Crack.
The first spatial fracture split apart completely, followed by a second and a third. Cracks spread and intersected, swallowing the white light, the grassland, and the little animals running through it.
Everything in that space vanished.
The group passed through the exit and returned safely to the Forest of Vigil.
But they soon realized the forest had changed as well.
The towering trees were losing their luster, and the edges of their leaves had begun to yellow. The life energy that once filled the air was steadily fading, while the blue mushrooms in the distance had lost their soft glow.
The Forest of Vigil had grown under the nourishment of time energy.
Now that Vesperhart and Noxhart were both gone, the energy sustaining the entire forest had been cut off.
This strange forest, which should never have existed in the first place, was beginning to die.
Ethan reached out and touched a falling leaf.
