Chapter. 15. Can someone who has seen the end of the world plant an apple tree? (19)
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The good thing about water-based magic is that there is no other magic better for finding living things. Of course, there are ways to find it, such as using body temperature for flame magic and fluid pressure for earth magic. One is meaningless if the surroundings are hot, and the other is that all kinds of people come in mixed together, so unless you tie them together with a specific spell, the efficiency is a bit low.
On the other hand, in the case of water-based magic, unique sensations such as taste and texture that are known even to the moisture of the same organism can be additionally felt, making it very easy for someone to identify and find it.
As someone who spent a night in the desert in close contact with a Rakshasha a few days ago, her scent was almost imprinted in my bones. Now that the interference from the spell was gone, it was no problem to pinpoint her location.
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– Holly: Ugh….
– Roru Drug: So the smell and taste of that girl’s sweat… is so memorable that I can feel it even from far away. Called.
– Noru Drug: Hey….. The level is high.
– Namba Three: Of course you are my brother!
– takealook: Have you seen this fucking pervert?
– professor: This is magic, you bitches.
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He definitely seems a bit perverted…but! What is important is that in this chaos, we were able to pinpoint the location of the Rakshasha and find the direction from the room stranded in the quicksand to the surface.
The professor firmly held the young lizardmen, who were hanging by his side and wagging their tails anxiously, and spoke to them as gently as possible as a precaution against what they would have to go through in the future.
“That um… lizard royal family? Monitor lizard…friends? Anyway, I’m going to leave now, so I need to hold on tight, right?”
“Ooh we’re fine! The children of the eternal desert are not easily injured even by the boiling sand… But aren’t you, Saladin, a human being? We… are tired of someone sacrificing their life for us…”
“That’s right! If we wait in this stone chamber protected by magic until the desert calms down, the Rakshasha and the Moon Shadow will surely come to save us-”
Takkong!
“Kiluruk!”
“Wait here, knowing how far this will sink. “I consume more oxygen than the average person, so a closed room doesn’t suit me.”
“Wow, you are committing violence against the royal family!”
“If I were to line up those who have committed violence so far, you wouldn’t even be on the list. And you asked if I was human.”
Wooddeuk eujikjik!
“Uh oh oh!”
“Ugh!”
As they take deep breaths and exert as much strength as they can, their bodies swell as if exploding from within, and the two siblings are buried inside, struggling and crying like lizardmen.
The professor smiled very gently at the brother and sister, who were still lying on his side, half buried in his bulging muscles.
“Is it because I’m a bit of a difficult person to put in the category of human beings?”
“Come on, let’s get eaten! Se Senica! Senikaaa!!! Wow! “Crrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!”
“Brother! Good luck! “Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!”
Of course, to the two young royal bloods, it seemed like the smile of a predator about to have a satisfying meal.
Just like that, the professor buried the two young lizardmen safely in his bulging muscles and belly skin for his own safety.
After checking that there were no gaps in the protruding belly, I gathered mana for the first time in a long time and made a hand sign.
Suin is about the simplest flow. Additional image: Surface tension. I imagined the path to the Rakshasha by superimposing the image of the moisture that gathers around them when they are nearby.
Sreuk. The professor,
who
felt the slowly seeping moisture approaching him, broke the wall of the stone room and jumped into the sand without hesitation.
While he was cutting through the sand like a desert creature, his stomach was shaking constantly as if someone was kicking him.
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Quaaaaa!
“Anchor! Raise anchor! “Let all military ships anchored on the sandbank set sail!”
“Oh the oasis is sinking!”
“Where are you, Kauladi?”
“Now you have come to appease the enforcer of the taboo with great power!”
“Oooh!”
The green oasis is drying up.
The city is sinking into the sand and people are in a hurry to leave this ‘second step’ oasis in the chaos.
“Hmm…”
The Rakshasha was uncharacteristically embarrassed.
taboo. An ancient curse that every desert dweller knows. Most of the others heard it through word of mouth, but as the head of the Moon Shadow, she had read the records of the members who observed it and had seen it with her own eyes.
From small, whirling quicksand that sucks in people including desert beetles, to large, quicksand that swallows a desert ship whole. The sizes and movement speeds were all different, but…
wow!
“Aaaah!”
“It gets bigger! “The oasis is dry!”
“The road has been cleared! Kauladi created a sand road!”
“Escape!”
“Abandon the city!!!!”
The noise of quicksand like the roar of a dragon and the screams of people in confusion. Buildings sinking like collapsed blocks.
