Where?

'Where am I?'

Alex felt utterly confused as he asked himself this question.

One second, he was standing among the flames, feeling each and every cell in his body be ripped apart, burned to ash, and regenerate hundreds of times every second.

Then the next second, all of that pain and suffering was gone, as he felt his soul suddenly be sucked into this place.

'Is this…?'

He looked around, and the place seemed oddly familiar to him, but he couldn't quite put a name to it.

His mind was a little bit messy after he had been exhausted by the breakthrough to the first stage of his Heart of the Phoenix technique.

But strangely, while in this place, he felt himself become rapidly more energised.

He felt his mind feel a lot more rejuvenated.

'This is my inventory space! But why, and how am I here?'

With his mind now clear enough to think straight, Alex had finally recognised where he was.