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ver.
On the contrary, he even felt a little grateful to Nahama for this.

Thanks to that, Eugene had no need to try and cross the borders into two countries.

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There were a few things bothering Eugene.

The first was the desert.
The heat was no big deal, but the non-stop gusts of sand felt like shit.

Fortunately, Eugene’s situation wasn’t too bad, thanks to the Storm Sword Wynnyd.
Using the sword, Eugene was able to summon wind spirits who helped him shed all of this sand without having to take a bath.

However, the gusts of sand weren’t the only problem in this desert.
The desert was both vast and barren.
No matter where you turned to look, there was only sand.
After passing by the warp gate on the western border, he hadn’t seen a single village, let alone a city.

This didn’t really matter that much.
He already had a map that would keep him from losing his way even in this vast desert, and he had plenty of food and water packed in his cloak.

As for the lack of shelter? Well, that certainly might be a difficult challenge for a young master of the prestigious Lionheart clan who had grown up in the lap of luxury; but for Hamel, who had been forced to live the life of a wanderer from a young age, he was already used to it.
So even though the desert was cold as hell at night, when he lay down covered by the Cloak of Darkness, Eugene was actually put into a cheerful mood as he recalled the good old days.

‘It’s nice to be able to see the stars so clearly,’ Eugene thought positively.

Wrapped up in his cloak, Eugene stared up at the night sky.
Although the night skies of Kiehl and Aroth were also quite beautiful, they couldn’t compare to the sky of a desert without a single source of illumination.

If it weren’t for those bastards hovering in the distance, he would have been in an even better mood to appreciate the night sky than he was now.

‘How many days has it been?’ Eugene wondered.

It was about four days after he had passed through the final city’s western gate.

Usually, when crossing a desert, normal people would never think of doing it alone.
At the gate, which all foreigners needed to go through in order to leave the city, there were a lot of travelers looking for companions to cross the desert together.
That way, they could cooperate with each other, or even form a temporary caravan.
They could also collectively hire guides and escorts familiar with the desert.

These were some of the safest ways to cross the desert, but Eugene didn't choose any of them.
Instead, he decided to just cross the desert all by himself, and that was literally what he did.
Without even riding a camel, he set out to cross the desert by relying solely on his own body.
This was because Eugene had judged that walking on his own two feet would actually be faster than riding a camel.

Back to the present, Eugene thought to himself, ‘Are they really thieves?’

That had been his first suspicion.
But for thieves, their behavior was strange.
They had been following behind Eugene since two days ago, but instead of attacking him to steal his belongings, they had just kept following Eugene’s trail while maintaining a long distance between him and them.

‘Identity cards are convenient, but at times like this, they sure are a fucking pain.’

Three hundred years ago, fake IDs were common.
As long as you handed the guards a few pennies along with an identity badge you picked up from somewhere, you could easily pass through any gate you liked.
However, in this day and age, since it was common for identification cards to be linked with your blood, it wasn’t so easy to forge one’s identity.

Since it was so hard, and things would just get annoying if he got caught, Eugene had decided to forego such an attempt.

‘So who are they?’

Eugene had had no choice but to present his real ID at the city gate.
He had also given quite a bit of money to the person in charge who had been on the verge of making a fuss about it.
Eugene had thought that he’d managed to convince the guy with his threats and bribery to just keep quiet and let him through, but it looked like that damn bastard had just pocketed his money and then reported it to his superiors.

That was probably why he now had a tail.
Being a member of a prestigious family wasn’t always a convenience.

With a click of his tongue, Eugene took out his map.
For the past four days since he had left Kajitan, he had moved quite quickly.
This body of his didn’t tire easily, and his mana was also up to snuff.
Thanks to that, he was able to move faster than he would have while riding a camel.
If he kept up this pace, Eugene would arrive at his past life’s hometown in three days at the very latest.

But he had no intention of dragging this troublesome tail home with him.

Eugene had left them alone for the past two days to better check their intentions, but since these guys were keeping quiet, it looked like he would need to make them speak up, even if that meant using force.

Openbookworm's Thoughts

Even in modern times, dozens of people died each year, disappeared, or lost their minds due to warp failure.

OBW: This sounds scary, but then you remember how many people die due to car accidents each year, or even from airplanes.

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