The Return of the Genius Ranker’s Myth Warehouse - Chapter 317

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Chapter 317
Chapter 317
The next day.
“Here’s the information you requested.”
“Thank you.”
“Ancient ruins scattered throughout the Great Desert, monster nests, hidden gorges—I’ve marked them on the map, but some information may be unreliable or exaggerated, so exercise caution.”
“That’s more than sufficient.”
“As for the Blessing of Destiny… it will take a bit more time. I’ll contact you once it’s ready.”
“Understood.”
The Alliance Leader delivered the information as promised.
The special enhancement certificate would take longer, but it seemed progress was being made.
I examined the information the Alliance Leader had provided with meticulous care.
Since only a day had passed since I requested it, the information was naturally limited to areas surrounding the Alliance.
But.
‘This is excellent.’
Compared to what I’d heard from Rashid, this was incomparably superior.
Better organized than Rashid’s information, and far more reliable.
Indeed, the Alliance Leader’s intelligence.
It contained precisely the information I needed, meticulously compiled.
[ Sand Lizard’s Sand Flute ]
The moment I blew the flute, the Sand Lizard appeared.
“Let’s go.”
“Krrrrr!”
As the Sand Lizard raced forward, I navigated using the information from the Alliance Leader.
The first encounter was.
[ Desert Basilisk ]
A basilisk.
A basilisk—a named monster renowned in both First and Second.
To face such a creature right from the start.
“This is promising.”
I was already anticipating what lay ahead.
How much my level would rise after defeating this ferocious basilisk, what items would drop, how much Luke’s stats would increase.
If I conquered all the named monsters and dungeons in the Desert according to the Alliance Leader’s information, the gains would be immeasurable.
With such thoughts.
“Shhhhiiing—!”
“Luke, shall we start with ‘Snake Hunter’ to warm up?”
– Yes, Master. I’ll draw it at once.
I swung the curved blade named ‘Snake Hunter’ toward the basilisk.
* * *
A living mana calamity, the Blue Spirit God.
The Assassins, a group also known as the Nightmare of the Desert.
Even the Pyramid of the Abyss that had been dragging the Desert into an endless chasm.
With all the threats lurking in the Desert now gone.
“Now we can move about without worry!”
“We hadn’t been able to set foot in the Western Region for quite some time.”
“The sandstorms seem less frequent too, don’t they? Even that scorching sun feels warm today.”
The Desert dwellers could traverse the Desert with peaceful hearts.
Some ventured to exchange with other tribes.
Others explored uncharted regions of the Desert or traveled abroad in search of rare treasures.
The Desert dwellers, who had been held back by countless dangers until now, moved about busily.
And in the midst of that movement.
“Hmm? Wasn’t there originally a colossal ant pit here?”
One of the Desert dwellers noticed something odd.
The Desert looked the same no matter where you looked, but paths did exist within it.
Moreover, since the Desert contained various hazards, the Desert dwellers had created maps to avoid them.
Yet the place where the largest ant pit in the Desert had once been.
Appeared far too peaceful now.
It was to the point where there was no need to take a detour.
As he pondered this mystery.
“You didn’t hear about it?”
“Hear about what?”
The Desert dweller beside him provided an answer.
“Surely you know about Mir?”
“How could I not! Isn’t he the Apostle of the Desert’s Three Gods! How could anyone not know of the hero who defeated the Evil God and the Assassins and even brought down the Great Pyramid!”
“Indeed. It’s all thanks to that Mir.”
“Remarkable! He defeated the Evil God, the Assassins, and even destroyed the Great Pyramid, yet continues to save the Desert?”
“That’s precisely why he’s called the Apostle.”
The most famous hero in the Desert at present.
Mir, known as the Apostle of the Desert’s Three Gods.
It was thanks to his existence.
The colossal ant pit that had vanished before their eyes, dangerous monsters, perilous dungeons—all of them.
Mir was swiftly striking them down one after another.
Thanks to him, Desert merchants enjoyed unprecedented prosperity and safety, and the Desert dwellers could traverse the sands with peace of mind.
