Overpowered Sword Chapter 137

Level up with swords (137)

It was a few hours later.

Running through the same sandy field in all directions, Leon and his group eventually reached the place where the caravan was completely destroyed.

but.

“… “There’s nothing.”

Saying that several hours had passed in the sandy desert was the same as saying that all circumstantial evidence had disappeared.

It would have been better if the wind had not been strong, but strong winds were blowing in the area. Even after just 10 minutes, the position of the sand dune changed by a few steps, and after several hours had passed, the corpses, which had become as thin as dried fish, were more than covered.

Karen, who was measuring the wind speed with her fingers, clicked her tongue.

“no. The wind is too harsh. “Even after just an hour, you will look completely different from before.”

“Is it too late?”

To be precise, it was too far.

Although it wasn’t full speed, the three people’s moving speed was faster than that of a normal courser, and even if they ran at that pace without stopping, it took several hours.

Ellahan said, looking as disappointed as the two.

“If Cardinal Irexana had been there, I would have known… .”

“how?”

“Because he has the elemental power of the earth. If he reads the memories engraved on his land, he can find out what happened even a day ago.”

The ability to directly interfere with the natural world, elementalism, depending on its attribute power, was capable of doing things that were impossible with auras and magic.

At the level of a low-level spirit, it is no different from low-level magic, but it was not difficult for a high-level spirit like Irexa to even artificially cause an earthquake.

It was not well known because there were so few users.

“But we can’t bring the Cardinal back here. In the meantime, everything, including the memory of the earth, will be blown away.”

“Yes, I said it out of regret.”

Ellahan smiled bitterly at Karen’s words.

It was indeed as he said.

Jugend’s Grand Meister is an honorary position and at the same time holds real power. The more things you have to do, the more responsibility you have to shoulder. Perhaps due to internal turmoil like the Great Mine Expedition, it was not spacious enough to allow activities outside the border.

Still, Ellahan did not give up and tried using ‘Revelation’ once, but Seongcheolsoe did not move a single inch.

“… “I can’t help it.”

Leon had to admit that their group wasted their money.

“Stop the chase here. First, let’s go to a nearby village and gather more information.”

“Okay, this is why I hate the desert.”

Perhaps because she felt a sense of responsibility as a log, Karen grumbled as if blaming herself for leaving empty-handed.

In fact, if an A-rank rogue couldn’t find it, it would be the same for anyone, but I guess he didn’t like the fact that he failed right in front of the eyes of a hero who was supposed to show off his performance.

It was then.

Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo.

At the sound of a faint sound coming from beyond the horizon, the three people turned around without any hesitation.

It’s different from the sound of horses’ hooves.

camel.

And it wasn’t just one or two. Karen counted them with her sensitive ears. Perhaps confident of their superiority, those approaching from far away did not hide their presence at all.

“52 animals. Even if there are two people on each horse, there are about 100 people.”

“Could it be a horse bandit?”

Ellahan swung the Seongcheolswaek in his hand, saying that he would pat his head once if he was a villain.

It was a sight that even a class A bounty criminal would run away while urinating.

But Karen tilted her head with a doubtful expression.

“Well, for a magic bandit, they are very disciplined. “If you look at their coordinated movements, they are at the level of elite cavalry?”

Throwing away a sound life and coveting what belongs to others is a thief.

Human waste with no room for recycling.

Such people train to the level of elite cavalry and maintain their ranks while attacking a party of only three people?

It was a ridiculous story.

“Well, you can check it yourself.”

Leon waited for their arrival with a calm expression. Even if it was a group of magic bandits, there was no major problem. Because the power of the three people was no longer at a level that the magic bandit’s bum could handle.

Soon, a cloud of dust crossed the horizon and got closer to Leon and his group, circling around them as if surrounding them.

Men wearing turbans and scimitars in their hands.

Karen muttered after combining several clues.

“The warriors of the Bedouin tribe… ?”

