Uchiha Madara looked at the people within this black forest, unsure of what had happened, but the growing number of treants truly surprised him.
"What kind of person could be cruel enough to turn so many innocent people into treants?" Carter Binda said.
"And the people turned into treants definitely weren't ordinary people either. To reach this place, they would have had to cross the lake, but with its depth and pressure, I don't think many could endure it. In other words, anyone who made it here should have been an expert," Belaque analyzed.
"Yet even these experts were turned into treants by someone else, so the three of us need to be careful too. Who knows when we might end up like this?" Belaque said with a smile.
"And what was the purpose of these people coming here? Could it really have been because of the Magic Stone?" Carter Binda asked.
"Probably not. If they had come because of the Magic Stone, they should have been demonized, shouldn't they? How could they have ended up like this—turned into trees?" Uchiha Madara said.
"They came here for some other reason. I even think they may not have arrived through the lake like we did," Uchiha Madara continued. "We've found more and more of these treants along the way. If so many had crossed through the lake, the people of Winterfort couldn't possibly have known nothing about it."
"That's right. This area is within my patrol route. How could I not know if someone had sneaked in across the water?" Carter Binda said with a laugh.
"Maybe you didn't exist back then," Belaque said to Carter Binda with a smile. "Who knows how many years ago this happened? You young people who have only recently risen to fame have only been