"Crackle and pop—"
The sound of something burning rapidly could be heard.
"Huh?!"
A look of surprise flashed in Lanni's eyes as he heard the sound close by, but he didn't stop the swing of his sword.
Just as Lanni's heavy, earth-toned sword was about to strike the head of the humanoid sand pile in front of him, suddenly...
A dense and intense white flame quietly sprang out from the brownish gravel.
The eruption of this flame seemed as if a crack had been struck in the thick sandy shell, and this crack expanded at an inconceivable speed.
Then... "Boom!"
A surge of indescribable intense heat wave gushed out from the sand shell, leaving countless visible burns in the surrounding air within an instant.
Fire!
White fire!
In that instant, Lanni's eyes were completely consumed by the pure white flames, his pupils contracted, unable to believe that his heavy sword could no longer swing downwards.
It was stuck on something firmly, as if... it had rooted at a certain point!
