"The windblown sand ahead has changed direction."
Annie suddenly cried out, excitement all over her face.
"Hmm? You mean...?"
Dunn looked at Annie in confusion.
"If nothing unexpected happens, we should be almost at the oasis!"
At that, a hint of delight appeared on Dunn's face as well.
After swallowing sand for so many days, he was getting sick of it too.
They continued in the direction Annie had indicated for a short while.
Dunn could clearly feel the wind and sand around them weakening considerably.
Looking ahead, he could already make out a faint patch of green at the edge of his vision.
The two exchanged a glance and quickened their pace.
Soon, an enormous oasis appeared before them.
Given how the Golden Desert had formed, oases should theoretically have been impossible there.
But this was a transcendent world, and what powerful wizards excelled at most was making the impossible possible.
Had the Golden Desert truly been a worthless wasteland, that would have been that.
Unfortunately, the Golden Desert had given rise to countless precious mineral deposits.
So the wizards had devoted tremendous effort to researching a way to create oases in the Golden Desert.
Building a Wizard Tower here as Eddinger had done was, of course, impossible.
No legendary wizard would consider building a Wizard Tower in a barren place like the Golden Desert.
Through painstaking research, the wizards had invented a reliable method of creating oases in the Golden Desert.
First, a powerful legendary wizard would forcibly create an oasis, then large numbers of wood- and water-attribute spellcasting classholders, such as druids and elemental wizards, would be stationed there year-round to maintain it.
Of course, this method was immensely costly. Just keeping at least a hundred spellcasting classholders stationed year-round in such a godforsaken place was beyond