But then.
A tremendous spray of sand erupted!
“Cough!”
Sand burst upward before the merchants.
The Desert dwellers, startled by the phenomenon and retreating backward, immediately recognized what the erupting sand was.
“An Elder Desert Worm!”
An Elder Desert Worm.
An Elder Desert Worm that had never ceased its growth, surviving through countless ages—a creature of truly staggering proportions.
And its size exceeded even the rumors they had heard.
Its towering head blotted out the sun itself, while its body was thicker than any jagged rock formation in the Desert.
“Why is that thing here?!”
“Its hunting grounds shouldn’t be anywhere near this region!”
“Ahhhhhhh!”
The merchants shrieked in despair.
The Elder Desert Worm was infamous for devouring everything it laid eyes upon with insatiable hunger.
To encounter such a creature meant—
their lives were as good as forfeit.
Yet something seemed… peculiar.
“Its condition looks strange somehow…”
“Are those… wounds?”
“Injuries of that magnitude would be considered severe…”
The scars marring the Elder Desert Worm’s body.
Massive burn marks, blade wounds, puncture lacerations—
its condition was far from pristine.
Even now, rather than immediately attacking the merchants, it was glancing about nervously, its entire body tensed in vigilance.
This was no predatory advance.
“Could it be… fleeing?”
“Fleeing? What could possibly force an Elder Desert Worm to flee?”
“Everyone, stop standing around! Run, now!”
“Y-yes! We have to escape!”
It appeared to be fleeing from something—or someone.
And then.
Whoosh!
A shadow streaked across the sky above the merchants’ heads.
Moving faster than the Desert Hawk Tribe—the fastest beings in the Desert—the shadow hurtled toward the Elder Desert Worm.
Slash!
It cut cleanly past the creature’s body.
Stunned by the sudden turn of events, the merchants’ fleeing footsteps faltered as they turned to look.
Then—
“The Elder Desert Worm!”
“It’s falling!”
Crash!
The Elder Desert Worm staggered and collapsed where it stood.
In the next instant, its neck split open as though cleaved by an invisible blade, and bodily fluids erupted forth.
To bisect an Elder Desert Worm so cleanly…
Even the Grand Warrior of the Desert could not accomplish such a feat.
Who in the world could this be?
Who on earth severed the Elder Desert Worm’s neck in a single stroke?
As the merchants turned their heads in shock, they saw.
“Are you all right?”
“M-Mir!”
“The Apostle has saved us!”
“Thank you! Apostle!!”
The Apostle of the Desert God.
It was Mir.
* * *
The Elder Desert Worm.
A monster difficult to locate since it roamed across the entire Desert, but the Alliance Leader’s intelligence was precise.
He had provided me with the exact route and timing of the Elder Desert Worm’s movements.
Well, the creature did flee suddenly during combat.
Whoosh!
[ Your level has increased. ]
I was able to catch up and finish it off quickly.
Desert dwellers appeared nearby, but fortunately there seemed to be no casualties.
In that manner, I began rapidly conquering the Desert’s named monsters and Dungeons.
[ Luke has consumed the ‘Basilisk of the Desert’. ]
[ Luke has consumed the ‘Elder Desert Worm’. ]
[ Luke has consumed the ‘Giant Sand Centipede’. ]
….
Defeating the named monsters that had made their mark in the Desert.
[ You have conquered the ‘Shadow Desert Corridor’ for the first time. ]
[ You have conquered the ‘Sand Sea Rift’ for the first time. ]
[ You have conquered the ‘Withered Oasis’ for the first time. ]
….
I conquered undiscovered Dungeons as well.
The information the Alliance Leader had provided was nothing less than comprehensive knowledge of the entire Desert in the Western Continent, so the volume was staggering.
Thanks to that, I was able to remain in the Desert far longer than expected and locate all of them.
As a result, I obtained an enormous quantity of items, naturally.
[ Status Window ]
Name: Mir
Level+: 488
Class+: All Master
And I was able to raise my level tremendously.
