520 Red flag.
After looking at the report, Blake and Erick the second special ops Major left the palace and returned to the square to gather their units.
Since the situation was serious, they had to solve the case as quickly as possible. So immediately they were done gathering their units, they were to use the Square’s warping array to teleport to the Square at Sandheaven.
‘A few months ago, I had to travel by carriage, now I am getting warped to another city.’
Although Blake would have loved to experience the journey to the desert, he was happy that he was now deemed important enough to be warped to another city.
Standing on the warp arrays with 5 units each, Blake and Erik were teleported into the Square at Sandheaven.
“Welcome to Sandheaven.” The head of the investigation department of Sandheaven saluted them as they appeared.
Without wasting further time, the head of the investigations department escorted Blake and Erik to the planning room while the units were asked to wait in another room.
“So far, we still haven’t been able to make any progress.” The Major began explaining the situation of the ruin to them.
It turned out that the ash corps had sent in 2 special ops units to investigate the matter at the start, but they had also gone missing. This made even the demigods afraid to enter the ruin especially since they had no idea of what they were dealing with.
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“What happened on the first day the ruin appeared?” Blake asked.
According to what he knew about the Malock desert, ruins randomly appeared at the surface of the safe zone. The main reasons for this were sandstorms that displaced large amounts of sand and the movement of beasts in and out of the desert soil.
There were also rumors that the red zone of the Malock desert randomly sucked and spat things in and out of itself. Although the possibility of this being true was quite high since the danger zone was still a mystery, it was still hard to believe.
Such rumors would imply the desert was either a living entity or was an artificial intelligence like that of Azkelwart that constantly shuffled the ground to keep those inside trapped.
“On the first day, we didn’t notice the presence of the ruin since it was far from the city and very close to the danger zone. It was an adventurer party that discovered this and reported to the Adventurer association which in turn reported it to us.”
“At first we didn’t pay much attention to it because ruins constantly popped out of nowhere…” The head of the investigation department began explaining everything but it was no different from the report that Prince Bryon had given them.
‘I was hoping that he would give me something useful and make my work easier.’ Blake let out a helpless sigh.
Once they were done with their questions, both majors led their units out of the square and into the desert.
‘Although the weather is not the best, this is still a nice vacation spot.’ Blake thought as his carriage rode through the city of Sandheaven.
The city of Sandheaven, was almost the size of the previous Calton city before its expansion, its population was more than half of Calton city. This was shocking especially with the presence of the scorching Sun and arid air, but it soon made sense to Blake.
Apart from the desert being a treasure trove for adventurers, Sandheaven was the only city that did not experience beast tides. Also the city used water arrays to increase the humidity of the air, but even at that it was still quite dry. This made it a safe heaven for those tide of the beast tides and a good vacation spot.
‘I wonder how dry the air would be that deep into the desert.’ The harshness of the desert, as well as the strength of the beasts, increased as one went closer to the red zone.
Once they were out of the city gate, they alighted from the carriages and mounted camel-type beasts that took them deeper into the desert.
‘Not as if I have been to the desert on Earth but I am pretty sure this is more than 10 times worse!’ Blake was shocked.
During his last visit to the Malock desert he hadn’t gone too deep, but this time he had been expecting the fire resistance granted by the fire pathway to reduce the heat, but it was still very hot.
‘This would definitely affect our fighting capabilities; we need to avoid combat at all costs.’ Blake thought as he looked around his team.
Although he was feeling very hot, his fighting ability wasn’t affected that much, but the same couldn’t be said for his unit.
Most of the members of his unit were not yet in the mid-tier of the Hero realm so they didn’t have much resistance to the heat. Also, the arid air of the desert drastically reduced the power of the water, earth, and plant elements by 70%, 30%, and 50% respectively.
The loose sand of the desert made it difficult for Geomancers to control, while the arid air and scorching sun were the worst enemies of normal plants. On the other hand, the power of the fire element was more than doubled.
After 2 hours of traveling, the ash corps units from Calton finally arrived at the ruin. The only part of the ruin that was above the surface was the entrance.
‘Yup, this is a red flag.’ Blake thought as the entrance was not too far from the red sand boundary that marked the start of the danger zone.
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AN: So sorry for not posting in a long while. I have returned to school, and I am currently having exams, but freight not because I will try as much as possible to make uploads stable.
As for the new book “Lust system: War against the heavens” it would be dropping by Mid of May on 3_Sins_Studios.
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