The Lord of Ashes

On the third day after arriving in this yellow sand world, Thain finally realized that this was not the world he was originally in.

From the thinness of the air to gravity, from the surrounding environment to the concentration of elements, Thane could not feel any sense of familiarity at all.

Not only that, these three days were the specific time passage that Thain obtained through the crystal ball.

In fact, during these three days, the surrounding yellow sand environment was always daytime.

It's as if there is no night in this world.

After getting this information, Thain couldn't help but be curious, and he couldn't help but look to the sky while wearing a pale mask.

The bright light made Thain's eyes dizzy.

But what shocked him even more was that he saw three suns in the sky...

All of this gave Thain a sense of absurdity and unreality.

"The academy wants us to deploy spatial coordinate generators in this yellow sand world. It is absolutely impossible to separate us specially for delivery."

"There is only one possibility, and that is that after entering this alien plane, all the apprentices were forced to disperse and lose."

"Perhaps some apprentices are lucky enough to land in the same place, but I..." Thain thought as he leaned inside the man-made gap in the sand dune.

Why are magicians the representative of wisdom?

Because no matter how bad the environment is, they can use their wisdom to create a better environment for themselves.

This is also the first time for Thain to come to this kind of desert and yellow sand environment.

But after a few days, he will be able to use his experience and wisdom to create a comfortable rest environment as much as possible and reduce his own physical exertion.

A red bead radiating heat appeared in Thane's hand.

This thing is the Pearl of Elements that Deputy Dean Martin gave to Thane and others before they entered the time and space rift.

When Thane finds himself moving in a certain direction, the Elemental Orb generates more heat.

On the contrary, as you move in other directions, the heat of the Elemental Orb will decrease.

Thain guessed that one of the important functions of this bead, in addition to other magical uses that he was not aware of at the moment, was to help apprentices who entered the alien plane gather together.

Otherwise, Vice Dean Martin would not have mentioned that low-level apprentices are required to do so when they encounter an apprentice who is stronger than themselves.

When you do this, give your elemental pearl to the other party.

Holding a nutritional potion he made in his hand, Thain carefully took one-third of the potion while thinking about the problem.

Because he didn't know when he would find the main force, and he didn't know how long he would have to stay in this ghost place, Thain did not dare to waste any resources he had on hand.

Until now, Thain has not seen any living creature except himself.

Fortunately, he has a space ring, and the ring also stores some precious resources such as nutritional potions and recovery potions.

What about the other apprentices?

Not every apprentice, like Thain, has an alchemist as a mentor.

Even those high-level apprentices, most of them don't have top-notch equipment like space rings.

There are not enough living materials, there are no living creatures in the surrounding environment, and there is no water source.

Two or three days were fine, and with the tenacity of the black magic apprentices, they could handle it.

What if it’s five or six days, or even longer?

Until this moment, Thain felt a little regretful. He had obviously learned a lot of low-level magic and magic tricks from other departments, but why didn't he think of learning water polo skills?

The body's drought can only be replenished by the negligible amount of water in nutritional medicine.

Even he had such a hard life. If those intermediate apprentices who came in the same batch couldn't find the academy's senior apprentices and quasi-magicians in time, wouldn't they be doomed?

It was also at this moment that Thane gained a deeper understanding of the narrow escape that his mentor Moses had mentioned before.

This kind of alien plane exploration is indeed not something that can be done at the apprentice level.

Only formal and above-level magicians who have mastered many magics and profound knowledge are probably qualified to adapt to and explore such a harsh environment.

How far have all the geniuses of Thane come?

And how big is this yellow sand world exactly?

In this sinister world where he didn't see any value in exploration, he didn't see anything that formal black magicians were keen to plunder.

…

It wasn't until the ninth day that Thain came to the yellow sand world that he finally saw another thing besides the yellow sand.

It was a tattered black robe half buried in the sand, filling the sky

It looks particularly abrupt against the background of yellow sand.

There was a little excitement in his expression, and Thain rushed over in a hurry.

The lower gravity of this yellow sand world makes Thain seem to be permanently blessed with a lightening technique.

Arriving in front of the black robe, Thain took out a handy object from the space ring and dug it up, regardless of the hot yellow sand.

The excitement on his face was gradually replaced by shock and dejection.

What appeared next in front of him was a mummy that had all the water evaporated from its body.

This should be an intermediate apprentice whose strength is close to that of Thain. The iconic black robe indicates that he also comes from the city of Menzobra, and is likely to come from another world in the same batch as Thain.

But unfortunately, only nine days passed, and this powerful black magic apprentice was reduced to a mummy.

Even through the mummy, Thain couldn't quite see his true appearance, but certain organ features showed that he was a male apprentice.

"No, it definitely took more than nine days for him to come to another world!"

"Although the air thinness, element concentration, and overall environment of this world are far different from the Underdark."

"But considering that he must have survived for a while after his arrival, it is impossible for him to become like this in just a few days!"

As a black magic apprentice who has dissected many corpses and has been praised by the official black magician Cosolon, Thain made his most rational and scientific judgment.

"Did it take more than nine days for him to come to this yellow sand world?"

"Or are they the same batch of descended apprentices, but the order of entering the space-time rift is different, which will also lead to slight differences in the specific time of appearing in the alien plane?" Thain thought in surprise.

He is among the last group of intermediate apprentices to enter the space-time rift.

If his hypothesis is true, it can indeed be explained that the apprentice who was reduced to a mummy in front of him did arrive in the yellow sand world a few days earlier than he did.

There is not enough material supplies, and there are no living creatures to hunt. If you don’t know water magic, there is no replenishment of water sources...

Sighing softly, Thane ignored the unlucky apprentice in front of him whose body had been reduced to a mummy, and even his eyeballs had turned into floccules.

Instead, he lowered his head to look for something that could be useful to him.