“Uhmmm…”
I swear by the old royal family’s constellation, this was the first time a taboo was enforced on such a scale. It is nothing else but the second step of Kauladi, known as the best lake in the desert. Such a large-scale oasis is completely swallowed up. Thanks to this, the location of the room where Wanghyeol was imprisoned, which was previously identified in the moon shadow, and the sand road created based on it were all mixed up, so the escape plan was all messed up.
“Hey… Ottoman?”
“huh? Ah, you are a young lady. What’s going on? “I’m a little busy right now.”
“Well… won’t you be surprised or embarrassed?”
“Uhm… That’s right, isn’t it? “Is there anyone in the world who wouldn’t be shocked by this chaos?”
‘….You guys?’
Why on earth are they so calm at this point?
Watching Otman Notum Idrasil, who had joined her, calmly do his job even at this moment when the professor’s life or death might be at stake, I felt like I was seeing people lacking a sense of crisis.
“Geuuu. A desert woman with big breasts. Don’t play. “Everyone is having a hard time.”
“No….”
“Notum. Please don’t do that too much. “This is Rakshasha’s first time working with a professor.”
“Gwok. admit.”
Seeing their eyes sharing an unknown understanding, the Rakshasha had no choice but to ask.
“Did the professor… predict this situation? “Are you saying that the city will sink or that there will be a natural disaster that will be remembered in the history of the Great Desert?”
“no? I only asked you to tell me how far the quicksand had approached, but I never told you about any plans to sink the city. But…”
Bulge-
Otman smiled as if he were liberated as he watched the lump of moisture quickly approaching their feet.
“Hehehehe… It means that we have also become disciplined in our own way. If something strange and unthinkable happened in that professor’s presence… 10 out of 10, it would definitely have happened because of that crazy man’s hand. Isn’t that so, Idrasil?”
The half-elf Idrasil responded to Otman’s empty tone with eyes like a dead fish.
“….Since you are here to learn, it is natural to learn through experience, Otman.”
“Yeah… I’m glad you adapted quickly as you were the last to join.”
“Sometimes even a tree needs to know how to bend.”
“Yes… As I live, I get used to various things.”
Otman smiled softly at the bewildered Rakshasha and pointed to the center of the monstrous quicksand with his finger.
“Something like this. Or…”
Beoseok Beoseoseok!
Pow!
“Pugh! Oh, I kept getting swept away and lost! Everyone is gathered together! “Is anyone hurt?”
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“Something like [that] human being.”
At the sight of the black monster shaking off sand like a rain-soaked dog, the Rakshasha who had prepared her thread remembered that the professor was originally a [such] creature.
“professor?”
“Ah Rakshasha. I’m sorry I’m late. “The two hostages were brought in safely.”
“Well… I like it. “Where are they?”
“here.”
Tuk-
tuk- Rakshasha is his abdomen that the professor points to with his finger. I now realized that the area where my sculpted abs were tightly bulged was particularly bulging.
The occasional appearance of something popping out shows that someone inside is struggling desperately.
The razor-like teeth of the world’s brightest smiling monster professor shining sharply in the sunlight were also heard by her delicate ears as the royal blood’s unique ‘Kiluruk!’ The epicenter of the crying sound is under that black belly skin.
Rakshasha, who synthesized all information as the head of the information guild… was conflicted.
Like splitting the belly skin of someone you love.
Which of the two will you choose for the safety of the person you must sacrifice your life to protect?
Concerns were short and action was quick.
Sreung-!
“Ugh! “What are you doing!”
“Can you understand that I took on the appearance of an animal to escape from the quicksand and that I ate the two of you because I couldn’t overcome my greed in the process? “It looks like they were swallowed whole, so we need to rescue you before they melt, right?”
“La Rakshasha! it’s not that! “That’s not it-!”
“Shh. are you okay. Because you don’t die like this. “If I am left with a permanent disability… I will take care of you for the rest of my life.”
Phew!
“Ugh! I stabbed you! “I really stabbed you!”
The desert assassin’s magic dagger was sharp enough to cut through the monster’s skin. The Rakshasha’s eyes rolled back as he heard the cries of the young Lizardman siblings leaking through the gap made by the knife.
After that, it took 12 deep stab wounds, five nearly fatal spells, and two tear-covered Lizardmen who regained their freedom when the professor returned to human form in a split second for the professor to calm down the Rakshasha.
