Appointed
The stars spun around him and all the light vanished from the world along with the safety that came with it.
Hao Xuan saw himself leaving his physical body behind, accompanied only by a superficial cape of chaos that gave some kind of protection.
He flew higher up into the air until he was above the barrier of the city of Argham that had been erected some time ago.
He reached out and touched it with his ethereal body only to feel a strong repulsive force smack it away.
'It...pushed me out. The moment my soul's connection was weakened to my body it was forcibly pushed out,' he quickly concluded. There was no basis for that statement other than a gut feeling that was telling him it was so.
'But...where am I?'
He pulled back his hand as his soul slowly rose higher into the air, following the sound of whispers coming in on the north wind.
He could see and hear things, things that should not be possible. There were strange creatures all over the place.