Dark wings cut through the sky, and with a terrifying surge, a skeletal dragon swooped down, its claws striking the ground and splitting it apart.
Skeletal giants silently roared to the heavens, their heavy fists pounding down and sending waves of sand hundreds of ters across.
Deford bone beasts continuously surged from beneath the earth, swarming and endless.
Under this blood moon frenzy, the dozens of cloaked figures appeared as fragile as leaves in a storm, utterly powerless. They managed to hold on for only a few minutes before completely engulfed by the wave of skeletal creatures.
Myza, arms crossed, leaned against the city wall, observing Calidora and Girunini's reactions. In their eyes, he saw fear and panic.
This wasn't surprising; in fact, many of Myza's previous friends had also had the chance to witness blood moons of this magnitude, and their expressions were largely similar to those of the two ladies.
After the last cloaked figure was utterly torn apart, Myza walked up behind the two.
"I won't stop you from leaving, but…" Myza posed his question, "After seeing such a scene, is your decision still the sa as before?"
He had asked this sa question to a few friends of his that had wanted to leave in the past. Afterward, he almost always received the sa answer.
So, when he asked this question, he was actually expecting them to give the answer he had imagined.
He even thought that perhaps later, he could send a few golems out to help them find their companions and bring them here.
He didn't mind having more people; more people ant more liveliness. As for whether their companions would want to stay here…
Having been driven to enter this desert against their will, they surely had no reason to complain about the environnt here.
However, Calidora's first words after turning around were, "Mr. Myza, I'm afraid we need to leave now, as soon as possible, and you must co with us!"
This utterly unexpected statent left Myza choking on his prepared words, and he was stunned for a long mont, only to finally utter a confused "huh?"
Seeing Myza's baffled expression, Calidora quickly explained, "You've been in the desert for too long, Mr. Myza. Perhaps you're unaware of what those cloaked figures represent…"
"You an those not-quite-human things?" Myza frowned slightly. "Do you know their origin?"
"Yes. They are the very reason we want to flee to the other side of the desert." Calidora nodded. "They are the minions of a tyrant, an army from another world…"
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"I never imagined that we would actually see two blood moon nights in a row," muttered Osar while eating so grilled bear at. "We paid those earth dwellers a lot, and they didn't even warn us about this."
"Maybe they forgot, or maybe they didn't know either," rvant, leaning against the earth wall and caressing his disc, replied. "After all, even Yaine hadn't heard of such a thing."
"Mm, thankfully, we have this guy," Osar said, patting Liu Ji on the back with a grin. "Otherwise, we would've been in real bad shape after these two nights."
Liu Ji didn't understand what Osar was saying and glanced at the latter in puzzlent. The smiling Osar just gave him a big thumbs-up.
Liu Ji, still confused, didn't know how to react but eventually returned the gesture along with a smile. Under the light of the Daylight spell, his smile seed especially brilliant.
Then, he turned back to Yaine and continued gesturing. Liu Ji still hadn't given up on his idea of trying so "water elental sashimi"—although it was a complex concept to convey through gestures alone, and Yaine hadn't quite grasped what he was trying to say.
"But, speaking of which," Osar turned back to rvant, "we have a ans to sleep through these two days, but Cali and the others… I'm a bit worried."
"Yeah. If Shelo or Anwarda were there, it might still be alright, but…" rvant sighed deeply. "Before we were swept away by the current, I vaguely saw that only Girunini was with Cali."
"If it's just the two of them… no, they're both very capable; they must be fine," Osar said, forcing a smile and gently punching rvant's shoulder. "Calidora is one of the best holy dragonmages, and Girunini, don't be fooled by her size, she can be way stronger than when she gets serious."
"Haa, I know that." rvant leaned back against the wall. "You're just trying to comfort while you're worried yourself."
"Ah, is it that obvious?" Osar rubbed his nose sheepishly.
"It doesn't matter what you show. I know how you are as a person." rvant shrugged.
"Maybe." Osar bit into the bear at. "I just want us all to get together again, like before, to eat and drink together. Oh, and we should include our new friend, too. Even though we don't speak the sa language, I think the others will like him."
"Heh, if he learns incantation, the only ones left who don't understand might just be the two of us." rvant grimaced. "If I recall correctly, even Girunini knows so simple incantation."
"No, at least Guoguo doesn't either. Believe , we aren't alone in the path of illiteracy," said Osar.
"Ah? She doesn't?" rvant was astonished. "Then, how does she enchant her arrows?"
"By rigorous morization." Osar shrugged. "Her talent for magic is really poor, and she can't grasp the anings of the spells no matter how much she tries. Normally, a person would understand the basic aning after repeating a spell a few dozen tis, but she can't get it even after hundreds of repetitions. Even if you tell her the aning directly, she still gets confused.
"Eventually, her teacher gave up and had her morize all the enchantnt spells for her arrows, telling her to just recite them from muscle mory."
"I see, I guess that's why she gets those spells mixed up sotis, huh?" rvant massaged his temples. "That explains the ti she tried to cast a flaming shield but ended up firing a barrage of oil arrows instead, causing the shield to explode. I was nearly blown up then."
"Ah, so that's why she avoided you for a period; it was because she blasted your face full of soot, huh?" Osar guffawed. "I rember she wouldn't talk to you at all during that ti and only just nodded or shook her head."
"Heh, as if she speaks much usually." rvant waved dismissively. "She just nods or shakes her head when she ets strangers anyway."
"Haha, that's true…"
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