A heavy, looming silence hung over the rectangular valley, thick enough to make the skin crawl.
Despite the incredibly vast scale of the rugged terrain, the battlefield was laid out with clarity. The ground between the quadrants was flat and broken only by low lonely rocks, meaning every single team could see their competitors perfectly from across the field.
From there, Lancet could see the rest of the map clearly enough to understand how each territory had been tailored to its occupants.
Directly opposite Lancet's team lay Elementalist-D's territory. It was a volcanic wasteland of blackened earth, cracked stone, and glowing rivers of magma that crawled through the land like fiery veins.
