Swamp Expedition
Deciding that he should set up a teleportation pad just outside of the magic tree's influence to make his return trip easier, Rino gathered the required materials, including the amber. There were a few things Rino wanted to get before he confronted the master behind the strange events in the swamp.
If his guess was right on the money, the master behind those strange events in the marshland was a magician like him. Not just any magician either. He had to be someone who practised the dark arts.
Rino might not know a lot about the dark arts, but there was no mistaking the nature of the sacrifice needed for the powerful magical aura. The evil and sinister setting surrounding the marsh was a perfect honeypot for lost souls addicted to the suffering they feel. Those wisps lingering in the area were not possessed or enslaved. They were simply taking comfort in the familiarity of pain.