"Boundary...... Did you go into the desert?"

Lilia lifted the curtain and looked curiously at the sandy yellow sky outside the window.

For Lilier, who had never traveled far before, such a primitive and rugged scenery only existed in books, and Lilier was somewhat excited to see such a landscape that had almost no connection with humans for the first time.

Aisha sat on the side, not interested in the scenery outside the window, quietly holding a book and reading.

It's been two days since the journey, and nothing unusual has happened after that night. And Aisha, in order to avoid startling the snakes, did not get out of the car to investigate the two items that were secretly placed at the bottom of the carriage - God knows if there would be any precautionary measures on the road......

Compared to Aisha, Lili, who has no ability to protect herself, remains quite calm, not caring at all that there is a time bomb under her ass, and there is no tension.

She has enough confidence in Aisha, but Aisha still has some concerns - everything is going to the Three Treasures Palace, those people took advantage of the night to secretly place some devices on the carriage, there must be some plans, but Aisha really can't guess the other party's intentions without analyzing these devices.

Although Aisha has no doubt that she can protect Liliel in any situation, the feeling that this rhythm is not under her control makes Aisha still a little unhappy.

"Aisha, have you ever been to the desert before?"

"Naturally, this has come......" Aisha put down the book in her hand and looked out the window through the glass. "But, like most people, I don't have a soft spot for the desert. ”

It's just that the reasons may be a little different...... Aisha kept this sentence in her heart and did not say it.

For Aisha. There is only one reason why she hates the desert - the air here is too turbid, and the sand and gravel in the wind make Aisha really unable to take a good impression of such a landscape.

"Looks ...... It's not very human-friendly. ”

Just by looking at it, Lilia could somewhat understand why the desert was regarded as a forbidden area for life—even ordinary people could feel that it was in this sandy yellow area. You can barely smell any living creatures, do you? Take a deep breath and enter your nose with nothing but sand and gravel.

Although because of the existence of mages in this world, the water resources are not so tight in the desert. But it's still a nightmare zone that has devoured countless people.

"By the way, after entering the desert, those mercenaries' nerves tensed a lot?"

Liliel noticed a slight difference, too.

"It's an individual who can't easily travel in a desert like this...... But. This time there are indeed some troublesome reasons. ”

"What's the reason?"

"I don't know the specifics. But all I know is that during this time, several caravans have been wiped out here, which is why this time the caravan's escort strength is much stronger than usual - because there are no survivors to report the situation, everyone can only think about the bad and improve the strength of the caravan as much as possible, right? They probably haven't taken it much, have they?"

The mercenaries can't relax. After all, in the desert, no "little thing" can be ignored.

"Then Aisha, have you taken on such a mission that must be dangerous?"

Liliet's question stumped Aisha all of a sudden, you know, Aisha is just a nominal "mercenary" with a lot of water, where did she have any missions?

"It should be...... Isn't it?" Aisha thought for a moment and gave Liliye a vague statement, "There's nothing 'dangerous' to me, is it?"

The second half of the sentence is the truth.

This is like the gap between ordinary students and top students - the "problems" that ordinary students regard as beasts of the flood are just "old faces" in exercise books and reference books in the eyes of top students~

Aisha really didn't feel much of anything that could pose a real threat to her...... Maybe there are some concerns about protecting Liliet's oil bottle now, but at best, it's just going to be from easy to normal - and Aisha herself can still be classified as a big touch if she puts some water.

"Although it is not to say that there is no 'danger', however, I think most of the situations are unavoidable, after all, the world is so big, how can there be such ...... it"

Aisha suddenly stopped talking and looked out the window in a daze.

“...... Luckily. ”

What a story! Aisha clearly thinks that she doesn't have the natural skills of a crow's mouth!

After seeing Aisha's surprised face and then showing a helpless wry smile, Lilia hurriedly went to the window to look out, only to see that the earth and the sky in the distance were no longer sharply divided, and the yellow sand in the sky swallowed the horizon, just in the direction of the convoy!

"Sand ...... Sandstorm!?"

Lilielle, who had always been bold, could not help but panic when she saw the power of nature. This is a force that human beings can't resist, and it's no wonder that she is so out of shape.

"Sandstorms happen every year, and there are especially many of them today...... Rest assured, caravans like this, which have been traveling back and forth in the desert for many years, have experience in dealing with sandstorms. In fact, as long as you don't mess around, a sandstorm of this magnitude won't cause much damage – of course, it's inevitable that your trip will be blocked. ”

As Aisha spoke, the mercenaries began to mount one after another, and drove all the horses and other mounts to the side of the vehicles, and the few mages began to chant magic, adding some positive effects to the people and vehicles around them to increase the safety factor in the sandstorm.

