Sand Mage of the Burnt Desert - Chapter 358



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Episode 358

Krrrr!

Wherever the flame wolves’ gazes were directed, there was Zeon.

The eyes of the flame wolves looking at Zeon were filled with fear.

The flame wolves, who seem to feel no fear, are terrified at the sight of Zeon, who is merely a human.

Kim Jin-su and his subordinates looked puzzled at the reaction of the flame wolves.

Because it was something that was beyond their common sense.

It was impossible for a demon to be afraid of a human. At least, they had never seen such a case.

So it was confusing, because this was happening right in front of their eyes.

Clearly, the fire wolves were afraid of Zeon.

Kkiing!

Ouch!

While Zeon was still, some of them were already crying as if they were about to suffocate.

The sight was just like a frightened puppy.

Zeon looked at the pack of flame wolves in silence.

A particularly large object caught my eye.

A fire wolf with dark red fur, twice the size of other wolves. Unusually, one of its ears was cut off in the middle.

He was the leader of this group.

Krrrr!

The leader looked at Zeon, crying as if making an excuse.

Zeon looked at the guy and said.

“It’s you. You’ve grown so much.”

Not only was it unrecognizable for its unusual red fur, but it was also unrecognizable for its half-cropped ears.

Because the person who cut off that ear was none other than Zeon.

The leader was at a loss as he faced Zeon’s gaze straight ahead.

He turned his head, trying to avoid Zeon’s gaze, and shivered.

It had been quite some time, but he remembered it clearly.

The moment when Zeon mercilessly slaughtered his own kind.

Of course, the ones who attacked Zeon first were the Flame Wolves.

To the Flame Wolf’s eyes, Zeon, walking alone through the desert, looked like a tasty prey. However, it didn’t take long for him to realize how wrong that was.

The flame wolves that had attacked Zeon were all torn apart by the sand and disappeared.

There are literally hundreds of them.

All the fire wolves here were the children of the fire wolves that died at that time.

It was so young that Zeon did not kill it but left it alive.

Those young wolves grew up to form a large pack, but they still had vivid memories of that time. That’s why they were scared when they saw Zeon.

The bus carrying Zeon entered the midst of a pack of flame wolves. It was followed by a buggy carrying the Awakened and a transport vehicle driven by porters.

The flaming wolves, who would have attacked already under normal circumstances, moved aside to make way for the vehicles to pass.

The Awakened and the porters concentrated on driving with bewildered expressions at the sight they had never seen before.

The fire wolf pack did not engage in any aggressive behavior until all vehicles had passed.

Zeon stood on the bus and looked at the leader of the fire wolf.

The wind blew, gently ruffling the bastard’s fur.

I thought it looked pretty cool.

Considering the people who would pass through this place one day, it was right to eliminate all the fire wolf packs. However, even if that pack is eliminated, other fire wolves will come in and thrive in this place.

The scariest thing about demons is that they reproduce like crazy. It was impossible to completely eradicate them.

It would be better for the sake of others if those with a fear of humans were to guard this place.

Even the fire wolves would think twice before attacking humans.

The convoy carrying Zeon and his party passed through the habitat of the Flame Wolf Pack safely.

“Haha! You’re crazy. How could you pass through a horde of demons without even fighting?”

“Are you laughing? I was holding it in for fear of peing my pants.”

“One thing is certain: I will never have an experience like this again.”

The relaxed Awakened and porters sighed in relief and chattered.

The experience of passing through a pack of flaming wolves without swinging a sword was equally thrilling.

Kim Jin-su looked at the armored bus.

Zeon, who had been on the roof, was no longer visible. He had entered immediately after passing through the pack of flame wolves.

“I’m speechless. What on earth do I have to do to scare the demons away and open the way?”

“This is crazy. This is crazy!”

The subordinate also shook his head.

It was a thrilling experience that made my stomach churn. And I had a feeling that I would have more experiences like this with Zeon.

That premonition immediately became reality.

The demon we encountered as we passed through the Flame Wolf habitat was Sandworm, one of the tyrants of the desert.

Jeon got off the bus for a moment and talked to Kim Jin-su.

“This is a place where sandworms especially like to go because the sand is soft. The sand particles transmit vibrations well, so they will immediately notice when a vehicle enters.”

“Then what should we do?”

“We have to find a way.”

“yes?”

“At first glance, all sand looks the same, but some of them have coarse particles and a special smell. To humans, it doesn’t make much of a difference, but to sandworms, it’s a particularly unpleasant smell. When there’s sand like that, sandworms will stray far away.”

“How can you tell the difference between sands like that? Oh, I guess it doesn’t matter to you, Lord Zeon. If it’s sand, you can detect even the slightest difference.”

“That’s right. Do you see it over there?”

Zeon pointed to a particularly tall sand dune with his hand.

“yes!”

“Do you see that brown sand that runs along the sand ridge? It’s darker than the other sand, so it’ll stand out.”

“Yes! I can see it. It’s connected like a belt.”

“That’s right. If there’s sand there, definitely move there. That’s the best way to survive the sandworms.”

“Oh, thank you.”

Kim Jin-soo expressed his gratitude to Jeon for the new facts he had never known before.

It might not be much to Xeon, but for ordinary Awakened people like Kim Jin-soo, it was valuable information that increased their chances of survival.

This kind of know-how or information is usually not easily shared.

Only each guild and dungeon raid team knows this and never leaks it to the outside.

The reality of Neo Seoul was that all know-how and information had to be learned through hands-on experience.

In that respect, Kim Jin-su was lucky.

Because Zeon gave the information without expecting anything in return.

The first convoy moved to the hill where the brown sand belt that Zeon had told them about had formed.

Knock knock!

The car’s wheels made noise as they cut through the sand.

