Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom...
Everywhere, wizards slaughtered sandworms. Compared to the worlds the wizards had conquered one after another, although Stormworld possessed some higher sandworm lifeforms, the ordinary larval sandworms, growing sandworms, and adult sandworms were nothing more than a pack of beasts—beasts standing at the very top of this world's food chain, obeying instinct, devoid of intelligence.
Thus, faced with the systematic, crushing slaughter of the wizard legions, they naturally had no power to resist.
Nor was it merely the wizard legions' frontal assault. As the cosmic drought Spring Ancestor gradually withdrew from this world, drawing away less and less of its moisture, not only did the rainy seasons grow longer, but even during certain dry seasons when not a drop should have fallen, a sweet rain would occasionally descend without warning. While restoring some vitality to the land, it also inflicted immeasurable harm upon the sandworms, causing vast numbers of young sandworms to die.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Dozens of fighter craft streaked rapidly through the high sky. At the same time, amid the rumbling hum in the air, a ball of fire carved a slanting line between the blue sky and yellow sands with its long flaming tail. It was the friction between a Wizard Shield and the surrounding air during a high-speed descent.
Boom!
Sand and gravel shot into the sky as the shockwave spread outward.
Within a crater more than twenty meters across, the edge of the sand pit had been melted by extreme heat into a glasslike gelatinous substance. The Wizard Shield pushed away the heatwave, and the handsome wizard with long golden hair, leaning on an emerald-green vine staff, slowly floated up.
Chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter!
A squirrel crawled out from the wizard's wide sleeve. After sniffing about, the