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Published at 7th of February 2019 12:30:05 AM
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The five-hundred wardens clad in black armor were all fanatic believers . These people had varying abilities, with the weakest being a beginner swordmaster . In order to capture Lex, the inquisition had deployed the strongest people they could recruit at the highest speed, but they were still one step behind .

Back at the Stone Statue Castle, a patrol team from Tanggulasi's second-tier army had discovered Lex's tracks and reported them immediately . The intelligence could not be confirmed, so the inquisition only deployed a black deacon . Lex's team was traveling too quickly, so the black deacon did not find anything . At this point in time, the Agares family had received news that Bifano was in trouble .

The Agares family leaked information about Lex's movements . At the periphery of the pink army's base . Men from the Agares family discovered Lex and her party, but Bifano's army was nowhere to be seen . Due to an intelligence error and miscommunication, the people guarding the periphery of the swamp also did not stop Lex .

Once these men initiated contact with the family, it was discovered that Bifano had already sent out a distress signal .

Lex had managed to escape through this crevice . By the time everyone reacted, she and Saleen had already arrived at the perimeter of the Purgatory Desert . The Agares family immediately deployed people to enter the swamp, but the temple's entrance could not be located . Bifano no longer transmitted information, so they knew that something bad had happened to him .

Five-thousand elites and the first son of the Grand Duke of Titan had died, this was a massive loss . Lex had correctly predicted the actions of the Agares family, they intentionally leaked information to the Tanggulasi Empire .

The inquisition then followed up by dispatching Black William . Black William only brought along one-thousand blood knights and a few assistants for the trip . The imperial capital of the Tanggulasi Empire was in a lot of trouble, so the upper management of the Holy See did not leave . In the end, Black William got tricked by Saleen . By the time wardens from the inquisition arrived, they could only find some remnants of Lex .

The disciples of the three head inquisitors held the rank of adjudicators in the inquisition . It was a rank just inferior to an inquisitor . They were the most able assistants to the head inquisitors, and were groomed to be their successors .

The weakest out of the six of them was a grade-7 professional; Black William . The other five were all grade-8 professionals . The fact that the inquisition deployed such a powerful person meant that they looked up to Lex . Even though a holy master's offensive power was lower than that of a mage, this statement only applied when a holy master did not have any equipment and was at the same grade as the mage .

Once a holy master's grade was superior to a mage, they would still possess overwhelming power .

Number two adjudicator Delase and number four adjudicator Fanyin were grade-8 holy masters . They were already absolute high level powers in the Holy See . When they saw that the number five adjudicator, who owned a partial godly weapon,was killed, they became wary .

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Black William was a smiling tiger, he was ruthless and had many tricks up his sleeve . If he used the partial godly weapon, neither of them would be his match . Judging by the marks left behind by the battle, Black William was killed in a single move, it would be strange for Delase and Fanyin not to be fearful .

They did not know that Saleen did not even give Black William a chance to wield the partial godly weapon . If Black William used that partial godly weapon, Saleen could still have killed him, but Saleen would also have died or sustained serious injuries .

Five-hundred wardens paved the way ahead . The word "warden" was just their label, they were the backbone power of the inquisition . Their powers were similar to that of the guards protecting the Tanggulasi emperor .

The wardens forged ahead cautiously . The people walking at the very front pointed their lances downwards . They were oracles who possessed mighty mental strength, so they could detect any approaching danger .

The speed of progress was very low, but Delase and Fanyin never rushed their subordinates . They simply followed behind slowly . This group of people traveled in this manner until deep into the night when the temperature got horrifyingly low . The two of them then allowed the wardens to come to a halt .

The starlight in the sky was dim while the desert was black . The lifeless taste of the air almost drove these people, who had had close shaves with death, crazy . No magic beasts emerged to attack them, even the most renowned sand scorpion was nowhere to be seen . The more quiet it was, the more psychological pressure everyone felt .

The Purgatory Desert was not named to frighten people . Before it became a forbidden land, countless adventurers had died in it .

"Let's set up camp . " Feeling that the wardens were very exhausted, Fanyin decided to bring it up to Delase .

"Okay . " Even before Delase's voice faded away, the wardens at the front began screaming frantically .

"Sand scorpions!"

"No need to yell!" Delase admonished, and there was no more chatter . In this pitch black night, hundreds of colossal sand scorpions had gathered . These sand scorpions were not smaller than a washbasin like how the myths had depicted them, they were actually bigger than a wheel . This was not including the three-yard long tails the sand scorpions had .

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"Damn it, stay together, don't fall behind!" Delase and Fanyin wielded their equipment at the same time . In the face of hundreds of sand scorpions, they were not confident of limiting the number of casualties .

The sand scorpions swayed their tails . At the end of their tails was a bone thorn which gave off a frosty glow . This bone thorn had unparalleled toxicity, and as long as it drew blood, it would kill a person in half a second .

