As the group stepped on the other side of the portal, the Bloodlands stretched out before everyone.
The land was bleak and barren. The sky overhead was a dull purple, streaked with jagged forks of black lightning that never reached the ground. Everywhere they turned it was all doom and gloom.
The mountains in the distance jutted like skeletal fingers, their peaks clawing toward the broken sky. The trees, if they could even be called that, were twisted husks of blackened wood with crimson sap dripping down their bark like blood.
It was very different from the Earth Online's light faction continent with its blue skies, flowing rivers and thriving forests. And it was nothing like Earth itself, no birdsong, no green. Only a suffocating stillness, broken by distant howls that rolled over the horizon like thunder. The only familiar thing was the sun.
As everyone stared at their new surroundings, the system chimed again.
[Ding! You have entered the Bloodlands.]
