I, the Villain, Want to Save Myself, But the Yandere Heroines Disagree-Chapter 18 - Entering the Desert (3/5)

Seven days later, at the human-beastman border, a person wearing a white cloak appeared at the edge of the desert.

He looked up, glanced at the sandstorm in the desert, then looked back at the city behind him. Then, he took his steps and walked towards the depths of the desert.

The reason humans did not enter the desert was because of the desert’s unique sandstorm climate.

Under this sandstorm climate, ordinary human soldiers were extremely prone to respiratory infections, thereby reducing their combat effectiveness or even losing their lives.

And the deeper one went into the desert, the more frequently this sandy weather occurred. At its worst, it could even block out the sun.

At the same time, as the exploration deepened, the damage caused by the sandstorm in the desert to the human body also intensified.

Even high-level strong individuals, when facing this sandstorm weather, had to spend energy on protection. Under such harsh conditions, it was difficult for humans to even survive, let alone fight a war.

Humans had previously sent an army of twenty thousand deep into the desert, attempting to annihilate the beastmen. Unexpectedly, this army was lost contact with the human side before it could even penetrate deep into the desert. In the end, less than one in ten returned, and most of them suffered from lung disease, completely unable to live normally.

Because of this, humans had always stayed away from the desert.

However, strangely, the impact of the sandstorm in the desert on the beastmen was almost negligible.

Beastmen considered the desert their natural barrier. They would normally come out of the desert and attack the border.

But as long as humans sent a large army to surround and annihilate them, the beastmen would retreat into the depths of the desert, waiting for the sandstorm to repel the human army.

And the person heading into the depths of the desert against the sandstorm was precisely Orson.

Going back a month, when the Imperial Academy’s reinforcements arrived, Therese gave Orson a gift.

“This set of clothes is enchanted with wind and sand protection runes. It has a miraculous effect in the climate of the desert. Wearing this set of clothes, you can enter the desert and not have to worry about the damage from sandstorms,” Therese said this.

“But, Teacher Therese, why are you giving me this?” Orson looked at Therese, asking in confusion.

“Don’t you want to know the real reason?” Therese said this, smiling and looking at Orson. “About the reason the desert was formed, and why the sandstorm only affects creatures other than beastmen.”

“Teacher Therese, do you know the reason behind it?”

“Have you forgotten my race? I am a witch with a long lifespan,” Therese said, tapping the table. “Although I can’t guarantee my professional knowledge is greater than yours, Orson, when it comes to gossip and various unofficial news, you shouldn’t underestimate someone who is older than your grandfather!”

“Is it really okay for you to directly state your age like that...” Orson was speechless.

“Ahem, in any case, in my memory, someone once explored the secrets of the desert. It is said that in the depths of the desert, there is a palace, which the beastmen use as a place to worship their gods. Perhaps the reason the desert was formed is there.”

“Then why don’t you go yourself, Teacher?” Orson asked.

“That’s because beastmen have little to do with me, of course,” Therese replied matter-of-factly. “As for you, Orson, you’re the one who wants to solve the beastman problem the most, right? Don’t you want to go see the desert?”

To be honest, Orson did want to go there and see. After all, he had orchestrated the beastmen’s internal conflict, and he also wanted to see how effective it was now.

Furthermore, if he could truly understand the reason the desert was formed and find a way to counter the sandstorm, it seemed he could indeed eliminate the beastmen threat in one fell swoop.

“Alright.” Orson heard this, nodded, and took the clothes from Therese’s hand.

This set of clothes looked like a white windproof cloak, with nothing particularly noteworthy about it. But Therese told him it had a miraculous effect against sandstorms. Orson could only enter the desert with the thought of giving it a try.

As Orson went deeper into the desert, the sandstorm around him became larger and larger, but other than slightly obstructing his vision, Orson felt nothing else.

In other notes on exploring the desert, even in the face of the slightest sandstorm, the human body’s reaction would be very strong.

It seemed this clothing did have an effect.

Thinking this, Orson quickened his pace.

No one had drawn a map of the desert. Orson planned to first find a beastman tribe and inquire about the desert from within the tribe.

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An unknown amount of time had passed since Orson entered the desert. Orson only knew he was a little tired from walking when the wooden walls of a tribe appeared before him.

At this moment, the sandstorm had stopped, no longer obstructing his vision.

Orson approached the tribe, tightening his collar.

In his opinion, beastmen would definitely not welcome humans. Therefore, he planned to first knock out a beastman and take him away, forcing him to be his guide.

But when Orson reached the edge of the tribe and climbed onto the wooden wall to look into the tribe, he was surprisingly startled.

At this moment, the tribe was not filled with the green-skinned beastmen seen on the battlefield, nor people who still retained significant characteristics of their original race like the Minotaurs.

Everyone in this tribe was a demi-human.

Like the demi-human girl with the code name Lion he had encountered in the Imperial Capital before, the demi-humans here were a race whose appearance was almost identical to humans but possessed beast ears and tails.

These demi-humans were mostly the offspring born from the union of beastmen and humans, and it had to be beastmen with rare original racial characteristics among the beastmen to give birth to this race.

The matter of reproductive isolation seemed quite mystical in this world. Although humans and beastmen could be said to be different races, the demi-humans born from them were still fertile. Furthermore, due to their strong genes, the children of demi-humans were also demi-humans.

Although their genes were strong, the living environment of demi-humans was extremely harsh. freёnovelkiss.com