Bedouin means ‘dwellers of the desert’ in ancient language. It was also a force that possessed considerable military power due to the long struggle between clans and the long struggle for survival.

The warriors surrounding Leon and his group soon stopped their camels, and a man who appeared to be the leader of them walked out.

“Hmm, they are outsiders.”

Like the rest of the group, he was a rather impressive man, wearing a white turban and a bushy mustache.

The aura fluttering around the body is considerable.

By guild standards, is this just the beginning of A rank? Given his long experience as a desert warrior, he was a force that could not be ignored. He also had his right hand on the hilt of his sword so that he could draw it at any time.

Karen responded with cold eyes to an attitude that could not be called friendly no matter how you look at it.

“I heard that the desert residents have no shortage of hospitality for guests, but I didn’t know that it was customary to point at them with a sword without even saying hello.”

At those words, the warriors behind growled harshly.

“A lowly bitch… !”

“I know who it is!”

“stop.”

The mustachioed man raised his hand to interrupt them, his eyes flashing fiercely.

“Whether you become guests or enemies of the desert depends on how you answer my questions.”

“Let’s give it a try.”

When Leon asked again without any hesitation, the man actually smiled as if he liked him.

“You are fearless. “The same goes for the group, and you too.”

“It’s not a situation worth being scared of.”

“Hoo? I feel like I want to test my mettle… . Unfortunately, I don’t have time. “I’ll just ask one thing quickly and move on.”

It was right after that.

As if his gentle behavior was a lie, the man spoke as he spewed out sharp, murderous anger in all directions.

“Have you ever seen a caravan passing by here? Because it was so large, you could have seen it from afar.”

Leon answered those words honestly.

“doesn’t exist.”

“Is it true?”

“Yes, this is your first time seeing people, let alone a caravan.”

“Hmm.”

Despite his confident voice, the doubt in the mustache man’s eyes did not disappear. However, he was reluctant to threaten someone who might be innocent with force, so he hesitated.

Ellahan looked at him.

It may seem rude at first glance, but I have no intention of using force, and I feel even the slightest bit of regret.

“I will guarantee it.”

She took a step forward and put her hands together. Then, the light of the Holy Law rose up and alleviated the hostility of those who saw it.

“I swear on the name of the Sacred Church and on the mercy of the Goddess that everything she said is true.”

“Oh my, was there a priest there?”

Only then did the man, who had cleared his doubts, take a step back.

The name of the Holy Church was something that even the Bedouin people, who did not worship God, dared not invade. Also, although the nomads did not recognize the caste system, they only recognized the integrity of the religious order and the clergy.

Even the warriors who had become fierce because of Karen soon turned their eyes away with embarrassed expressions.

“I’m sorry. “The situation was so bad that I ended up being rude to you guys.”

“it’s okay. “It didn’t turn into a big deal.”

When the mustachioed man bowed deeply and apologized, Leon accepted the apology without pushing him further.

And I said a word in a natural way.

“Anyway, the situation is so bad, what’s going on?”

“Umm, that’s… .”

The man hesitated for a moment, but told them a little bit about the situation, since they were the ones who had unintentionally threatened them.

“Recently, the number of mysterious disappearances has been increasing.”

“Missing person?”

“It’s not that rare in the desert. It is suspicious that people who are not outsiders but have been exposed to sandstorms for decades go missing overnight. “Isn’t that right?”

The man who asked Leon for consent let out a long sigh.

“It’s not just people. Even the monsters that are supposed to be food are drying up. “There is something roaming this desert that is reducing their numbers without leaving behind any dead bodies.”

“… … .”

“You guys too, please be careful. If possible, I’d like to know the road and direction you came from… .”

“I can do that much.”

The man heard about the group’s route from Leon and instructed them to exclude that route from the search route.

Still, the desert is too large.

The scope to be explored had to be narrowed to the limit that could be narrowed.

