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Chapter 35 - The Last Breath in the Desert

In an act of boldness, he drew the Wind Sword entrusted to him by his mentor, a relic imbued with powerful air spells. With a movement that gathered all his will and power, he unleashed a furious gust directly into the sky, a call to the most fearsome forces of the desert: the sandworms.

The roar of the storm unleashed by the sword not only filled the air with a swirling fury of sand and wind but also served as a beacon for the giant sandworms, attracting five of these monstrosities from the depths of the desert into the battle. The battlefield transformed into a chaos of sand, golems, and sandworms entwined in a frenzy of destruction.

The desert magicians, taken by surprise by the sudden appearance of the worms and the ferocity of the storm, redirected their attention and spells towards the new threats, allowing Alex to find a gap in their siege. Harnessing his speed increased by the fusion with his familiar, he dodged the assaults of both the golems and the worms with difficulty, each movement calculated to the limit of his ability.

The battle in the heart of the desert reached a brutal climax as the sandworms, drawn by the furious storm invoked by Alex, surged towards the desert magicians. The wizards, although endowed with considerable power, found themselves outnumbered and outmatched by the relentless beasts of the dunes. One by one, the sand golems they summoned as their main line of defense were destroyed, unable to contain the voracity of the worms.

Alex, witnessing the collapse of the magicians' defenses, perceived that the end of this conflict was rapidly approaching. With only two magicians remaining standing, he made a crucial decision. He released his elemental aura, a physical manifestation of his inner power, which in his fusion with his familiar took the form of dark smoke sprinkled with violet electrical flashes. This transformation not only increased his speed to astonishing limits but also his offensive capability, turning him into a whirlwind of destruction.

Launching towards the sandworms with this new form, Alex moved with dizzying speed, tearing the beasts apart before they could react. Each movement, although impressively effective, cost him a considerable amount of his energy, a necessary sacrifice to manifest such power. Finally, the sandworms fell one after another, their enormous bodies collapsing in the sand, now inert.

Amidst the chaos, one of the desert magicians was swallowed by a worm in a last desperate attack, leaving a single magician as the sole survivor of their group. Alex, with the last of his efforts, managed to save this magician, stopping in time another worm's mortal attack. The final scene of the battle was tinged with the contrast of victory and loss, the sand stained with the remnants of destruction.

Exhausted but determined, Alex approached the surviving magician, his aura of dark smoke with violet electrical flashes gradually dissipating as his energy depleted.