Sand Mage of the Burnt Desert - Chapter 360



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Episode 360

“What? The demons attacked?”

“Fuck!”

“Everyone, stand up.”

As soon as Kim Jin-su’s voice was heard, everyone who had been sleeping deeply jumped up from their seats.

They quickly climbed onto the roof of the transport vehicle.

“What is it? Captain! Suddenly a demon?”

“Can’t you hear this sound? It’s an armored ant.”

The Awakened ones listened to Kim Jin-su’s words.

They could also hear the sound of the iron ants’ teeth clashing.

“Really! The armored ants chased you all this way?”

“Fuck! Are you trying to get revenge on your own people? You crazy bastards!”

The Awakened ones couldn’t hide their puzzled expressions.

The campsite was sixty or seventy kilometers from the crevices where the ironclad ants lived. At the speed of the ironclad ants, it would take them at least ten hours to walk there.

It is incomprehensible that he would follow me that far to take revenge on his own people.

It was hard to believe that there was such a strong bond of camaraderie among F-class demons.

After a while, the silhouettes of armored ants appeared in the darkness.

“crazy!”

“Oh my god! How many are there?”

The faces of the Awakened turned pale.

A huge swarm of armored ants, so numerous that they could not be counted, was approaching them through the darkness.

The armored ants were advancing towards the campsite, their teeth chattering, as if a tidal wave was approaching.

“Fuck! Where’s the exit?”

“It’s too late. We’re already surrounded.”

“Shit!”

“Everyone, prepare for battle.”

A huge number of ironclad ants surrounded us in all directions.

It’s already too late to run away.

Not only the Awakened, but also the porters prepared for battle.

Although not as skilled as the Awakened, the porters also had excellent fighting skills.

They pulled out a specially made gun for the Neo Seoul.

Even though it was a weapon that couldn’t work on high-ranking demons, it was enough to inflict damage on F-rank demons like armored ants.

Levin and Brielle stood beside Zeon.

Levin muttered, scratching his head.

“Ironclad ants leave their territory so easily? It defies my common sense.”

“It seems like someone is playing a prank.”

“joke?”

“Otherwise, the current situation doesn’t make sense.”

It was Zeon who knew the devil better than anyone else.

He also knew the physiology of the ironclad ants like the back of his hand.

No matter how great the grudge against their own kind, ironclad ants rarely venture outside their territory.

The territory of the ironclad ant is usually about twenty to thirty kilometers from its burrow. If the ironclad ant walks further than that, it cannot return to the burrow in a day.

The fact that they were chasing me for any further distance was not normal.

It was clear that something had driven the armored ants here.

“Who would have played a prank and for what reason?”

“We need to find out from now on. You’ll have to suffer in the meantime.”

“Don’t worry. As long as I’m here, the armored ants won’t be able to do anything to them.”

Levin answered with confidence.

It was Levin, a B-class Awakener.

If he gave it his all, it would be no problem to annihilate an army of armored ants.

It may take some time, though.

Zeon nodded and looked at Brielle.

“You too, be careful. If you feel it’s too dangerous, ask Gaia for help.”

“That won’t happen. I can protect myself.”

“Okay! Then please.”

bang!

At that moment, the attack of the armored ants began.

The huge transport vehicle shook as if it would break apart at any moment under the onslaught of armored ants.

Kim Jin-su shouted while swinging his sword.

“Remember! Don’t let anyone climb over the barrier.”

“ancient!”

“Don’t worry, Captain! We all know that much.”

The Awakened answered, attacking the armored ants that were trying to climb over the wall made of vehicles.

The porters were also busy shooting their sniper rifles.

Levin transformed into a ghost and unleashed purple lightning.

Drop!

The purple current roasted the armored ants black.

Even though their own kind were killed right next to them, the armored ants attacked people without any regard.

“Tch!”

Brielle, who had been watching the situation, fired an attack magic. It was a simple attack magic like Wind Cutter, but its effect was certain.

In this way, the humans joined forces to block the attack of the armored ant army.

Meanwhile, Zeon moved quietly.

As Zeon flew into the sky riding the sand, something foreign entered his sight.

Large objects dotted in the middle of a colony of armored ants.

Zeon landed on the ground and examined the object’s identity.

“The flaming armadillo.”

The corpse of a fire armadillo was chopped into small pieces and strewn across the armored ant habitat.

This makes it clear that someone was using the corpse of a fire armadillo to lure the armored ants into their campsite.

The armadillo ants, attracted by the corpse of the fire armadillo, followed it here as if possessed.

“I don’t know who that is, but he’s pretty cunning.”

Zeon clicked his tongue and looked around.

Kieeee!

Hot!

Nearby, armored ants attacked Zeon.

Zeon roughly dispatched them with a sandblaster and flew into the air.

Zeon looked around from above the swirling sand pillar. But all he could see were armored ants, and the ones who had actually initiated this situation were nowhere to be seen.

“Why did you lure the armored ants here? Do you have a grudge against us?”

Zeon soon denied his assumption.

I didn’t encounter any humans while coming here. Of course, there couldn’t be anyone who held a grudge.

I also erased the assumption that the scavenger would have done this.

