Sand Mage of the Burnt Desert - Chapter 367



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Episode 367

“Let go of this.”

A dark elf with white hair was being dragged towards Flora.

He struggled and tried to escape Flora’s grasp, but it was no use.

The power of Flora, the warrior who protected the clan, was not something that the old dark elf could shake off.

“How dare you do this to me, an elder, and think you’ll be okay? Flora!”

The dark elf, who eventually failed to escape Flora’s grasp, made a threat.

Flora threw the dark elf she had brought in in front of the dark elves gathered in the open space.

“Ugh!”

The dark elf stuck in the sand couldn’t hide his bewildered expression.

His name is Karode.

This was the elder of the dark elf village.

His authority was so strong that no one in the dark elf village could defy him.

If it were normal, Flora would have followed Karode’s orders. But now, the eyes of Flora and the other dark elves looking at Karode were filled with contempt.

“What’s with those eyes? How dare you look at me like that? What are the warriors doing? Don’t you hurry up and subdue these guys?”

Karode shouted loudly, but no one listened to him.

Flora looked down at him and said.

“It seems like you still can’t figure out the mood.”

“What does that mean?”

“Aren’t you ashamed? Joining hands with orcs and oppressing your own kind?”

“That, that was an inevitable choice. If I hadn’t cooperated with them, our village would have already been wiped out of the world by the orcs.”

“Bullshit! If you hadn’t taken their side, we wouldn’t have been so helpless.”

“You are mistaken. Everyone knows how much I have devoted myself to our village and how much I have sacrificed. Don’t you?”

Karode looked to the other dark elves for agreement, but none of them agreed with him.

All the dark elves were glaring at Karode as if they were going to kill him. Karode also realized clearly that something was wrong.

He changed his stance and knelt down in front of Flora.

“I, I was wrong. Please save me.”

“Do you know how many of your kind were killed by orcs because of you?”

“Aren’t you saying that it was an inevitable choice?”

“Was killing Elder Il an inevitable choice?”

“that…….”

For a moment, Karode was speechless.

Flora shouted loudly.

“Death to the traitor of the clan… … .”

“Death to the traitor… … .”

The other dark elves followed Flora’s lead and shouted.

A look of despair appeared on Karode’s face.

As expected from a quick-witted person, he realized that there was no way he could escape.

Karode crawled to Flora on his knees and grabbed her legs.

“Please save me, Flora!”

“I ask for forgiveness from Elder Il and others who died because of you.”

“Floah?”

Crunch!

At that moment, Flora cut off Karode’s head with her sword.

Karode’s head, separated from his body, rolled for several meters.

Flora, who had thus cut off Karode’s breath, looked around at the other dark elves and said.

“As you all know, our clan is in grave danger. The elder who led the village has passed away, and the elder who betrayed us is no more. Now we must survive in this desert on our own.”

“… … .”

All the dark elves held their breath and listened to Flora’s speech.

Even at that moment, Flora’s words continued.

“As you can see, we’ve killed all the orcs, but our homeland is completely destroyed. Now we must make a decision. Either stay in the village and rebuild, or leave and find new homeland.”

Flora paused for a moment and looked around the village.

The other dark elves followed her and looked around the village.

The dark elves’ expressions darkened involuntarily.

They feel it too.

That means it is impossible to rebuild their destroyed homeland in its entirety.

A broken house could be rebuilt by hunting the devil.

Because they were master hunters.

The problem was the land.

The village’s land turned black as the bone necklace exploded. Not only did it change color, but it also gave off a foul odor.

The land was polluted by the energy contained in the bone necklace.

No matter what methods were used, once the land was polluted, it never returned to normal.

Brielle has been studying the contaminated soil, but has not yet found anything significant.

“It’s not just the land that’s polluted. Bad energy has taken root here. If we can’t purify the bad energy, this place will become a land of death.”

Flora and the other dark elves also listened to Brielle’s words.

If we don’t figure out how to clean this place up right now, the contamination will get so bad that it’s beyond our control.

Then someone shouted.

“Let’s leave.”

“If it is impossible to normalize this place, let’s find a new home.”

Those who spoke up were young dark elves.

They were young dark elves who had been unable to leave this place due to the elders’ policies.

They wanted to take this opportunity to move to a new home.

Because no matter how hard we try to rebuild the village here, it’s obvious that we’ll just end up living the same boring life as before.

The desire of such young elves moved the hearts of other dark elves.

“Let’s move. Anywhere would be better than here.”

“I don’t have anything anyway, and what little I have is already broken, so let’s take this opportunity to move somewhere else.”

Those who wanted to leave the village were predominant.

In this way, even the older dark elves had no choice but to agree to leave the village.

Even the older dark elves had no choice.

Whatever the reason, they lost their power when Karode betrayed his clan and joined hands with the orcs.

After listening to everyone’s opinions, Flora finally made a decision.

“Then I think we all agree and we’ll move to a new place. Pack your bags within an hour. We’ll be leaving right away.”

Flora was unstoppable.

She was the de facto leader of the dark elves.

