[Including today, I'm still four chapters short. I'll make it up within a week. It'll be best if it's tomorrow …]
Not to mention that Salin was forging a spear for the grizzly bear, half of the mages under Rex had used up most of their magic string scrolls. The other half went to continue making magic strings. These mages didn't rest either. Instead, they helped the swordsmen hatch the fish eggs.
These Mages relied on natural recovery, and the Magic String would recover in about three hours. The magic traps outside the camp were constantly triggered. The Magicians could not stay idle and had to frequently go out to check with the Swordsmen.
The result of the inspection was worrying. Most of the magic traps had been completely destroyed, but not a single corpse of a magical beast was left behind. The ones that came were not Sand Scorpions. They were all solitary magical beasts, but they were a hundred times stronger than Sand Scorpions.
After falling into a magic trap, the Magical Beast didn't go berserk. Instead, it calmly retreated. This kind of Magical Beast was intelligent, making it even more difficult to deal with. Rex and the rest stopped here only to study the characteristics of the fish beasts so that they wouldn't be flustered when faced with a large number of fish beasts.
It was impossible for the team to stay here forever. The more difficult the environment was, the more types of magical beasts there were, which was very different from ordinary wild beasts. If he continued to study it, Salin might not be able to finish it even if he died of old age.
Rex had a total of 12 Warriors. Including Violent Bear and Zola, there were 14 of them. The magician prepared 24 Ring of Fire Resistance Scrolls for each of them and then went on their way. This time, Rex brought all the equipment from the camp and didn't throw them away.
Salin did not know how to make the Ring of Fire Resistance Scrolls himself, so it was Eleanor who helped him make nearly a hundred of them. After making these scrolls, Eleanor only had a few Magic Strings left, and she began to meditate in the carriage.
Salin handed the scroll to Neris. Neris's speed at releasing scrolls was already at the level of a Mage, and Salin himself couldn't buff a Demon with magic in battle.
At this point, Rex's team had already been in the Purgatory Desert for a day and a half, and they had advanced less than 50 kilometers.
The Spirit Snake Armor provided the necessary protection for the warrior. However, it would consume energy equivalent to a low-grade magic core every hour. The temperature during the day was not high, only around 50 degrees Celsius, but the temperature at night was below 20 degrees Celsius. Ordinary metal armors would deform or even break under such a large temperature difference.
Generally speaking, for every hour the team spent in the desert, they would consume more than 200 gold coins worth of magic cores. This was also the reason why Rex had only brought 10 swordsmen. If the team was large, this number would continue to multiply. Although Rex had fewer people now, everyone could maintain the most stable combat power.
The wheels of the magic chariot were wrapped in a wide rubber ring. This kind of rubber was extracted from the body of a sea fish and was very resistant to wear. After mixing metal particles in the middle, a rubber ring could last more than three years. It was because of these rubber rings that the wheels did not sink into the sand and maintained a speed of 20 miles.
The scenery outside the window was very dull. It was a black desert, and when the wind blew, the sand dunes would make a rustling sound, as if countless gophers were gnawing on something. It was very creepy.
Trouble came at this time. A two-meter-long lizard suddenly drilled out of the sand and pounced at the Violent Bear. Grizzly Bear grabbed his battle axe from the saddle and swung it down. He wasn't very familiar with the skill he had just learned, but the lizard weighed more than 150 kilograms. Even in the air, he couldn't reduce the force. Grizzly Bear's axe directly split the lizard's head.
Blood mist dispersed, and the lizard fell heavily on the sand. It was still twisting its body.
In the black sand, dozens of black lizards appeared and surrounded the team. Grizzly Bear shouted, "This thing's shell is so hard. It's at least a level-five magic beast!"
"It's just a level-two magic beast. Your armor can block their magic attacks." Rex's voice came from inside the helmet.
The swordsmen were slightly relieved. The levels of magic beasts were basically divided according to their magic cores. It mainly depended on the level of magic the magic beast could release.
Unless it was a creature like a giant dragon, no matter how strong a magic beast's body was, it could be dealt with by the number of hunters. For example, magic beasts like rock lizards and mountain grizzly bears were very strong, but the magic they could release was very low-level. For the swordsmen who were wearing the Spirit Snake Armor, level-two magic beasts were no longer a threat.
What was the use of the defense of level-five magic beasts? Everyone had small alchemy crossbows, and they didn't even need to use their sword aura to kill them.
Suddenly, the surrounding lizards began to squeak. Their voices were sharp, and the largest lizard in the lead glared at the Violent Bear. The other lizards began to flee towards the south.
The south was the periphery of the desert, and the north was the hinterland of the desert.
The buzzing sound was just heard. Immediately, a sorcerer made a prompt decision and cast a wall of fire. A black cloud flew over, and it was countless flying ants.
