These Familiars Are Strange

The three of us were caught off guard when we heard this voice before quickly looking around to see what the source of that voice was.

The moment that we saw it, all three of us deeply knitted our brows.

Then right after that, the three of us pulled out our weapons and prepared for another fight.

But when the thing that we pulled out weapons on saw us preparing for a fight, they quickly raised their hands and said, "Stop, I'm not here for a fight."

Then with a trace of bitterness in their smile, they said, "It isn't as if I could fight even if I wanted to. Now that I'm in this form, there really isn't much left that I can do."

All three of us revealed strange looks when we heard this.

After all, the one that was saying this was the Desert Tyrant himself.

It was just that this Desert Tyrant was different from the one that we faced before. This Desert Tyrant didn't have the same black corruption to it that the dungeon boss did, rather it looked like any other sand person.

Though this king of the sand people was still bigger than a normal sand person.

At the same time, there was no hiding the wisdom that was inside of his eyes.

This was not something that the king of the sand people had when he was still the Desert Tyrant.

Still…

"Unless you give us a reason to trust you, you have to understand that it's hard for us to accept that you aren't here as a hidden boss or something. You have to give us something more than just to ask us to trust you." I said in a sharp voice.

The king of the sand people revealed a faint smile when he heard this before giving a nod to acknowledge what I said.

With a wave of his hand, there was something that changed about this room.

When we finally realized what it was, we noticed that the room had completely changed compared to before.

It had been restored to the state that one would expect from a throne room.

But that wasn't what the king of the sand people wanted us to see.

Instead, the king of the sand people led us over to some of the paintings that had appeared on the wall behind it. These were paintings that had appeared behind the throne that he had been sitting on before.

Unlike the paintings that we saw before, it wasn't really clear what these paintings were depicting.

Instead of showing a clear picture, it almost seemed like these paintings were blurred on purpose.

Looking closely, I could even see that there seemed to be some kind of sand filter that was covering the painting that prevented us from actually seeing what was on the paintings.

"These are?" I asked in an open ended manner, waiting for the king of the sand people to explain.

"What do you think they could be?" He asked in an almost teasing voice which made me knit my brows.

Seeing that I wasn't in the mood to play with him, he finally waved his hand again and one of the paintings cleared.

The moment that we saw this painting, we knew exactly what this painting was.

After all, it was hard to mistake the things that were in the painting.

It was a large red hole that had these red things coming out of it.

These red things were humanoids that had different features, but they had one thing in common.

They were all Abyss Demons.

Seeing the way that we looked at the painting, the king of the sand people said, "I can see that you're already familiar with this scene. Has it happened in your world as well?"

The three of us looked at each other with strange looks before I turned back to shake my head at the king of the sand people.

This time, he was surprised by this.

He looked at me with a strange look as if he was trying to figure out if I was being serious or not, but I just looked back at him with that straight look on my face.

After a moment of silence, he finally said, "Alright, it seems that the situation in your world really is different from mine. In that case, that means that you still have a chance."

Without even waiting for us to say anything else, he waved his hand and released the filter on another one of the paintings.

It was the scene of the Abyss Demons attacking the sand people.

This was a scene that we had already seen when we had been exploring the castle itself, so it wasn't as if this was something new to us.

What was new was the fact that the painting seemed to be changing.

It was as if there was a new scene that was being created in real time.

It went from the Abyss Demons attacking the sand people to the sand people pushing back the Abyss Demons

I had a very confused look on my face after seeing this before asking the king of the sand people, "What is happening here? Why is it changing?"

The king of the sand people looked at me with a smile before saying, "Why else would it be changing like this?"

My brows deeply knit after hearing this.

I narrowed my eyes to look at the king of the sand people and it seemed like he was implying something with the way that he looked at me. It was very clear what he was implying, it was just that it seemed a bit hard for us to accept.

But after a while…

"Is it because of our actions?"

The king of the sand people gave a simple nod in response before waving his hand to release the filter on the third painting.

The moment that we saw this, we couldn't help being taken back by what we saw.