On the orders of the commander, the tackets quickly headed for the Gora Desert. This time Chante and Taketo ride Ulu and Karon is a horse. There is a bridge in front of the caron.

And when he got to the town near the Gora Desert, Karon had to keep the horses and rent the camels. The camel is slightly smaller in the back than the one the tacket knows well. It seems to be a common means of transportation around here.

Karon is a Camel Renter in Bazar, and he chooses seriously which one to rent. Next to that, Taketto asked, looking at the camels with interest.

"... the horses are tough now?

"That's right. The area around the Gora Desert is still sandy, but the closer it gets to the center, the more sand it gets, so the horses can't walk satisfactorily with the sand."

"Is Ulu okay?

"Ulu doesn't seem to have any problem running the sand unless it's burnt during the day. Nor are we going to move the desert during the high sun. And so will the poachers."

It seems to be a common sense behavior pattern in the Gora Desert to travel from evening to morning because the temperature is too high during the day and it is dangerous to act.

"What kind of beast is there in such a hot place?"

After a moment of reflection on Taketo's words, Karon.

"Speaking of the Gora Desert... is it possible to think of sand whales?"

"Sand whales...? Wait a minute...."

Unfamiliar with the words that popped out of Karon's mouth, Taketto takes out the Encyclopedia of the Beast from his shoulder bag and turns to the index. But I couldn't find the word sand whale.

"That? It's not on it."

"Ah... it's probably not in the name of a sand whale. Please lend it to me."

When Karon took over the dictionary from Taketo's hand, he rolled it up. Then, when you open a page, you put it back in the hands of the tacket.

"It is a beast called Yurlunglu. It's also called a rainbow snake."

"... are you a snake? You call yourself a whale?

The illustration of the Encyclopedia of Magic Beasts depicted a creature as smooth as a snake and a dragon.

"Beasts often do not fit into the general biological classification, so collectively. This beast, known as Yurlunglu, is originally a beast that lives on the bottom of the ocean, but some of it inhabits the desert. The huge, slender shape of the desert makes it seem that the locals have established what they call a" sand whale. "

"Ah, really... there's a bit of that in the dictionary."

Yurlung.

It is originally a beast that sits on the bottom of the sea. A kind of primitive beast with bronze epidermis. They say they have the ability to manipulate the weather and are particularly good at manipulating the rain.

Some of them are called sand whales. It's like a magical beast swimming in the desert like a swim in the ocean, even a small one is a dozen meters. Some are said to be hundreds of meters long when they are big, the world's largest beast, excluding dragon species.

"Hee... huge? I wonder what kind of beast it is....."

Curiosity is spreading.

Information gathered in the village of Oasis around the Gora Desert quickly gathered information on poachers and hoarders.

Anything, several men wearing white sand hoods were flashy recruiting people.

But a few days ago, they left the village, and the villagers told me they had taken the hired ones somewhere.

"It might have been a little late. Let's hurry up."

They say that sand whales dive under the sand during the day and have the habit of coming out on the sand from evening to dawn.

We asked the villagers to tell us about some places where they often saw sand whales, and decided to check each one from nearby places.

I walked through the desert all night searching, but there was nothing unusual about it, when the sun began to shine in the eastern sky. It was just when I was heading for my fifth spot.

It looked like a low mountain or hill spreading out in front of me. But the difference from the hill is that it does look like a whale in the distance, and it's a little bit closer, but it's got a whole copper color. The morning sun appeared on the bronze-like epidermis, and it also looked like a giant rocky mountain like Ayers Rock. Even if I gave a quick estimate, it looks like it would be 300 meters long.

"Wow, come on. Are you sure you're alive? Even though it's so big?

"Yeah, that should be it. I've never seen anything so big. But it's strange. Sand whales are too coarse to live here. Sand whales should prefer more dry sand. You can't go into the sand on this hard ground."

As I approached the sand whale with my wool and horse, I gradually saw the situation.

Sand whales were riding on the rocky sand like strands. Around it you can see dozens of men on camels. The men were wearing brown sand hoods. Nevertheless, from the scale of the sand whales, the men are like grains of sand.

"What the hell are they doing?"

Kalon, watching poachers around sand whales on a telescope, asks Taketo as he walks side-by-side in the wool.

"Probably. They're intentionally pushing sand whales into that rock so they can't dive and escape. Maybe that's how you're going to catch it."

"Such a big thing!?

"If we don't have the premise of catching him alive, it's probably possible. Even if

If so, dismantle only the parts you want on the spot. "

While I was talking, I came closer and closer to being able to see. Poachers wearing brown hoods give long ropes to sand whales' breasts and pile them into the ground to secure them. A considerable number of ropes were already spinning around my chest and leg fins.

At that time, the sand whale suddenly sprayed the tide through the nostril in front of her back. It's a tide like the geyser "Kankessen" in the hot spring area because of the size of the body.

