After plunging into the spatial rift behind the Dark Silver Death Dragon, Eve felt a brief spell of weightlessness and dizziness.
The sensation was entirely different from passing through an ordinary teleportation array.
A teleportation array wrapped space around you and pushed you along, but this rift felt as though an invisible hand had seized her soul, forcibly dragged her very existence out of the deep sea, and stuffed her into a narrow, twisted passage.
Nothingness surrounded her.
Dark silver and spectral blue light intertwined, flowing and flickering along the passage walls like meteors streaking through the fathomless void.
Eve's gilded fishtail flailed helplessly in the void, her long sea-blue hair spreading out. Without the buoyancy of water, its strands could only cling limply to her cheeks and shoulders.
She took a moment to collect herself.
Only when she felt solid ground beneath her again, and that suffocating sense of nothingness gradually receded, did Eve slowly open her eyes and look at where she had arrived.
Her first instinct was to look for the Dark Silver Death Dragon.
But that single glance...
Made her freeze where she stood.
The reason was simple: she had not arrived in the Star Dou Forest, as she had expected.
Although she had never visited the Star Dou Forest herself, she had heard of it.
It was verdant, vast, and brimming with life.
Ancient trees towered into the sky, vines crisscrossed everywhere, and Soul Power was so abundant it seemed almost tangible. It was a sacred land in the hearts of Soul Beasts across the continent.
But here...
Dark, barren earth stretched for thousands of miles, all the way to the limits of her sight.
The ground was cracked and desolate, without a blade of grass. Jagged rocky ridges crossed in the distance like enormous