Sand Mage of the Burnt Desert Chapter 204

Episode 204

“Is Neo Seoul really that big?”

“Really? “There are 20 million people living in Neo Seoul?”

“You’re lying, right?”

Zeon sighed and looked at the kids surrounding him.

Rayor Diane Samuel.

The children born to Urtian and Deborah surrounded Zeon and bombarded him with questions.

Children born between elves and humans.

Like Eloi, they were half-elves.

The children, who inherited Urtian’s bravery and Deborah’s wisdom, completely relaxed their guard against Zeon.

From then on, Zeon’s hell began.

A barrage of endless questions poured out.

At first, I answered sincerely.

But the questions continued endlessly, and Zeon ended up raising both hands and feet.

“Is Zeon’s house in Neo Seoul too?”

“when do you go home? “Can’t I go play too?”

“How big is the house? “Is it bigger than my house?”

My eardrums were starting to hurt as the three children were constantly asking questions in a treadmill-like manner.

It was Brielle who saved Zeon.

“stop. “You little guys!”

“Brielle is a kid too, right?”

“joy! “But I’m not a child like you who only receives protection from adults.”

“Who said you were a kid? “We are warriors.”

“So what kind of demon did you catch?”

“That…”

“Nothing, right? Hehe! Go and drink some more mommy’s milk. “You kids!”

“Wow!”

Eventually, Samuel, the youngest, burst into tears.

The other two children glared at Brielle with angry expressions. But I couldn’t defeat Brielle.

“Shit!”

“I’m angry.”

“If you understand, will you please get out of here?”

In the end, the three children had no choice but to swallow their anger and retreat.

Zeon thanked Brielle, who smiled like a winner.

“thanks.”

“I can’t believe I’m having a hard time with kids like that. “I heard you’re weak to kids, after all.”

“Because they are kids.”

Zeon chuckled.

Although the world has changed so much, the fact that children are beings that need to be protected does not change.

Even if the child is a half-elf.

It was then.

“Shit! “He is injured.”

“Hurry and put down the basket.”

Suddenly, urgent voices of people were heard from the entrance of the fortress.

Zeon and Brielle ran to the entrance without worrying about who would go first.

There were many awakened people gathered at the entrance.

Grumble!

The pulley was turning and the basket was rising.

When the basket finally arrived at the entrance, the awakened people helped the person riding it and lowered it.

The person whose face was so covered in blood that it was unrecognizable was the awakened person who left with Cormac.

Urtian quickly asked the awakened person.

“What happened? What about Cormac? “Where is everyone else going?”

“Everyone is dead.”

“Dying?”

“It was a trap. “The orcs had dug a trap and were waiting for us.”

“What is that? “How did the orcs set a trap?”

“Ugh! Be prepared… they will come after you…”

The wounded awakened man was unable to finish his sentence and lowered his head.

My breath stopped.

Urtian was speechless for a moment at the death of the Awakened.

Others also stared blankly at their colleague’s death. But I soon came to my senses.

It was because of the last words of the dead awakened person.

“The orcs are chasing you?”

“Fuck!”

The awakened people quickly looked outside the fortress. Then I saw a cloud of dust rising in the distance.

After a while, the silhouettes of huge orcs were visible through the dust cloud.

“It’s an orc. “The orcs have invaded.”

“Unbelievable!”

“Everyone prepare for battle.”

Dang dang dang!

The voices of the awakened and the emergency bell rang.

All the awakened people and residents inside the fortress came to the entrance.

“Orcs?”

“Could it be that Mr. Cormac and all the awakened people suffered?”

A look of fear appeared on people’s faces.

Cormac was the second-in-command of the Red Storm.

The shock of knowing that the second strongest member of the Red Storm was killed by a group of orcs was enormous.

“You mean Cormac is dead?”

Urtian gritted his teeth and looked ahead.

Cormack was his subordinate and friend.

The only friend who understands him and fully supports him.

The fact that Cormac, who always had his back, was killed by the orcs made him angry.

“How dare an orc kill Cormac?”

It was not difficult to guess what happened to Cormac’s dead body. So I became sadder and angrier.

The orcs were coming straight towards the iron fortress.

At the forefront was Ashankar.

“Is that a human fortress?”

A towering sandstone mountain in the middle of a barren desert.

A large cave entrance can be seen halfway up the hill. And a group of humans staring at him and the orcs as if they were going to kill them.

Ashanka smiled, baring his fangs.

“It’s a perfect place for bugs and such.”

“Chwiit! How do we attack it?”

The orc assisting Ashanka asked with an excited expression.

“I have to say hello first. powwow!”

He called the orc shaman.

“yes! Ashankar!”

After a while, an old orc with skulls and bones decorated all over his body appeared.

He was the shaman of the Red Hammer tribe.

Each tribe must have at least one shaman.

They used to perform miracles that ordinary orcs could not even imagine.

The Red Hammer tribe shaman’s specialty was running wild.

The shaman’s unique ability was to paralyze the rationality of the demonic beasts living nearby with a special spell and cause them to go berserk.

“Call nearby demon beasts and attack the fortress.”

“yes! Ashankar!”

The shaman orc closed his eyes and began to chant a spell.

The first step in the runaway beast was the detection of the beast.

It is to use magic to find demonic beasts nearby.

