Book 4, Chapter 23

Gamble

Although Nyris claimed he hadn’t gone far enough, even he didn’t believe it. He’d ventured several dozen kilometres within the forest before, and nothing had come up. When roaming around the forests at night, he and Agamemnon had repeatedly tried finding the druids only to fail.

The saint that Nyris had brought along, Scherr, had once ventured deep into the forest alone but was almost unable to return. A hundred kilometres away from the city lay a mysterious force that greatly dulled one’s senses and suppressed the mind, severely affecting one’s sense of direction. If not for ample experience in the woods and a prompt decision to return the moment things felt off, he might have been lost in the woods forever.

The results of the search left everyone on guard. A hundred kilometres became the radius of their search, but that was still far too large a region to explore.

Thankfully, the tree variety increased vastly only ten kilometres away from the city....