Sand Mage of the Burnt Desert - Chapter 346



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Episode 346

In the middle of the chapel, John stood alone, looking up at the huge cross.

There was a faint red glow in his eyes as he looked at the cross.

Then someone quietly approached behind John.

“I have something to report to you, Mr. Yohan!”

The man in the red robe was Joshua, the inquisitor.

John looked at Joshua and said,

“Hmm! I wish it were good news, but it doesn’t seem to be.”

“sorry.”

“Okay. Just report it.”

“Things are not good.”

“What do you mean?”

“All powers have learned that the saint we are seeking is actually a high-level healer.”

John’s eyes trembled.

Because it was an unexpected situation for him too.

“how?”

“Rumors are spreading throughout Neo Seoul. Because of this, each district and troop is moving to secure the saint.”

“Does that make sense? How could a rumor spread? Could it be that our believers are spreading the rumor?”

“I’m sorry. I tried to find out where the rumor came from, but I didn’t get anywhere.”

Joshua bowed his head as if he had committed a sin.

John asked with a flushed face.

“So what’s the situation?”

“It’s not good. Contact with Neo Seoul’s believers is being lost one by one.”

“So you got hit.”

“As you know, there is a limit to the influence we can exert within Neo Seoul. The believers we managed to secure with difficulty… … .”

Joshua couldn’t bring himself to continue speaking.

It takes a lot of money and time to recruit even one true believer in Neo Seoul. The believers who are recruited with such difficulty are invaluable.

I was losing contact with those believers.

It was clear that he had lost his life in battle with other Awakened beings.

It was a painful loss for Dongdaemun.

There was no way to know how long it would take to re-establish personnel in Neo Seoul.

John looked at the cross with a heavy heart.

Joshua looked at John like that without saying anything.

John, who had been staring at the cross for a long time, opened his mouth again.

“Since it has come to this, we absolutely must secure the saintess. If we can just recruit the saintess, we can quickly recover from such losses. Have you found any clues about the saintess yet?”

“sorry.”

“Deploy more believers and search more fervently. Have you not heard from the Dark Saints?”

“There’s no specific news yet. Oh, and a few people have lost contact.”

“Even the Dark Saints were affected?”

John’s expression, which had just regained stability, became distorted again.

The Dark Saints were priests who guarded Dongdaemun from the shadows.

Naturally, it took several times longer to raise than other powers. The losses of the Dark Saint were incomparable to those of other believers.

“Mattel, Elixen, and Chenxi. These three are out of contact. Mattel and Elixen were lost in Kuro, and Chenxi was lost in Sinchon.”

“Shinchon?”

John’s eyes glowed eerily.

Because there is someone who comes to mind first when you think of Sinchon.

“Did Zeon eliminate Chen Xi?”

“That doesn’t seem to be the case. Zeon is under twenty-four hour surveillance, and he hasn’t shown any unusual movements yet.”

“Are you sure? With that bastard’s abilities, it’s not hard to fool the eyes of a guard.”

“Lord Lubo is personally monitoring.”

“Hmm!”

John let out a sigh.

Because he was the one who knew Lubo’s abilities best.

The one who had the blasphemous nickname of ‘God’s Eye’ was none other than Lubo. However, he possessed outstanding abilities.

The skill he awakened was clairvoyance.

As the name suggests, it cannot see a thousand miles away, but it can still monitor a few kilometers with great precision.

The true value of clairvoyance is that it can see through any illusion or boundary.

No tricks or false appearances will work on Lubo’s clairvoyance.

He is truly a specialist in surveillance.

That’s why Dongdaemun only mobilized Lubo to monitor key targets, and this time, that target was Jeon.

“Rubo watched it himself?”

“Yes! I’ve been stuck for twenty-four hours.”

“Then it can’t be Zeon.”

John’s expression became even more distorted and unpleasant.

If it was Lubo himself who was watching, it would be trustworthy, even if it was someone else. No matter how much Zeon was there, Lubo’s eyes could not be avoided or deceived.

If that’s the case, then Xeon is not the culprit.

But I couldn’t shake off this strangely uneasy feeling.

“Track the movements of the Dark Saints who have lost contact, and strengthen surveillance on Zeon.”

“Are you saying we should hire more people besides Lubo?”

“Reinforce it double and triple to perfectly monitor its every move.”

“All right.”

“Zeon! He’s not the type to stay still, but the fact that he’s staying still is even more suspicious. There’s something about him.”

John considered Zeon his arch-enemy.

This is because I have been blocked by Zeon many times so far and have not been able to accomplish anything.

The only one who had caused him repeated failures was Zeon, so he was even more concerned.

‘Zeon! Zeon!’

John repeated Zeon’s name several times.

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Chen Xi, who was walking through the underground sewer, stopped for a moment and looked around.

There wasn’t a single light in sight.

It felt like I was wandering alone in a maze with no end in sight.

It felt like a few days had passed since I arrived.

Naturally, all contact with the outside world was cut off.

Originally, the Dark Saint had to periodically report his location to Dongdaemun. However, there was no way to contact him in the underground sewers.

This place was a world separate from the earth.

Chen Xi first realized that such a dark and gloomy world existed beneath his feet.

A terrible stench that stimulates the sense of smell in a thick darkness where you can’t even see your own hands.

If she hadn’t been an Awakener, she would have gone crazy already.

The situation here was so dire, if not worse.

Still, the reason she did not come up to the surface and continued walking through the underground sewers was because of a noble mission.

