After quickly walking out of the palace, Elanev briskly walked towards the sparring round in which he had seen the strange man from his balcony.
When he reached it, as expected, there was no one there. What was suspicious was that even though the ground was the sort where footsteps would easily stay for hours due to the loose earth on top, there were no footsteps here as if they had been deliberately erased by the man who had passed through.
Although this might be a simple spell, it at least gave the information that that man had been a Mage.
Looking in the direction he had taken note of before, Elanev realized that the forest it led to seemed to be covered in a perpetual darkness because the trees were so thick that no sunlight could get through.
He had actually spotted this place before, but he hadn't suspected anything because this wasn't the only forest that had grown in this way.
