Chapter 883 – 883. Hero Academy (6)
While I was sleeping, it was already dark outside the tent.
The world outside the tent was a beautiful spectacle, like black paint spilled on the sand.
I stepped out of the tent and looked around, sighing in relief.
“It’s nice to have a night.”
The desert night wasn’t all about its advantages.
It was difficult to secure the view as if the surroundings were dark, and above all, it was very cold.
But even those poor conditions were much better than the deserts of the day when the sun was beating down on them.
Daytime is better for securing visibility, but it is rather difficult to open your eyes properly because of the intense sunlight.
Above all, the chilly cold was much better than the scorching heat that seemed to take away one’s life.
So when I got out of the tent and looked around, just then, Yeriel came out and stood next to me and said,
“If there is no night… Just imagining it is horrific.”
Yeriel’s clothes were still in their miserable condition.
But there was life and strength in her face and voice and in her eyes.
Thanks to resting in the tent, it seemed that she was able to recover her mana and her physical strength.
I looked down at Yeriel and her mouth opened softly.
“Let’s eat something simple and go.”
“Huh… ? Now?”
Yeriel gave a questioning tone, not a refutation.
“I think we’d better find him soon.”
“That’s right. But there’s no guarantee that you’ll find it quickly if you’re in a hurry. It’s much better to keep your stomach full when you’re at your leisure like this.”
“…”
Yeriel did not object.
Even Yeriel must have known at least that what I said wasn’t completely wrong.
We were stuck in this desert anyway.
There was no guarantee that such a relaxed situation would come again.
If you miss the timing of your meal and face a situation where you have to march… It could have had fatal consequences.
“I think you agree.”
As I said that, I started pouring out cooking items from within the cloak.
As soon as I took it out, I started cooking, and Yeriel next to me…
“Is there anything I can do to help?”
Next to me, she stuck her head out and asked me a question.
I said, lowering my head to the side.
“It’s okay. If you cook with a guy who doesn’t even match your hands and feet, it’ll be rather messy.”
“Joy…”
Yeriel pouted her snort and began to wait patiently behind me.
I finished her dish quickly and handed it to her, as if complimenting her calmly waiting, her appearance of Yeriel.
Yeriel opened her mouth as she looked at the food in front of her.
“… I will eat well.”
“This time too, if you fall asleep after eating, I will wake you up. Please don’t fall asleep.”
“Ugh…”
Yeriel blushed at her, but she wasn’t angry.
She must be well aware of her responsibilities.
So me and Yeriel focused on eating.
She wasn’t as hasty as before, but she wasn’t savoring the food at her leisure.
I finished eating after about 15 minutes.
So after finishing her meal with her Yeriel, I tidied up her surroundings and told her.
“Let’s leave now.”
“Okay.”
At the same time as Yeriel’s answer, the wind swayed around me and began to float my body.
Then, all of a sudden, Yeriel took me and started flying in front of her.
I stared silently at Yeriel, who was taking me without agreement.
Yeriel immediately noticed my gaze and spoke to me.
“It’s the price of rice. I will do my best when moving.”
“… It’s nice to be comfortable.”
“Joy…”
Yeriel smiled even as she snorted.
In fact, in terms of efficiency, this was the right thing to do.
I could also use movement magic, but compared to Yeriel or Seongsuah, the output and retention were low.
In contrast, Yeriel, including me, was using high-speed movement magic without difficulty at all.
That’s how she started to run across the desert using Yerriel’s movement magic.
The desert at night was dark, cold, and bitter.
But it wasn’t that kind of darkness that seemed to have become a blackout.
‘Because it’s just starting to move. It’s not that dark.’
Moonlight and starlight came out and illuminated the path ahead of Yeriel.
I began to look around the surroundings steadily while riding Yeriel’s movement magic to find traces of the Pharaoh.
‘I have to find it somehow before morning comes.’
No matter how many tents there were, I didn’t want to face the sun that seemed to rise from an inferno.
While looking around with such concentration…
“Wait a minute!”
Something caught my eye.
Hearing my cry, Yeriel braked hard and began to stare her gaze in the direction I was looking.
But Yeriel…
“… Nothing?”
Shaking my head, I just stared at him like a strange person.
As Yeriel said, she saw nothing but sand where she looked.
But in my eyes…
“Go over there.”
The temperament window of the staff of Pharaoh and Osiris caught my eye.
Yeriel didn’t question my words and started flying in the direction I pointed.
And not long after…
Wow!
When light suddenly poured like powder into a dark space, a huge pyramid began to form.
Yeriel looked at the huge pyramid that suddenly appeared and asked me with her astonished eyes.
“Did you see it? Is that?”
“… Uh.”
Of course I didn’t see it.
In fact, I also asked to go just by looking at the temperament window.
I never expected that such a structure would emerge.
After discovering the pyramid, Yeriel and I headed towards the entrance together.
And the moment you pass through the entrance and enter the inside of the pyramid…
Aaaaagh!
Suddenly, the sand piled up on the floor gathered and began to form various shapes.
The fine sand, which was hard to hold in my hand, gathered together and turned into a stone statue.
The shape of the stone statue was diverse.
Was it the body of a four-legged lion with an eagle’s head, or even a case where the upper body was a human but the lower body was a snake…
However, the various sand statues had two things in common.
At first…
“Keeeeek!”
“Kleurrureung!”
It was that they did not welcome me and Yeriel into the pyramid.
And the second…
‘Huh? They’re not creatures, they’re made of mana, right?’
They were guys similar to the so-called golems.
