Carax Forest

"Whose old granny are you referring to, hm?!" Eros squeezed the cloth again until it screamed again. He doesn't like it when his teacher is called an old granny.

"I mean… I mean Atne." The cloth confirmed its words.

Finally, Eros stopped his torment. "What exactly happened?" He asked the point. He's lazy to throw a lot of nonsense.

The edges of the cloth immediately wrinkled. It looked like it was frowning. "Selshi is an unexpected place. It turns out that there is a hidden danger that Atne wasn't even aware of."

Eros frowned. "So it's true that it wasn't an assault?"

"Did anyone say it was an assault? That… it was complete nonsense!" shouted the cloth who felt disapproved. "Does this place look like it's been attacked by a certain force? Not."

Namara sighed. Her guess was right. Even those who tend to be clueless can feel out of place. She was sure, if Eros had known this he would have acted long ago.

Too bad this problem just disappeared. Namara herself had even heard of a place called Selshi. There wasn't much she could do. So she just silently watched them.

"You know Carax Forest?" Suddenly the cloth asked.

Eros nodded. "It's not that far from here," he said.

Carax Forest is a forest that contains old Carax trees. Each Carax tree may be over 50 feet in diameter and vary in height. They are all giant trees.

The place was rarely touched by the academy people because they didn't want to damage the giant trees. However, does that place hold anything?

"Well! That!" The cloth shouted. "It all started from that place."

"Tell me more," said Eros trying to be patient. The thing in his hand was too chatty and verbose.

"The Carax Forest has never been entered by people. They certainly don't know what dangers lie there. Atne may be able to see, but she doesn't know exactly."

At that time, Selshi Academy had several teenagers who came from nowhere. They all look very messy and unkempt. Atne felt sorry for them and accepted them as students.

However, they are difficult children to control. They carelessly entered the Carax Forest without telling anyone else. After that, they just disappeared.

Atne ordered the people to search, but the people didn't come back either. They all seemed to just disappear. This made Atne feel uneasy. She felt something bad was happening.

Finally, Atne and the few remaining people went to Carax Forest. They found no trace of the missing people until something shocking happened.

The ground around the Carax tree suddenly split open and opened wide. An intense pulling force instantly appeared and pulled them into the gap that had just opened.

Before Atne was pulled in, she tore off the hem of her clothes and stuffed the spirit into the torn cloth. Thus formed the chattering cloth that Eros was currently holding.

"How did you get locked in the box?" asked Namara suddenly.

This time it was Eros who answered, "Atne did it. Long-range magic."

"Well, that's true." The cloth agreed with Eros' answer.

Namara was shocked by all this. "Then could Atne still be alive?"

"No one knows. Anyway, my job is done, right? Then free me, please." The cloth was pleading. However, Eros did not grant its wish.

"Come on, Beautiful Lady, you might be able to persuade this man to let me go." Since Eros didn't respond the cloth finally turned to Namara.

However, Namara herself had no intention of speaking for it. After all, the cloth had behaved recklessly with her. She still felt irritated.

"Can your story be trusted? What about the residents outside the academy? They also disappeared," said Eros.

The cloth fell silent. "Are you kidding? Why did they disappear?"

Eros frowned. It turned out that the cloth did not know about the disappearance of the Selshi residents. Maybe because the cloth had been locked in a box so it didn't know what was going on outside.

Could this be a different case?

It was at that moment that Eros suddenly felt something coming. He immediately turned around. His eyes narrowed at what he saw.

Namara felt wary after seeing Eros' expression. She immediately turned her head and was immediately taken aback after seeing boulders the size of a human head floating in the sky.

"This...."

It was the same rock she had kicked earlier on the road. How could the rock float around like that? Don't tell that this was her act of recklessly kicking one of those rocks?

"Hahaha! That, that lady… That lady who woke me up!" shouted one of the floating stones. They moved further and further making Namara feel even more scared.

Eros looked at Namara with a dark expression. "You woke them all up?" he asked.

Namara rubbed her nose. "I accidentally tripped. It wasn't on purpose," she explained. She couldn't possibly say she kicked the rock, could she? The man could have killed her on the spot.

Eros snorted. He looked at the stones flatly then asked, "Who are you?"

The stones laughed loudly. They all drifted closer and closer. "Who are we? We are the residents of the cursed Selshi! Please free us…."

"The mist is poisonous," Eros whispered. "Stay away," he ordered Namara.

Finally, Namara backed away. She didn't expect that the stones were the cursed Selshi residents. So this is the reason for the disappearance of the Selshi residents.

"Who cursed you?" asked Eros.

The stones burst into laughter again. However, the laughter was full of hatred. The green mist spreads even wider.

"Wow, keep me away! Keep me away!" The chatty cloth screamed in fear. Even though it was only a cloth spirit, it could still be affected by the deadly poison.

Eros threw the cloth at Namara. "Don't let it escape," he said.

Like it or not, Namara had to take care of it. She held the cloth tightly so as not to escape. However, the cloth instead chuckled and teased, "Miss, try smiling, you will look prettier."

Despite feeling displeased, Namara paid no heed to the cloth. She'd better see what Eros would do.

"You asked who cursed us, didn't you?" asked the misty rock.

"Who else if not that old wizard? We all know she's gone to Carax Forest and just disappeared, but how come she's still bewitching us?" The stone demands an explanation. They did not accept the curse.

Eros became suspicious. Atne couldn't just curse people carelessly. It must have been the residents who made the mistake first.

"She won't curse you for no reason," said Eros.

"That's true." The stones laughed. "We're planning to find the treasure hidden in the academy. Who would have thought that that woman would find out…."

"And you want liberation?" Eros snorted coldly. "Never hope." He raised his hand. Black smoke instantly enveloped his fingers.

"You...."

The stones immediately retreated upon seeing the black smoke in Eros' hands. They did not expect that the man they were dealing with would be someone from the Black Wings clan.

A cold grin appeared on Eros' face. He swung his hand and the black smoke instantly spread forward. In just an instant the black smoke had enveloped the rock, replacing the poisonous green mist.

"What are you doing?!" They started to panic. Tried to escape, but couldn't.

Eros didn't answer. He clapped his hands together then the stones started to explode simultaneously.

Boom!

The fine sand grains instantly spread from the stone that had been turned into powder. The atmosphere suddenly became silent. The sound of a loud explosion had already alerted the entire Selshis.

Eros snorted coldly. "Rubbish," he muttered.

Namara shut her mouth tightly. The feeling was a little… indescribable.

"Stay here, I'm going to Carax Forest." Eros glanced at Namara. He didn't want to be bothered by anyone else. After all, no one knew what danger awaited him there.

However, who would have thought that this time Namara did not obey him. Confidently the lady said, "I will go with you."