Although many people began to panic, whether it was a caravan or a mercenary. The older and experienced leaders did not panic and began to calmly organize the manpower to reinforce the vehicles in response to the sudden sandstorm.

Sandstorms are terrible. But for veterans of desert walking, it doesn't matter as long as it's not a natural disaster. They have long been accustomed to the baptism of sand.

[However, this sandstorm came so suddenly......]

As everyone waited quietly for the baptism of dust, Aisha suddenly thought of something and frowned slightly—and Lilia was staring intently at the terrible sand outside the window, not noticing Aisha's side.

Aisha, who can manipulate the wind and use it as her own eyes and ears. I believe there is no reason to ignore this sizable sandstorm until it approaches.

[Very abrupt, sure enough. It's artificial, right?]

Aisha didn't think the sandstorm was blowing out of thin air.

Who is the one who is attacking the caravan in the sandstorm, and why is it attacking the caravan?

Could it have something to do with the sneaky guys who were around next to her carriage two days ago? Aisha suddenly thought of this—although the sneaky thieves were completely incompatible with the large-scale attack in front of her, the connection between the two could not be ignored.

[In the impression.] Humans don't seem to have the magic to call a sandstorm, even in the desert. Because of the specific ratio of the wind element to the earth element, it is impossible to rely on wind magic to drive the sandstorm...... If it's manipulation, this technique seems to be like an orc shaman's spell. 】

Could it really be related to orcs?

Aisha and the original destination of this convoy was the territory of the orcs.

But how could the orcs come and attack the caravans? Not to mention the diplomatic problems, these caravans would bring the orcs a lot of goods that they did not have but were in great demand, and they had absolutely no reason to attack the caravan! Besides, even if they wanted to attack. Why bother setting up such a large formation? What could be done with only a few teams of cavalry was actually done with a strategic-level spell......

I always felt that something was wrong.

If it's to disguise your identity, you can use a spell like Sandstorm. There was no reason for these orcs to be ignorant of the Dao, and in the absence of a follow-up attack, a simple sandstorm would be of little use against these experienced caravans.

That is, do they have a follow-up method?

"Whew! what a calculation......

At the same moment when Aisha reacted, the carriage, which was already swaying in the sandstorm, suddenly flipped violently, and the carriage turned 90 degrees over.

"Uhh

Lilia screamed as she was lifted from her seat by the inertia of the carriage overturning—and just as her head was about to hit the wall of the carriage, Aisha reached out and grabbed Liliet's thin waist.

[Sure enough, the reason why the magic of that thing is so weak is not that it has any special function, it is just a signal...... However, it has nothing to do with the sandstorm attacks launched by the orcs now......?

Moments before the carriage topples, Aisha had already broken through the floor of the carriage and caught a device that had been installed.

Aisha...... This, what's going on!?"

"Well, someone wants to destroy this convoy completely, especially you, it looks like someone is determined to get your life. ”

The other party's goal is not just to kill Liliet, but to really want to destroy the entire convoy indiscriminately. However, those enemies were orcs, and it was humans who installed this signaling device on the carriage......

[Some people care about Lilier very much...... No, it's the fact that Lilia Desfasa died, and they're human. 】

"It's kind of interesting......"

Aisha suddenly felt that the "extraordinary journey" that Liliel longed for might not be a dream.

"Are you ready, Liliye?" Aisha turned to look at Liliet, who was holding her arms, and a dangerous smile appeared on her lips, "The journey you've been looking forward to begins." ”

"Huh?"

Without giving Liliet a chance to react, Aisha unfolded her wings of the wind, tearing the carriage apart and plunging her straight into the sandstorm-ravaged sky!

In a panic, Liliah hugged Aisha tightly and did not dare to relax in the slightest, however. She closed her eyes and waited for a moment, realizing that there was no stinging pain from the cold wind carrying the sand on her cheeks. Tentatively, Liliah slowly opened her eyes.

For what is it, Aisha boldly flew into the sky in the sandstorm weather, and has not been swept away. Liliel felt that this kind of problem seemed to be taken for granted compared to the scene in front of her.

The cyan wind surrounded her, and in the yellow sand, Lilier was surprised to find that she could still smell the fresh air without the smell of sand. And with himself and Aisha as the center, within a radius of a few meters. The air is clear without a trace of dust.

Aisha...... Why do we want to fly into the sky?"

