Just a Civilian?

Everyone started laughing, thinking he was just messing with them.

The mood lightened. But then, the ground began to tremble again.

This time, it was much stronger—shaking the air, rattling their bones, and sending ripples through the sand.

A soldier looked up, his laughter drying in his throat as his eyes widened in disbelief.

The sky above them had suddenly darkened, the sun swallowed by an ominous shadow. It wasn't a cloud.

A massive sandworm, its monstrous body rippling through the air, was moving toward them.

The creature was as big as the canyon's opening itself, and its enormous mouth lined with rows of jagged teeth, ready to swallow anything in its path.

"What in the hell is that doing here?!" The commander's voice shook as beads of cold sweat dotted his forehead. "That's a destroyer level! A Basilisk Worm!"

His words hung in the air like a death sentence.