The second step is to identify the specific frequency and wavelength that paralyzes the reason of the discovered magical beast.

The third and final method is to implement a specific frequency through magic to cause the demonic beast to run wild.

The old orc shaman was good at running amok.

He instantly detected a demonic beast living nearby.

The old orc shaman who confirmed the existence of the demon beast was surprised.

“Hehe! Unbelievable!”

“Why are you doing that?”

“The devil is very close.”

“Then make it run away quickly.”

“Hehe! “I’ll give you a surprise.”

The old orc shaman smiled evilly and chanted the spell again.

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“There are so many?”

“It seems like all the nearby orcs have flocked here.”

Levin and Eloi clicked their tongues as they looked at the group of orcs.

At first glance, it seemed like there were about a thousand.

It was my first time seeing such a large group of orcs.

Levin said with a frown.

“But you still can’t come up, right? “It’s on the side of a mountain.”

“If there are no problems, I will be able to endure it long enough. “This place isn’t called the Steel Fortress for nothing.”

A mountain that is not really made of steel, but made of solid stone.

Even the entrance is at the top of a sheer cliff.

If you just put a basket on it, there is no way for the orcs to climb up.

Of course, you can climb up as your physical ability is great. However, there was no way the steel fortress awakeners would just sit by and watch the orcs come up.

This was a fortress that literally boasted a defense like steel.

Therefore, although all of the awakened people were nervous, they were not afraid.

Originally, it was harder to attack than to defend.

Moreover, this place is a rare natural fortress in the desert.

If I relied on the rugged terrain, I could easily withstand even if more orcs attacked than me.

“The problem is food…”

Zeon frowned.

Although drinking water was sufficient, food was severely lacking.

The longer the sit-in period, the more disadvantageous it was to be a steel fortress.

“This has become difficult.”

Wow!

At that time, a subtle noise was heard in Zeon’s ears.

“….”

Zeon looked back with a puzzled expression.

This is because the place where the noise came from was inside the underground cavity.

Currently, all the awakened people were gathered at the entrance of the fortress, and the general public was hiding in their homes.

There is absolutely no reason to hear the noise.

Zeon took steps to find the source of the noise.

The place he arrived at was the entrance to a vertical cave deep within the steel fortress.

It was the place where Elder Gewen of the Iron Fortress had kidnapped them to dispose of them.

“Didn’t you say that a four-eyed bat lives in here?”

Quang!

At that moment, the iron bars blocking the entrance to the cave broke with an explosion. Then, numerous flying demons poured out from inside.

It was a group of four-eyed bats living underground in a vertical cave.

Tens of thousands of four-eyed bats poured out at once, filling the ceiling of the underground cavity.

The Four-Eyed Bat was a small magical beast that was only a meter or two in size.

If you look at them one by one, they are not such scary monsters. But when tens of thousands of them flock together, the story is different.

When a group of four-eyed bats clings to each other, even a fairly large demonic beast will have its blood sucked out and die in an instant.

The four-eyed bat that escaped the vertical cave was not normal.

The four glowing red eyes were full of ferocity.

The four-eyed bats, which flew in the air in groups for a while, soon attacked the awakened people.

“Kaaak!”

“what? “What kind of bat?”

The awakened members of the Red Storm were shocked by the Four-Eyed Bat’s attack.

They had only recently joined the Steel Fortress and did not even know of the existence of the Four-Eyed Bat.

The awakened people originally from the Iron Fortress shouted.

“It’s a four-eyed bat. “They came out of the vertical cave.”

“Shit! “Why did they escape now?”

They live in vertical caves inside the steel fortress, but they rarely escape.

Although the only passage is blocked with iron bars, there are other passages leading to the outside.

Because of that, four-eyed bats rarely caused harm to people these days. In particular, after blocking the entrance with iron bars, there was never a single attack, so even when the orcs invaded, they were not particularly alert.

“Kwaek!”

“Oops!”

Many awakened people were helpless when attacked by the Four-Eyed Bat.

Once bitten by a four-eyed bat, there was no way to remove it before it sucked all the blood.

“I’m dead!”

“Hey!”

The awakened people attacked to save a colleague who had been bitten by a four-eyed bat.

Burbubbuk!

Various skills were poured onto the Four-Eyed Bat’s back.

Although the shock and pain must have been great, the four-eyed bats did not remove the teeth they had sunk into the awakened person’s body.

The tenacity of the four-eyed bat, which sucked blood even as it was dying due to the skills of the awakened ones, was so strong that I was afraid to see it in my dreams.

Suddenly!

The four-eyed bat’s blood-sucking ended only after its head was blown off.

A martial arts awakened person cut off the head of the four-eyed bat that was sucking blood with a large knife. But at that time, the awakened person who was drawing blood had already lost his life.

The body of the awakened person, whose blood had been sucked out, was as dry as a mummy.

Everyone nearby was speechless at the terrible sight.

Taking advantage of the people’s confusion, the four-eyed bats attacked again.

It was when the bodies of the awakened people froze at the overwhelming majesty of the four-eyed bats charging in, covering the sky.

Wedge!

Dozens of sand snakes soared into the sky and intercepted the four-eyed bats.

Xeon unfolded Viper.

Burbububbung!

Dozens of four-eyed bats that were charging at the awakeners fell from the rainwater with a roar.

Zeon shouted at them.

“Everyone, come to your senses.”