In a silent desert where only the noise if wind was could be heard, four people popped out of nowhere.

A girl who looked like 16-17, a young man who looked close to 20, a small kid of about 12 years and an average looking guy who looked like he was about 17?

The girl landed perfectly in a position like she was getting prepared for a race.

The man landed on his back and looked quite pitiful.

The kid landed on the ground and rolled to reduce the momentum.

Although the young man looked pitiful it was nothing compared to the average looking guy who landed with his face in the sand and ended up swallowing some of it.

“Pwhoo! Cough cough! Cough cough!”

The young man got up groggily and looked at the people in front of him. He smiled at them and walked towards them.

“Sorry for that, I have a little car sickness. My name is Justin.”

He offered his hand for a handshake which the girl accepted before replying- “there is nothing to feel sorry about. My name is Annia.”

“This kid is Theodore.”

“Hello! Nice to meet you! If you feel Theodore is too long you can just call me Theo!”

Annia smiled while replying “ sure, Theo.”

While the three of them had introduced themselves, the only one who hadn't was the average looking guy.

Benza got up to pat his pants to dust off the sand on his clothes.

“Fuck that idiot…..”

He looked at the other three people near him.

“I already heard your names so you don't need to introduce yourselves again.

I don't know why anyone except Theodore decided to help me but the mission is what you people came here to do so you better don't forget that.

You people already know this Lord’s name so I won't bother mentioning it. Let's just start searching for the witch.”

I turned around and started walking.

“Wait, but how do you know where the witch is Lord.”

Theodore stopped me and I realised that I didn't know! Fuck!

“Well there should be a search tool in the bag that the headmaster gave you Lord.” Replied Justin.

“Hahaha! I knew that already I just wanted to stretch a little bit by walking.”

Then I started making weird postures to stretch my body.

“Ouch… ouch ! Ow .. ow ..ow!”

What the heck is up with this idiotically weak body? Can't I even stretch properly now?

“Ahem~ well now that that's over let's look for the witch in the compass searching tool.”

I unzipped the bag that Bruce had given to me. I just found two small boxes, the size of a pinky and a compass like object.

My mouth twitched as I looked at the pitiful amount of items before me. What was this? Didn't he say this thing had all the things needed for survival?

For now let's focus on finding the witch and let's figure other things out later!

I took out the search tool and pressed at the center of the screen to make it start.

“Ding~”

“Beep~ Beep~ Beep~ Beep~”

I couldn't believe my luck! We already had the witch on radar!

“Wow! Looks like this mission is pretty easy, we already found where the witch is!”

Theodore got excited as soon as he heard the beep~ sound. But the words next words was like pouring cold water on us.

Justin came closer and looked at the compass.

“Hmmmm…. It looks like it's already 200 km away from here, moreover we have to travel on foot. If this was an ordinary terrain it would have been easy but we are travelling on sand so it'll be tough. Moreover the desert is very hot.

And you can't ignore the fact that this is the undead desert. All these factors together greatly reduce our speed. I reckon it would take us about a week to reach to the witch’s home.”

“Why is this place called the undead desert?” Annia got curious.

“It’s because the desert is connected to the underworld. Millennials ago, the gods had a large war with dragons. This is where a dragon and a god had fought. Apparently it had been a forest filled with trees before that happened but due to an attack of the dragon, a space portal was opened to the underworld.

After all these years it's finally changed to a desert with few thing left to see.

The further we go inside the more undead appear before us. Since we are at the border of the desert we can't see any undead here.”

“I see.”

Replied Annia.

“Well we should just start moving already, we already wanted a large amount of time!”

I started to get excited. I was finally walking towards getting my body back, I would get it back and cause a fucking mayhem while destroying the demigods palace in the meantime.

“Mwahahahaha!”

“Justin can you tell me what this guy’s name is again?” Annia asked in a whisper as she walked with Justin.

“His name is Benza…..”

“Why does he keep calling himself lord?”

“Well…. He kind of is actually, so make sure you don't anger him unnecessarily. He is quite weak though…”

“i see …..Ok.”

The four of them walked for the whole afternoon till it was 3 pm.

“Should we take a break?”

Asked Theodore while rubbing his hand on his stomach.

“No! Let's keep moving, what do you need to stop for?”

Growl~

Both Theodore and my stomach growled at the same time.

“Ah, uh… Ahem! I guess we could take a break.”

😓😓😓

“We should advance slowly and steadily if we want to get to the witch as soon as possible. This desert is the best example of the saying- ‘haste makes waste.’” said Justin while trying to advice us.

I already knew all the bullshit but I couldn't wait. I need to know what the fuck is happening and fast. So I can get my original body as soon as possible.

“Let's set up, something to eat. Lord Benza do you mind giving your bag to me?”

“take it.”

I chucked the bag at him which he caught perfectly. He opened the zipper and took one of the two small squares out.

It was the size of pinky and was decorated with purple colour.

“What is that?” Asked annia, even I didn't know the answer to that.

“It's the squail, a space item that can help you store items.” this time Theodore was the one to answer. Atta boy! You beat the annoying know it all!

“Oh…”

“Back away please…”

Justin pressed the purple button at the center of the cube. A Purple whirlwind popped out of nowhere and throwed items out of it.

A table. A refrigerator and a stove. At Least that's what was written on the unexplainably plain looking objects.

“Ok…. Please wait for a moment, I'll just heat up the food.” Justin said as he wore a robe. What was that? He looked funny in it.

Annia, Theo and me sat down on the table.

While we sat down awkwardly, Theo suddenly grabbed my arm and shook it.

“Hey hey, Lord can you tell me a story about the gods?”

I was a little surprised but the kid behaved well so I just decided to tell him a story.

“ sure, let see…… ah!” I snapped my fingers.

