The nights in the desert are very calm. There was no howl of wild beasts, no whistling of mountain winds through dead wood. Some of it seemed to be just the slight crash of the sand as it tumbled.

Falk looked at the starry night sky, and suddenly remembered his own magician prince.

Hey, I don't know how our little highness is doing now? After this mission is over, I will take a mission to the south ~ by the way, visit his territory, anyway, we are all members of a team.

Time passed minute by minute, and soon it was two o'clock in the morning.

Falke yawned and rubbed his face, trying to refresh himself. But at this moment, he seemed to hear some strange sounds.

Falke pulled a half-burned wood from the fire, made a torch, and walked in the direction from which the sound came.

"Rustle~Rustle~"

The strange sound came again, but this time it moved in another direction.

Falk turned around violently! Turn to the source of the sound. He raised his torch and moved closer, the short sword at his waist already in his hand.

He saw that not far in front of him there seemed to be something surging beneath the sand? He also bulged out the sand with a bulge the size of a rice bowl.

"Rustle~"

Suddenly, the bulge moved in another direction under Farck's gaze, and the speed was very fast!

Farke's eyes widened and he shouted, "Hey! Wake up, guys! Something's coming here! ”

Almost as soon as Falk shouted this, Celem bounced off the ground.

He said that as a good archer, be on your toes at all times! This includes sleeping, eating, or rolling the sheets.

Rolling his eyes, he plugged the door and shook his wrist with his left hand, and the magic bow and arrow had appeared in his hand. Then he put his finger on the magic bowstring and quickly shot an arrow that glowed with white light!

The arrow dispelled the darkness around him in an instant, allowing Farker to see exactly what lay ahead.

There's something under the sand! And found them, and at the moment they are rushing towards Fark at high speed!

Falk stepped back with his torch as Ward and Jadestone woke up.

The lizardman drew a shield and quickly stopped in front of Farke.

Jadeite held a staff, ready to heal everyone.

Only the rookie magician who rubbed his sleepy eyes and looked confused was still a little out of state.

"Kuryan! Hurry up and get ready to cast your ice spells! ”

I don't know what it is, but it won't be friendly! Falk reminded loudly, and the young man was a little flustered and flipped out his staff and held it in his hand.

The blue gem the size of a fingernail shimmered with the power of magic. He nervously stood up and looked around, but found no enemies.

But at this moment, the originally hard sand suddenly sank downward! The young mage shouted and fell into the bunker.

Falke tried to reach for it, but it was still a step too late.

The young mage who fell into the sand pit let out a few more terrible screams! The sand "booms" are like boiling water.

Immediately after, holding a torch, Falk saw a huge monster leaping high from the sand! And the sand was thrown into the air, and it fell again. It's like a rain of sand.

"Hell! Our magician! ”

Ward shouted as he raised his shield. Because he saw a monster suddenly emerge from the sand, holding their young ice mage in his hand!

At this moment, the young man hung his head, and was thrown around in the hands of the monster, as if he was completely cold.

Because Ward also saw that there was something swaying back and forth under the young mage's body. When he saw it clearly, he realized that it was the intestines of this unlucky fellow!

The monster that came out of the sand was a huge red one. Scorpion. This sand scorpion is one of the more common ferocious beasts in the Northland Desert!

However, the largest sand scorpion I usually see is only one meter long, and these monsters don't like fire. But this one in front of me is already more than five meters as long as you roughly estimate it! Could it be the ancestor of the sand scorpion?

Seeing the hideous-looking sand scorpion swaying its pincers from side to side and its hook-like tail, Salomon did not hesitate to quickly shoot with a bow and arrow!

"Whoosh~"

The three arrows that were fired were of different colors, and since the arrows fired by his bow were very random, he didn't know what kind of magic arrow Selemen was shooting! It's pure luck.

And this time, his luck seems to be good! Almost all three of these arrows were shot at the sand scorpion's body.