Lex and her party had also ran into trouble . Even though they traveled slowly, their speed was still several times more than that of the wardens who walked on foot . Her team first met the sand scorpions, but this batch of sand scorpions was small in size . In two hours' time, the ten swordmasters had killed all of them . After cracking the skulls of the sand scorpions, they only obtained level-3 magic nuclei . These magic nuclei had unmatched pureness, Lex had never seen a magic nucleus with better quality than theirs .

This made Lex and Saleen come to realize a serious problem . There were no plants in the Purgatory Desert . In the knowledge base of a mage, when magic beasts preyed on one another, there had to be a humongous basic community . This community usually fed on plants for survival . The sand scorpions were also obviously evolved magic beasts . It must be noted that the elements were in some kind of chaos in the Purgatory Desert . Other than Saleen and Lex, the rest of the mages who left the magic chariot could hardly cast a spell stably .

The magic nucleus of a sand scorpion was abnormally pure in order to adapt to the desert's environment . No matter how one looked at it, the environment of this desert could not support too much life .

Saleen and Lex were not afraid of facing individual powerful magic beasts, they were fearful of meeting hordes however .

A slender metal drill dug into the ground of the camp compound . Lex originally thought that this appliance would not be used, but it was not prepared in vain .

Lex was looking for water . In most circumstances, water would be present dozens of yards underneath the sand, but it would be in very tiny volumes, it could only moisten the sand . Lex instructed her men to drill one-hundred and eighty yards into the ground . For every yard advanced, a portion of the sand brought out by the magic machine would be conserved and placed in a porcelain bottle . This bottle would then be delivered to the magic war chariot .

Lex had set up some compact equipment on the small platform in the middle of the war chariot . There were several glass beakers and bottles there . The sand sample was added . Lex did the work personally, incorporating magic medicine into each beaker .

Under the effect of the magic medicine, the water in the sand particles was separated before being channeled into a glass pipe . It then was injected into the tiny glass bottles .

"Saleen, give me a hand . "

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"Yes?"

"Help me to analyze it and determine whether these samples have the power of life or not . " Lex pointed to the sand in the beakers .

Saleen was suddenly jolted . Many organisms could not be seen by the naked eye, but many large creatures relied on them for food . There was a type of mushroom spore which could be directly absorbed by the Dibasian Beast . It was was more than three yards long, taking in the nutrients essential for life .

Very quickly, Saleen discovered that this sand was not dead . Indeed, there were signs of life in this black sand,these creatures were just weak . Saleen was not well-versed in this aspect, he simply relied on the divinity of the goddess for detection . As for what type of life was present in the sand, Saleen had no way of analyzing it . Only if he possessed the Tree of Wisdom would he be omniscient of all life in this world .

Lex also managed to analyze the data she wanted quickly . She told the people in the chariot, "The Purgatory Desert's… precipitation is not low at all . The permeability of this black sand is much higher than that of normal sand though . There will definitely be water sources one mile from here, there might even be an underwater river or lake of some sort . "

"How is this useful?" Nailisi asked, as she did not understand . She also had a desire for human knowledge .

"Some plants have roots that extend for hundreds of yards . As the water source of the Purgatory Desert is located too deep underground, it is very hard to find an oasis, but it doesn't mean that there won't be life present . If a plant has roots which extend for more than a thousand yards into the ground, then they will be able to survive in the desert . "

"I haven't heard of plants that evolve like magic beasts . " Saleen shook his head .

"Daniel has a death plant, anything is possible . Where did those sand scorpions come from otherwise?"

"That's true, but it doesn't help our current situation at all . "

"Not necessarily . This information might seem useless right now, but it might save your life in the future . " As Lex spoke, she put on labels stating the depth on the sand samples before putting them away . She was going to bring the samples back to Metatrin City for the mages to analyze . Following that, she injected the Restorative Water into one of the beakers .

At the bottom of this beaker was a black sand particle as thick as a finger . After the beaker was filled to the brim with Restorative Water, this sand particle suddenly shook .

This time around, even Sika was observing the beaker, it was not known what Lex did .

Ripples were created in the beaker . Suddenly, from within the black sand particle, dozens of creatures as small as dust crawled out . These creatures swam about the water, growing rapidly . The Restorative Water itself was full of nutrition, if one consumed it, their thirst and hunger would be dispelled .

In the blink of an eye, these creatures had grown to the size of a finger . They had the exterior of a fish, but they also had transparent wing-like structures like those found on an insect .

Saleen and Lex fell into silence at the same time . In their minds, they were trying to recall which book contained information about such a strange creature .

"Taklama fish beasts!" Saleen and Lex yelled in unison .

The two of them reacted swiftly at the same time . Lex used Frost Ray, while Saleen simply put his hand on the cup, casting the Frosty Touch .

Ka…

The water in the beaker was frozen, but then it cracked open rapidly as the taklama fish beasts broke free from the ice . They then jumped out of the beaker .

The people in the chariot all reacted with lightning speed . Nailisi and the four demons acted at the same time, grabbing the taklama fish beasts with their hands . Every demon executed a similar motion . They used their fingers and pluck off the beasts' heads without any hesitation .

Seeing that none of the beasts escaped, Saleen and Lex then dispersed the attack spell they were about to cast . By now, they had already broke out in a cold sweat .

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