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Chapter 9: The Forbidden Path

ผู้เขียน: Sir Rocket
last update ปรับปรุงล่าสุด: 2025-05-22 09:52:07

The Blighted Forest lived up to its name. Trees grew wrong here - trunks twisted into agonized spirals, branches reaching down instead of up, leaves that whispered without wind. The air tasted of copper and old magic, thick enough to chew. Even the destrier grew nervous, its ears constantly swivelling toward sounds that shouldn't exist.

Kaelen followed the merchant's map by touch rather than sight. Darkness here was absolute, swallowing moonlight before it could penetrate the canopy. The paths marked on the parchment seemed to exist more as suggestions than reality. Sometimes the way forward appeared only when he wasn't looking directly at it.

Three days passed in that green-black maze. Or perhaps three hours; time moved strangely beneath those twisted boughs. His supplies dwindled, but hunger seemed distant, unimportant compared to the pull of the map's destination.

On what might have been the fourth night, they found him.

The attack came without warning: shadows given substance, flo
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