Tap! Tap!
Isaac's footsteps rang in the near-silent forest. Recently, the sound of fighting and bickerings had reached the deeper parts of the woods.
He pulled out the piece of paper. His eyes skimmed through the text. The paper revealed where the next clue was, but it wasn't accurate. It only disclosed which direction he needed to walk to.
He pocketed the paper and resumed walking. Soon, he went past a pair of broken trunks. The fallen trunks weren't cut with a saw. Instead, it looked like someone yanked the tree with brute force.
Isaac stopped and examined the broken tree. The upper half of the tree was lying on the ground. Next to it was the stump. The stump was uneven, with thorns of a tree prodding through.
'There are burnt marks…' He thought to himself after seeing black marks around the rims. He stood up and walked over the collapsed tree trunks.