Chapter 490 - 483. Old Habit Die Hard
When they first entered the Deathzone, they were greeted by thick jungle, black rivers, and cliff structures. The most ’open’ field they encountered was the wide clearing where they faced a horde of hounds on the first day. The marsh, although ’open’ in some locations, was also filled with tall, eerie trees jutting out of island formations here and there.
And so, when they faced this vast, vast field with nothing in between, they couldn’t help but stand there dumbfoundedly. There were no eerie trees or tall cliffs except those behind them. It was just a plain empty field as far as their eyes could reach. Far, far away on the other side was a dark void that even Bassena’s eyes couldn’t see. It was more than two kilometers too, so his children of darkness couldn’t try to see what was beyond.
On the left side, they could see the shadow of tall mountains far away, which, based on their calculation, was probably the mountain range where Senia’s team ventured to. On the far right was something that looked like a spread of huge boulders or the remains of an ancient civilization--the thick billowing miasma was too much for even a veteran scout like Kei to discern.
They would have traveled there had the compass’s arrow not pointed at the emptiness before them.
"Looks like a sea..." Zein muttered, recalling the ocean he saw at night from the balcony of their cruise ship’s cabin.
"More like a desert, isn’t it?" Han Shin tilted his head. "Or that dry plain before the Borderland--what is it...Red something?"
Ah...the place where Zein met Bassena for the first time. The guide nodded; the cracked red plain was also a spread of emptiness. But there, at least, they still met a few boulders that had been made into roadsigns so the trucks traveling through the plain didn’t get lost.
But here...
There was no boulder, much less roadsigns. No trees for bearings, or even uneven terrain.
"What do you think?"
They all looked at Bassena, who held the command stick. The Saint class stared at the empty field and the void on the horizon. He snapped his fingers and pointed at the field. Right away, several fleeting darkness shot out toward the field. Bassena himself, however, turned around and looked up at the cliff behind them.