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Chapter 30

“Alright, your majesty, if we continue further, we will enter the dangerous region with no administration . ”



We stood on the sand dunes and looked at the yellow sand ahead and behind us . Both areas looked the exact same . If Tarak didn’t stop I wouldn’t have known I entered such a dangerous place . But I guess it makes sense . People spoke of this place like it was dangerous as hell . The scene in front of me just looks like a huge collection of yellow sand though . This place looked the exact same as other places . There were no traces of blood or corpses . Not even a human silhouette was in sight .

This place is really disappointing…

Perhaps a good way to describe my feelings would be that I felt somewhat sad . I worked hard to prepare for this . If it looked like a war-zone with corpses lying around, I’d be celebrating . But now I feel like all my preparations were pointless and I felt lost . But then I looked at Tarak next to me who was very serious . It looks like this is the place .

I smiled and said: “This place doesn’t look any different to the outside . ”

Tarak tugged on the rope and then sternly said: “Of course it is filled with sand . Everywhere is sand in the desert . We just have not seen people here yet . What makes this place dangerous is not that it is in the desert, because it is the same everywhere in the desert . The most dangerous thing in here is always those around you . But we are at the border right now so we cannot see the most dangerous place . ”



I looked at the desert before me and then said: “Since we’ve come here, forget turning tail . Well, I never intended to anyway . Tarak, you know this place better so I’ll let you lead us . ”

Tarak shook his head with a smile and replied: “While you say that, I could not find what you were after either, your majesty . Your majesty, I can only guide you to every campsite . Every campsite in the desert is very dangerous . Those are the places we can guarantee our safety from the sandstorms . The situation in the desert changes in the blink of an eye . ”

“Uhm, but are we the only ones who know the campsites?”

Tarak shook his head and replied: “I can only say that that might not be the case . Those who can be here are all elites who know well how to survive in the desert . It would be preposterous for them not to know of the campsites . Of course, as we split up in this large region so we might not meet . Needless to say, fights may break out at night over campsites and then we would use our enemies’ corpses as pillows to sleep . ”

“You sound experienced . ”

“That is because I have done that before . ”



Tarak replied casually . I looked at his eyes that didn’t have a grain of sand on them and chuckled . I really couldn’t tell he could do that sort of stuff . Perhaps he noticed my smile which is why he frowned and said, “Your majesty, killing people does not make one feel guilty . Or rather, human nature is meaningless when faced with life-or-death . I do not want to kill either, but if I do not kill, I will be the one who dies . As such, I must kill him and for the above reason, I will not feel guilty . That holds true even if I had to drink human blood because of that . ”

I nodded . People will do anything to survive when faced with a life-or-death crisis . That’s human instinct . Actually, it’s the instinct of all creatures . Maybe everyone can get along during the day, but when night falls, they’ll definitely come into conflict to secure a resting place because nobody can say for sure what that person might do to them while they’re sleeping at night if they accept them into their camp . Hence, the best option was to kill all those you didn’t recognise .


It’s cruel and sounds very unreasonable, but this is an irrefutable truth . Nobody can be trusted in a place without constraints . Trust is spit-out chewing gum if there are no constraints in place . That goes for both animals and humans .

“Alright, let’s start heading to the place closest to our current location . I have searched that section before, but let us carpet-search the area as if we have never searched it . ”

Tarak made an invitational hand gesture, then smiled as he said, “Your majesty, please do not be surprised by anything that happens next . ”

“I understand, but Tarak, I have a question . Why is there no city in this area? This area is the intersection point between the five nations . If there was a city here, travelling would be more convenient and merchants would have a resting place . It should be a fantastic place for a business-oriented city . ”

It’s not completely barren here . There’s an oasis inside this region . They just need to construct a city here . To be fair, this is a great place to build a city so why did this become an uninhabited region?

“This place was actually originally a city, It was close to the oasis . But that was a long time ago . There was a city here roughly around when the five nations of the desert were colonised . It was formed by immigrants and merchants . It was the most extravagant place in the desert at the time as well as the richest . All metals were transported from this city at the time . However, due to the environment as well as wars, the city got levelled and its citizens fled . That was when the five nations of the desert were built up . ”

Tarak looked at the end of the desert, silently nodded and continued, “It is said that it was a magnificent city . It is also said that there was a large volume of metals and ores that did not get transported away in time . Of course, these are all legends . The ruins of the city are still there . Countless people searched it over and over for centuries but never found anything . ”

“Oh?” I narrowed my eyes and continued, “I see how it is now . It makes sense . This place is excessively flat, making it easy to attack but hard to defend against attackers . That’s a reasonable enough reason to not build a city here . But I am very interested in the legend you mentioned . ”

“That is why they are just legends, your majesty . A lot of time has also passed . Roughly a century if I had to say . Mm, definitely more than a century and no less for sure . ”

Tarak waved his hand and then added: “It has been many years yet countless people come to try and strike it rich . But forget an ore, they could not even find traces of the ancient city . The greatest find was an incense burner from the ancient ages . That incense burner is still in Nara’s room . Therefore you need not go there and search, your majesty . It is a good place to take shelter from the winds though . ”

“Hmm, alright . We’ll go there if we have a chance then . ”

I pondered to myself for a while . I guess it’s only fair . It’s been so long already . If there was some secret treasure there, it would’ve been discovered ages ago . There’s no way nobody has discovered it till now . But then based on what Tarak said, we need to search places that have been searched before nonetheless given that we’ve already come all the way here .

In terms of priority though, let’s put it aside for now since it’s not the point closest to our current location . We’ll slowly move toward that direction and then go check it out if we have time .

“Everyone, prepare your weapons . ”

After travelling for ten whole days, I finally gave that order .

We aren’t in a city now . We don’t even have Elizabeth’s protection . This is a primitive jungle with no rules, laws or constraints . There are no virtues or kindness here . The only useful things here are the guns on the soldiers’ backs and the swords in their hands!





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