Emma - The Cost of Freedom
He swept it in a broad arc, turning grass, tents, and those unlucky enough to be standing in front of him into charred powder, turning the suddenly barren earth into jagged, volcanic glass as it melted and reformed.
Silver Nights - Chapter 8
It might be ravaged with large marauder and bandit groups, with the only organized "army" being the black viper mercenaries, but it has a lot of natural resources beneath the barren earth. like gold. and most importantly, one twilight ore mine.
Eudaemon III: Rebirth / Act II, Part 6
earth before pain tore through his body again as he was ripped free from the concrete like a plant in a burst of stone, his eyes opening in a bloody haze, his legs and body alive with pain, almost broken, before drake made an idle swatting motion as he looked
Chronomancer Chronicles: Bloodfyre - 3.0
Verdant forests and green grass replaced the barren earth. a blue sky washed away the restless clouds and dark eclipse. harm breathed the fresh air of incendius again and reached for _timekeeper_ which lay embedded in the soil in front of him.
The Broken Road - Chapter 1
The other, who stood more than a head above the cheetah had also removed the visor, a tiger, who had a long scar trailing from beneath an eyepatch, like a ruin of red barren earth going clear to his chin.
Enochian: Book 2, Chapter 19
This place was like the hell people imagined when the topic was brought up: pools of magma, cracked, barren earth, and enormous rocks with dead soldier demons chained all over them... and zerrex snarled furiously as ose hissed: "you can't flee now, lord zerrex
Zisanth and Breidar
His paws had turned into cloven hooves, sure to clack against tile, but against the barren earth floor, he simply pressed his own hooves downward. and of course his tail flicked with a spark of fire, igniting without fanfare.
Extinction 1 - Of Fathers and Sons
earth that seethed with mist.
The Promise 4 - To Her Love
It was not a warmth, but an evil eye that seethed upon their heads and left an eerie impression on the deathless wastes, the barren earth stretching to eternity with only a small camp of two tents and a fire.
Boy Meets Gill(s) - (Illustrated by DMA, Angel27 and WhiteMantis)
Putting a hand over the front of his snout, slyth pressed on, warily crossing the unnaturally barren earth that surrounded orinoco's lair on all sides, like a muddy moat, a menacing, moody moor, mired with malicious, malodorous miasma.
Lost Legend of Agrok ch. 6
Even if one was trying to sew the seeds of change to swallow up the barren earth of hate, this is more effort than one servant girl would warrant from a leader with so many issues to juggle as you have.