The sandstorm was approaching rapidly, and I could hear the sound of Hickrad's breathing beside me also became more and more rapid.

"Relax, Hickrad, relax," I whispered to him, "You will kill us like this!"

"I, I'll do my best," Hickrad replied nervously, and began to take a deep breath.

Blessed by the goddess of luck, his deep breathing finally had an effect. I could feel that after a few deep breaths, his breathing began to become stable, and the eyes under the turban were no longer panicked.

"Ah!" The leading sand bandit raised their machetes and shouted and drew a few circles in the air. The remaining sand bandits raised their weapons to respond, while controlling the camels to surround us.

"Where are you going, three guests from afar?" The leader of the sand bandit took off his headscarf. The smiley expression on his face made me say in my heart. As expected, he immediately said, "Pick off your headscarf. I know you are not Karak. This kind of headscarf is very uncomfortable for you foreigners."

Neither Hiccrad nor Cristo spoke or did anything, but stared at the leader of the sand bandit.

"It seems that you still have luck in your heart, ha?" The leader of the bandit frowned, and the tattoo on his face also twisted. "I know you are all foreigners, and we have a lot of eyeliners in Noqi City."

He slashed his scimitar across and patted it twice, "You don't really think that we can't recognize you if we wear the same clothes as the Karaks, right? We have a lot of ways to distinguish you from the Karaks."

"Damn it," Christo could no longer hold it back and cursed, "I knew the solution given by the guild was not reliable at all! They completely regarded us and the sand bandits as fools!"

"Why don't you do it?" Seeing that Christo spoke, I stopped silent and asked curiously, "I remember you jihadists hate the Imperial people."

"Yes, yes," the leader of the sand bandit leader nodded, "but hatred cannot be extended endlessly. The blood shed by the Karaks back then has been repaid by the Empire. We will no longer... kill people when we see them."

"Also," he snatched his camel, "There were something worse in this desert, and the shamans of our tribe felt that some dark and evil existence had penetrated the desert," he sighed, "thank more important and more urgent than the blood debt of the Imperial people."

"You're right," I nodded quickly, "It was a group of dark vampires, and a large number of necromancers who intended to resurrect the corpses under the desert."

"Taize's glory!" The leader of the sand bandit seemed very shocked and pulled the camel around and turned around. "This is a complete blasphemy! The long sleep of those warriors should not be disturbed! Curse these damn dark people!"

“We’re here to deal with this,” I said to him, “if you want, I think we can… cooperate?”

"Cooperation?" The leader of the bandit touched his chin and nodded, "This is a good idea. Very good, foreigners, we will cooperate with you, but remember that this cooperation will only last until the matter is resolved."

"I get it." I smiled and stretched out a hand at him. "Happy cooperation, I'm Savoscott."

"Happy cooperation," he came down from the camel and ran over to shake hands with me. "My name is Faisal Ibn Alahad Aziz Ibn Abdul Ahhman, you can call me Faisal."

"This is Hiccrad, this is Christo." I pointed to the two people behind me and introduced them to Faisal.

"I'm glad to meet you."

"I'm the same." The two of them said in unison.

"So, tell me your plans." Faisal put on a turban and inserted the scimitar back into the front sheath.

"Our people went deep into the desert in groups of three. Any group of people who discovered those dark creatures would fire very obvious signal flares."

"That's not great," Faisal sighed, "We are more than one nomadic tribe in this desert."

"It seems that there are also a group of people among you who are not easy to talk to," I said.

"Yes," Faisal seemed a little worried, "Although many tribes are like us, there are still two conservative tribes who are extremely hated by the Empire. There is no doubt that they will kill all your partners they meet, even if the desert is threatened by the power of darkness."

"This is not great," I sighed. "These hunters are elites, and any one of them is our loss. Can you think of a way?"

"I try," Faisal nodded, "I can be sure that the tribes except those two tribes will join us, but I can't guarantee what the two tribes are."

"What if they don't?" I asked.

"Then I can only say sorry, Savos," Faisal smiled bitterly, "we will help you with vampires and necromancers, but we will not attack the Karaks. This is our sacred and ancient tradition, sorry."

"It's okay, I understand." I sighed again, "I can only hope that they are lucky enough."

"Come with us, our tribe is deeper in the desert, eha kasque!"

His last words were said to the three nomadic warriors beside him. The three people he called out nodded and led the camel to us.

"You guys ride a camel with them," Faisal explained, "it may not be comfortable without a saddle, but it's definitely fast enough."

We climbed onto the camel as we said, but fortunately, this camel is a single camel, and there are two more comfortable positions in front and behind the camel.

"Hold!" Seeing that we were all sitting on the camels steadily, Faisal shouted, and all the nomadic soldiers swung the reins in their hands at the same time, and the camels that were sitting ran up again.

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The journey to the Faisal tribe was not too long. After twenty minutes of bumpy ride on camels, a very large village surrounded by oasis appeared in front of us.

"Isammu" is the name of this village. Faisal told us that if it is changed to the common language, this village should be called "Eye of the Eagle".

"Welcome to Isaben," the camel team stopped at the entrance of the village, and a large number of women and flexible children surrounded by headscarves rushed out from all directions, looking at us curiously.

"Come in," Faisal waved at me, and the crowd moved aside and let us enter the village.

"Ah, Madam Camilla." Faisal quickly ran to an old woman in black robe and knelt on one knee on the ground.

