The next day, the sun blazed overhead.
Cui Ciyou and Elinalise had both changed out of their thick winter clothes.
Cui Ciyou put on a sleeveless White Combat Outfit, although he personally preferred black, which did not show dirt as easily.
But beneath the oven-like sunlight of the Begaritt Continent, black would only cook him faster. The coolness of white was clearly the wiser choice.
Black absorbed almost all visible light and heat, and absorbing more heat meant a higher temperature.
White surfaces reflected most visible light and absorbed very little light or heat, so their surface temperatures remained relatively low, and they did not heat up easily.
Elinalise, meanwhile, was very wary of the sun.
Rather than wearing less, she put on a broad hood and a thin, breathable, long-sleeved jacket.
She carefully protected every inch of her snowy skin from direct exposure to the scorching sunlight.
An elf's cool, pale skin seemed naturally resistant to tanning, but she still cared deeply about preserving that beauty.
The weather seemed even hotter than yesterday.
The Horned Dragon Horse pawed restlessly at the scorching sand, letting out irritated snorts.
The sand was hot enough to cook an egg, and it seemed close to burning his hooves.
During the day, Cui Ciyou and Elinalise encountered monsters several times.
The first was an enormous scorpion.
It was not the scorpion lion they had seen yesterday, but an entirely different species.
When it suddenly burst out of the sand, it gave Elinalise quite a fright.
It was about two meters long, its entire body covered in a hard black shell.
Most terrifying of all, its tail split into two, each capable of attacking independently.
According to Elinalise's extensive store of adventuring knowledge, this monster seemed to be called a Twin Death Scorpion.
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