The Author Is Speechless-Chapter 23: Dark forest.

Viktor walked to the forest on foot because he wanted to accomplish something without any magical power of his. Training his body was also important because, in the future, he would have to face more dangerous and powerful enemies.

-I walked for a long time and my legs are starting to give up.

He stooped in front of the forest to sleep for the night and start his journey. It was already evening when he reached the border of the forest.

-I can feel the forest calling me.

He made a tent at the border of the forest and cast a protective shield so that no monster could disturb him when he was sleeping.

-I made a fire, a big tent and a bed which is above the ground but I don't think that I can sleep tonight. I feel like the trees are looking at me.

"I will have nightmares tonight for sure."

He closed the curtain of the tent and went inside his blanket to sleep.

The Dark forest is the home of the unknown brings such as demons, ghosts, and even evil spirits. But they are so low on numbers because the dark forest itself is a danger for them to live in.

It is a wasteland.

The dark forest has 4 stages and each stage is divided into 3 levels.

The record of a human going inside the dark forest is on stage one's level 2. It was achieved by the strongest mage of the Vestrain kingdom.

But he suffered from countless mental illnesses and went through so many mental breakdown periods. The loss of their strongest mage made a huge impact on the magic tower. So the record was removed and people were banned from entering the forest.

Not only that, every kingdom around it has tried to go in and discover its secret but only a small number of people came out alive. They were all traumatised by the trees of the forest.

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The buzzing and chirping sound of the crickets was making the quiet night scarier because it sounds different on this planet.

They were gathering around the shield because of the fire inside of it and making more noise. It was also their mating season so they were a little more aggressive than their normal behaviour.

-I can't sleep. This sound is worse than the tower bell.

He poked out his head from the curtain and what he saw was nothing like he'd imagined.

He became speechless.

The crickets were the size of a fully grown-up cat and they were all sitting on the top of the shield he cast. They were all attracted by the fire. It was a monster from the dark forest.

He cast water magic to put out the fire and went back to his tent.

"I saw nothing."

But poor him couldn't shut his eyes for the whole night because he was traumatised by its size.

-Those damn monsters. I will never light a fire inside of that forest at night. Ugh. I am mentally exhausted already because I didn't get enough sleep.

Anyway, it's time for me to go inside. I don't have much time left before the exam. I have to finish this job quickly.

He put everything inside his crest and took out a shiny sword because the dark forest is filled with dark demons and monsters. He can't use magic inside for a certain reason.

The dark forest gave him a spine-chilling gaze when he put his toe on the border. It was only the first stage but he could already feel the uncomfortable feelings all over his body. It was calling him to get inside more deep and deep.

-Man it's tough to become an adventurer.

There is another fact about the dark forest that normal people don't know about. The reason why people can hear voices from the tree is that they are alive.

The trees that I am looking at around here, they are all monsters. They are called Tyrethus, the guards of a dead guardian who probably died a million years ago. It wasn't scary at all when they were first created. They were all tiny trees walking on its roots like a cute baby spirits. But, when their owner was killed by the heaven guardians they became monsters because the connection between their guardian was cut off. Now they are just moving monsters who feed off human mana to survive.

And this is the reason why the humans can hear voices from the forest so that they can go inside and the trees can have a feast on him.

I also prefer to stay out of this forest because there's nothing inside. Not even a small mana crystal. It's just a vast field of wasteland where ancient monsters walk around on its root.

But there's no reason for me to kill them. They are very important for the environment and they are doing a great job working as a border to lock another dangerous monster on the third stage.

-I walked pretty deep inside and cast shield magic all over my body to erase my presence. But they can understand that something is waking under them. They are lowering their branches to check what is down here.

I wish I could have one of them as my personal fairy who can clean my clothes and make my meal. A small cute tree-like Groot from the movie I saw on tv back in my world. Well that was a dumb baby tree who steals someone's eyes

rather than doing the actual job he was ordered to.

I don't have time to babysit dumb faires.

-Having a dumb cat isn't that bad -_-.

Viktor passed the first stage of the forest and entered the second stage named after a monster, Cyclops. There isn't any human being who entered this stage so he was the first human who entered the second stage.

It was darker than the first stage and the trees were getting bigger and its moment was noticeable.

-Just what kind of world did I write back in my room?

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///: please ignore those grammatical mistakes… :p