Chapter 46 Trouble brewing. (1/2)

A young h the forest He was holding onto a piece of parchh the instructions on this piece of paper towards a supposed meet up point

“Is that the tree…”

There was a large dead tree in the rass around here was thin and lacked color The man walked up to it and pulled out a white envelope The envelope was sealed by a red seal that had a certain insignia on it The crest on it had a knight on a horse that was standing up on it and it was in the shape of a shi+eld

Thetree He started feeling out the wide trunk with his fingers and finally found what he was looking for

“Here it is…”

He injected ers into a certain spot The dark trunk lit up and he could see so The htly as he had a bad premonition He looked to the piece of paper andout…

“Master of the abyss, I abandon myself wholly to thy power”

“You are the Darkness behind and beneath the shadows”

“You are the absence of air that awaits at the bottom of every breath…”

The thy chant The more words he said the more the dead tree reacted to his presence and when he finished it started hu He took a step back, afraid that he had ht the tree’s wide trunk started opening A previously unseen hole revealed itself as the branches and bark shi+fted

The man looked at the head-sized hole and then quickly threw the letter in The piece of paper that he was previously reading caught on fire the moment he did He tossed it to the side while it burned in a dark fla was left of the parchment but ashes The hole that he threw the parche was delivered

The iven a set of instructions to deliver this letter He had no idea as in it or who the people behind this strange tree were From the sound of it, they orshi+pers of some kind of evil God, which one he had no idea as there were more than one

He wouldn’t remain here for the worshi+pers of this God to return He had gotten the letter froed to, if the noble behind this knight was an evil God worshi+per it would be better to leave this area Nothing ever good ca yourself with people like that There were even fallen cities that were run over by demons

People would ain power People could achieve special prestige classes as a boon These classes mostly de them would be turned into monsters in human form The power they possessed was very real which in term corrupted them to turn to that side

The ht The forest was quiet and he couldn’t even hear any ani odd about this He was so this way he could clearly feel hidden beings but now there was nothing It was as if they vanished into thin air

He continued running but there was a probleone He made sure to nick the trees here and there so that he wouldn't be lost He stopped and looked around, the howling winds pushed the tree branches around that looked like sharp claws in theas he felt that he was in danger This wasn’t right he thought and bolted forward He needed to get out of here as fast as he could He ran and ran and his stamina counter continued to drop fast He was someone at the tier 2 class and had stamina to spare

“What the…”

He pushed through so odd The same tree that he had placed the letter in was there out in the clearing Was he running around in circles this whole ti was off, he knew that he didn’t have such a bad sense of direction

He tried finding the place that he caain There were still no signs of his old path as before

“Nnohow is this possible?”

After another hour of running he ended up at the large dead tree once again, It was as if it was ht sky and noticed another thing TheHe had already spent two hours in this forest but the night wasn’t passing It should be four in thenow, but it looked like tiht to find his way home One day, two days, and then a whole week had passed but he still ended up by the tree

He started cutting the tree in a fit of rage but whenever he left and ca happened No e he delivered to the tree, when he cain with

When he was his second week into this night suddenly happened He looked down at his chest He ht side and felt horrible pain It was as if soh his heart

“A, did you have to do that? He didn’t even fully fall to the curse…”

The htly He was still next to the dead tree but he wasn’t alone This ti over hiround One of the people was pushi+ng a glowing red dagger through his chest where his heart was He couldn’t really make out their facial features as his life soon faded and he dropped dead

“We don’t have ti the knife scoffed at the person next to hiures, you could er was a er that was plunged into the dead ot pulled out The veins in his body started glowing bright orange and then turned to red The deep wound where the heart was started pulsating in the sahtly

“Oooh, I love this part!”

The wo body The skin sizzled and started fading away and soon the whole body burned away into ashes Nothing besides the man’s clothes and a certain item was left behind The man moved his hand into the spot where the dead man’s heart was and he pulled out a blood-colored cristal

“So shi+ny, but it's only a tier 2 not really worth using~”

“Stop fooling around and get the letter, we had spent too much ti the round He was sure to wipe away all the traces while the woman moved over to the tree She placed her hand on the trunk but didn’t recite the chant The tree opened up in a similar fashi+on to reveal the letter on the inside

“Got it~”

She waved at her partner that was alreadyaway from the scene of the criht What was left of the man were only his ashes that would soon becorass and plants

Life continued and at the dawn of the next day, Rolan was looking over his first creation