Although Ward's guy was already lying on the ground with his shoulders covered, the three arrows did not hit his shoulders, but caused different damage to the sand scorpion!

Farke's eyes sharpened, and he saw one of the arrows, glowing green, bounce off the sand scorpion's hard shell as it hit it. But immediately after the scorpion was shot, a small flower grew.... I don't know what kind of magical properties can produce such an effect.

Luckily, however, the other two arrows looked much more powerful. One of them shot into the crack in the hard shell of the sand scorpion, splashing a cloud of green liquid. The other one was even more powerful, directly causing a burst of explosion, blowing up the big pincers that the sand scorpion was holding the magician!

"Well done!"

Ward yelled.

"Let's go too!"

Falk drew his dagger and sprinted left and right with the lizardman towards the sand scorpions rolling all over the ground.

Falk has a short sword in one hand, and in the other hand has already swung his dagger enchanted with wind magic.

The dagger quickly slashes out a wind blade! Exactly landed on the face door of the sand scorpion! and left a crack in its hard shell more than a meter long.

Ward, on the other hand, held the bronze wolf-toothed mace that Klose had given him. With a "snap", the short-handled hammer turned into a long-handled hammer, and was hit right on the head of the sand scorpion by the lizardman with all his might!

The brute force of the lizardman combined with the destructive power of the mace directly smashed the layer of solid shell on the surface of the sand scorpion! And embedded deep in the head.

The sand scorpion's tail, which was still waving, and another intact pincer, fell to the ground weakly at this moment.

As the lizardman pulled the mace out of the sand scorpion's head, a stream of green liquid poured out of the beast's head and seeped into the sand... It seems that this scorpion is dead and can no longer die.

Jadeite quickly ran to the poor young mage's side to check on the other party's injuries. But to her disappointment, this unlucky bastard's stomach has been completely opened, and the intestines are scattered everywhere.... His eyes were wide open, and he couldn't be colder anymore.

Even if Pyrolite now has a staff that can amplify his healing skills, it won't be useful at all. But at least she could keep the young man's body from being so broken.

Jadeite frowned, collecting the intestines of their new recruit, and stuffing them back into his stomach. And he cured the young man's short-sightedness with healing, and then picked up a needle and thread and sewed up the wound on his stomach.

"Rest in peace, child.... I have to say, you're really not lucky. ”

The four of them gave their new teammate a brief farewell ceremony, and then allowed his body to be swept into the ground by a puff of quicksand, merging with the desert.

"Looks like we're hiring another mage again," Jadeite shrugged, grimace.

Ward also said: "Yes, in fact, I like this young man, the ice cubes he makes are very cool~ It has a different flavor when you drink it with ale." ”

Salomon put away his bow and arrows, and folded his arms in front of his chest: "I think we have to see what he is actually capable of recruiting next time." The experience that this young man said was probably mixed with a lot of water. ”

Indeed, the reaction that the young mage Kuliang had just shown was not at all like the reaction that he should have to be able to defeat an ogre.

You must know that the strength of an ogre is much stronger than that of a sand crab!

Falk patted the shoulder that plugged the door and sighed, "Alas, it's too late to say this now, he has already paid with his life, and we don't need to say anything more." How about buddies! Shall we continue our journey into the depths of the desert, or shall we go back and hire a new mage? ”

After deliberation and voting among the four of them, everyone agreed that they still had to have an ice mage. Otherwise, the road in the desert during the day will be too difficult! Because it's so hot!

Ward, in particular, is a lizardman, who cannot be exposed to the flames of the desert for long periods of time, as that would cause his body to continue to molt and eventually die of dehydration.

Now that the decision had been made, the next day dawned, and the four of them packed their belongings and rode back on their camels.

The way home always felt faster than it was when they came out, and as it turned out, they were back in the tavern of the Oasis the next day.

Their operation this time was a complete failure ....