At this point, Duke also realized that the others had left the Wizard Formation intact for this reason as well—they could use the pillar of fire as a signal.
As long as the pillar of fire rose, they would know someone else had arrived.
Duke and Merrick flew toward the right side of the passage, an area that had already been explored and where not many dangerous magical creatures were found.
It was a wide, open plain. Not even a blade of weed could be seen on the ground; it was utterly barren.
Dark red bloodstains could occasionally be seen on the ground, though no one knew what kind of creature had left them behind.
These bloodstains had existed for many years and had not been left recently. They had already been there when the Void Corridor was first discovered.
As far as the eye could see, such bloodstains were scattered throughout the entire area.
Some wizards speculated that this had once been an ancient battlefield, and that all the bloodstains had been left behind during a long-ago war.
The source of the blood had surely been some exceedingly powerful existence, or else it could not have remained after so many years.
The bloodstains here were not merely on the surface. Dig into the soil anywhere, and traces of dark red blood could be found beneath.
This soil could even be used as material for certain spells and potions. Quite a few wizards had taken it away for research, but none had developed any broadly useful potions or spells from it. It could only serve as a research material.
Because of these bloodstains, this place was known as the Bloodstained Plains.
The desolation of the Bloodstained Plains seemed to swallow sound. The vast plain was deathly silent, broken only by