72 Chapter 20: The Great Seven Kingdoms (1/2)

I wearily opened my eyes.

And at that instance, a blinding light challenged my focus that wavered unsteadily.

I took a deep breath and rubbed at my eyes, almost gasping, a hurried attempt to remind my body of its dire need of air.

My body feels like I'm floating...

Where am I?

When I manage to peel my eyes open, adjusting to the brightness, I began to look around and found myself standing in the middle of a dusty sunny desert where the sand dunes and vast fields of hazy mirage from the heat, almost as though water exist over the surface, stretched across the horizons.

The wind blew as the sands and dusts billowed like a rolled out carpet of smoke.

This place... looks strangely familiar, I thought, with one hand up to shade my eyes from the bright sunlight blasting at me.

”What is it?”

Huh? Who spoke just now?

I turned around and saw a silhouette of a man standing ahead of me. Dust screen covered my view of him and all I could do is gaped at him, hopeful and patient to await for the wind to blow and clear the dusts.

”We can't stop now.

We need to keep walking...”