Sand Mage of the Burnt Desert - Chapter 370



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Episode 370

Flora laid aside all her pride as a dark elf.

For a long time, dark elves lived isolated lives to preserve their purity. They sought to survive independently without interacting with other races.

The price was harsh.

Their lives were almost regressed to the Stone Age, and they even suffered the humiliation of being trampled by orcs.

While crossing the desert with Zeon, having lost her home, Flora made up her mind.

I will not hesitate to join hands with humans for the sake of the dark elves.

Fortunately, many dark elves shared her views.

They had many conversations while they were homeless.

The hardships made their relationship even stronger, and their conversations made them realize the true feelings they had for each other.

That’s when they decided.

He said that when a good opportunity comes, he will throw away all his pride and grab it.

The older dark elves were not pleased with the decisions of such young elves, but the tide turned in favor of young elves like Flora.

Flora’s decision was soon the decision of the dark elves.

She spoke to Ko Du-won once again.

“Please accept our clan as residents of this forest. Please do this.”

Flora knelt down on her remaining knee.

Goduwon was greatly embarrassed by Flora’s appearance of kneeling and begging.

“Oh, come on, wake up.”

“I would like you to answer before that.”

“Understood. I will accept you as part of the Black Forest.”

“Thank you. Thank you very much. I will fulfill my duties and responsibilities as a citizen.”

Only then did Flora sit up.

Goduwon looked at Flora with a smiling face.

He was a man named Goduwon who had married an elf and had a half-elf named Har. Naturally, he had no wariness or prejudice against elves.

Because of this, it was easy to decide to accept them as residents.

‘I’m sure Hardo will like it too.’

Haru was lonely and had no friends.

If the dark elves join, Hardo will surely be very happy.

When Goduwon readily accepted them as residents, cheers erupted from the dark elves.

“Wow!”

“The master of the forest accepted us as residents.”

“Now this forest is our home.”

“Sob!”

Some dark elves knelt on the floor and wept.

It was a forest where buds were blooming.

Right now it is only the size of a finger joint, but if you nurture it well, it will grow into a huge tree.

If you raise them with care, one tree at a time, two trees at a time, they will eventually form a large forest.

There could be no greater blessing for the dark elves, a race of the forest.

Then Zeon spoke to the dark elves.

“As I said before, a spirit is about to be born here. However, the demons who noticed the spirit’s birth will continue to attack this place.”

“Don’t worry. From now on, we will protect this forest.”

“This forest is our home. No evil spirit will invade it.”

The dark elves answered with determined expressions.

They were natural born warriors.

I was confident that I could face any beast as long as I was properly armed and prepared.

Goduwon said to Flora.

“But there’s a problem. As you can see, there are no houses here.”

“That’s okay.”

“yes?”

“Isn’t the Black Forest itself providing shade? This is enough for us.”

“but…….”

“And originally, we dark elves grew our own trees to live in.”

“yes?”

Go Du-won blinked as if he didn’t understand. Then Flora smiled and said.

“It was like that in the world we came from. When a dark elf child is born, the parents give them a good sapling as a gift. They grow the tree together with the child. The tree that grows like that becomes the child’s home. On Earth, which has turned into a desert, they couldn’t grow trees, so they had no choice but to live in houses made of demon skins, but now things are different. Do you see? Their eyes… … .”

Flora pointed to the dark elves.

The dark elves looked at the buds growing on the blackened tree as if they were in love.

Honey was dripping from both of his eyes, as if he was about to take out his heart and offer it to me.

“So don’t worry. I will do whatever it takes to protect and nurture this forest.”

Originally, Flora did not speak politely to humans or dark elves. However, she was very respectful to Goduwon.

It was an expression of the will to acknowledge and treat Goduwon as the master of the forest and his superior.

Goduwon answered with a trembling expression.

“But it will take quite a long time to grow those trees, right?”

“We are the people of the forest. We have the talent to grow trees quickly. If a spirit is born, we can grow them even faster, so you won’t have to suffer for so long as the master of the forest is worried.”

“Ah, the term ‘master of the forest’ sounds a bit… … .”

“Aren’t you the master of this forest?”

“Just call me by my name.”

“That can’t be. You should be treated as befitting the master of the forest.”

“Then let’s just call him the village chief. Don’t say anything about the owner of the forest. This forest belongs to all of us, not to anyone.”

“Village chief? That sounds nice. Then I’ll call you that, village chief!”

“Oh, thank you.”

As it turned out, a ridiculous farce ensued where Go Doo-won actually said he was grateful.

People nearby burst into laughter.

Even though it was only for a short while, talking to the dark elves made me realize that they were not evil beings.

The sociable people were already conversing freely with the dark elves.

Levin, who was watching the scene, smiled and said to Zeon.

“Wow! It was like that in the Steel Fortress, and now you’re uniting various races in the Black Forest. Aren’t you going to become a true harmony expert at this rate? Bro!”

It was a joke, but it wasn’t entirely wrong.

Zeon had also played a major role in the creation of the Steel Fortress, and he was doing the same in the Black Forest.

Zeon didn’t think much of what he had accomplished, but it was enough to make people like Levin feel a sense of wonder.