“I'll tell you about how my father lost his hair!”

“Wow! That's awesome! ...wait a moment! You mean the great Lord Balthazar is bald?”

“Ummm, not completely, but yeah.”

“Woooaaaahhh!”

“Yeah, it’s his only weakness except his wife. Anyway let's start with the story already-

Once upon a time in a forest there lived an ugly young fatty. No matter where he went, women would fall for him for all the wrong reasons! For example, his ugliness, his fat, and his weak power that couldn't even throttle a chicken.

This ugly young man was actually my father who is a great disappointment. He was undercover that time because his father was forcing him to settle down with an official wife.

That's right, my father was a spendthrift and a silk pants! While looking for a proper wife my father roamed around the whole world.

After a decade he finally found his perfect wife but she was quite an arrogant person. And of course she had a condition like all the ugly people in the world would. She told him that if he could bring her the wings of gold, she would marry him.

And of course like all the stupid men in the world my father set out to find the wings of gold. But apparently my lovestruck father had forgotten something. The golden wings were protected by a fire throwing giant.

By the time my father remembered that he was going to fight a giant he was already facing the giant in a big bloody battle. Just because of this stupid battle the world's land split into three.

Then my father lost his hair because of the fire and went berserk and blah blah blah….

In the end the two of the most ugliest people got married. End of story.”

Justin looked a little spooked a little because I had spoken too much but he also looked excited in learning that my father was bald. Seems like the whole demigod palace would know about it sooner or later. Serves him right.

“Who is your father?” Annia asked as Theo knocked his hands on the table in shock.

“Wh-what? You don't know who the great god Balthazar is?”

“Ummm, am I supposed to?”

“Of course! He is the most powerful god in the world ( kind of). Since you are a demigod you should at least know something about the gods.”

Tak~

“Food is served, please eat.”

Justin smiled and all of us dug into the food.

For some reason I felt like I saw Brook’s smile in Justin’s. I felt funny for some reason.

There was breast chicken, some tomato soup and rice. A pretty normal meal. I was fine with anything.

As the four of us ate soundlessly. Annia suddenly got curious again…. Like always.

“Oh! How does the refrigerator and stove work without any energy source?”

“It works with the help of fire and ice attributed energy stones. The names are self explanatory themselves.”

Chech! Annoying know it all.

As we got back to eating we were disturbed by yet another sound or rather a tremor.

Trrrr-

The table shook as wind started to blew faster suddenly, it got so fast that the sand all around got into the food.

“What's going on?” Asked Annia.

“It's a sandstorm.” replied Justin.

The wind got stronger again as more sand started getting on to our faces and everywhere around us.

“Quickly press the button on the squail kept on the refrigerator Theodore!” Said Justin.

He gave a sudden command to Theo and took out the sword on his back, as if he was getting ready for a fight.

Theo quickly got up and ran towards the refrigerator and pressed the button on the squail as a purple whirlwind came out and swallowed everything it had previously given out.

The wind got stronger. And a large sand storm, 100 Meters away came towards us.

“Fuck! It's a fucking bone sandstorm!”

I shouted as I saw the white outlines on the brown sand of the sandstorm.

“Shit, we can't run away from it!”

If I still had my powers this would have been a piece of cake but now I had to getting all panicky over this.

A bone sandstorm is a sandstorm with bones. Well it’s not as simple as it sounds. It can detect life and follow the life source till it eventually kill them or gets disintegrated by an attack.

That's not all, it also has lots and lots of bone chips. If anybody gets caught in that mess, he will get torn till he gets converted to a skeleton and act like an undead leading it towards other forms of life.

“Does any of you have a highly offensive god attack?” I asked.

“What's that?” As expected the idiot Annia didn't know.

“No… no-not yet at least” replied Theodore.

“I don't as well.” Said Justin, I don't know why but I think I saw him smile. I must be imagining, why would he smile in such a dangerous situation.

“Fuck! Why did Brook send demigods like you who can't even block this?!”

“Well, it's not like you can help.” Justin replied.

It got closer and closer quickly and before I could get the chance to speak anything the sandstorm appeared directly in front of us four.

The wind along with sand blowing on us hurt us and now we couldn't even see anything. I covered both my eyes with my hands.

“Damn!”

Suddenly I heard Justin shout something.

“Nerou Lepida!”

A blue blade shot out and slashed the sandstorm into two. Thousands of sounds rushed into my ears as they threatened to make me deaf. They were all the wails of the undead as they truly became dead.

The tornado slowly drifted away as massive amounts of bones fell from the air and dropped into the sound.

The desert finally returned back to normal. I removed my hand from my ears which I had used to protect my ears from the sound.

“Why didn't you just say that you could tear the tornado up when you could?!”

Justin looked at me as his smile vanished.

“It was just a test and you failed. In a dire situation instead of keeping on looking for solutions you kept ranting about how it was mistake of the demigods palace that you were in this mess?

Theodore! You didn't show any determination! You had already learnt about the bone sandstorm at self defence class! You should have used long ranged attacks to quickly find out it's weakness and collapse it, instead you got nervous! The reason I finished it in one move was because I had no time!

Annia your new here so I hope you learnt something. By watching and experiencing battle you can unlock the attack moves of your parent god. This is the strongest arsenal of a demigod.”

After lecturing us he returned back to his usual smiling expression.

“Well then, I hope everyone learnt the lesson of never underestimating this desert by sitting and eating and not being alarmed sooner. I also hope you know why we are moving slowly now.

I was assigned to be the leader of this mission, please do not disappoint me. I will try my best to lead you to the witch as fast as possible, I hope you can cooperate.”

This is when I realised something about this guy even though he was just a demigod. He is a hiding tiger waiting to pounce on others if given the chance.