"It's stone ants. Don't panic." Without Rex saying anything, the sorcerers immediately enhanced the swordsmen with the spell Herculean Strength.
Stone ants were rather terrifying creatures. Their sharp mouthparts could bite sand and rocks. However, stone ants' resistance to fire was even lower. Even level-one sorcerers could deal with them.
The swordsmen wore fully enclosed metal armor, so these stone ants couldn't hurt them at all. Also, stone ants' main food was the tiny creatures on the sand. They gnawed on rocks and sand for the growth of their shells. Those lizards fled because they were afraid that their shells would be eaten by the stone ants. Even if they didn't eat their flesh, they would still be killed.
Those stone ants indeed went around the wall of fire and chased after the escaping lizards. They didn't even bother with Rex and the others.
Rex looked at the flying stone ants in the car and said worriedly, "Oh no. There are so many stone ants. It must have rained."
"Let's go around," Salin suggested. Actually, there weren't any roads in the desert. They just had to change their direction. Rex nodded helplessly. It must have rained heavily ahead, so a large number of fish beasts hatched. The young fish beasts had hard shells, so they would provide large amounts of food for the stone ants.
If there were no accidents, ten percent of the fish beasts would survive. After the battle with the stone ants, some of the fish beasts would evolve into adults.
Rex found it strange. If it was raining heavily ahead, even if the environment here was strange, and the sorcerers couldn't detect it, they should have heard thunder.
The team shifted to the east. After adjusting their direction by twenty degrees, they heard whimpering sounds from afar.
"Sandstorm!"
"Princess, the range is too wide. We can't avoid it!"
The sorcerers finally realized that danger was approaching. The sandstorm would arrive in one or two minutes at most.
Rex walked out of the car and tossed out a few things from his Ganro Ring.
"Zola, use your strongest attack to make a hole in the ground!" Rex lost his composure. It was fine if the sandstorm was short, but if it was long, even the magic chariot might not be able to withstand it.
Zola didn't ask for Salin's permission this time. He directly took out a newly forged spear from Grizzly Bear's side, leaped more than ten meters high, and stabbed down.
There was a boom. There was no sword aura, but a large hole that was half a meter in diameter and dozens of meters deep appeared in the ground.
Zola wobbled under the attack and threw the spear away. None of the swordsmen cared about him. Instead, they quickly came to Rex's side. A metal block that looked like a ship's anchor at the end of a metal chain was thrown into the hole. Then, the swordsmen skillfully assembled the equipment that Rex took out from his Ganro Ring.
A metal house was quickly built. There were metal chains at the four corners of the metal house, hanging from the metal chain that had seeped into the hole. At the bottom of the hole, the metal block that looked like a ship's anchor bounced open, and countless metal wires shot out. At the same time, more than ten openings opened, trying to shoot out flames.
The flames melted the black sand and connected it with the metal wires.
Grizzly Bear dragged the exhausted Zola into the metal house. Rex put away the magic chariot, and Salin put away the skeleton warhorse. They hid inside at the same time.
The length and width of this metal house were equal, only six meters. The space inside was even smaller, and the walls were more than half a meter thick. After everyone went in, it became a little more crowded.
In the middle of the metal room was a round table, and there was a fixed disk on the table. The swordsmen turned the disk, and the metal chain under the house was sucked into the metal house, sinking into the sand.
Bam!
There was a huge crash, and the metal house shook violently. Then, it sounded like countless arrows hitting the house, making a sound like war drums.
The expressions of all the great mages changed. This sandstorm was more terrifying than any sandstorm they knew. One had to know that Rex's metal house weighed almost fifty thousand kilograms, and the metal chain under the house was fixed deep underground with magic. Even so, this metal house kept shaking from the impact of the sandstorm.
Imagine, if the mages put up a magic shield at this time, they would definitely be sucked into the sandstorm, moving with the eye of the sandstorm. In the sandstorm, the black sand hit the magic shield, which was equivalent to thousands of attacks per second. The magic strings of these great mages would probably be exhausted in a minute.
Those swordsmen couldn't survive, either. In addition to the terrifying air pressure in the sandstorm, the sand could penetrate magic armor. One had to know that when mages cut metal, they mostly used water and sand to form water knives and spray them out.
The Spirit Snake Armor might be stronger, but the attack frequency of these sand was too terrifying. It was equivalent to tens of thousands of people attacking you at the same time. Even if the power of these tens of thousands of people was very small, it was not something that the Spirit Snake Armor could resist together.
The four demons were a little scared. They didn't expect that the Myers Continent plane would also have such a terrifying environment. No matter how powerful the demons' recovery ability was, they would be tortured to death.
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