If most of the golems were made with the core in the center as a medium, the current stone statues were made with the mana flowing from the inside of this pyramid.
After carefully setting me down, Yeriel reached out to the sand monsters and said,
“Now, some good guys appear.”
As Yeriel said, it was the first monster she encountered after entering the dungeon.
It goes well with the dungeon…
I also tried to join the battle like Yeriel.
But then Yeriel held me back with her right arm as she stretched out her left arm at the sand monsters.
“I’ll deal with it alone this time.”
“Why?”
“… I want to know the level of those guys.”
Certainly, the monsters in front of me were unfamiliar beings that were hard to see normally.
But there was no way to know if that was the real reason unless you searched inside Yeriel’s mind.
I nodded and took a step back.
“Good. Instead, if you procrastinate, I will join you.”
If I had said something like that when I was with Seong Soo-ah earlier, he would have immediately glared at me and spit out murderous thoughts.
But now, Yeriel…
“Wait one minute!”
Hearing my words, he rather smiled and charged at the monsters.
A kid who single-handedly attacks the sand monsters that seem to be 3-5 meters tall.
It was a picture that didn’t fit.
And the result…
Faaaaang! Kwajijik!
It produced inconsistent results.
The stone statues made of sand were obviously made of sand, but when they became stone statues, they were hard enough to break walls.
However, even those solid stone statues began to shatter due to Yeriel’s magic.
1 minute after starting the fight… No, after about 30 seconds, the neat entrance to the pyramid…
“How is it?”
Piles of sand were piled up here and there as if it had been neglected for hundreds of years.
Yeriel was staring at me as if she wanted to be appreciated by me.
Looking at such a Yeriel…
“It seems that the position of the head of the tower was not chosen by lottery.”
I gave my own compliments.
“Even if you say…”
It didn’t sound like a compliment at all, but…
Me and Yeriel started to enter the pyramid while bickering.
And in the middle, they met stone monsters made of sand one after another, and the tribe they encountered, Yeriel, annihilated them in an instant.
Yeriel did not lose his breath even once while dealing with countless monsters.
‘… Osiris’ staff was not an ordinary item.’
Looking at how he made Yeriel to the point where he was unmatched against huge monsters, I could feel once again how great Osiris’ staff was.
As I moved forward while appreciating the battle of Yeriel…
“It’s around here.”
I was able to reach the place where the temperament window stayed.
It was similar to the place where I fought Pharaoh earlier, but it was a small hall, so I could see it at a glance.
It was like a miniature version of the huge hall where they fought earlier.
Inside the hall that can be seen at a glance…
“Yes, you guys!!!”
There was a huge staircase that existed in the hall earlier and a pharaoh sitting on a throne installed above the stairs.
Pharaoh looked down at us with a stunned expression and shouted.
“Oh, how did you find this place!!”
“How did you find… Isn’t it strange that you can’t find it when it’s so obvious?”
“Oh…”
Yeriel flinched at my words and raised her head and began to glare at me.
It seems that spade damage was added unintentionally…
But it was not the time to apologize right now. The concept doesn’t fit…
Hearing my words, Pharaoh shouted with a high voice.
“Ei-i-i-ik! I will make you regret not dying quietly in the middle of the desert!!!”
At the same time as the Pharaoh’s cries, the steps and throne turned to sand, engulfing him.
Then the huge pile of sand suddenly took shape and turned into a giant sphinx.
“It looks like there are only guys playing with sand here.”
Looking at the appearance, it felt like the sand stone statue I had met earlier had become gigantic.
It was about 50 meters in height and the length of the body was well over 100 meters.
And it wasn’t just the creation of the Sphinx that mattered.
“Don’t even think about running away!!”
Wow!
Suddenly, the passage through which we had passed collapsed, blocking our retreat.
“… It will be annoying when you leave.”
At my light tone, Yeriel noticed me and opened her mouth.
“The guy in front of me is on a different level from the guys I fought earlier! It’s better to spread to the sides and attack blind spots!”
“…”
As I watched in silence, Yeriel next to me shouted in an urgent voice.
“Now is not the time to be dazed! If that huge guy goes on a rampage, this is… !”
However, I ignored Yeriel who shouted in such an urgent voice and calmly took a step forward.
“Did you take care of it? I’ll take care of it this time.”
“I have a situation where I can relax now…”
Yeriel stared at me with a look of concern, not her pride.
The moment she tried to restrain me, the giant sphinx caused an earthquake around her and lifted her body upright.
Kururrureung!
Then, madness erupted from the expressionless Sphinx’s mouth.
“I might have gotten over it with Layra’s help earlier, but now it’s not even going to start!!”
With the pharaoh’s resounding voice, the sphinx’s arm flashed upward.
The lifting arm seemed a bit sluggish, but if you wrestle in this hall with that heavy body, it will be a big problem.
The sand statues I met earlier were handled by Yeriel in an instant, so I didn’t have to go through any troublesome situations.
However, it seemed that the more time he dragged on, the more annoying he became.
‘Well, there’s no reason to waste time with that guy in the first place…’
I cast a dismemberment while watching the sphinx slam me down with the soles of my feet.
That moment…
Pass Sussut!
The arm of the sphinx that had hit me spreads like fine sand particles…
Wooooo!!
Because of the sudden disappearance of one arm, he fell to the floor unable to properly control his heavy body.
I heard Yeriel’s panicked voice behind me at the sight of the Sphinx suddenly collapsed.
“What… What? Uh, how… ?”
I shrugged my shoulders and smiled with my head slightly turned.
“Well… Maybe it’s because he’s made of sand.”
