27 Flatrot Forest

The wind howled and blew a bitter chill past the dying trees; it danced with the leaves and dragged them away unwillingly from the autumn ground. The floor was damp and stagnant with the odour of decomposing wood, diamonds pierced the black sheet held up above and looked down with vengeance. The forest seemed to never end; tall silhouettes shadowing the ground, ravens circling overhead, and screams echoing through the wind. Beady eyes hidden within the bramble scanned the area, oblivious that they were prey to this Forest. A paranormal presence lurked in the essence of the devils grasp, shadowing each living organism with dire precision.

An Immense bulky tree stood in centre of forest, movement of a whirlwind but look of a witch. The tree protrudes it dangling vines. The green fades away as autumn approaches, nothing to be seen except a big old tree.And big tree is said to be guardian of forest known as Ashranier.

According to legends , Ashranier is one of the oldest trees of Arcadia which protects forest from intruders and an barrier covers the whole flatrot Forest.

Magnus was rushing towards forest at full speed. Its been few days since he have departed for Flatrot Forest as soon as a giant tree was visible to him from miles, suddenly his flight magic dispelled ,

"what in the world?"

As Magnus was falling from sky, Orion explained,

"Magic negation barrier is detected, your spells will be dispelled"

"why don't you tell me sooner?"

Magnus falling with crazy speed and crashed into ground forming an huge crater.

"aahh..... Even though this body is strong, but I still feel pain"

Magnus was at the entrance of flatrot Forest, he doesn't had any map with him and can't even use his magic spells like vision and other to make things easy.

"if I had knew this, I would have prepared something in advance"

Its been long time for Magnus to walk in unknown forest, an spirit of adventure aroused in him after so long. Many dangers were hiding in forest for him to discover.

As he continued his journey in forest, he heard loud sounds as if some monsters were engaged in fierce battle . Magnus's senses picked up signal of danger, being cautious he took out scimitar and moved towards the site . On the way he noticed scratches on trees and a lot of blood spread over the ground, it looked like something has dragged itself being injured after a long battle.

The scene refreshes some memories of his past, when he was ambushed by bandits and was injured to the point of unconsciousness. As Magnus began approaching, he saw many corpses of monsters,

"looks like some kind of turf war between monsters"

Magnus inspected the situation and most of the corpses were of the red Bear which were usually aggressive monsters and one of the higher ups in food chain of unintelligent monsters. They have tendency to attack people who used to travel through dense forests.

Monsters were usually divided into categories, first category comes with certain level of intelligence and second category which behave on their instincts.

Second category of monsters are abundant in Savage lands and they mostly attacks villages and people on hunting. Since they don't have much Intelligence, they attack people using their raw strength.

On other hand, first category can be described as magical beasts which can use elemental magic . They can be tamed but they were rare even in savage lands even though area was filled with lot of monsters.

As Magnus was inspecting, a low pitch howl spread through surrounding as if someone weak was calling for help. Magnus immediately left the scene and head towards the direction and after some time, he reached an river and was mesmerised on scene.

"what an beautiful creature?"

Orion responded,

"its an magical beast

Silver moon wolf"

The wolf is as white as the snow. His fur, short over his body and longer at the neck, is smooth and shiny. His stance is confident and body muscular. But his fur was stained with bloods and many injuries can be seen on his body.

Magnus who has been staring at him for long time was sensed by him and he growled towards the direction where Magnus was hiding.

"Hey buddy calm down",

Magnus who was holding scimitar, putting it back in shadow world, it made Magnus wolf realise that he was not hostile towards him. The blood of wolf was painting the river in red and wolf moved away towards other edge of river. Then just yards away he tumbled to the ground as if he meant to lie down but couldn't coordinate his limbs. Then with his great white head on his paws as he closed his eyes.

Even though it looked like he was lying down but the path he covered was filled with blood.

An feeling of sympathy and familiarity aroused in Magnus's heart as it reminded him of his situations after bloody Battle.

And Magnus used to have an white husky dog during his childhoods which resembles the wolf a lot.

Magnus took his steps towards unconscious wolf.

"Can i use heal on him?"

"due to interference of barrier, we can't master".

If Magnus was his old self, he would have left him there to die but New Magnus was different, he decided to help him out.

Weather around forest became stormy and after a while rain began pouring. Magnus carried ghaint wolf on his back and began running through forest in search for shelter.