“It’s a bit short of an apology, but let me tell you the location of a village nearby. “How is it?”

“I will not decline.”

Although there is Ellahan’s ‘revelation’, its power only shows direction and does not provide distance or information.

“If you take a camel for about half a day from here in the direction of the setting sun, there is a large oasis. A large settlement was formed around that oasis. “There is also a branch of the guild.”

“Is there anything I need to be careful about?”

“Not really. Oh, and be sure to keep what I teach you a secret. “If the mass disappearances become widely known, there will be a big uproar.”

“All right.”

The man who had appealed to me several times, and who revealed his name as Lahmu, walked away with the warriors. He seemed to be a person of quite high status among the Bedouin.

Karen and Ellahan came to his side and said.

“It’s suspicious.”

“It’s suspicious.”

Leon also agreed with that opinion.

Something that kills people and monsters without distinguishing between them, leaving no trace? It was not something that could exist in common sense. A more plausible story would have been that there was a crazy sword master wandering around the desert.

There was no basis to stop Lahmu, but it would be better for him not to encounter the culprit.

“This is not a situation that the Bedouin can solve alone.”

It is a being that causes even sandworms, whose intelligence is greatly reduced, to run away in fear, ignoring the smell of their own blood. If even the leader of the warriors was only A rank, there was absolutely no chance of victory.

But even more than that, Leon felt terrible malice in the actions of the unknown being.

“Dangerous. If things continue like this, a big war will break out in the Great Desert.”

“War?”

Ellahan’s eyes widened.

Leon nodded once and explained.

“It is a being with a provisional S-rank level of danger. What if that guy runs around the desert killing both people and monsters? “What happens to nomads who don’t live farming?”

“… “We’re going to run out of food.”

“Besides, if the oasis is attacked, it’s almost over. “If you lose all your water in the middle of the great desert, you have no choice but to die.”

If so? And Leon looked back.

Ellahan doesn’t know yet.

Even though I have crushed heresy as Seongcheolsae, I have never dealt with people who inevitably become evil.

Humans from the back world.

Karen, who had experienced the malice of that gutter, knew.

“indeed.”

She muttered in a low voice.

“If you lose food and water and are threatened by monsters… “It will attack its neighbors who can deal with it more easily than it does.”

“yes?!”

“Above the Great Desert is the prairie, the land of the beast people. “When we had free time, we ended up exchanging barter with a moderate amount of sparring, but it’s a different story when there’s no one left behind.”

This was the same even with good neighbors.

For friends, for family.

Even the kindest person will go to their neighbor’s house with a weapon in their hand if they see a child dying from starvation for several days. It was fortunate if that request was accepted. It would be best if the neighbors were well off and could help each other make a living.

But what if the request is not accepted?

“The population of the Great Desert is larger than expected, and the relationship between the nomads and the beast people is bad in many ways. “The desert is expanding little by little every year, and as a result, nomads are invading the territory of the beast people.”

“B-but, if we ask for help from neighboring countries… .”

“I won’t help you.”

Karen declared.

“If it’s the Sacred Church, groups driven by interests never move. Nomads have nothing to return for that favor.”

It is a land that rejects the monetary economy, relies on barter, and has no resources.

This applies not only to nomads but also to the beast people. What do you expect from those who do not leave their own territory and are self-sufficient?

Blood flows through people, but not through tissues.

The only group that was driven by mercy and compassion was the Holy Church.

“If we don’t stop it, war will inevitably break out.”

Does something happen wherever you go, or does the warrior’s intuition find it?

Leon laughed bitterly as he looked back on his actions.

This time too, what they had to do was decided.

“Let’s prevent war in the great desert.”

Mediate the conflict between the nomads and the beastmen and defeat the monsters rampaging in the desert.

As if responding to his determination, El Cid flashed once.

For a warrior, peaceful days are just a luxury.

The maw of turbulent fate was waiting for him.