A couple days later…

High up at peak the sun shone brightly.

In the distance the floor shone a silver color, rippling like the ocean from centuries before, a mirage.

The day before, the sun had baked the desert floor with an intense heat draining out the water which was soaked into the sand.

“So do you remember where you came from?”

Glancing her way she got no reply from Lira who shook her head—obviously hiding it.

“I don’t know exactly where you came from, the situation around your upbringing, as you might have seen, the world out here isn’t favorable. We, all races, may not have been able to survive this long, but if the little rain and land that could bear. But it’s just a matter of time before we are plunged into extinction but before that they will all fight for the little that is left. And—”

“Stragglers in bound. Ready yourselves.”

Warwick, from the front suddenly took to a stance halting everyone.

Not far away a trio of monsters drew in.

On reflex everybody readied the