There were no dark elves who would disobey her words of killing this elder, Karode.

Flora, who had given orders to her clan, approached Zeon.

Flora, who had been looking at Zeon for a moment, suddenly knelt down.

“Why is it like this?”

Zeon panicked and tried to help her up, but Flora shook her head and refused.

“Help us.”

“What do you mean?”

“I know it’s shameless, but it has to be you. Help us.”

“What, how do you want help?”

“We need new land. You can find a place for us to live, right? You’re a sand wizard.”

Flora desperately needed Zeon’s help.

I threw away all my pride and self-esteem.

The fact that he knelt before Zeon was proof of that.

Then Brielle spoke carefully to Zeon.

“I’ll ask you this too. Let’s help them.”

Brielle was the one who rarely asked Zeon for favors.

Rather, she was the one who had made various necessary items and pushed them towards Zeon in order to repay his favor. Brielle, who was like that, could not refuse him.

“Okay. Let’s find a place for them to live together.”

“Really? Thank you!”

A bright smile appeared on Brielle’s face.

Zeon playfully pressed Brielle’s hood with his hand and spoke to Flora.

“Let’s look for it together. I’m sure there’ll be a place that can become a new home.”

“Thank you so much! I will never forget this favor.”

Only then did Flora smile brightly.

Zeon asked, lifting her up.

“Get up.”

“huh!”

“Do you have any place in mind?”

“None! You know, we rarely leave this area, so we don’t know what’s good and what’s bad.”

“okay.”

Zeon let out a faint sigh and looked around at the dark elves.

A crowd of over a hundred people were just staring.

They were lost in an unfamiliar world.

Some sought the strong protection of Neo Seoul, while others sought the strong protection of Elharun, but these chose to survive on their own.

From the beginning, they were people who could not mix with others.

Dark elves, just as much as high elves, needed their own land.

‘I don’t know if there is still land for them to live in.’

All the land suitable for life has already been taken by others.

Whether it was a demon, an orc, or some other race, I had to do my best to find it.

‘Okay! Let’s give it a try.’

Zeon’s will was strengthened.

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Before an hour had passed, the dark elves were ready to leave.

In fact, there was almost nothing left that was useful, so there was little to prepare or do.

“Then let’s go.”

“yes!”

At Flora’s command, the dark elves began to move.

At the forefront were Zeon, Briel, and Levin.

Levin muttered as he watched the dark elves following him.

“It’s quite a spectacle. We came here simply to hunt armored ants, but things got this big?”

“Didn’t you know? Whenever I hang out with Jeon, it always ends up like this.”

“That’s true. Thanks to that, I don’t get bored when I hang out with my brother. Hehe!”

Levin spoke to Brielle with a pleasant smile.

Anyone else would have been upset at the length of the journey through the desert, but Levin and Briel were different.

They preferred the desert journey to the stuffy Neo-Seoul.

This was also a change that occurred after meeting Zeon.

Zeon looked up at the sky for a moment.

The hot sun was beating down.

The entire desert was heated to a fever pitch, radiating incredible heat.

It was like entering a furnace.

Zeon looked around the scorching desert in silence.

To others, it might all look the same, but to Zeon, it looked different.

The heat also varied depending on the sand.

Even though they received the same amount of sunlight, some places were hotter and some places were less hot.

Zeon moved to a less hot place.

The dark elves silently followed Zeon.

Even for the dark elves who had adapted to the desert, walking on the hot sand was not easy. But no one said a word about it being difficult.

Even the young dark elves who were barely able to walk.

Dark elves were natural warriors.

They had much stronger physical and mental powers than ordinary elves.

Their pride would not allow them to say that this level of hardship was difficult.

The dark elves lined up like ants and followed Zeon silently. They showed through their actions that they would trust Zeon no matter what happened.

So Zeon and the dark elves walked for several days.

During their short break, dark elf children gathered around Zeon.

“Brother Zeon!”

“Brother!”

Even though they had been together for a few days, the dark elf children treated Zeon without any formality.

Children also clung to Brielle and Levin.

He showed great interest in Brielle, a high elf in particular.

“Sister! Can you teach me alchemy too?”

“How do you make this, Sister?”

“Sister!”

Some of the children clung to Brielle so tightly that they wouldn’t leave her.

Even to the dark elves, the high elves were mysterious beings.

“Why don’t you guys go away? It’s annoying.”

Despite Brielle’s beatings, the children did not leave.

Because I know that Brielle’s words aren’t sincere.

Despite her annoyed expression, Brielle tried her best to satisfy the children’s curiosity.

The dark elf warriors and adults looked at the sight with pleased smiles.

Seeing the children running around brightly without any worries seemed to wash away all the fatigue I had accumulated.

‘We need to find a good home for those children too.’

I couldn’t help but be worried about the future, but also excited.

That was when.

As Zeon looked around, leaving the children with Brielle and Levin, something strange caught his eye.

“The scenery seems somehow familiar… … .”

Although the scenery was no different from anywhere else, Zeon could soon recall when he had come here.

“This place is definitely… … .”