Chapter 62

At this moment, what appeared before Sain was a massive white chasm.

It seemed as if a gap had been split open in the sky and earth before him. This white chasm was likely the spatial rift that his mentor and others had mentioned.

Around the spatial rift, Sain indeed saw a large number of familiar alchemical instruments.

Many of these alchemical instruments came from the laboratory of his mentor and his fellow apprentices, including several that Sain had personally touched and participated in creating.

Before this spatial rift, Sain did not see the figure of his mentor, Mosido.

He did not even see any of the other black mages he was somewhat familiar with, except for a bald man standing before the spatial rift, wearing a white mage robe.

The black mages of Muzubura City generally preferred to wear black robes or other dark-colored clothing.

Like Sain's senior apprentice Zorro, who often wore a metallic yellow mage robe, he was considered somewhat of an oddity.

But the bald man before him was clearly an oddity among oddities.

However, whether it was Sain or the other intermediate magic apprentices who had arrived here, they all could not help but tremble when they saw this bald mage.

This was the immense pressure from a higher life tier!

The strength of this bald mage far exceeded that of Vice Dean Dadalon by more than a notch!

"I am your Vice Dean Martin. In a moment, you will enter the spatial rift one by one in order."

"The red bead that appears before you is an important mission item for your journey."

"After you arrive in the other plane, try to gather as many people as possible and hand these elemental beads to the strongest apprentice among you."

"If this exploration of the other plane goes smoothly, in addition to the benefits that come with plane development, each of you will receive three hundred college points and three thousand black gold as a reward."

"On the condition that you can return alive."

"Go!" Vice Dean Martin pointed with his left hand.

The apprentices at the front, unable to resist the force, took step by step toward the spatial rift.

Sain, who was in the back half of the group, was not as hasty and nervous as the apprentices at the front.

He even diverted some of his attention to examine the thumb-sized red bead that had appeared in his hand.

"Elemental bead? What exactly is this?" When

Sain had this doubt, his mentor Mosido's mental voice appeared again.

"If possible, try to collect as many of these elemental beads as you can. They might be useful to you."

Before Sain could ask anything, the irresistible force from Vice Dean Martin suddenly descended, and Sain, like the other apprentices, directly entered the spatial rift and disappeared.

...

Pain!

Uncontrollable pain appeared all over Sain's body!

It was both a tearing pain and as if someone was hitting his head with a large hammer.

In short, after entering the spatial rift, Sain's consciousness was quickly swallowed.

Only the indelible pain remained, etched deep in his memory.

In fragmented memories, Sain seemed to see only a narrow, inverted triangular crack passage and a bright yellow halo.

For some reason, that inverted triangular crack passage reminded Sain of the narrow underground crevice he had hidden in a few years ago while on a college mission.

Both were so narrow that only someone of his strength could pass through.

As for that bright yellow halo... after Sain's body passed through it, he felt a much more severe discomfort and alienation than he had in the magic altar passage.

It was like a fish that had lived in water for a long time suddenly coming to land.

The suffocating feeling of being unable to breathe and the rejection from the surrounding environment all told him that he did not belong here.

...

The scorching sunlight burned Sain's skin.

The scalding yellow sand made Sain feel as if he were in a pot of boiling oil.

When he finally woke up from his unconscious state, he found that most of his body was buried in the sand.

Sain's constitution was relatively good among magic apprentices.

Combined with the far superior mental strength of intermediate apprentices compared to ordinary humans, his resilience and willpower were also far beyond the norm.

No wonder the college had them, the magic apprentices, lead the charge and placed their main hopes on the advanced apprentices and quasi-mages.

If it were ordinary low-level apprentices or ordinary humans, they would not be able to withstand the intense pain of passing through the spatial rift or the harsh environment they were now in.

The tingling in his shoulder made the extremely weak Sain turn his head to look.

Dense lacerations appeared before his eyes, but most of these wounds had already scabbed over, and he did not know how long he had been unconscious.

The thin air was another major factor causing Sain's weakness.

Fortunately, Sain could still control his upper body. After activating his spatial ring and summoning a low-level healing potion, he held it in his hand.

At this point, Sain's injuries were not severe. The dense lacerations on his skin were mostly superficial.

His weakness was mainly due to the environment and the impact of passing through the spatial rift.

After careful consideration, Sain did not rashly take a mid-level healing potion.

He only had three of these mid-level healing potions, while he had more than a dozen low-level healing potions.

He also had some mid- and low-level vitality potions and antidotes, all given to him by Melly.

Fortunately, although Sain's lower body was buried in the sand, it was not quicksand.

After regaining some strength, Sain struggled to crawl out, and the low-level lightness spell he cast on himself accelerated his escape.

Unlike when they entered the spatial rift in a specific order, Sain, now in this vast desert world, could not see a single apprentice in the distance.

The endless yellow sand filled Sain's field of vision.

Unlike the underground world, which was always dark and without sunlight, this desert world was extremely bright.

Sain did not dare to look up at the sky because the high temperature and blinding light made his eyes hurt.

Perhaps only after adapting to the environment of this desert world could he look at the sky and see if it resembled the sky from his childhood memories.

With a staggering gait, Sain walked in a certain direction.

This desert world not only had extremely thin air but also seemed to have a different gravity than the Underdark.

Sain felt he could jump higher, but his weak body and the scorching yellow sand made him abandon this thought.

"Where are the others?" After walking for a long time and seeing the same monotonous scenery, Sain couldn't help but wonder.