Then suddenly Zeon asked Brielle.

“When do you think the spirit will be born?”

“I don’t know the details, but I don’t think it will take that long.”

“Then, let’s stay here for the time being. At least we should watch the spirits being born.”

“huh!”

Brielle answered without a moment’s hesitation.

It wasn’t just the dark elves who looked forward to the birth of the spirit.

Brielle also wanted to see the spirit.

The first spirit to appear on this land.

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From the day they became residents of the Black Forest, the dark elves began to move busily.

“First, we need to check which trees are sprouting buds.”

The dark elves immediately figured out the number of trees sprouting.

“There are fifteen trees in total.”

“The trees that sprout must be protected from the attacks of the demons. We will build a defense centered around these trees to block the attacks of the demons.”

“We also set traps.”

“How about luring the demons far away towards the tree where the buds are coming out?”

The dark elves gathered together and discussed how to defend the Black Forest effectively.

Human Awakened people joined there.

“We will also help build the trap.”

“I think it might be a good idea to dig a moat to make it difficult for the devil to approach.”

“That’s a good idea, but when will we finish digging the moat?”

“Isn’t there a Zeon? If you ask him, he’ll make a moat for you in no time.”

“Oh, that’s the number. Got it! I’ll ask you later.”

“yes!”

The discussion became more lively when the human Awakened people joined in.

The older dark elves looked at those dark elves and humans with eyes filled with regret.

“They can integrate so well with humans. Have we been blocking their development all this time?”

“Ha! If I had known this would happen, I would have interacted with humans a little earlier.”

“From now on, we’ll leave the future up to them and just support them from behind.”

“There is a saying among humans that says new wine should be put into new wineskins. Yes, new blood should be the masters of a new land.”

They had to give up the initiative and fall back, but they didn’t look at all offended.

They knew it too.

It means that a great change is about to take place in this land.

Perhaps this was the beginning of a new era.

Just witnessing such changes was a great honor for them.

One of the dark elves who had finished discussing the matter ran towards Zeon.

“Lord Zeon! I have a favor to ask. Please create a moat in front of this black forest.”

“Even if we make a moat, the sand will quickly flow out and accumulate.”

“I don’t think it will last forever anyway. It just needs to last until the spirit is born.”

“What size do you want?”

“We need to block the large demons, so it would be good if it was at least thirty meters wide and twenty meters deep. It would be good if it was about three hundred meters long.”

“It’s not an easy task.”

“But isn’t it not impossible for you, Lord Zeon?”

The young elf looked at Zeon with shining eyes.

He didn’t feel embarrassed or sorry when he asked.

Since the future of both humans and dark elves depended on it, the young elf decided to be shameless.

You can repay it while you’re still alive.

For now, survival was the priority.

Zeon did not dislike the young elf’s impudence.

This is what it takes to survive in the desert.

I had to throw away all my useless pride and crawl up from the bottom.

Zeon answered with a smile.

“Let’s make it together. Let’s do it!”

“Thank you. Then I will tell you where to dig.”

The young dark elf took the lead with excitement.

The young elf who came out of the Black Forest gave Zeon detailed instructions on where to dig the moat.

Zeon began to dig the moat as he wished.

Swish!

The sand began to move under Zeon’s dominance.

A huge amount of sand, so large that it would take a hundred years for even a human or dark elf to dig through it, was pushed back as it swelled.

A huge moat began to form in the flat sandy field.

“Wow!”

“Crazy! There’s no such thing as a human excavator.”

“Even an excavator can’t do that. It’s really overwhelming.”

People watching from afar burst into cheers.

It was a miraculous scene that was hard to believe even when seen with one’s own eyes.

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“Useless orc cub. He finally died.”

A man in black robes muttered as he looked at the ruined dark elf village.

The destroyed dark elf village was covered with sand,

It took a long time to find it because everything was covered in sand.

At the man’s feet lay the headless corpse of Chuanca. However, the bone necklace that should have been around Chuanca’s neck was nowhere to be seen.

“Was Crawl’s necklace also destroyed?”

It was simple for him to notice Chuanka’s death.

This is because the necklace that was given to Chuangka was destroyed.

There was some sort of alarm magic attached to Crawl’s necklace.

The moment the necklace is destroyed, an alarm is sent to the man.

Thanks to this, the man noticed that Kroll’s necklace was destroyed.

The destruction of Kroll’s necklace meant that Chuanka was dead.

Chuanka was a kind of experimental subject.

Although he didn’t know it, he helped the man in many ways.

“Did the dark elves rebel?”

The man tilted his head.

It was the most suitable hypothesis at the time.

But soon he denied his assumption.

“Dark elves with their children held hostage are going on such a reckless adventure? This is not the Dark Elf way I know. Something must have intervened. This is going to be interesting.”

A smile appeared on the man’s lips.

If he had been an ordinary being, he would have been furious and confused when his plans went awry. But he was neither an ordinary being nor a childish person who could not control his own mind.

He rather found the situation going back to be amusing.

“Where do you guys go to see each other’s faces?”

He looked around for a moment, then began walking in the direction where the dark elves had disappeared.