Chapter 594
Author: Yeshua Yin
last update2026-05-19 22:19:57

The Black Forest was a dead place. There were no green leaves. There were no birds singing in the air. There were no bugs crawling in the dirt.

The trees were entirely black. They were made of hard, petrified wood. Their bare, sharp branches pointed up at the angry purple sky like the skinny fingers of a million skeletons.

A thick, dark purple fog rolled across the ground. It smelled like rotten eggs and burnt metal. It was poisonous. A normal human would choke and die in five minutes.

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