Falling.
Falling—
Devoid of light, devoid of sound, Colin's bright blue eyes were wide open, but he could only feel the intense sensation of weightlessness.
A moment later, light came through.
A vivid red caught his eyes.
Emerald red ground, as if made of glass... Remnants of ancient trees?
Still inside a forest, but this place was undoubtedly not the Red Soil Forest from before.
It was a... dead forest.
'Or rather...a dead land.'
Colin looked around and silently added to himself.
Not just the ancient trees, the shrubs and weeds of the forest as well, all had turned into a shattered, glass-like appearance, lacking any breath of life.
In the next moment, Colin furrowed his brows even more and quickly closed his eyes to sense carefully.
'The Magic Power here...is so sparse?!'
He opened his eyes in some astonishment.
The concentration of Magic Power in the forest rivaled some sparse magic areas over the sea... If compared to Neustadt City, it might only be one-thousandth of the city's concentration of Magic Power!
With such a low concentration of Magic Power, if one wished to cultivate or recover Magic Power, they would have to use a Magic Stone; otherwise, it would take an extremely long time.
'Right, where's Nasi?'
At that moment, Colin suddenly remembered... and hurriedly turned his head to look around.
But what caught his eye was only the red desiccated trees with a glass-like sensation...
"Good giant, what are you looking for?"
Just when Colin was puzzled, Nasi's voice suddenly came from above him.
He followed the sound.
There, poking out from the robust and wide-spreading branches above his head, was Nasi's delicate little face.
She looked down at Colin and continued rubbing her sleepy eyes, "Good giant is too heavy, Nasi was so tired bringing you here, now I want to sleep!"
After saying that, she withdrew her head and once again laid down on the red glassy branches.
Colin didn't answer, and instead looked somewhat shaken at the vibrant purple-red color seeping through the crystalline gaps of the glass branches behind Nasi.
Different from the emerald-like vibrant red ground, the sky here was a dense purple-red, as if the last dazzling color shot out when the sun sinks at sunset...
'Is this place...possibly a Different Space?'
Colin withdrew his gaze and speculated inwardly.
Then he turned his head and once again surveyed his surroundings, subconsciously asking:
"Nasi, is this forest your home?"
"Yeah..."
Apparently too exhausted, only after a moment did Nasi's voice reach him.
She didn't come out but spoke intermittently, "Not only this forest, but also other places, are all Nasi's home... It's super big, good giant shouldn't run around, or when Nasi wakes up later...I won't be able to find you..."
As she spoke, Nasi's voice gradually lowered until it turned into the steady rhythm of breathing.
Colin didn't disturb her further, but with a thought, he slowly flew upwards.
As he passed by Nasi, he glanced at her.
This little red Elf was lying without any defense on what was, for her, an overly wide glass branch, her eyelashes slightly trembling, clearly deep in sleep.
Colin retracted his gaze and continued flying upwards.
As the obstructive branches were left behind, his view was gradually dominated by the dense purple-red.
An inexplicable sense of oppression came upon him... and the surroundings subtly became depressing.
'This dense purple-red color in the sky, so rich in layers, is astonishing... I wonder how it formed.' Colin looked at the sky, still unable to hide his amazement.
After a while, he finally flew out of the barren glass forest.
The piercing wind suddenly assaulted him, causing his gray Wizard Robe to flap violently.
Looking far into the distance in all directions.
An austere and magnificent world suddenly unfolded before him.
Continuously rolling majestic mountain ranges sprawled in the distance, the forest at his feet stretched left and right, and a vast plain lay in front, interspersed with several irregular pits... they appeared to be dried-up lakes.
The terrain varied richly, but the colors were monotonous.
The land and everything it touched, whether the mountain ranges or the plains, had all turned red under a mysterious force.
Though there were shades lighter and darker, they were all just red...
Looking up again, the purple-red sky had no stars or moon, it looked like a round, luminous glass dome covering the entire land, and at the edge of sight, the pitch-black border was clearly visible.
The whole world was deathly silent, apart from the biting wind, no other sound could be heard.
It seemed that, apart from the little Elf Nasi and him, there were no other living creatures...
'Such an eerie sky and land, as well as the obvious barrier... This place is indeed a Different Space!'
Colin observed the surroundings once more, memorizing the nearby terrain, then slowly descended back into the forest.
Although he was very curious about what this place actually was, at the moment his body had not yet recovered its best condition, and it was not the time for rash exploration.
Moreover, he had no need to explore... waiting for Nasi to wake up, the war on Gubier Island should be almost over.
That invisible enemy had probably been dealt with by the High-Rank elders... Right now, the most important thing was to recover to his best state.
Thinking this, Colin settled next to Nasi on an even thicker branch and sat down cross-legged.
He first lifted his Wizard Robe to examine his wound on the waist and abdomen. The originally large wound had already closed up, forming a huge scar.