chapter 4

The time came for us to leave and travel to the other city. The man using the carriage this time is a lizard man, a very rare creature to see. The first carriage that took me to the elves was driven by a human, but we had to change to another carriage because we are going into the desert that connects the land of Mistwood to Sunhaven, where the beast folk live, the second biggest region in the world. After leaving the forest of elves, we entered the desert where we passed a gate called the Last Entry Point. After stopping there to purchase items for the travel, such as water, sand poison protection masks, and heat protection clothes, we entered into the desert.

When entering the desert, people must wear poison protection masks to block the poison in the sand because of the huge amount of sun rays that combine with the mana in the earth and then stored in the sand. If it enters a human body, it poisons the lungs and leads to lung failure, and you die shortly after. But when I asked the lizard man why he does not have on a mask, he said, "Lizard men don't need masks like humans because their bodies were made to survive in the desert. In their lungs is a filter that filters out the poison and sand particles, and their thick skin blocks the sun rays." After we had a conversation, he told me his name was Thuz. He was a knight that was stripped of his title after the war against the beast tribe 20 years ago, but now he works at the academy as a transporter. I told him my name was Rusius, and after we talked, we arrived at the city hidden in the sand, Saharath, a mining city run only by lizard men because they are the only creatures that can survive in the desert. Other than the lizard men, there are adventurers and students traveling to the Elysium academy. When we stopped by, we went and picked up some more supplies because we were running low, but we decided to stay the night because of the cold weather. Thuz told me that humans had to sleep in a special inn where it blocks the poisoned sand from entering, and humans are able to breathe normally. We last and traveled two days ontell we reached the entry point of sunhaven were thuz left me to a lady called miss Isadora she told me that we would stay at this place for 12days.