For everyone else who just entered the desert, monsters like the one Layn faced were dangerous. Many of them saw monsters like that one kill their companions. Yet, for Layn, this was nothing but a source of fresh and clean energy!
For the outsiders, the events took a quick turn. After a momentary standstill when neither the monster nor the archmage moved even an inch, the massive body of the monster simply started to fade away… Before it actually faded away.
Thump.
The sound of the monster's core falling on the sands of the desert was the only sound that announced the end of the fight.
But that was only an outsider's perspective. And the reality wasn't as simple as the observers could imagine.
