Chapter 336: Anostos Bird
The sky overhead, once a bright blue, turned a murky, oppressive grey, and a thick, red fog began to envelop everything in sight.
The fog tasted too thick and before it could seep into him, he reacted.
’Open inventory.’ Kazi pulled out a gray scarf tighter around his face to filter the acrid fumes, his eyes squinting against the stinging air but unaffected.
’The red fog is poisonous. However...’
With Mastered Flow of Mana, the prickly pain disappeared. It wiped out the foreign substance like an ocean taking out a flaw. The quality and quantity of his mana was too great. Fog of this calibre wasn’t going to affect him.
Crossing the threshold into Anostos felt like stepping into another world entirely. The light from Eusebes vanished behind him, leaving him in a perpetual twilight where day and night were indistinguishable. The land was jagged and uneven. The ground was of a rock type that Kazi was unable to identify. Faraway, through the fog, he saw dark bubbles.
’Are those...?’
Lakes? They had to be. Pools of dark, stagnant water dotted the landscape, emitting an eerie, sulfurous smell. They were so far yet felt so close. At that moment, he realized he was standing on a hill or a mountain. Whatever it was, he had to go down.
He walked and walked and walked until his feet felt a hard, flat surface. His mana had materialized into steps. He maintained his gaze downward, focusing and analyzing. He decided to step up higher and reach the skies.
But no matter how much he climbed, it all felt the same. Kazi stopped when the red fog was far, far below him and there was no point in ascending further.
The red fog swirled beneath him. Inhaling, the platform under his feet disappeared. He was falling.