‘If the saint is here, I will definitely bring her up to the ground.’

Originally, beautiful flowers tend to bloom in the dirtiest and darkest places. If the saint was truly born here, it was her mission to bring her up to the earth.

Chen Xi endured the harsh environment with such a sense of mission and went forward. How far did she go? Suddenly, a ray of light appeared in her vision.

“ah!”

Chen Xi, who discovered the light, let out an exclamation without realizing it.

A single ray of light piercing through the pitch-black darkness seemed like a light to her.

Chen Xi hurriedly walked towards the place where the light was coming from.

The place she arrived was none other than Jetoya’s village.

In the middle of the village, a magic generator was spinning, lights were on everywhere, and people were moving busily.

Chen Xi’s face brightened.

On the other hand, a look of caution appeared on the faces of the villagers who saw the stranger.

“Who are you?”

“He is a human being.”

Just by looking at Chen Xi’s clothes, they could tell she wasn’t from here.

Chen Xi raised both arms and spoke to them.

“I am not a bad person. I am a messenger sent by God to take pity on you.”

“god?”

“Yes! God is always looking down on you.”

“Lies! Where is that?”

“If there is a God, why do we suffer like this?”

The villagers objected to Chen Xi’s words.

People born and raised in the sewers do not believe in God.

Their thinking was that if there really was a God, he would not have made them be born and raised in such a filthy place.

Chen Xi couldn’t hide his bewildered expression at the unexpected backlash from people.

Even on earth, there were many people who looked at the believers of Dongdaemun with colored glasses, but there were few who openly opposed them like this.

Because everyone is afraid of the power of Dongdaemun.

But the people here were different.

Dongdaemun wasn’t that scary to them.

Most people didn’t even know that Dongdaemun existed.

Since we don’t know of its existence, there is no reason to be afraid.

Chen Xi tried to calmly persuade those villagers.

“Everyone! God is real. If you believe in me and help me, I will take you to the temple where God is. I will also provide you with plenty of food and a place to sleep.”

“You’re giving me food and a place to sleep?”

“Yes! I will provide a place for you to live on the ground. Isn’t the ground better than this dirty and damp place?”

“What the hell! Who are you kidding?”

“yes?”

“Don’t you know how lethal the sun is to us who were born and raised here? When we are exposed to the sun, our skin gets completely sunburned.”

One of the villagers shouted in anger.

Although Chen Xi did not know what she was saying, her words touched a nerve with the people living underground.

It was impossible for them to live on the surface unless they awakened. Chen Xi was talking nonsense without even knowing that, which made me angry.

“Get out! You piece of shit!”

“Things that are above ground should live above ground. Don’t crawl all the way here for no reason.”

Chen Xi looked momentarily bewildered by the people’s fierce opposition, but his eyes soon turned cold.

Basically, she was not a missionary.

Unlike other believers, they were not the type that would grab each and every person and force them to believe in God, but the type that would punish those who did not believe in God’s teachings.

Chen Xi realized that it was impossible to persuade them with good words.

She asked finally.

“Is there a girl here who has special abilities? For example, a girl who has shown miracles such as curing incurable diseases.”

“Hey, stop talking nonsense.”

“There’s no way something like that could happen.”

People raised their voices without realizing it at the unexpected question.

Chen Xi’s eyes became colder.

“There it is.”

She could tell just by looking at the people’s intense reactions.

That the person she was looking for was here.

Chen Xi said, emitting cold air.

“Let her go. She doesn’t belong in a dirty place like this.”

“Don’t make me laugh.”

“Where did you hear that nonsense… … .”

Several strong men could no longer bear it and rushed at Chen Xi.

In that moment, a silver flash appeared from Chen Xi’s hand.

Crunch!

The flash of light instantly cut off the man who was charging ahead.

Thud!

A man who fell down with his upper and lower body separated just as he was running.

The cut section gushed out viscera and blood.

The townspeople screamed at the horrific sight.

“Ahh!”

“It’s murder.”

Chen Xi laughed coldly at those people’s reactions.

“So you should have listened to me when I said nice things.”

In her hand was a barely visible gift.

It was her own weapon, made by mixing various metals with spider silk extracted from spider webs.

Sharper than a sword, more flexible than a whip, and much longer.

The killing radius of the gift she named God’s Judgment was over tens of meters.

Chahak!

“Eww!”

As Chen Xi snapped his fingers, the silver sword stretched out and cut off the neck of a nearby man.

The body of a man who has lost his head and is falling down, spurting blood.

“Chen Xi said, taking two lives in an instant.

“I’m going to ask you a few questions from now on. Every time I don’t get the answer I want to my question, you guys will die like this, one by one.”

“… … .”

“First, tell me the name of the girl who showed signs of migration.”

“… … .”

It was a time when everyone was hesitating and looking around.

Crunch!

“Ugh!”

Chen Xi’s benefactor took the life of one of the villagers, and the people became frozen like ice.

“name?”

“Damn it! Remura. That kid’s name is Remura.”

Eventually, someone revealed Remura’s name.

The smile on Chen Xi’s lips grew deeper.

“How nice of you to be so honest with me. Let’s continue having these honest conversations. Is she in town right now?”

“Her mother took her away.”

“Why did you leave town?”

“My mother was very greedy. She wanted to use her daughter’s abilities as an excuse to rule the village, but when that didn’t work out, she left.”

“And?”

Chen Xi’s questions continued, and the terrified people had no choice but to continue answering, not even daring to lie.