Open Your Quest Log - Chapter 493

The Mawela Desert is located in the north-central part of the continent. Its north and the extreme north of the permafrost tundra are indistinguishable from each other, and the west is bordered by a barren land full of orcs and giants, and it also has a large border with the Nord kingdom. On the east side, it stretches to the “Dragon’s Back Heights”, which is known as the “Stage of the Main Material Realm”.

It is worth mentioning that the name ‘Mavila’ is not from the Common Language, or the Old Common Language, but from the transliteration of the Elvish language. In Elvish it means ‘the place of the dead’.

According to legend, this vast desert was born during the goblin civilization of the Fifth Era (there is no way to verify it earlier). At that time, the crazy and excellent mechanical engineering civilization of the little greenskins made the whole material plane riddled with holes. The sky is dense with smoke and clouds, the earth is cracked and sandy, and the ocean is polluted and smelly. In the main material world, other than the holy land of elves, it is rare to see other greens other than goblins. Oh sorry, at least there are lots of areas in the ocean that are green, and purple, and red and yellow. Don’t forget black, those little green guys love it.

After that, the goblin civilization ushered in its demise. Those smart and crazy little greenskins in ancient times have become unworthy of even intelligent races today, which is really embarrassing.

For the specific reasons for the disappearance of goblin civilization, academic circles have been divided. But no matter what the reason is for this ending, the mainstream view is that it was caused by the little greenskins themselves, and it is a model of self-inflicted suffering. However, some scholars have put forward a different point of view, they believe that the elves are secretly leading everything. Because the elf family at that time had not yet split up, conspiracy and assassination poisons were all commonplace. After all, noble unicorns in the sun belong to nature, and poisonous spiders in the shadows are also part of nature.

These scholars speculate that elves, who are born to respect nature, must have been dissatisfied with the goblin civilization’s misconduct in the main material world, so they have sufficient motivation and reason, and have the ability to do such a thing. Through long-term planning, the elves arranged and guided secretly, and finally made the goblin civilization completely perish, and they replaced it. It is a pity that this view is too long in time to be verified, and the two races of elves and drow do not cooperate at all, so no concrete evidence has been found until today.

At the end of the fifth era, the elves succeeded in replacing the goblins. The sixth era came, and the elves began to repair various wounds of nature. After the persistent efforts of these long-eared people, the sky and ocean have returned to their own blue, and the lush green vegetation has once again spread across the continent. Unfortunately, there is one place that is an exception, and that is today’s Marvila Desert. To be precise, it should be part of the desert.

The elves drive endless flowers and trees, and surround the desert from all directions. Plants cling to the soil with their long root systems, trying their best to conserve water, nibbling away at the desert bit by bit from the fringes. However, when the vibrant green covered a certain area in the desert, it was blocked in an unimaginable way.

Any plants that enter this area will quickly wither for unknown reasons after a long time, even the species specially cultivated by the Druids will not be spared. The elves tried a lot of methods but couldn’t find the reason for the plants withered, and the yellow sand and soil in the area couldn’t find any problems. The elves who have no way to do this can only choose to use Druids to communicate directly with those newly planted and not dead plants in the area. After some attempts, the druids only got a unified and simple message, that is – death.

Therefore, the elves of the sixth era named the mysterious area ‘Mavila’, which means ‘the place of the dead’, and sent tree shepherds and druids to guard it closely to prevent the desert from expanding.

After that, the sixth era also ended for some known and unknown reasons, and the elves returned to the sacred forest to recuperate. The unattended Mawela Desert began to expand around that mysterious area, and the area of ​​the desert became larger and larger.

Later, the human race rose in the main material plane, and a powerful magic empire was established. The mages of the Empire seem to have found the bizarre cause of the mysterious area in the middle of the desert and solved it once and for all. The Marwela Desert also stopped expanding and became the size it is today.

However, the Magic Empire is not like the elves, who want to turn the entire desert into a green forest. Perhaps due to topographical, ecological diversity, or other unknown reasons, in short, the Magic Empire retained the desert, arid and barren landscape, and only used magic to melt the snow on the Dragon’s Back Plateau. A river was diverted to flow through parts of the Marwela Desert, forming an oasis of water and grass covered with fertile soil for people to live in.

