Chapter 142

The vast expanse of the grassland stretched out endlessly, the sapphire blue of the sky deepening from a pale azure overhead to a dark, rich indigo at the distant horizon. This was a sea of emerald green, a place that ought to have been filled with cattle, horses, and herdsmen, with flocks of sheep running joyfully across the rolling terrain. But because this was a Secret Realm, the area teemed with very little vitality. Only occasionally would giant worms rupture the surface of the earth to burrow upward, their funnel-like, blood-chilling maws lined with tiers of horny fangs. BOOM!!