Because the armored ant corpses weren’t valuable enough for a scavenger to be greedy about.

The carcasses of the armored ants were valuable only as a sand hardener, but were of no use for any other purpose.

Even if you brought hundreds of armored ant corpses, you would receive less money than you would receive for one D-class demon. So there was no reason to go through such a complicated process to obtain armored ant corpses.

“Then why?”

Zeon’s brain was spinning furiously.

Suddenly his head turned towards the crack where the armored ants were nesting.

“With so many armored ants out, the crack must be empty. So is this a burglary?”

Without another second thought, Zeon spread his sandy steps and ran towards the crack.

Kiiiii!

The armored ants along the path attacked, but Zeon easily dodged them.

Since he didn’t even have time to use his skills against the armored ants, he just ran away to avoid their attacks.

Zeon, who had quickly broken through the army of armored ants, increased his speed.

Zeon was able to run as fast as the wind because the sand on the ground pushed him gently.

After running like that for about an hour, a crack appeared.

There wasn’t a single armored ant around the huge crack.

Literally a huge crack left the house empty.

Zeon threw himself into the crack without hesitation.

Xeon falling at a terrifying speed.

But just before he hit the ground, the sand gently supported his body, allowing him to land without any shock.

widely!

Zeon, who had landed on the ground, looked around inside the crack.

The inside of the crack was made of sandstone.

The sandstone walls were perforated with numerous caves.

That was the home of the armored ants.

The burrows that would normally be teeming with armored ants were empty.

If anyone was determined to raid the armored anthill, now was the perfect time.

Zeon stood there for a moment, concentrating his mind. Then he felt a slight ripple in the air coming from the cave on his left.

“Here it is.”

Zeon immediately entered the cave where he could feel the waves.

The ant hole was very narrow and dark, so it was not easy to increase speed. Also, the hole often split into three or four directions in an instant, making it more complicated than an ordinary maze.

If the waves in the air hadn’t been felt, even Zeon would have had a hard time finding his way.

Zeon walked along the waves of air he occasionally felt.

We walked like that for a long time.

It felt like I had gone hundreds of meters underground.

Oh my!

As Zeon wandered around, trying to find his way, he felt the waves again.

It was an unusually strong wave, unlike the faint ones I had felt until then.

After a short walk, the source of the waves appeared in front of Zeon.

It was an unusually large underground space.

In a space so large that dozens of armored ants could fit inside, there was one particularly large armored ant.

The moment Zeon saw the ant with its crown-like head and long antennae, he knew it was a queen.

As if to prove his guess, numerous eggs were attached to the walls of the underground cave.

All of the eggs were laid by the queen ironclad ant.

Around the queen armored ant, dead ants that looked like soldiers were lying around.

Those who killed the soldier armored ants were attacking the queen armored ant.

Zeon frowned.

This is because the combination of those attacking the queen armored ant was very unusual.

Slender-bodied humans wearing black turbans and deshadas.

At first glance, he seemed far from an ordinary human being.

They were elves, not humans.

And it wasn’t just any ordinary elf, it was an elf as black as black crystal.

They were the dark elves.

The dark elves were moving around the queen armored ant and attacking her.

“There’s plenty of time. Don’t rush.”

“Concentrate your attacks on the antennae. If you just take out the antennae, this bitch will be nothing.”

There were dark elves who shot arrows, others who wielded shamshirs or rapiers, and there were also those who used magic.

I understood up to that point.

Originally, elves were good at shooting arrows, using swords, and enjoying using magic.

The problem is that there is a race among the dark elves that can never coexist.

“Chew it! Stop him from escaping.”

“Leave it to me! Chitchat!”

The orcs were swinging axes as big as my body.

Kaang! Kang!

The orcs’ axes simply bounced off the queen’s hard shell without causing any significant damage. However, it was enough to put pressure on the queen.

Elves and orcs did not get along well.

Because the compatibility between the two races was truly the worst.

The noble elves and the warrior race of orcs regarded each other as less than dirt on their feet.

In Elharun, a city of mixed races, they had no choice but to cooperate, but the elves and orcs scattered across the desert were so anxious that they could not kill each other.

Dark elf added.

They thought of the orcs as beasts, not as partners.

Because of that, it was unimaginable that dark elves and orcs would hunt together. And now, here, dark elves and orcs were working together to hunt the Queen Armored Ant.

It seemed as if they had been working together more than once or twice, and the offensive was continuing smoothly.

At the center of it all was an old orc.

It was the old orc that Zeon had seen during the day.

Every time the old orc gestured, the formation of dark elves and orcs changed.

Seo Geo-eok!

Finally, one of the armored ant’s antennae was cut off by the orc’s axe.

Kieeee!

The Queen Iron Ant let out a scream of pain. Then the Dark Elves and Orcs attacked her more fiercely.

With her remaining antennae cut off, the queen armored ant lost her sense of direction and started to flounder.

The dark elves and orcs took advantage of the gap to attack and take down the queen armored ant.

thud!

The queen armored ant falls with a dull sound.

The old orc shouted without giving himself a chance to catch his breath.

“Catch! Collect all the eggs of the queen armored ant.”