Thin Mist Forest stretched vast and boundless. Its defining feature was the faint mist drifting gently through the air, born of the highly concentrated Magic Particles that saturated this fertile land, which nurtured countless lives.
Like a natural, enormous maze, the towering, dense giant oak trees, the waist-high long grass, and the flourishing shrubs were the natural enemies of any sense of direction.
Any reckless person who entered without making the proper preparations would lose their way beneath the shroud of mist and greenery, offering up their life as nourishment to the forest.
Compared with ordinary people, Adventurers might possess stronger bodies, more specialized equipment, or perhaps special abilities for identifying directions deep within dense woods.
But that did not mean they could ignore the fog and green leaves filling every corner of their vision and find their targets with precision and accuracy.
Especially when the mission site lay deep in the forest, far from any town.
Under such circumstances, landmarks with distinctive features became beacons that guided Adventurers through the depths of the gray fog.
Perhaps it was a strangely shaped old oak tree, a vast open clearing that had appeared for no obvious reason, or a small rocky hill no one knew the origin of...
When Adventurers saw these strange and unusual places, they could use them to confirm their position in the forest.
After that, whether they continued deeper toward the target of their commission or turned back for the return journey, they had a point of reference.
Rotten Root Swamp was one of those landmarks commonly seen on major maps.
Located in the core region of Thin Mist Forest, it was no simple waterlogged hollow.
It was a vast, dangerous wasteland that reeked of decay.
Above it, a thick, sticky layer of yellow-green miasma drifted eternally,