"Before that, although the plants near Kola Village grew very quickly, they were only weeds and crops. But that night, things changed."
"Countless saplings burst from the ground. In a single night, they grew over a meter tall. They even appeared inside the homes of Kola Village's villagers."
"We sensed that something was wrong. Once we discovered it, we hurriedly evacuated every villager from Kola Village."
"The trees kept growing taller and larger without stopping. By the next day, they had become the forest you see now."
"We considered going in to investigate and started clearing the trees around the forest. But no matter how many we cut down, they returned to normal the next day. We tried several times, but nothing worked."
"We didn't dare enter the forest directly either. All we could do was guard its perimeter, keep unrelated people from entering, and wait for the kingdom's support."
Child recounted everything that had happened over the past few days in detail.
Arsen frowned and asked, "The report said Undead Creatures had appeared. Do you know anything about that?"
Child shuddered and said nervously, "On the night we evacuated the villagers, after everyone had left the forest, we counted heads and found that four people were missing. It was too dark, so we didn't dare turn back to look for them."
"At the time, we organized the villagers to rest outside the forest and planned to head to the viscount's castle first thing the next morning. But in the middle of the night, I heard movement inside the forest. When I went to look, I saw several piles of bones crawling around!"
"One of those skeletons even turned its head and looked at me!"
"My companions and I were terrified. We hurried everyone farther away to rest and never