The Otherworldly Adventures of a Super Naive Girl

394: The Land of Sand (Drafted 2/23)

Zo loved Plum like a little sister.
He vowed not to let her die for him again.
“Never mind about me, where’s the butler? He’s not with you?” Zo asked when he didn’t see his butler.

Plum shook her head.
“I didn’t see the butler.
We were together originally, but then we got separated during teleportation.”

Plum and the butler had also survived a king’s tomb and been transported to a new location.
Unfortunately they did not meet in the new location.

It had made Plum uneasy, but she felt much better now that she was with Zo.

“Master –,” Plum was about to say something, but was interrupted.

“Boy hand over your space ring, and the girl too! I don’t have all day to wait for you!” The guy had been keeping tabs on Zo and eyeing the things in Zo’s space ring for a while.
He did not want to miss the current opportunity.

“Who are you?” Plum turned to look at the man who had spoken.
It was like she’d only just then realized there was someone else in front of Zo.

“It doesn’t matter who I am.
Just hand the space ring over quickly!” He was getting impatient.

“You want to rob Young Master?” Plum’s eyes turned cold.
Her originally innocent expression turned abstruse.

“Little girl, if you don’t want to die, hurry up –” He was about to say something cruel to force them to hand the ring over, but he was interrupted by the girl.
He never expected her to directly pull out a sword and aim for his heart.

Though he was startled, he immediately raised his sword to defend.
He managed to block but was forced to take several steps back.
He felt the blood pumping in his chest.
Horrified, he wondered who the girl was.
She had addressed the kid as Young Master.

Could someone this skilled in swordsmanship only be a maid or attendant?

It didn’t matter how terrified he was, Plum’s sword style kept changing and his own sword felt heavier and heavier with each block.
After a dozen moves, his hands could barely hold onto his sword.
Plum knocked it out of his grasp and sent it flying several meters away.

His face was pale as a long sword jammed into his heart.

“You. . . you. . . ” was all he could get out before coughing out a mouthful of blood.
His eyes dimmed as his life faded away.

Plum pulled her sword out and flicked it at random.
The blade was spotless, as clean as a mirror, after the blood flew off.
If people hadn’t witnessed the fight just then, it would have been hard to believe the immaculate sword was just used in a deadly fight.

The female magician and swordsman watching never expected the ordinary girl to be so strong.
They wondered who the young man was.
An ordinary nobleman could never afford an attendant of that caliber.
So who was he?

The two regretted not interfering.
Maybe if they had, they could have formed a worthwhile connection for the future.
These kinds of connection couldn’t be purchased even with a thousand gold.
A pity they didn’t know.

After Plum dealt with man who had disrespected Zo, she turned her gaze to the other two.
She ignored them after ascertaining they had no intentions toward Zo.

…

Feng Wu was unaware of any of this; she was in a desert alone.
An angry sun shone from above, roasting everything beneath it.
Feng Wu’s face was red and a thin layer of sweat glistened on her forehead.
She drank some water from the waterskin in her hand.

“Baby, where is this place?” There was no one else around.
Feng Wu had a question so she asked Rui Baby, who seemed to know a lot of things.

“If I’m not mistaken, this place is the tomb of the Czar.” Rui Baby told her.

“Czar?” Feng Wu cocked her head to one side as she thought about whether or not she had read about this character in a book before.

She finally remembered after thinking for a while.
“I know him.
The book said the Czar was a powerful man in ancient times who ruled the Kingdom of Sand.
He and his country perished after the war between the two realms.
The kingdom has been gone for a long time.”

Feng Wu liked this.
She had learned a lot from all her reading, so she was able to connect what Rui Baby said with what she learned.

“That’s right.
The Kingdom of Sand did perish long ago.
The survivors built the tomb for the czar.
I’m not surprised the sea god moved his tomb, but I don’t understand why he had to move the entire kingdom as well.
So unreasonable.” Rui Baby couldn’t figure out why the sea god would want to move the entire kingdom.
Even the spirit king here only had his tomb moved.

“I think I know why.” The king spoke.
Thousands of spirits stood behind him as comfortable as can be, completely unaffected by the heat.

“What’s the reason?” Feng Wu asked with wide eyes.

The king smiled slightly and said, “The reason is very simple.
The Czars’ tomb has always been linked to the Kingdom of Sand.
When the kingdom fell, the last survivors sealed the entire country as a tomb for him.
So if the sea god wanted to remove the Czar’s tomb, he would have had to remove the entire kingdom along with it.”

It was a simple reason.

Feng Wu nodded in understanding.
It turned out they were in the Kingdom of Sand! She thought back to the description written in the book.
The kingdom was supposed to be the most beautiful city in the desert, an oasis.
But she didn’t see an oasis anywhere.
What was going on?