A Familiar Singing Voice

In the span of a few short seconds, the mountain wall vanished. Benjamin discovered that they had not flown very high at all; instead, they were inside a deeply sunken fissure. The surroundings were quite dark, with only faint light filtering down from above, barely allowing him to see.

Strange sounds seemed to drift over from the distance.

Black shadows floated through the air, somewhat like the strange phenomenon that appeared when dark elements grew concentrated to a certain degree. The surroundings were deathly silent, as though there were no living creatures at all, while unfamiliar plants grew from the stone walls of the fissure ahead.

The sight left Benjamin utterly stunned. Unfortunately, that was all he had managed to see.

Once those few seconds passed, Void State ended, and the abyss around them turned back into clear skies and lofty mountains. The cold washed over him again, and Benjamin shivered instinctively. All of this... was real beyond belief.

"This..."

He could not help shaking his head, his brow deeply furrowed.

The sight from that instant just now was undoubtedly the real world. But what he had not expected was that, while he thought he was flying upward, he had actually been falling downward. And the so-called Skyver Mountains were probably nothing more than something simulated by this illusion—there were no endless mountains at all.

Looking at everything around him, Benjamin truly felt a piercing chill at that moment.

"A terrifying place," even the System spoke up. "I roughly analyzed the data I collected just now. This should be a special terrain similar to Windrift Valley. The concentration of dark elements here is beyond imagination."

"Where exactly are we right now?" Benjamin took a deep breath and asked inwardly.

"Based on the scene you just saw, we should be roughly