"My liege, get up! Now!" Blood Reign shouted inside his mind. Gone was the calm, steady tone. Her voice was filled with panic and horror. "My liege! Get up now, or we will perish forever!"
Damon's eyes snapped open. He moved on pure instinct, throwing himself sideways as space itself tore apart where he had been standing. A huge, gaping spatial rip split the ground open, edges shimmering with distorted light. It looked like a wound carved directly into reality, swallowing everything around it without a sound.
If he had been half a second slower, he would have been erased or thrown into god knows what world.
Damon rolled across the ground and barely managed to get back on one knee, gasping. His heart was pounding so violently that it felt like it was about to burst out of his chest. Cold sweat drenched his back.
"Whatโฆ the hellโฆ was that? Wait. Where are we?"
Damon looked around. The trial was clearly over, but he was not back in the game world? What was happening? He noticed a flashing text in the corner of his eye and quickly opened the system notification.
[Ding! The Golden Throne has summoned you. Walk through madness, or be erased from the path of glory. Ascension is not given, it is taken.]
The notification did not give him much information, but Blood Reign hurriedly shouted. "My liege, you are in a different world. A very unique and strange world. I am not able to sense mana here at all. If I am not wrong, this world should be one of the old worlds, something that predates the system."
Damon swallowed and looked around properly this time.
The ground beneath his feet was black stone, cracked and uneven, stretching endlessly in every direction. The sky above was golden in color or rather the rays from the sun was so bright that the entire sky appeared golden in color.
Damon looked up to see the sun but he immediately shifted his eyes away from the blinding ball of light. It was as if he stared at it even for a fraction of a second, his entire existence would be burnt away.
"What is this placeโฆ why hereโฆ" Damon wondered why the system event had brought him here when he noticed a presence not too far away from him. If it were anyone from the hidden families, then they probably had lot more information than him.
Damon hurriedly dashed forward to not let them escape when he abruptly came to a stop. The people in front of him were definitely not whom he expected. In fact, they weren't people at all in strictest sense.
Damon watched in shock at the three treants like creatures walking in front of him. Just as he had noticed them, they had also noticed his presence. The three turned to look at him. Damon immediately prepared to attack and defend but one of them raised a branch-like arm in surrender.
"We do not mean any harm. Just like you, the throne has marked us as well.
The three were speaking in a very different language, something that Damon had never heard of before but he understood it anyways. The system language feature apparently was not restricted to just the game world. Thanks to that, he was able to clearly understand the treant like creatures as if he had been talking their language his whole life.
"Do you know anything about this world or why we were summoned here?" Damon tried asking the three.


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