When I was in Kalbera Territory, I had only raised my level to exactly 400.
From level 400 onward, it’s famous as a stage where leveling becomes difficult as you properly enter the ranking tier.
Yet in less than a month, I reached level 488.
It was something others would have been astonished by, but for me, it was only natural.
‘I’ve hunted quite a few monsters along the way.’
The moment I entered the Desert, I hunted down the Evil God.
After that, I defeated the Assassins, conquered the Great Pyramid through a legendary Quest, and with the Alliance Leader’s assistance, monopolized the Desert’s named monsters and undiscovered Dungeons.
Since most of them were monsters and Dungeons with levels higher than mine, rapid level progression was inevitable.
I had been enjoying this explosive growth, but.
“I suppose that’s the end of it.”
“Haven’t you ventured much into the outer regions?”
“There are certainly many monsters and Dungeons hidden in the outer regions as well, but our Desert people’s footsteps haven’t reached there yet. We lack proper information.”
“I see….”
Unfortunately, I couldn’t continue the explosive leveling any further.
The Alliance Leader’s information had reached its limit.
It was unavoidable.
Though the Alliance Leader’s information was tremendous, I was clearing the monsters and Dungeons he’d told me about on an hourly basis, so it was inevitable.
Well, I’m still satisfied.
Normally, raising levels through simple experience grinding would take considerable time.
But thanks to the information the Alliance Leader provided, I achieved level 488 in less than a month.
And there was one more piece of good news.
“Take this.”
“This is….”
“Hero’s Blessing. It’s the item you wanted. The Desert Hawk Tribe kept it so well hidden that it took some time to find.”
Hero’s Blessing.
In other words, a special enhancement voucher.
While receiving information from the Alliance Leader and conquering the Desert’s monsters and Dungeons, there had been no mention of special enhancement vouchers, so I’d half given up hope.
Yet the Alliance Leader had actually procured a special enhancement voucher for me.
“Thank you.”
“Don’t mention it. As I’ve said before, I’m the one who should be grateful. Thanks to you, the damage suffered by the Desert people traveling through the Desert has decreased significantly.”
A special enhancement voucher.
While I was admiring its beautiful form.
The Alliance Leader spoke to me again.
“Are you thinking of returning now?”
“Yes, I suppose I should.”
“Are you truly not interested in becoming a Tribe Chief of the Desert? I’d assign you to a location with the greatest Oasis attached.”
“I must respectfully decline.”
“At least tell me the reason. You’re already being called the Apostle of the Desert Trinity among the Desert people—why refuse?”
“I already possess one Territory. That alone is more than enough.”
“Don’t be so quick to dismiss it. You’d have to settle for being a Lord there, but if you came here, you could even become the next Alliance Leader.”
The Alliance Leader of the Desert.
In terms of position, it’s equivalent to the Emperor of the Empire.
Indeed, whenever I’ve encountered Desert people while traveling through the Desert recently, they cry out “Thank you, Apostle!” which makes it seem genuinely possible.
“I seem to have a bit of a wandering spirit.”
“A wanderer’s spirit, yet you claim to have a Territory?”
“And yet here I am in the Desert, leaving that Territory behind.”
“Haha, I suppose that’s true.”
I had no intention of being confined to any single place.
My goal was the same as it had been in First—to traverse every corner of Second and conquer the game perfectly.
Fortunately, the Alliance Leader no longer pressed me to stay.
Instead.
“I hear you’re on good terms with the Emperor. Is that so?”
“I wouldn’t say we’re on bad terms. But why do you ask?”
“I’ll ensure your compensation is generous. Would you be willing to convey a message to the Emperor on behalf of the Desert?”
“On behalf of the Desert? You mean me?”
“Of course. You are the Apostle of the Desert’s Three Gods, after all. Haha.”
“That’s…”
“The truth of it matters little. At this moment, you are the only one who can bridge our Great Desert and the Empire.”
He left me with a request I had never anticipated.

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