Chapter 499 Somewhere Far Away... (1/2)

…Somewhere far away, in the depths of an endless and inescapable night the dunes of a vast desert in a flood of i heat The sands of the desert were flawlessly white, and the azure sky above them was deep and boundless like an ancient ocean, with not a single cloud ble battered by the heat, a lone figureworey eyes, her skin covered in terrible burns, her silver hair dirty with blood and surrounded by a radiant halo of reflected light She wore charred remains of a shattered armor, and wielded a broken sword, its silver blade fractured and ending in a jagged edge close to the hilt

The young wo far into the distance and disappearing over the horizon To her left, there was nothing but an endless sea of white dunes; to her right, a line of blackdesert

Far ahead, there was a tree with scarlet leaves and a scattering of so from its wide branches

This here Nephis was headed

She had to reach the tree before the night came, or… no, it was better not to think of it

Her water had long run out, and the thirst was slowly taking hold of her mind Her tortured body was a sea of pain, but she could still walk She could still fight

She was still not willing to give up

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Nephis stopped and stared at its white bark, its scarlet leaves, and the shapes she had thought were fruit But they weren't Instead, tens of thousands of skulls hung fro threads of black silk

A spring of water forreat tree, and on its bank, with his back to her, stood a figure clad in a strange, rusted arure was too tall to be one of her kind

As if hearing her thoughts, the creature turned around, revealing a desiccated face of a corpse, hollow eyes e the hilt of a weapon Two hands held long swords, their blades sharper than a razor and curved slightly, two hands heldtwisted sickles, and the last two held a heavy scepter and a broken shi+eld

The chestplate of the creature's rusted ar wound beneath

Being consuing the creature to stop

But, of cause, it didn't

With furious ed at her, striking doith one of the sickles Ita scarlet cloud of fallen leaves swirling into the air with a strong gust of wind

Taking a step back, Nephis raised her broken sword to deflect the devastating strike, as if forgetting that it had no blade

At the last ht appeared where the blade should have been and stopped the sickle fro her flesh