Single Wish: Rise Of The Omniscient Paragon

398  397: Desert? (Eleventh Bonus Chapter)

It all happened so suddenly.

In one moment, they were joggin on top of a rocky ground while being surrounded by mountains and hills, in the next moment, the ground and mountains trembled.

A second after the trembling, the rocky ground turned into a sandy ground, and the mountains got absorbed into the sandy ground, making it seem like there was a terrifying beast beneath the sandy ground devouring the mountains.

The ground trembled once again, and dunes, new plants, and various other objects appeared on the sandy ground.

Bot Corey and Selene were stunned into silence as they stared at the unbelievable change that had occurred around them.

"What- What the hell just happened? Did the bell ring and we didn't hear it?" Selene asked while looking around with a slightly fearful and wary expression.

Corey frowned deeply, and a pondering light flashed in his eyes, "The bell did not ring. I have an ancient stone."

"You already have an ancient stone?" Selene exclaimed in surprise, and Corey nodded.

"I was teleported to a Temple of The Old Ones that The Clown spoke about. It had an ancient stone."

Corey did not mind telling her that he had an ancient stone and that he was teleported to a Temple of The Old Ones since she was his slave. Although there was nothing that stopped her from telling another person this, there was an extremely simple way to prevent this.

"Don't tell anybody that I have an ancient stone and that I was teleported to a Temple of The Old Ones… This isn't a request but an order."

Selene felt the slave mark in her thrum to life, and she quickly nodded before it started hurting her if she did not comply.

"I won't."

The slave mark went back to returned back to its dormant state, and Selene released an internal sigh of relief.

Corey nodded slightly, and then he observed his surroundings. His eyes turned pure white for some seconds, and then they reverted back to normal.

He turned to look at Selene.

"We're not going straight anymore. We're now turning to the left."

"The left?" Selene subconsciously looked to her left before turning to face Corey, "Why are we going to the left now?"

"Cause that's where what I want is."

Corey replied calmly, and then he started walking. Selene quickly followed.

"We're not going to run anymore since we have zero information on the desert. For all we know, there might be monsters beneath us."

Selene's lips twitched, and she glanced at the sandy ground. Although she had some questions like what did Corey see or encounter in the Temple of The Old Ones, or how did his axe become so powerful, and most especially, what was he looking for exactly.

Although she had all of these questions, she chose to remain silent. Her relationship with Corey at the moment was merely that of a master and slave, nothing more.

'Maybe I'll get to know why he's so strong for a tier 2, and maybe some of his other abilities the longer I stay with him.'

Selene thought, and then she looked around. Due to her being a tier 4, the distance at which she could see was high and what she could perceive was also high… Although not as high as Corey's.

The duo kept on walking with a vigilant expression for at least twenty minutes, and during this period, they encountered no danger.

Apart from some non-deadly plants that could grow in deserts and regions with very little water, some small insects and animals, dunes, rocks, and bones of some monsters and beasts, they saw nothing else.

The sun above them was scorching hot, and if an average tier 2 or below found themselves in this desert, they would find themselves immensely dehydrated and the heat would make it difficult for one to think and function properly.

Fortunately for Corey and Selene, they hardly felt the effects of the sun.

Selene was a tier 4 who controlled mystic mana. She just had to cover herself with her mystic mana and she was safe from the effects of the sun.

As for Corey, his quality of mana was immensely pure and of extremely high quality. His mana reserves was also extremely high and his mana absorption rate was extremely high to the point that despite covering his entire body with his mana, his mana never reduced by even an iota.

Although both Corey and Selene had not encountered any danger since the environment abruptly changed, they did not let down their guard.

They knew in their guts that this desert was not a safe place. The presence of the bones they saw was proof of it. They just had to make sure they were not caught off guard when the danger arrived.

The duo kept on walking for another twenty minutes, and this time around, Corey was beginning to have thoughts of increasing their pace.

Through the connection he felt with the infinity crystal, he knew the infinity crystal was still far away.

"I think we should increase our pace. Not only do we need to find the object I'm looking for, we also need to find an ancient for you."

When Selene heard this, a part of her became relieved. She had been worried that Corey did not care about the fact that she had no ancient stone, but it seemed like she had thought wrong.

She nodded, "Let's go."

With that, both of them started jogging with a high level of caution and wariness in their hearts.

Approximately fifteen minutes after they started jogging, they encountered a strange sight that forced them to stop completely.

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Selene exclaimed with a tone filled with disbelief, and these were the same words that were at the tip of Corey's tongue.

In front of them were countless fishes and aquatic animals laying flat on the ground. However, what was strange about these fishes and aquatic animals was that they were not moving and each of them were like statues.

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