If sandworms really lived there, they should have come running at the sound of the wheels. However, even though the sound of the wheels made a commotion in the sand, the sandworms did not appear.

“Isn’t it just that there are no sandworms here?”

It was when one of the porters spoke cautiously.

Push!

Suddenly, from a distance, sand gushed up like a fountain.

Then, the mouth of a giant demon suddenly appeared.

A sandworm pops its head out of the sand.

The bastard squirmed for a moment as if sniffing something.

The Awakened and the porters watched the scene with bated breath.

The sandworm, which had been breathing in fresh air for a while, disappeared into the sand again.

It was only after a long time since the sandworms had disappeared that the Awakened and the porters breathed a sigh of relief.

“Haa! There really was a sandworm.”

“Fuck! I almost peed myself again.”

“Who was that guy who said there were no sandworms earlier?”

What Zeon said was true.

There used to be sandworms here.

If we hadn’t moved to a place with particularly dark brown sand as Zeon said, we would have encountered sandworms.

Thanks to this, I saved energy by not having to fight the sandworm, and I also gained valuable information.

Now no one doubted Zeon’s words.

All along the way, Kim Jin-su and the Awakened Ones listened to Jeon’s words and did as he instructed.

After ten days, they were able to reach their destination safely.

0 deaths.

0 casualties.

It was the first time in the history of the convoy.

For the Awakened and the porters, who always suffered from minor and major injuries when going on convoys, there was no schedule more comfortable than this.

They felt infinite gratitude to Zeon for making this schedule possible.

“Are you saying that there are armored ants living here?”

“Yes! This place has the perfect environment for them to live in.”

“Hmm!”

Kim Jin-su let out a sigh.

A large crack in the earth appeared in his vision.

A huge crack that looks as if God had struck the earth with a giant axe.

It was so deep that the sunlight did not reach it, so it looked dark even in broad daylight.

“Whew! If there’s a crack that big, the number of armored ants would be no joke.”

“You know very well. There are at least a thousand of them living there.”

“Oh my! Then it would be seriously dangerous.”

“There’s no need to deal with all the thousands of them. We’ll just hunt the ones stationed on the outskirts.”

“If your own kind is attacked, won’t the guys inside come out as well?”

Kim Jin-su’s excited voice rose naturally.

“As I said earlier, this is a special case. There are so many of them living together that there is always a shortage of food. Even if a few disappear, the ones inside won’t mind.”

“Then it’s a golden opportunity for us.”

Kim Jin-su’s eyes sparkled.

He wasn’t stupid.

They knew that food shortages would lead to competition and division. When thousands of ironclad ants were gathered together, they would not have enough food and would start to see their own kind as competitors.

Now was that time.

“Then shall we go down right now?”

“No, we don’t need to go down.”

“yes?”

“We have to make them come up. Then we can hunt them easily.”

“How do you say that?”

“You have to use bait. Then the armored ants on the outskirts will smell it and come up to the surface.”

“Maybe so?”

Kim Jin-su and the Awakened Ones’ gaze turned to the transport vehicle at the rear.

The large transport vehicle was carrying several dead bodies of demons.

It was the corpse of a fire armadillo that I had hunted on my way here.

While other demons were avoiding him, when he came across the Flame Armadillo, Zeon told him to hunt it down right away.

The Flame Armadillo was a D-class demon.

At five meters tall and with scales harder than steel, the fire armadillo had formidable defenses.

When it meets an enemy, it attacks by flying its fiery scales, making it very difficult to deal with.

The fire armadillo was a difficult to hunt creature that was of little use.

Only the scales were of any use, the rest of the body had little value.

Because of this, the Awakened avoided hunting the Flame Armadillo unless absolutely necessary.

But Zeon insisted that he had to hunt the Flame Armadillo. Not only that, he even brought its useless corpse all the way here.

Zeon answered with a smile.

“Yes! The corpses of the fire armadillo are a favorite food for the armored ants. They are almost impossible to hunt normally because of their hard scales that are covered in flames, making them even more terrifying.”

“Ah! Then… … .”

“Yes! If you place the corpse of a fire armadillo at the entrance of the rift, the armored ants will come up on their own.”

“I didn’t know there was such a method. It’s truly a new world.”

Kim Jin-su and the awakened ones could not help but be amazed.

Zeon said, clapping his hands.

“Stop admiring and get moving.”

“Yes! Got it. Got it? Put the flaming armadillo carcass down.”

“All right.”

The Awakened ran to the vehicle carrying the corpse of the Flame Armadillo.

Since it was a whopping five meters in size, its weight was no joke.

All the Awakened had to cling to each other and carry the flaming armadillo corpses.

They moved the flaming armadillo carcass to one side of the crack and held their breath and waited.

Crackle! Crackle!

After a while, a pair of tentacles appeared along with a strange noise.

It was an ironclad ant.

The armored ant, which appeared with its antennae moving diligently, discovered the corpse of the fire armadillo and released pheromones in all directions. Then, other armored ants noticed the signal and climbed up the crack.

Zeon said, glaring at the armored ants.

“We have to hunt it down quickly before they get the flaming armadillo carcass.”

“Understood. Everyone, attack.”

“yes!”

The Awakened attacked the armored ants with answers.

As soon as they came up to the ground, the armored ants were killed by the swords and swords of the Awakened Ones. However, they alone were not enough to deal with all the armored ants.

Levin rolled up his sleeves and went out.

“I should help too.”

Drop!

Levin, now ghost-formed, unleashed a blast of purple lightning at the swarm of armored ants.

It was the beginning of a massacre.

Brielle muttered as she watched Levin unleash purple lightning.

“I’m so excited.”

At that time, Zeon was looking across the crack.

On the other side, someone’s head appeared on the rock.