Chapter 344: Max Hoste Lives!
“Every day I wonder how you’re going to shatter my reality,” Tanila stated. “You’re telling me that Bob somehow took you and him somewhere else?”
Max shrugged, the pain in his head finally gone after a few hours.
“I don’t know how to explain it other than that it was real. Like when I was trapped on the other world all those months, I know that I could have lived there until I grew old. Every creature, being, monster, whatever was real. Watching Bob move at the place we were… It was real and yet… connected to something so much bigger. Like…”
He paused, and after a few seconds a small pouch appeared, and Max opened it up, dumping out a pile of sand.
“Each of these grains of sand seems so insignificant, but together, they fill up this bag. Get enough of them and…”
Using his Sand Mastery skill, he formed a sand sculpture of Tanila that started to walk across the wood table. Each step made the robe it wore swish, and the braid he had mimicked bounced with motion.
“Get enough of them, and you can create something beautiful.”
“Now you’re just showing off,” she replied, never taking her eyes off the thing he had created.
Holding the pouch close, the sand figurine jumped into it, vanishing from sight a few seconds before he stored it all.