Mu You woke from his slumber.
Overhead stretched a pale red sky. Beneath that strangely colored firmament, spiraling clouds replaced the usual blue sky and white clouds, resembling Van Gogh's famous painting of a starry night as they rapidly churned and mingled at low altitude in an extremely abstract fashion.
He sat up and looked around. He was on a stretch of emerald-green ground, with a sparse forest in the distance. But instead of normal trees, it contained withered trees with twisted, gnarled shapes that looked thoroughly out of place. Rather than trees, they looked more like "monsters" baring their fangs and brandishing their claws to intimidate anyone approaching.
Stranger still were the many transparent spheres floating above the ground.
These spheres varied in size. The largest were as big as basketballs, while the smallest were only the size of glass marbles. Their sole common feature was that each displayed some kind of moving scene, like a diviner's crystal ball.
"So this is... a dream?" Mu You was slightly surprised.
The surroundings were very different from what he had imagined. The beautiful mountains and clear waters inside Inventory Space had led him to subconsciously assume the Dream World would look similar.
As it turned out, the actual Dream World had an entirely different aesthetic. Rather than anything realistic, it resembled a fairy-tale world a child had casually scribbled with crayons-and a dark version at that...
Xiao Ya and Lin Xue woke beside him as well. All three wore only a very crude layer of cloth. Their own clothes, equipment, storage rings, and even the magic spells and divine authority in their minds had all vanished.
"Yes, this is the Dream World."
Vivian's familiar voice rang out. With a flutter of wings, the crow landed on a treetop ahead and looked