Chapter 2: The Forbidden Land
The people of the magical kingdom of Atlas have regarded the White Nights Forest as a forbidden place since the war.
Unlike the scientific kingdom that relies on mechanical transmission or artificial communication, the Atra people generally use magic arrays or other material mediums to amplify the "spirit language" for long-distance interconnection, and generally only death can completely cut off this induction, so on the day of the decisive battle, when the spirit language from the battlefield was suddenly interrupted, the Atra people gave up hope earlier than the Milai people. After the same wait, some of the people who were puzzled by the outcome of the decisive battle also embarked on a journey to find it, and met the Millaeans in front of the jungle. When the kings of the two countries appeared in front of the people, the Atra were more puzzled than the rejoicing Milai, for they had already sensed the jungle in their own way, and there was no sign of life at all, including the two kings in front of them. The Atra had tried all sorts of ways to save their king, but in vain, the former king with a power as deep as a bottomless pool could no longer feel a single magic power, neither spells nor herbs could repair his scarred body. Before the flame of life was extinguished, he only told everyone the news that "no one survived" and then closed his eyes forever.
It wasn't just their king that Atra lost, but also the two princes who had gone on battle with him, the six sages of the town and their protégés, as well as countless mages and soldiers, all of whom had disappeared into the depths of the forest, leaving only a few too young magic apprentices and recruits to stay in the city as the last force and escape. Fortunately, the youngest third prince of the Atra royal family was too young to set foot on the battlefield because he had just turned a year old, and his biological mother Sharon Aisia acted as the king according to the tradition of Atra.
Sharon Aisya was once the only female disciple of the Wisdom Sage Disciple, one of the six sages of the town, although she was born in a declining magical family, and her appearance was not the most beautiful among the daughters of famous families, but she was even called "the goddess of wisdom of Atlah" in the Six Sages Academy, the highest school in Atra. The name of the overly loud reached the ears of King Joel Arrant, who came to the seat of the wise sage to see the "goddess" with his own eyes, but the two fell in love at first sight, and rejected the unmarried king Lightning, who had refused countless marriages and had never married, to marry Sharon Alasia, and used his royal power to forcibly suppress the opposition. This happened in the notoriously rigorous city of Atlas, where the protagonists are the two most representative of the moment, and the king and queen became the prototype of all the bard's romantic stories.
As the queen who assisted the king, Sharon Althea lived up to her reputation, and all kinds of doubts and dissatisfaction in the past also disappeared, and there were even many famous girls who wanted to worship the wise sage out of their personal worship of the queen, but unfortunately the wise sage did not meet a second female disciple who was qualified to enter the door since Althea. Soon after, she also brought two princes to Atra, who inherited all the virtues of their parents, and both had excellent character under the strict teaching of Althea, and the six sages often met with the king and queen in the hope of taking the two princes as apprentices, and the people of the magical kingdom believed that the two princes would be the light of Atra no matter who succeeded to the throne.
War broke out then, and while everyone in Athlah had the ability to communicate with the spirits of nature to gain the ability to use magic, not everyone was equally capable. The metal creations of the Millai did not have this error, and at the beginning of the war, one city after another of Athla was reduced to ashes under the bombardment of the Millai Iron Army, and then the Millay also suffered heavy losses in the face of the various magic of the regular army of the king of Atlah. Although weapons can be recreated when they are gone, and magic can be summoned when they are gone, as the people who use them continue to sacrifice, both magic and weapons begin to shift in the direction of "unleashing the maximum power with the fewest people". And so the war lasted for six years, and the lives were devastated, until the day when the dense forest suddenly appeared.
In fact, Atra's losses were far greater than imagined, and on the day of the decisive battle, in addition to the sages of wisdom, the other five sages of the town country also summoned their own town seats to the battlefield as a medium for their respective spell amplifications, these town seats are the towers that each sage usually uses to live, and there are also books, scrolls, and equipment that record the sages who have been stationed in the past dynasties to study spells. It can be said that ninety percent of Atlas's magic skills disappeared into the dense forest, and perhaps it was the wise sage who had foreseen what left the town seat in Atlas on the day of the decisive battle. The six sages and their disciples all disappeared, and only the queen inherited the remaining wisdom seat and title as the only orthodox disciple of the wise sage. Unscathed by the ensuing loss of the first queen and only sage of Atlah, she used the many books of wisdom stored in the town to direct the rapid rebuilding of the people, and sent envoys to Millai to bring about an armistice. The war-torn magical civilization began to slowly recover under the leadership of the wise sage and queen Aisya, but soon a new problem arose that put the wise queen in a dilemma: in the years of war, Atra used a lot of magic to overdraw the power of nature, plants could not grow, water dried up, the temperature became low, and there were even days and nights, and the original place with abundant water and grass could no longer grow food, and Atra appeared as a migrating refugee for the first time. It is obviously impossible to recover slowly by nature, and it can only be repaired by using the knowledge that caused it, but the collection of books in the Wisdom Town can only point to the root cause of the problem, and the only way to find a concrete way to change it all is to tour the five lost towns in the boundless jungle. However, if the five towns are found, they will inevitably find the battlefield of the past, and countless lost things can be destroyed in an instant, and the hard-won peace may be destroyed in an instant, with their own people on one side and the peace of the present world on the other, and once they make a mistake, the end will come directly.
When the title of forest seeker first entered Atlas, Queen Aisia was shocked that a taboo that had plagued her for decades had been easily trampled on by the Millay and turned into an inheritance. By the time she sent an envoy to Omadine to negotiate, the treehouse had long since left the state as a neutral institution, and the sheer number of forest seekers was apparently impossible to stop. The queen had no choice but for some purpose she agreed to Treehouse's request to open branches in a town in Atra near the jungle, and she then issued two royal orders to the people
1. The jungle is the forbidden land of Atla, and no one can enter it without royal permission.
2. No one can issue a commission to enter the jungle in the treehouse, and all commissions are only issued to those appointed by the royal family.
Because this is not an excessive clause, the treehouse also obeys these two orders, but only in the treehouse in Atla, and the queen is respected and loved by the people, and everyone obeys the king's orders. And just like that, years passed, until one day the Queen's worst fears came true.