Chapter 985 Sandstorm
Queen Tanya and I silently erased the whole bandit camp like nothing. The bandits were defeated and killed before they could even do anything. In fact, even the leader himself was so weak that the last poison bottle that I had thrown inside his room instantly killed him.
I was expecting some resistance or problems once we provoked the big guy, but we soon realized why he immediately died without triggering any problems. And there is only one reason why.
He was asleep.
The leader decided to go to his room and sleep as his subordinates became his guards. When I threw the poison gas bottle inside his room, he fully exhaled everything without even getting to fully know what was happening or what he was inhaling, he was sleeping so soundly that the moment the poison contaminated the air, he didn't notice and breathed his last while he was sleeping.
Even Queen Tanya was stunned to know this as she expected the bandit leader to make a fuss or wake up to realize he was being poisoned. But here we are, finding out that he had died in his sleep.
Currently, we are inside his room. The bandit camp is already cleared out and there are no more bandits in this area. Starting today, bandits will no longer "spawn" in this area.
As for the boss, he is now gone and breathed his last a few moments ago.
"Yep, confirmed. This guy is gone for good. No more resistance to the enemies that we have hoped to happen," Queen Tanya sounded disappointed.
"Well, it is a good thing he is gone. We don't need any problems here anymore."
Now that the danger are all dead and gone, we started to search on the place and look for any scraps or good loot for us to take. Queen Tanya also suggested that we rake in the other loot as well. Despite them being stolen goods, we don't really have much choice over there as things wouldn't change much. Even if we leave the loot here, players would just dig up through their ruin pile and loot them instead so instead of letting the players get the loot, why not take it for ourselves?
"I feel bad getting all this stuff even though we are not bandits in any way or form..." Queen Tanya shook her head as she packed a few of the "treasures" inside a small bag.
"As much as that is true, we don't have much choice there. Others will just plunder these things and will end up being a waste. Although it does feel like we are not doing anything wrong, we have no choice but to keep this instead of leaving it behind. New bandits will just take over in here and take all of this stuff instead. Maybe even the players will plunder them instead of us so there is literally no difference in who will take these all. Besides, can we even return them to their rightful owners in the first place?"
"Hmm, you are right about that. Guess there's always a first to everything."
I agree with Queen Tanya's point but there is really no reason why we should not take them. Besides, what I said can happen as well. So instead of that happening, taking these all and plundering everything is a much better way to keep things in a better order than not letting more bandits take this place over.
Queen Tanya has a Spatial Storage ring that she wears, allowing her to put all of the things inside. She just packs it inside any container to ensure that it won't scatter around. Since it was still essentially a storage ring, anything inside would still move around during any of her movements. She has lots of stuff inside but they are kept in storage so she is not worried if they mess around.
After helping me with the storage problem, we escaped the little base of the bandits, and using Queen Tanya's magic, she collapsed the whole place and buried the dead bandits along with it. We took all the valuables from the corpses as well so if their spirits were still there, they might be cursing at us for not even sparing them anything after we plundered their corpses as well and only leaving them barren.
We returned to the mansion as soon as we finished our job. At the same time, when we arrived, a huge sandstorm suddenly brewed up and we immediately rushed inside the mansion. We quickly had to wake everyone up to close all the windows and any entry point of the mansion that would cause the sand to enter the mansion's premises.
Thankfully, we warned everyone in time before the sandstorm fully got worse and the whole area was ravaged by the sandstorm's dangerous nature. Every one of us is now gathered in the living room along with Renatta's spirits as we observe the sandstorm that is getting stronger. Almira is the only one who isn't present as she was observing the situation whether we move away or to remain.
"Damn, it's been a while since I have seen a sandstorm with this kind of intensity..." Queen Tanya shakes her head as she observes the strong sandstorm blurring the view outside the windows.
"Are sandstorms common in Sandurk?" Mila asked.
"Not really common but they do happen from time to time. Although it wasn't that troubling, the sandstorms are not easy to deal with especially the aftermath, and if you are not prepared for the coming of the sandstorm at all."
"We can just weather the sandstorm right?" my mother is concerned seeing how all of our outside view is filled with sand.
"Depends. Sometimes, the problem isn't the sand but the monsters that come from the sandstorm. We either get a peaceful sandstorm, or worse, we will get a sandstorm and a monster attack."
As soon as Queen Tanya said those words, we heard the speaker come to life and Almira started speaking in an agitated voice.
"You guys should hold tight. I will be making a good run out of this sandstorm right now. Don't ask why. Hold on tight in the count of 5."
Since Almira didn't say anything else other than when she started counting down, we didn't hesitate and started holding to places where we could get stable footing or we would be safe in any kind of movement. We can still hear Almira count and the moment when she said "5"
The whole mansion suddenly spins in a very bad way that when it happened, I was so shocked and I wasn't fully feeling it immediately since I felt like my soul was separated from my body. It was so quick that everyone was shaken and couldn't speak. Even Queen Tanya was shocked.
But that first spin was just the first hurdle we had to take. Before we can even do anything else, the mansion erratically moves again which makes all of us grab tight on whatever we are holding tightly just to avoid getting hurled around.
WOOOOSHHHH!
Every one of us screamed in fright as the whole place started to move at an unimaginable speed and occasionally spun so that after repeated attempts, I felt so sick that I wanted to vomit.
But we couldn't even do that simple thing as we were continuously been hurled all around to the point that whatever things we were about to vomit were forcefully "returned" to our bodies and we couldn't do anything about it.
Almira didn't say anything but we just couldn't say anything either while suffering the severe dizzy activities happening all over us. We continued to observe the situation even though it felt like we were going to be on the verge of dying just from how we were feeling.
It took some time before the mansion didn't have any weird movements like spinning all over the place. We thought we would be passed out but we managed to remain awake but it wasn't done just yet. Just when we thought things wouldn't get any worse, we were suddenly hurled again that we almost felt like the whole mansion was rolling around. Even the items were being tossed all over the place.
Without saying any word, every one of us is holding on for our dear life on where we are holding in, even to the point of gripping onto them just to make sure we won't accidentally let go and get hurled over the place.
After a while, the situation calmed down but everyone was not that ready to let go of where they were holding on, including myself. We continue to grip on where we are holding all around the mansion when the voice of Almira once again gives life to the speaker.
"Hello? Hello? Everyone? Are you guys still alive there? Things are good now, you guys can now let yourself go from where you all are holding on. We have passed through the danger."
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