บท 196: A Song of Mourning

"What is this?" I whispered as I looked down to the forest stretching beneath my feet. After resting for a bit, Fetheion had brought me here – a patch of the forest an hour's flight to the north. 

"The land itself became cursed." The Divine explained. Unlike me, he didn't need wings to fly, he simply floated as his dark power whirled around him. "Any creature stepping inside there has a good chance of becoming cursed as well. 

The trees below had changed colour – the deep, dark green leaves had left their places to a mix of gold and purple. A miasma had covered the ground and I could see how even the earth was affected as brown and black liquid oozed out from the earth.

"Disgusting," I said with a low voice. "How did this even happen?" I couldn't imagine the amount of magic it would take to corrupt such a large area.