Luckily for us the storm and sand has passed, but when our mounts set foot in the desert areas, I noticed that there was nothing near the cave. The sandstorm that lasted several days changed the surroundings of the cave, it is still full of sand, but the rocks and plants around the cave have disappeared.
I haven't memorized much of the details of the cave, but I think the cave is smoother than before some edges have disappeared. If a sandstorm does this how long will this cave last? But considering that the cave is getting stronger and stronger because of the elemental energy that accumulates in it and tempers the rocks, this cave should last a long time.
"Let's go! I want to get out of this desert and take a shower to get all this sand out, did I ever say I hate the desert?"
"This must be the fifteenth time you've said you hate the desert, Hilda. How about getting a new claim to make."
"Sorry if I hate sand, I'm different from you who like to play in the dirt all day, Gloria. You must be missing the rain since here you can't stay in the mud playing with you do at your house."
"I'll make you swallow a pound of dirt if you keep talking shit you bitch."
"Try it, mud girl."
"Stop it! We don't have to waste time with your useless and irritating arguments, focus on getting to the city. You two will have all the time in the world to be fighting when we are safe in the camp."
"Come on mud girl, the rainforest camp is waiting for you."
Hilda runs away leaving the group behind.
"I'm going to kill that bitch."
With the whole group advancing into the desert, I push Hilda's mount away from Gloria who wants to continue arguing with her. Even though it annoyed Hilda I had her go to the back of the group to get away from Gloria who was at the front of the team.
We face the sun and sand all day without interruption which is a shocking surprise for everyone, but it was a good surprise. Without having to stop to fight for several hours we will leave the desert tomorrow on my day, but I'm still curious to know where the desert beasts that love to attack and chase us all over the desert have gone.
It would have been an interesting change in our luck if I hadn't noticed the damn crow that is watching us from afar, that crow might look normal but I can easily see the mana and elemental energy that he has in his body and that is traveling a distance big, to a damn light purple thread out of the crow and traveling out of the desert.
From the direction the wire was going I can tell that our friend with the mental element is positioning himself on our current route his plan to ambush us is obvious, I even thought it could be the smugglers, but there wasn't even a warrior or mage with the mental element in their group and the contract we signed earlier is going to attack the poor guy who signed it on behalf of his group.
But still the chance to be our old friends, but I intend to make things difficult for them. I have to get rid of that crow and change our route to try to get out of this ambush.
I admit that I feel great envy towards warriors who have the mental element, even though it seems that the mental element has no obvious destructive power, but used correctly it can be deadlier than a drugged mage releasing magic to the point of melting. your own body.
I feel that we are very unlucky to be targeted by a mind element user, especially when he is ambushing us. The only real report I've heard is the feats of a mental energy warrior who was a trash and moral human and this story is from Captain Raven told me,
She fought a mental warrior of the same level as her, which at the time was the middle stage of the green core. If the captain hadn't had the help of two friends, she would have ended up dead or a much worse fate.
The warrior she fought with was a horrible noble who was the source of terrible rumors in the capital, he was extremely skilled with his mental element to the point that fighting him was worse than fighting a master illusionist. The captain came out extremely injured from the duel that the noble warrior forced, and even the two companions who interfered in the fight to save the captain were badly injured while the noble trash fled him because the combat drew too much attention and not because he is being defeated.
Without a mental shield, low-level fighters and mages are preyed upon by mental element users. Only at higher levels does this discrepancy decrease.
The mental element is very interesting, but now that I have to focus on killing the crow. I act normally and follow the group routine so as not to raise the crow's suspicions.
I set up the tent that I shared with Hilda and when we entered, I made a sign for her to be silent, if the crow or its owner notices something wrong with the group he will run away and that will make it very difficult for us to eliminate the spy crow.
I watch over the crow waiting for the moment when he wouldn't be focused on my tent but on Alice's tent that was on the other side of the camp. The moment I had an opening I came out from behind my tent holding my aura to the max with my bow ready.
I made my way using the mounts as cover for when the crow came back into view this side of the camp, luckily for me the lizards were too tired of running during the day to feel like acknowledging my presence near them.
I stayed as close to the crow's position as possible without entering its wide field of vision, I stayed still until I had the idiot look at another part of the camp and I came out of my hiding place and ran towards the crow ready to shoot my arrow.
The moment the crow or its owner realized something was wrong I fired my arrow propelled with aura and wind elemental energy. I didn't mind making the arrow strong because this crow is a level one magic beast, so its defense is not high.
My focus was speed and my arrow sliced through the air at a speed that allowed most of the distance between me and the crow to be covered before it managed to fly away. The moment the crow tried to lift it up from the sand dune away from the camp my arrow performed it, its body throwing it to the ground in agony.
When I caught the half-dead crow, I got a good look at his eyes.
"I'm going to hunt you down and kill your entire family you piece of shit, I'm going to get there in a little while and I'm going to kill all your friends and save you for last so I can have my time killing you."
I broke the crow's neck, the link of elemental energy that comes out of the crow disappeared, not a dead crow in my hands. Will roasting a crow taste good, I've never eaten crow before.
When I got back to camp, I was being stared at by my entire team.
"Why do you have a dead crow with you?"
"The right question is what a crow is following and watching us for."
"Shit, a familiar."
"I had the same thought, Zephyr. Looks like we've got company on our way, so we're going to run out of here and make a new way out of the desert."
"But the lizards won't be able to run for long without resting, they're carrying a lot of baggage and we can't get rid of it."
"Yes, but we're only going to travel a few more hours in the dark and not all night. We have to get out of here and cover our tracks, after the lizards rest a few hours until dawn, then we'll continue our journey to the edge of the desert and make a loop to avoid our original route."
"Do you think that's enough to throw off the smugglers?"
"Yeah, and we don't know if they're smugglers so don't jump to conclusions, Gloria. We may be being hunted by a group of thieves operating in the desert or border."
"Serious? Do you think it's a coincidence that we're going into an ambush after helping a band of smugglers ambush other smugglers?"
"Maybe yes maybe no. But the reality is that we have to get out of here to avoid being ambushed by our enemies, because I don't think our chances of killing a group that's clearly ready and confident, they can kill our group are great."
"Any questions or smart comments to make, do? If not, let's make camp and get out of here now. We have to get away from here so we can unmarry in case they decide to go into the desert to find us."
That's how our group flees under the moonlight, while I wait for our pursuers to be waiting for us standing outside the desert and only after realizing that we're not going there anymore do they enter the desert at the same time we're leaving the desert. far away from them.