Erosion (1)

In the middle of the Sahara Desert.

Over and over, I broke my body down into sand and hardened it again.

The control felt far freer than before. A sense of satisfaction welled up, as if I had finally leapt over a huge wall.

It felt like I had opened my eyes to a whole new world.

"Huuuuup…!"

I took a deep breath and stretched.

As I breathed, mana in the air naturally accumulated in my body. Its efficiency was several times higher than before. I hadn't expected it to be this much.

I could be sure of it. Before full-body sand transformation, this was nothing.

When I looked around, a thick sand mist hung in the air.

A broad, hemispherical veil of sand mist centered on me, and the ground had been flattened into a plain without a single dune. It was an artificial trace...