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2024-10-29 19:42:56While Jace and the others were deep in their thought as to why the spell seemed not to work, the flicker of life in the two sandmen appears to get extinguished for some reason as they stop moving.
Then with a crack, the bodies swiftly crumbled back into a pile of yellow sand.
Steve stepped forward to take a closer look at the heap of remaining sand. They were indeed only ordinary sand. There was nothing else mixed within it.
Following which, he scanned his surroundings and narrowed his eyes.
Another hypothesis came up to his mind after witnessing what happened. This time, there was a high chance that it was exactly the reason why all of this was happening in the first place.
It could be that those sandmen were not actually a creature or a native race in this desert.
The reason why the Servant Spell fails to work on them is probably that they don't have spirits or wills, to begin with.
Rather than calling them creatures, it could be mo
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