The tide rose high and poured down on the entire body of the sand whale. The rain wets the sand whale's bronze skin.

"Yes, sand whales protect the skin from dryness when they're on the surface. Well, it's time to break up. Take a look at the tacket. Take a left."

Copy that.

The Ulu on which the tackets ride and the camel on which Karon rides are divided into two parts. Ulu's feet were faster so he crawled around and approached from the left side of the sand whale.

Chante

"I know."

Chante's magical range is roughly 50 meters. As she approached that critical point, Chante raised her hips and her hands. The tacket will support you from behind.

I won't warn you.

Bringing the Demon Beast into an immobile place and detaining him is itself a clear act of violence against the Demon Beast. It's against the royal law. Therefore, it is possible to arrest them on the spot.

The poachers will notice if the giant Fenrir runs by at this distance. They shoot bows in their hands, but Chante lights them up sooner.

Barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barking barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barring barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely barely bar

a dry sound that rips off the air. Thinking of the lightning flashing over their heads, the next moment a small thunder fell over the poachers, most of whom stopped moving.

Brigitta is on the right side of the sand whale with Karon, so I can't expect her help. For that reason, the poachers seem to have been burned more powerfully than usual, if not more than killed.

Immediately, the bait pulls out the spiritual gun from the waist and shoots what Chante fired. The aim is wide and it feels like it hits hard. Shoot in the image of a shotgun. A bow flew in from the other side, but the tacket pulled the trigger to drop it.

The magic stone contained is the spirit of the wind. Along with the light sound of a pash, an air bullet was thrown, hitting the poacher on the camel with the wind and knocking him down on the ground. Then, the two men who pulled out their swords and came toward us also smashed in the wind spiritual bullets one after the other and blew them up.

(Yeah, if we aim this wide, we'll make it.)

I feel responsive and happy. Chante's second hit also flew, at which time all poachers on this side of the sand whale were disabled.

However, I have noticed it by turning to this side.

The poacher thought the sand whale was split into two parts on the right and left, but it wasn't. There was a third party climbing on the back of a sand whale.

They were about a dozen people wearing a white hood, trying to carry an object about a metre in diameter on top of a sand whale.

(What... what...?)

What they have. It was shaped like a glass ball about one meter in diameter with some legs. The inside of the glass balls is red.

It was an eye-catching tacket to take a closer look, but noticed that Chante was trembling badly in front of her and turned her back to her.

"What's wrong?

I couldn't see her expression because she was riding behind her, but Chante trembled with her body hugging her arms.

"I don't know... I don't know... when I see it. I'm kind of so scared... sad..."

Something cold touched the tacket's hand. The tacket panicked when it realized that it was Chante's tears that had fallen.

"Eh... are you okay?

What should I do? For a moment, Chante thought about waiting in a remote place, but realized that he couldn't afford it right away.

Suddenly, several large blade-shaped chunks fell from the top of the octopuses, which approached the sand whales a little bit closer, and pierced the ground.

It flew in the direction of the top of the sand whale. One of the white hoods was pointing at us with a long cane in his hand. When the white hood shakes the wand, a small white grain emerges from the trajectory of the wand, and it grows bigger and bigger as it approaches us at high speed, like the blade of a large sword, attacking Ulu again.

"Is that the power of the Spirit?"

Perhaps that wand contains an ice spirit. Although the ice blades created by the trajectory of the cane approach Ulu one after the other, Ulu avoids it with incredible agility from the giant.

The next moment, a few large blades of ice pierced where Ulu was.

After a short distance, Ulu stopped avoiding, lowered his head, grunting and roaring his throat. Then, Ulu took a big breath into the back of the tacket, as you can see from the shoulder movement. Then I stopped breathing for only half an instant and my mouth was wide open. A burning flame appeared in his mouth, and it was thrown towards the white robe standing on top of the sand whale.

The thick, thick muscles of fire approached the white hood with the cane straight. Ulu's flames melted and broke the ice blade released by the white hood, but they were too far away to reach.

Immediately after the next attack, Ulu closed his mouth and took a short distance from the sand whale.

While Ulu was against the white hood, the other white hoodies carried the strange device to the back of the sand whale and placed it right behind the hole for the whale to squirt. No, it would have been better to say that I stabbed him with the thin leg of the device than to say that I put it there.

(What are you doing...? (Them)

I had a bad feeling about it. I wonder. Chante seemed terrified after seeing it. I don't know about the tacket itself, but I don't think it's worth the trouble with something like that weird device.

The next moment I felt that the red in the device had increased in vigor.

The sand whale opened its mouth.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

The sound and vibrations that shake the bottom of the earth echo around. The sand whale rang.

It sounded like a sad voice that was about to crush my chest.