The war had begun!
No, this could not be called a war. This was a sweeping purge of the sandworms, the liberation of every oasis kingdom.
When the Blood Moon blossomed with dazzling, resplendent light in the sky, gigantic mechanical devices floating in the air scattered across the world. These wizards, who roamed the wastelands to clear out sandworms and impose enslaving education upon the royal families of every oasis, became the rulers of Stormworld.
"My lord, sir, these are all the sand crystals we have, boohoohoo..."
In Sea-Buckthorn Grove Village, where Green was located, a group of soldiers surrounded the farmers, threatening and intimidating them as they demanded every last sand crystal.
As a famously wealthy village for miles around, Sea-Buckthorn Grove Village naturally possessed no small number of sand crystals. After water's role as a natural equivalent had weakened, sand crystals became the new natural equivalent, the property people used when trading goods.
Behind the soldiers stood a group of splendidly dressed nobles, but the most eye-catching figure was a female wizard riding a Steel-Toothed Thorn Mane. As she fed local fruit to the enormous beast beneath her, she packed the heaps of crystals collected by the soldiers into a spatial magical device.
Demon-Hunting Expeditions often lasted decades or even centuries. Wizards had all the time they needed to collect valuable substances and energy crystals, while smoothly spreading the rules of Wizard Coins.
She toyed with the finest sand crystal collected by Sea-Buckthorn Grove Village on the tip of her index finger. It was a level-three sand crystal, containing enough energy to power a fifteen-meter-class desert boat for several months, equivalent to a top-grade magic stone from the Wizard World.
"By this world's standards, level-five sand crystals are called Desert Crystals. The energy within one is equivalent to