All The Skills - A Deckbuilding LitRPG - Book 5: It’s About Time

... very joint was sore. His head rang and throbbed at the same time, and everything from his teeth to the soles of his feet hurt.

He slit open his eyes and looked around. Things were . . . off. He got glimpses of a starlit sky bracketed by the dark outline of bare branched trees. The grass under his cheek was colorless and dry, as if it had never seen water.

Where . . . came the hazy thought. Then he registered the sound of water slapping against a bank and the slight creak of wood. ...