Of course, the members of the [Saint Professor Hero Party] who are accustomed to ‘such and such’ things, secure the road with an eye that puts everything aside, and complete the work of guiding civilians in the city. I just had to be faithful to my job.
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“Kirururuk! Good luck! Slurp, slurp!”
“I was scared. Even though they said it was to save us, they sent a very scary being! “What on earth have you joined hands with for us?…!”
“Shh. Calm down, you two. Now this Rakshasha is by your side?”
“Don’t ever leave us again. Never again…sniff!”
“Ughhhhh….sniff! Rakshashaaa….”
“Yes, of course.” Now I will attend to you two. “I know you’re tired and exhausted, but would you please bear with me just until we get out of here?”
“No problem. “The kin of the great desert do not tire easily.”
“Oh, carry me Rakshasha…. Giggle!”
As soon as they got out of my arms, the lizard siblings fell into the arms of the Rakshasha. Even though he said that, he was covered in tears and snot and crawled into the Rakshasha’s arms, his tail wrapped tightly, and it looked like he had no intention of letting go.
“Hey….”
“Kkieek!”
“Kiluruk! Protect me! “Protect us!!”
No matter how he tried to resolve the misunderstanding, the professor scratched his head sheepishly at the sight of the Lizardman siblings screaming as if they were going to break out at the slightest gesture.
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– Jokass: If it’s natural, then it’s natural.
– professor: Still, he is a lifesaver, but since he is the most important NPC in the desert, I brought him here in the safest way, right? In that quicksand… I was rescued without even a single scale being hurt, but isn’t that something that should increase my likability?
– Jokass: You messed up in the instinctive area before the rational part.
– takealook: So. Sub-humans already have vivid memories of the wild imprinted in their genes, but from their point of view, you are a predator who lured that brother and sister in and swallowed them up in one bite. I guess it was roughly written as ‘a creature that disguises itself as a human and eats lizardmen’?
– Heungan Mandu: Ah, predatory relationship. I know that too. Are you talking about the thing where Ratman’s mental power is reduced when he gets near cats and beastmen?
– takealook: Oh, something like that. This is an area of instinct, so once it is entered, it will take quite a while to improve, right?
– professor: It’s really sick.
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I guess it will take a little bit more time.
“Ugh. Let’s escape first, everyone. “We couldn’t talk about it separately, but we figured it out on our own, right?”
“I held on to the way out. “Desert plants have deeper roots than expected and are useful.”
“The city is empty, so you can leave it as is. In the first place, less than half of the civilians left in the city were conscripted, and desert people are very sensitive to superstitions. I was easily guided by the traces of water that appeared on the walls and floor, and the ghosts released by Notum. “Everyone is out on a boat.”
“Good good. Let’s go out. Even though this is the outskirts of the quicksand, looking at its size, even this place will be quickly absorbed.”
This is also why commanders sing with veterans when going on operations. You’re used to it. It’s perfect if you pretend. How nice it is to not have to worry about what happens next.
The professor looked around at the group, who seemed resigned, with a happy expression, and kicked down the fallen buildings to open a path out of the city.
The Moon Shadow Ship, which remained in the harbor until the end, and the Dry Oasis Ship, which surprisingly stayed until the end, stamping its feet. Looking closely, I saw that the captain and crew were arguing.
The sailors grabbed the captain and tried to stop him, and roughly said, ‘I brought in the taboo, so this is the only way to go!’ The captain clung to the railing, saying he was going to jump into the quicksand.
The sailors let out both relief and sighs at the sight of the professor jumping onto the ship, kicking the captain.
“It’s Saladin!”
“The ripe Saladin has returned! Even wizards!”
“The earthen elf and the troll are back too!”
“They’re all here!”
“Gwok.”
“….”
“Stop talking nonsense and let’s set sail! hurry!”
“I thought my nose would fall off while waiting for the disease! Saladin! Straighten the sails by yourself! “If you hesitate, I will drag you in!”
Rattling!
Flap –
While everyone was in confusion, Deck Captain Gallard, who was the only one who remained sane, grinned as he waved an empty glass bottle at Ottman, who was just boarding.
“Sale-ho!”
“Oh hey-!”
Sigh!
In an instant, the prepared sail of the ship was unfolded, and the sail, fully blown by the wind, pushed the ship out of the sinking oasis.
The Moon Shadow ship departed first, and the Dry Oasis barely caught up behind it. And behind many other ships that escaped from the oasis. With the sound of
quicksand
engulfing the city, the phrase about the taboo was once again engraved in the minds of the desert people.
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