Before entering the dungeon, Ryan and Femradiel activated Mana Concealment. It wasn't weird that Femradiel could use the skill since she saw Ryan using it for many hours in the last few days. As soon as they touched the crystal, they were already ready for a fight, but much to their surprise, no one attacked as soon as they appeared.
"What is this place…" Ryan furrowed his eyebrows.
It didn't look like they were teleported to another planet. Both of them looked around and only saw what seemed to be a massive different dimension created with magic. There were no mountains, but there were many rocks of different sizes and shapes. It would make the travel on foot on that place incredibly challenging, physically speaking. It also would be hard to locate oneself in such a place since there were no clear landmarks.
The sky seemed like Earth's, but no star or cloud could be seen. Thanks to that, it looked pretty ominous, like a sea of darkness that could swallow anyone that stares too much into it.
"This is unexpected," Femradiel said. "I don't feel the presence of a domain. I guess Thanatos didn't imagine that anyone would invade his world to face him."
If that was true, that was something pretty good for them. The first dungeon master that Ryan had defeated also didn't have a barrier to protect its crystal. Still, the difference was that the enemy was a big slime. Either Thanatos was stupid like a slime, or he was pretty confident in his victory in that world.
"There is no moon here…" Ryan muttered. "Bastard, he probably knows that I caused a lot of damage on Poseidon by using Lunar Arrow. That was fast, considering that made me move around for the past few days."
"The opponent this time isn't underestimating you," Femradiel said. "In any case, I already marked this place, so we can leave without losing the only way out."
Ryan wasn't interested in leaving without Thanatos' head, but Femradiel did the right thing in the end. They began to fly around, trying to be as quiet as they could be while looking for any sign of Thanatos. Knowing how much elder gods liked castles, it was the first thing they looked for. Still, even though Ryan could see things dozens of kilometers away from him, he didn't find any sign of any type of buildings.
After a few hours, Ryan got sick and tired of looking. They didn't find a single thing aside from rocks and adding that atmosphere to the equation. It was no wonder that any sane person would feel pissed. It was like a world devoid of light and any warmth that slowly eats away the mind of those who arrive there.
"Something is off…" Femradiel said. "Even if this world is ridiculously massive, we should have been able to find something aside from these rocks… maybe we were caught under an illusion spell."
"Why would Thanatos use an illusion to play with us when we are in his world?" Ryan asked.
"Maybe he didn't… directly," Femradiel replied. "I am thinking that this place automatically casts an illusion to fool people like us. It is like a trap to slowly kill those who came here alive."
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