anyone else was Zeon.

Then there would be a way to trace the descendants of the Odok clan.

Zeon said.

“You kidnapped people to raise your children. Now I understand what happened.”

“So you’re saying that you periodically supplied the corpses that were hanging inside the factory?”

“Yes! In order to breed the last surviving Go from the pit, you need to supply fresh blood. Human blood and flesh, rich in nutrients, are the best conditions for breeding Go.”

“crazy…….”

“Now that we know everything, let’s go see Serian. Before things get out of hand… … .”

“Okay! I’ll show you around. But before that… … .”

Borin looked at the elves and dwarves lying inside the factory with cold eyes.

They were factory workers who had been subdued by the Blue Leaf Special Forces.

They had their eyes tightly shut, as if they had given up.

Borin gave orders to the Blue Leaves Special Forces.

“Put them all in jail and let Olga interrogate them.”

“four!”

The Blue Leaves Special Forces answered in unison.

The faces of the factory workers were filled with fear.

Interrogator Olga.

He was called an interrogator, but he was actually a torture expert.

There was no one whom Olga had not touched and whose mouth had not opened.

Olga was a crazy elf whose hobby and purpose in life was torture.

Not a single person who was handed over to Olga survived.

Those who were subdued by the Blue Leaves Special Forces sensed a miserable end and fell into despair.

But the Blue Leaves Special Forces didn’t show them even a shred of sympathy.

Borin said.

“Now let’s go to Serian.”

“Yeah.”

Zeon followed her quietly and thought.

‘The crazy guys are gathering in Neo Seoul.’

The human hunters, Hotsim and his men, and the survivors of the Odok clan, who were thought to have been completely exterminated.

There wasn’t a single person who wasn’t pretty.

The scary thing about crazy people is that they don’t hesitate to do things that normal people wouldn’t dare imagine.

They have no interest in the consequences of what they have done, and they have no intention of trying to control the situation. Instead, they enjoy watching the situation escalate out of control.

It was never a good thing that such crazy people were gathering in Neo Seoul.

Moreover, the one who called them was Eli, the second in command in the North Zone.

If we were not careful, the situation could have snowballed out of control.

Zeon was someone who didn’t want to get involved in Neo Seoul affairs unless absolutely necessary. But this time it was different.

‘I can’t stand to see crazy guys running wild in my front yard.’