This time the sand wall wasn't perpendicular to the passage but was slanted, wedged between two stone walls. To pass, Valentine had to use his dragon claw to tear it apart entirely.
Valentine shattered the first sand wall, and as he charged toward the second, the fury in his vertical pupils almost overflowed.
He raised his front paw, five dragon toes striking down like siege hammers, while dragon breath spewed from deep in his throat. The dual attack hit the sand wall, forcing the four-color divine light to cave inward, with cracks spreading across the wall's surface but not immediately breaking it.
"Duke—" Valentine's dragon roar exploded in the stone corridor, dimming the patterns on the stone walls slightly.