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The city of ‘Tufat’, one of the largest cities in the northwest of the desert kingdom of Takara, is famous for its abundant reserves and various kinds of crystal ores, especially the ‘mind crystal’ that can increase spiritual power.

One day in spring, the weather was fine, and the sand and dust in the sky were rare and completely subsided. The magic tower in the center of the city, covered with purple crystal clusters, suddenly opened its door, and a Nord with a strong body but a very sluggish spirit walked out from the inside.

After the Nords came out, they seemed to feel very uncomfortable. He bent down, rested on the spot with his hands on his knees for a long time, and couldn’t stop complaining, “Next time I’d rather ride a carrot and run more, and never sit in a teleportation circle, those mages won’t be able to improve. What? I even suspect that my soul is still in the place before the teleportation, and I haven’t brought it here at all.”

When the body recovered almost, the Nord slowly straightened up and let out a sigh of relief. Immediately afterwards, as if he had discovered something novel, he looked up at the two Constructed Golems that were much taller than him beside the gate. The expression on the Nord’s face changed from admiration to admiration, then to infatuation, as if looking at his dream lover.

And the Nords felt that just looking at it was not enough, and even raised their hands and tentatively touched the crystalline cluster-like body of the golem, and muttered to themselves, “Yes, really good! With the magic tower, can I also get one to play with. And with the magic tower, I shouldn’t need to spend spar to charge it.” He hesitated.

The cluster golem seemed to feel the strangeness in his body, and looked down at the unruly Nord next to him, scaring the latter to stop quickly. “Hey, I don’t mean anything else, big guy. I just want to touch, that’s all.” The Nord smiled shyly, turned and walked away quickly.

This was the first time in his life that Barrett came to the desert of Maweila, to the human kingdom located in the desert – Takara. In the past, Barbarian had encountered several missions related to the Mawela Desert, but no matter what the reward was, he did not accept it in the end. At that time, the barbarian was somewhat repulsive to this land full of yellow sand, because his mother was from here.

To this day, Barrett has completely forgotten, or never remembered, what his mother looked like. The only image related to it in his mind was his father’s indistinct murmuring after drinking. Through those vague words exuding alcohol, a beautiful, kind, bold, and slightly unruly woman can be outlined. It should be a good woman, but for Barrett, it is not good enough.

When the barbarians entered the Marvila Desert this time, they naturally wanted to find the last sanctuary of the paladins, the Castle of Glory, and then put the broken armor left by the old paladins in the Arena of Diss, The more than 1,000 souls obtained by the explosion of the armor were all handled by the paladins.

With the barbarians’ simple understanding of this profession, no matter how the times change, the paladins uphold the justice in their hearts, which is the source of their current strength. As for Barrett, he felt like he didn’t even know what justice was.

Our barbarian adventurers are well prepared for this desert trip. Through the resources of the Little Mage and the Magic Association, he already knew the specific location of the Castle of Glory in the desert~www.mtlnovel.com~ Although the paladins chose their last professional stronghold in the depths of the desert, it was not easy to find But this so-called “deep” and “difficult to find” are just places that can be reached in the blink of an eye by the sorcerers who control the magic tower.

Whether it’s the former Magic Empire or the current Magic Association, the reason why mages don’t go to trouble with the remaining paladins is not because they can’t find them, but because they don’t want to do it.

Although Barrett already has a detailed map in his hands, the landscapes of deserts and other areas are extremely surprising. Even for Barrett, traveling here is still not an easy task.

The environment, landforms, monsters and beasts in the desert are very different from what he is used to, and an accident is likely to occur if one is not careful. Barbarian thinks that he has certain experience in finding clues and identifying directions in the wild (self-defeating statement), but he is still not sure that he can find the right direction in the boundless yellow sand.

So Barrett wanted to hire himself a local who knew the temperament of the desert, a good guide who knew when to walk and when to stop to avoid storms, so that the rest of the journey would be safer and more convenient.

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