These Familiars Are Strange-Chapter 260: Sandstorm

Along with this booming voice, there was sand that was suddenly raised into the air.

This sand was carried by the wind and completely surrounded this entire oasis.

It was as if there was something that was keeping it from entering the oasis, but if it wasn't for that, there was no doubt that this oasis would have been buried in this sand.

This was a full blown sandstorm that was brewing.

Only where did this sudden sandstorm come from?

I was confused that there was this sudden sandstorm that appeared, but I really didn't have time to think about it since it was clear who this sandstorm was aimed at.

It had even come right when the Scavenger Rabbit finished picking the last cactus fruit.

With the way that it suddenly appeared like this, it really seemed like some kind of scripted event. It seemed that whoever controlled this sandstorm had even been waiting for the Scavenger Rabbit to pick that last cactus fruit before sending the sandstorm.

Only who would do that?

"He did say that it was his fruit, so there is only one person that would fit that description…The Desert Tyrant? The corrupted king of the sand people?" I muttered under my breath as I watched this sandstorm brew around us.

So were we not supposed to take the cactus fruits?

It seemed that taking the cactus fruits had triggered some kind of event where the final boss descended down on those that took it.

It seemed that greed really was the wrong choice here.

But since the boss had descended, that meant that we had no choice but to fight it.

In the first place, it wasn't as if I was afraid of the final boss of this dungeon.

If we had to fight it now, it just meant that we would have to fight the boss ahead of time.

So I turned back to where Wang Rong and Iris had gone.

When I turned around, I found that the two of them were running over to my side.

Wang Rong even waved his hand and said, "Boss, let's run!"

But I didn't go over to where they were and shook my head at them.

I couldn't since the cactus fruits were still there on the ground. The Scavenger Rabbit had tossed them there as if it lost interest in them as it continued to harvest more and I didn't want to take them all in yet since I wanted to put them away in one batch.

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It seemed that this came to bite me in the butt.

Seeing this, Wang Rong and Iris came over to the pile of cactus fruits that I was standing over.

When they came over, they couldn't help looking at the cactus fruits with a strange look before turning that strange look to me.

I didn't say anything when I saw them looking at me like this as I just faced the sandstorm that was around us.

Seeing this, the two of them stopped looking at me with those looks and did the same thing as me. But it was clear that the two of them had questions for me judging by the look in their eyes.

There was a part of me that was starting to waver on whether I should share the matter of the Scavenger Rabbit with them.

If they had known about the Scavenger Rabbit and hadn't been made to move away, we definitely would have been able to react sooner to the sandstorm.

Perhaps that would have made it easier for us to take care of the dungeon boss that was responsible for this sandstorm.

The sandstorm didn't seem to do anything other than surround the oasis during this time. It was as if the one that was controlling the sandstorm was hesitating on whether to make a move.

The cactus fruits.

That was the hesitation that the dungeon boss most likely had.

It didn't want to destroy the cactus fruits, but there was no doubt that the cactus fruits would be caught in the battle if the dungeon boss did anything now.

Seeing this, I was thinking about how to take advantage of this.

But my attention was distracted by the movement that came from my shirt.

I looked down to see the Astral White Tiger's head peeking out from the top of my shirt.

I reached out to grab the Astral White Tiger so that it wouldn't do anything rash, but it turned out that the Astral White Tiger wasn't actually planning to do anything. I could see that it had the same excited look as before on its face, but it was directed at something different from what I thought.

As a familiar that was focused on using magic, I thought that the Astral White Tiger would have been attracted to the mana that was coming from the cactus fruits.

I had been almost certain that this oasis was the thing that drew the Astral White Tiger.

But now it seemed like this wasn't the case.

It seemed like the Astral White Tiger wasn't interested in the oasis or the cactus fruits at all. It didn't even seem like the Astral White Tiger was sparing the cactus fruits a single glance as it was looking right up.

There wasn't anything specific that the Astral White Tiger was looking at, it just seemed like it was looking at the sandstorm that had surrounded us.

After looking at the sandstorm for a bit, the Astral White Tiger suddenly turned to look at me with a look that seemed like it was asking me something.

I didn't know what the Astral White Tiger was planning to do, but…

In the end, I gave a nod of approval for the Astral White Tiger since I was curious what it planned to do.

Once the Astral White Tiger received this approval, it didn't waste any time as it suddenly looked back up at the sky and opened its mouth.

And then it took a deep breath.