Two weeks had passed since Reidar had escaped the industrial ruins of the first city, and in that time, he had traveled through the remnants of three other cities.
The landscape of this world didn't change much as he moved north; it was a repetitive stretch of ash-covered badlands, jagged rock spires, and deep fissures that belched toxic gas.
This world was, without a shred of doubt, a graveyard, as it was filled with the remains of a civilization that hadn't survived its own apocalypse.
The ruins' size suggested that the people who lived there were more advanced than humanity was when the System first arrived on Earth.
