The firelight continued to squirm bit by bit under the moonlight, until Old Lady Sianod suddenly spoke:
"We're almost there."
Their steps unconsciously quickened a little. As the moonlight grew brighter, even from far away Shard could already see that colossal worm lying in the Sand Sea.
From a distance, it rose like a towering dune. Coming closer, one could see that more than half of the sand worm's body was already buried beneath the sand.
Shard wasn't sure whether this thing was truly dead, but it looked remarkably similar to the Calamity Card: Sand Worm, the apocalypse monster formed from Professor Drake's corpse sealed within.
Even though the thing lay completely still now, the sheer size of that worm's body made people instinctively feel fear. As the group drew nearer in heavy silence, Shard saw the foremost part of the giant worm's body—a huge, pale head shaped like that of a Giant, just as he'd expected.