"Look at your feet and you'll know for yourself. ”

Following Aisha's instructions, Liliah set her eyes at her feet, and was instantly shocked by what she saw—the yellow sand. Like a slow-flowing maelstrom, constantly trying to drag everything around it into the center of the "maelstrompool...... And that center is the carriage in which I was before!

"Aisha! they ...... Save them!"

Lilier saw that some people had been swept into the whirlpool of gravel. When the hand that is trying to reach up is also submerged. And there was no more sound.

Although I am looking forward to an extraordinary journey, it is definitely not such a bloody and cruel journey!

"If you're referring to that vortex, I'm sorry, it's not compatible with me, and there's nothing I can do about it. Aisha shook her head helplessly, telling a truth that made Liliet feel hopeless.

"What to do...... What to do...... Grandpa Mao, he's still down there......"

Lilia was really crying now.

Even if she can not care about other people's lives, but she has brought herself up since she was a child, and she has always tolerated her old housekeeper. Liliet couldn't do anything about it—in a sense, the old butler was the one Liliet was really close to at home.

"Get ready. We're getting out of here......"

Aisha's cold words brought Lilia back to her senses.

"We ...... Are you going to leave them behind?"

Lilia asked reluctantly, though she knew that it was unlikely that Aisha would help those caught in the whirlpool of death, after all, as a mercenary, Aisha's first task was to protect herself.

"Did I say I left them alone?" Aisha said with a playful smile on her face, "I just said I wanted to leave this place out of here, it was for your safety, but I never said I wanted to leave these people alone." ”

"Huh!?" Aisha's words made Lilia look up in surprise, and she suddenly saw hope in her despair.

"But didn't you say you're not good at dealing with this situation......

"Well, I'm just saying that I'm not good at dealing with the kind of situation below~" Glancing at the whirlpool beneath her feet, Aisha flapped the wings of the wind behind her, and the wind and waves tore a hole in the dust.

"But, I don't have any pressure here! It's just a sandstorm, what's it? Even if I'm trying to get it now...... I can cut it open too!"

Anyway, as long as you let the sandstorm stop, just a slow sand and gravel vortex can't help those people, right? It's just because of the sandstorm that the whirlpool can be so deadly.

Cut...... Cut through the sandstorm!?

Lilia listened in a daze as Aisha spat out crazy "rhetoric", but there was no way to raise any doubts in her heart - as if it sounded like a crazy line, and in Aisha's mouth, it was just a statement of a real fact.

Is this really possible?

- Since Aisha said that, that's what happened, right?

“......”

Lilia didn't say anything more, just hugged Aisha tightly. If you don't hold on to it for a while and fall, it's a joke that can't be colder......

"Huh, Aisha, ...... you?"

Liliet felt the arms around her back, and was speechless for a moment.

"Don't you think I need to use my hands to deal with a small sandstorm, right?" Aisha looked at Lilier strangely, as if she didn't pay any attention to the raging sandstorm that covered everything in front of her, "Don't worry, I won't let go until you land safely!"

"Hmm!"

The wings of the wind vibrated three times in a row, and each time they vibrate, the wings of the wind extended several meters, and after three times, the wings spread out flatly, and there was already a wide range of more than twenty meters, and the sand and dust were cleared.

"Let's go!"

The two people who were wrapped in the wind, from almost standing still in the air, in vain, burst out with incredible speed, as if there was no so-called acceleration process, and reached an extremely high speed in an instant - if it was other creatures, even dragons, they would not dare to fly at such a speed, because not only the G-force, but also the sound barrier and the thermal barrier are the key points that all creatures that can fly have to consider.

But Aisha completely ignored this. The seemingly fragile breeze actually gives Aisha and Lilia the safest and most stable protection.

The pale blue meteor streaked across the dark, yellowish sky, like a razor-sharp blade, cutting the raging sand and dust in half, along with the sky that was obscured by it.

As if cut off by the wings of the wind, the cyan air flowing from the wings blended with the light, and all the sand and gravel in its path lost the strength to continue to revelry in the sky, and even if they were reluctant, they had to stop.

“......”

Lilia stared dumbfoundedly at what was happening in front of her.

That's what it is...... Does Aisha have the amount of libido?

Lilia secretly glanced at Aisha's face, and that delicate and confident smile was deeply reflected in Liliet's heart—such a strength...... No, I want that kind of smile too......

"I mean, I just need to know something...... Well, it's a private matter, isn't it? Lilière, would you be interested in coming along?"

Aisha felt that she and Liliah should not go back to the caravan until they knew what had happened—it was okay to protect one Liliye by herself, but it would be a bit of a headache to bring a caravan.

"Well, I want to go ......"

Lilier nodded firmly. (To be continued......)