"Tell me, Faisal, son of Allahed, grandson of Abdul, why did you bring the imperial people to our village for the sake of it?" Kamilla raised the long staff in his hand and said, while gently hitting Faisal's shoulders.

"Madam Camilla," Faisal stood up and held the old woman's hand, "they are here to deal with the evil forces in the desert."

"This is Madam Camilla," he turned his head and said to me again, "the oldest shaman in our village and the most profound mana."

"This is Savoscott, Madam Camilla," he turned back and pointed at me at the old woman, "They are vampire hunters."

"Vampire Hunter?" Madam Camilla slowly turned around and looked at me, "I know your guild. Vampire Hunters came to the Great Desert to hunt vampires a long time ago."

"So, this time, it's also a vampire doing evil? No wonder I always feel the huge dark power lingering in this desert."

"Yes, Madam Camilla," I bowed to her, imitating Faisal's way, "a large number of vampires sneaked into this desert, and worse, there were necromancers walking with them."

"Taize is here!" After I said that, I saw that Madam Camilla's face turned pale in an instant. She paused the staff in her hand heavily, "How dare these evil guys be so rampant!"

"Welcome to you, hunters from afar," she took several deep breaths in place, calmed her anger, and brought us into the village, "How many of you have?"

"I don't know," I shook my head, "but there are at least a thousand people, I think."

"This is not enough, outsiders," Madam Camilla shook her head with a serious expression. "There are tens of thousands of ancient warriors buried in this desert. Once they succeed, you are just a grain of yellow sand in the desert."

"So we need your help, Madam Camilla," I said sincerely, "I heard there are two old tribes in the desert."

"That's right," Camilla sighed and said worriedly: "I just hope they can get a little more general this time."

"Please go and rest first, outside guests," she took a deep breath, turned to look at us, and some kind of determination was shown on her old face, "I will send someone to inform all tribes in the desert, we will send scouts, search your partners, and search for vampires."

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Three days have passed since the day we arrived in Isaben.

Madam Kamilla was moving very quickly. On the first day, a large number of camel knights set out from the village and spread out to inform other villages.

The messengers returned to the village at dusk the next day and brought back good news: except for the two conservative tribes, the other tribes agreed to prioritize vampires and necromancers.

During these three days, we would go out with Faisal's camels every day to search the desert. Unfortunately, we have found nothing for three days, whether it is a hunter or a vampire.

"Iha! Iha!"

There was a scream at the entrance of the village, followed by a commotion. I hurriedly ran out of the house to see what was going on.

A large group of camel knights were slowly walking in from the entrance of the village, and there were still a large circle of villagers around.

"Come on, Savos," Faisal hurriedly ran to me, "Jamael's team found six hunters and two vampires!"

"What!?" I was startled by the news and ran forward quickly with Faisal.

Faisal was right. Six hunters dressed completely differently from the Karaks were sitting on the camels safely. At the end of the team, two vampires were tied firmly by ropes and were dragged forward by the camels.

Their clothes were torn to pieces by grit, and their exposed bodies became bloody and bloody, dragging a long white track on the ground.

"Where did you catch the vampire?" I ran to the camel and asked loudly.

"I don't know," replied the hunter sitting in the front. "I don't have a map of the desert somewhere in the north."

"Thank you for your hard work," I patted his back, "You go and rest, most of the tribes in the desert have formed an alliance with us."

I ran to the back again and carefully looked at the two captured vampires.

But two barons, one female and one male, were looking at me angrily.

"Tell me what you plan." I motioned to drag their camel knight to stop for a while, and squatted down to ask.

"Ph!" The male vampire spat weakly, "You sinister and cunning hunters, don't even know anything from me!"

"Then you have no value." I stood up, pulled out the broken steel, and cut off the male vampire's head with one sword.

Large swells of white blood gushed out from the broken neck, quickly soaking the nearby sand.

"Where are you?" I turned the broken steel and pointed the tip of the sword straight at the female vampire. "Do you have anything you want to share with me?"

"No...no!" the female vampire replied gritting her teeth, but her body shaking like a sieve chaff betrayed her.

"Stop being strong, my dear," I walked two steps closer and patted her face with the tip of the sword. "Didn't you become a vampire just for eternity? Look at your companion, do you think it's worth giving up eternity for the sake of secret?"

"You...you kill me!" To my surprise, although the female vampire was shaking violently, she still replied to me sternly, "I will never reveal even one word!"

"It looks like a warrior is coming between us," I took the Broken Steel back into the scabbard and waved to the Knight, "It can be dragged away."

"Wrap this head," I directed two standing warriors to go forward and pick up the vampire's head.

"If we capture the vampires again, show them this head and tell them that we have obtained information from their companions."

"What?" the female vampire who had not been dragged away shouted, "You can't do this, you demon! demon!"

Ignoring her shouting, I came to Faisal again.

"What's wrong, Savos?" When I found him, he was organizing tasks for the next group of camel knights.

"Is there a map of the desert?" I asked.

"Of course, come with me," Faisal put down his weapon and took me aside, pointing to the map hanging on the wall, "Is that, what's wrong?"

I looked at the desert map with more than 80% of the colors yellow, and turned around and asked, "Where did Jamal and the others find this group of hunters?"

"Here," Faisal stepped forward and pointed a dagger at a location north of the village, "What do you think?"

"Look, we are in the desert, and it's not easy for vampires to come out, so they will never run out at the risk of foraging."

“You mean…

"They must be sentinels, Faisal, if I could know where they caught these vampires, we might be able to narrow down the scope of our search."
Chapter completed!