Levelling Up The Weakest System

A Forest of Lies

Alexei and Neave had equal looks of wonder on their face as the dragonhorse that they had purchased pulled their caravan along the path that cut through the wood at the south of the great city of Alandria.

He had heard that there were woods to the south of the city where he had spent most of his life, and he had experienced some of them when he was a child growing up and training to get his skills high enough to join the Academy.

But it had been a very very long time since he had seen any, and none as beautiful as the ones that were before him.

Each of the trees had a trunk thicker than the wheel of their caravan, and they stretched high up into the sky, creating a canopy of leaves that the sunlight from above was only just capable of breaking through.

All around him birds sang to one another, chirping out from the branches, while other creatures explored the undergrowth.

“It’s beautiful out here,” Alexei said from his seat next to Risa at the front of the caravan.

“Wouldn’t you