In the vast, boundless desert.
A gloom like an unfading curtain tightly shrouded the sky. The clouds hung heavy and low, as if they could collapse at any moment and swallow the entire desert.
Unlike the deserts filled with yellow sand, everything as far as the eye could see here was pitch-black, the ground covered in bottomless black sand.
It was a deep, oppressive black. Beneath the faint moonlight, the grains glimmered with a dim sheen, like stars in the night sky, yet carrying an exceedingly ominous aura.
Above, a blood-red moon hung high in the sky. Its light held no warmth; instead, it exuded an eerie chill, bathing the entire desert in a hellish gloom.
Even the black sand was tinged with a vivid red hue, making it look all the more sinister.
"Where have I been transported to this time?"
Ian did not look overly surprised. He had experienced this several times before and knew he had accidentally unlocked another new map in the Misty Illusion.
"I don't have anything I particularly desire right now, and I didn't obtain any strange new item this time. Don't tell me it's because of this useless Resurrection Stone Ring again?"
Ian took out the Deathly Hallows he had sealed away long ago. After pondering for a while, he felt that the chances of the Resurrection Stone causing him to stumble into another new Misty Illusion map were not high.
After all, he had kept the ring on him throughout these past days and had entered and exited the Misty Illusion several times, yet he had never again encountered an accident like stumbling into "Mount Doom."
Ian even felt that his accidental entry into "Mount Doom" back then had more to do with Helena Ravenclaw. Lady Rowena Ravenclaw could not possibly blame